Elf M. Sternberg
@elfsternberg.bsky.social
Husband to a gorgeous wife, father to two great kids, greying leatherfairy, infamous furry, and world-class software engineer. If you can read this, you're running code I wrote.
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Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"???
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Rethinking ADHD as ‘hypercuriosity’
What if ADHD isn’t a deficit of attention, but an intensified curiosity? A new study explores how reframing ADHD could transform education
www.positive.news
February 14, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"???
www.positive.news/society/yout...
www.positive.news/society/yout...
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I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
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Happy Valentine’s Day to the goober who is @prismpaws.bsky.social
I’m so excited for us to be closing the distance this year!!
💜💛
I’m so excited for us to be closing the distance this year!!
💜💛
February 14, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day to the goober who is @prismpaws.bsky.social
I’m so excited for us to be closing the distance this year!!
💜💛
I’m so excited for us to be closing the distance this year!!
💜💛
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Seattle Couple Plans Destination Wedding for West Seattle: tinyurl.com/rk253xne
February 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Seattle Couple Plans Destination Wedding for West Seattle: tinyurl.com/rk253xne
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
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Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
February 13, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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You can’t reform this
May 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
You can’t reform this
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Trans teen school friends die by suicide just 10 months apart ➡️ https://bit.ly/3OCJLuB
📷 The Trevor Project, GoFundMe
📷 The Trevor Project, GoFundMe
February 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Trans teen school friends die by suicide just 10 months apart ➡️ https://bit.ly/3OCJLuB
📷 The Trevor Project, GoFundMe
📷 The Trevor Project, GoFundMe
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The GOP's Big Beautiful Bill gave Trump tens of billions of dollars to create a domestic militia and prison system that he was all but certain to employ to assault our democracy, as I said last July.
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
February 14, 2026 at 10:25 PM
The GOP's Big Beautiful Bill gave Trump tens of billions of dollars to create a domestic militia and prison system that he was all but certain to employ to assault our democracy, as I said last July.
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
Now that Republicans are poised to suffer a catastrophic electoral loss, that assault beginning.....
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I always like to tell this story but during WWII, a 23 year old PHD mathematician from Harvard was able to solve the 8th Air Force’s gunnery problem in like 2 months without spending a day in the military (turns out you have to lead your target)
Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.
February 14, 2026 at 10:06 PM
I always like to tell this story but during WWII, a 23 year old PHD mathematician from Harvard was able to solve the 8th Air Force’s gunnery problem in like 2 months without spending a day in the military (turns out you have to lead your target)
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That was, and remains, the model used. Donald Trump used to openly talk about the feeble-minded, easily fooled followers of the very individuals mentioned below. Also, America is largely a hostage to conservative, Bible-based hypocrisy. Recruit a conman, suffer a conman's agenda.
"Trump has become a parody of a 1980s televangelist, openly grifting his followers for massive amounts of cash. (His ballroom is practically his own Heritage USA.) But Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart put on a more convincing show." — @playtyperguy.com
Trump is clowning his evangelical base
He's not even bothering to pretend anymore.
www.publicnotice.co
February 14, 2026 at 6:20 PM
That was, and remains, the model used. Donald Trump used to openly talk about the feeble-minded, easily fooled followers of the very individuals mentioned below. Also, America is largely a hostage to conservative, Bible-based hypocrisy. Recruit a conman, suffer a conman's agenda.
I'm unreasonably in love with this pic from King County Public Health.
February 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I'm unreasonably in love with this pic from King County Public Health.
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If you're younger than 50, you probably don't remember what large cities like LA looked like BEFORE we started changing the effects of the ozone hole and greenhouse gases.
This is what we're headed back to. This orange look isn't fire smoke. It's SMOG!
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This is what we're headed back to. This orange look isn't fire smoke. It's SMOG!
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February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
If you're younger than 50, you probably don't remember what large cities like LA looked like BEFORE we started changing the effects of the ozone hole and greenhouse gases.
This is what we're headed back to. This orange look isn't fire smoke. It's SMOG!
s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/im...
This is what we're headed back to. This orange look isn't fire smoke. It's SMOG!
s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/im...
One thing so many languages now get right that C++ gets hideously wrong is prefixing every class field with a `this` (or `self`). I'm starting to hate reading C++ code because it's mysterious if a variable is a class reference, a lexical scope member, or a global. You just have to know.
February 14, 2026 at 6:47 PM
One thing so many languages now get right that C++ gets hideously wrong is prefixing every class field with a `this` (or `self`). I'm starting to hate reading C++ code because it's mysterious if a variable is a class reference, a lexical scope member, or a global. You just have to know.
So, this is weird: medium.com/@FAANG/rusts...
I noticed that the little demo program never uses the value being protected by the memory fence, so I removed them... and it ran 50% slower! That's really weird.
I noticed that the little demo program never uses the value being protected by the memory fence, so I removed them... and it ran 50% slower! That's really weird.
Rust’s Memory Fences Explained: Build a Thread-Safe Counter in 10 Minutes
Are you struggling with concurrent programming in Rust? Memory fences might be the secret weapon you haven’t discovered yet. In this…
medium.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:39 PM
So, this is weird: medium.com/@FAANG/rusts...
I noticed that the little demo program never uses the value being protected by the memory fence, so I removed them... and it ran 50% slower! That's really weird.
I noticed that the little demo program never uses the value being protected by the memory fence, so I removed them... and it ran 50% slower! That's really weird.
The Republican Administration, by chaos-monkeying energy production and the transition away from oil, has damaged US automakers to the tune of $50bn in losses.
www.msn.com/en-us/autos/...
www.msn.com/en-us/autos/...
MSN
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February 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
The Republican Administration, by chaos-monkeying energy production and the transition away from oil, has damaged US automakers to the tune of $50bn in losses.
www.msn.com/en-us/autos/...
www.msn.com/en-us/autos/...
Maybe I shouldn't be too upset that I'm turning 60 soon. A universe where our systems of reputation, trust and integrity are rubble isn't one I enjoy working in: theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
theshamblog.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Maybe I shouldn't be too upset that I'm turning 60 soon. A universe where our systems of reputation, trust and integrity are rubble isn't one I enjoy working in: theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
The Command in Chief of the US Military Forces tells soldiers "You have to vote for Republicans."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg
Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:52 PM
The Command in Chief of the US Military Forces tells soldiers "You have to vote for Republicans."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The governor of Kansas vetos the anti-trans bathroom bounty bill, not because she disagrees with the intent, but because it was so broad and overreaching it would subject non-trans people to bounties.
www.governor.ks.gov/Home/Compone...
www.governor.ks.gov/Home/Compone...
www.governor.ks.gov
February 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
The governor of Kansas vetos the anti-trans bathroom bounty bill, not because she disagrees with the intent, but because it was so broad and overreaching it would subject non-trans people to bounties.
www.governor.ks.gov/Home/Compone...
www.governor.ks.gov/Home/Compone...
This is the kind of shit that upsets me because those seniors are letting skills die, juniors aren't learning skills at all, and eventually we'll get to the point where we're deploying code nobody understands and nobody has vetted: techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/s...
Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI | TechCrunch
Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
techcrunch.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:44 PM
This is the kind of shit that upsets me because those seniors are letting skills die, juniors aren't learning skills at all, and eventually we'll get to the point where we're deploying code nobody understands and nobody has vetted: techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/s...
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For folks who insist that STEM majors are the only legitimate university programs of study, the GOP sure seems to hate science.
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
February 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
For folks who insist that STEM majors are the only legitimate university programs of study, the GOP sure seems to hate science.
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Not even subtle about it, is she?
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Not even subtle about it, is she?
I also wrote 1400 words and outlined "The Embrace Initiative," which is an idea about fleshing out all the other "distant colonies" mentioned in the Sterlings series... mostly as an excuse to get non-Pendorian anthros into the stories. Because Ken is a bit more conservative than I am.
February 14, 2026 at 7:43 AM
I also wrote 1400 words and outlined "The Embrace Initiative," which is an idea about fleshing out all the other "distant colonies" mentioned in the Sterlings series... mostly as an excuse to get non-Pendorian anthros into the stories. Because Ken is a bit more conservative than I am.
Good grief. I haven't had alcohol at all this last week. Today I poured myself two fingers of whisky and holy chao is it hitting me hard.
February 14, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Good grief. I haven't had alcohol at all this last week. Today I poured myself two fingers of whisky and holy chao is it hitting me hard.