Jesper Alf 🇵🇸
@jalf.dk
Ræverød Nørrebrodreng, feminist, nørd/softwareudvikler.
Kan faktisk være ganske rar, og er kun sur når der er grund til det 😠
Formerly known as https://twitter.com/jalfd
He/him
Kan faktisk være ganske rar, og er kun sur når der er grund til det 😠
Formerly known as https://twitter.com/jalfd
He/him
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In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.
December 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.
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i remember talking about this issue polarizing on party lines but it seems like the actual divide is going to be elected officials, who are all 9000 years old and were best friends with golda meir, vs voters, who think its not great that israel keeps killing so many kids
It seems the pro-Israel consensus among Democrats is well and truly dead at this point. Dem primary voters prefer candidates who refuse to travel to Israel (by net +45%) and back a bill to end military aid to Israel (by net +61%). www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...
December 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
i remember talking about this issue polarizing on party lines but it seems like the actual divide is going to be elected officials, who are all 9000 years old and were best friends with golda meir, vs voters, who think its not great that israel keeps killing so many kids
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Radical centrists continue to be indistinguishable from parody
December 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Radical centrists continue to be indistinguishable from parody
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Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
The FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science
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December 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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A Colorado forensic scientist faked hundreds of DNA tests over decades.
Literally such as putting the suspect's DNA in both the sample slot and the suspect's slot: voila, it is a match, the odds are astronomical that it'd be a false match.
3,000 cases at least, she fucked with.
Literally such as putting the suspect's DNA in both the sample slot and the suspect's slot: voila, it is a match, the odds are astronomical that it'd be a false match.
3,000 cases at least, she fucked with.
December 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A Colorado forensic scientist faked hundreds of DNA tests over decades.
Literally such as putting the suspect's DNA in both the sample slot and the suspect's slot: voila, it is a match, the odds are astronomical that it'd be a false match.
3,000 cases at least, she fucked with.
Literally such as putting the suspect's DNA in both the sample slot and the suspect's slot: voila, it is a match, the odds are astronomical that it'd be a false match.
3,000 cases at least, she fucked with.
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omg italians used to cook pasta "for hours" until "very soft"?? cooking pasta firmly wasn't common until mid 1800s, and "al dente" appears only after WW1?? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_dente
![For centuries in Italy, the ideal pasta was very soft, and chefs such as the 15th century chef Martino da Como, who recommended cooking pasta for hours to achieve the desired firmness. The resulting pasta's softness influenced how it was served. At the time, the leading physicians of Italy followed Hippocrates and Galen, who maintained contraria contrariis curantur ('opposites cure opposites'). As a result, they recommended pasta be served with dried spices and pepper, as well as cheese,[10] particularly the dry, aged varieties.[11] Such a soft pasta was slippery when eaten with the hand, and historian Massimo Montanari credits the pasta's firmness with promoting the uptake of forks in Italy.[12]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sxre4hdvxmps2ontfyzegzo5/bafkreib3ofbj4kzieq4rn5h3jqffd4544eq2pvkbu3snrnoppyhz7zylzm@jpeg)
![Records of pasta being cooked for shorter lengths and to harder textures arrived in 17th century Naples.[13][14] At first, these were restricted to fresh pasta, and it was not until the mid-19th century in the area that cooks are recorded taking a short cooktime and firm texture for granted for all pastas.[13] Despite this development, the term al dente remained unused; historians Silvano Serventi and Françoise Sabban [fr] write that before World War I, the term "was unknown".[15] In the years since as the term has gained prominence, the idea of cooking pasta al dente has entered the Italian national identity.[15] Internationally, the phrase was spread through restaurants in the second half of the 20th century.[16]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sxre4hdvxmps2ontfyzegzo5/bafkreifzxxoooawivza3wcnmhj4mfm3rerjzmwuq5vjbztnhxijboconr4@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
omg italians used to cook pasta "for hours" until "very soft"?? cooking pasta firmly wasn't common until mid 1800s, and "al dente" appears only after WW1?? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_dente
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It's a little irritating that a fascist can just decide to go 'i don't like this other fascist' and a great deal of people respond with 'she just like me fr fr welcome to the tent we keep talking about for some reason.' a fascist hating another fascist doesn't make her antifascist you f-ing goobers
December 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's a little irritating that a fascist can just decide to go 'i don't like this other fascist' and a great deal of people respond with 'she just like me fr fr welcome to the tent we keep talking about for some reason.' a fascist hating another fascist doesn't make her antifascist you f-ing goobers
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Solar+batteries is just going to win.
Solar is comparatively cheap. It's the easiest for power companies to deploy (~1 year vs. 5-10 years for conventional power plants). It's inexpensive to maintain. It's environmentally beneficial. And it can add value to farms by providing shade.
It's a winner
Solar is comparatively cheap. It's the easiest for power companies to deploy (~1 year vs. 5-10 years for conventional power plants). It's inexpensive to maintain. It's environmentally beneficial. And it can add value to farms by providing shade.
It's a winner
December 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Solar+batteries is just going to win.
Solar is comparatively cheap. It's the easiest for power companies to deploy (~1 year vs. 5-10 years for conventional power plants). It's inexpensive to maintain. It's environmentally beneficial. And it can add value to farms by providing shade.
It's a winner
Solar is comparatively cheap. It's the easiest for power companies to deploy (~1 year vs. 5-10 years for conventional power plants). It's inexpensive to maintain. It's environmentally beneficial. And it can add value to farms by providing shade.
It's a winner
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🔴 “There’s a killing mechanism that has been created… [by] the U.S. and Israel together. They have made conditions in Gaza so deplorable, so incompatible with human life.. These conditions are completely manufactured. And now, you don’t need a single bomb to...
— Dr. Mimi Syed (X: @Memers1st)
— Dr. Mimi Syed (X: @Memers1st)
![🔴 “There’s a killing mechanism that has been created… [by] the U.S. and Israel together. They have made conditions in Gaza so deplorable, so incompatible with human life.. These conditions are completely manufactured. And now, you don’t need a single bomb to continue killing people.”
— Dr. Mimi Syed
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@Memers1st
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December 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
🔴 “There’s a killing mechanism that has been created… [by] the U.S. and Israel together. They have made conditions in Gaza so deplorable, so incompatible with human life.. These conditions are completely manufactured. And now, you don’t need a single bomb to...
— Dr. Mimi Syed (X: @Memers1st)
— Dr. Mimi Syed (X: @Memers1st)
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The thing a lawyer most often contributes to a reading of a contract is not "oh this lawyer knows what SPECIAL LANGUAGE means" but instead "the lawyer is looking at the contract with an eye to how it will go kabloeey."
December 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The thing a lawyer most often contributes to a reading of a contract is not "oh this lawyer knows what SPECIAL LANGUAGE means" but instead "the lawyer is looking at the contract with an eye to how it will go kabloeey."
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One of the things I hear a lot is "contracts mean different things than the language in them says and that's why you need a lawyer"
This is generally not true.
This is generally not true.
December 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
One of the things I hear a lot is "contracts mean different things than the language in them says and that's why you need a lawyer"
This is generally not true.
This is generally not true.
Game writing of the year
December 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Game writing of the year
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December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Apollo 17's Moonship apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
Mission commander Gene Cernan is clearly visible through the triangular window.
Mission commander Gene Cernan is clearly visible through the triangular window.
December 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Apollo 17's Moonship apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
Mission commander Gene Cernan is clearly visible through the triangular window.
Mission commander Gene Cernan is clearly visible through the triangular window.
Will it be necessary to fight back against this fascist regime? Our strategy is to hope it won’t
You are right, everyone should embrace ignorance. No need for a text book. Look, the regressives motivated an emotional and willfully ignorant base. The decision to fight back at that level is the modern equivalent of crossing the Rubicon. Will it be necessary? Let's hope not.
December 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Will it be necessary to fight back against this fascist regime? Our strategy is to hope it won’t
Programmers have used a rubber duck for this purpose for at least 25 years. And they work without you needing to guide the interaction style”
If you use it as a dialogic thinking space where you externalities thought and use it to hold, reshape, question, extent, perturb your thinking. Just like a good teacher or mentor could, except you need to set and guide the interaction style.
December 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Programmers have used a rubber duck for this purpose for at least 25 years. And they work without you needing to guide the interaction style”
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A great piece from Nathaniel
The Annexation of the West Bank Is Complete | Jasper Nathaniel
The Western media remains largely oblivious to the bureaucratic coup redrawing the map of the West Bank. Annexation, for all intents and purposes, is complete.
thebaffler.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A great piece from Nathaniel
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Jasper Nathaniel is an excellent reporter who has lived for a while in the occupied West Bank and he's right on the money here: a lot of people who are naturally predisposed towards the Israeli narrative flip entirely once they actually witness what occupation and apartheid look like with their eyes
December 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Jasper Nathaniel is an excellent reporter who has lived for a while in the occupied West Bank and he's right on the money here: a lot of people who are naturally predisposed towards the Israeli narrative flip entirely once they actually witness what occupation and apartheid look like with their eyes
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Take it from someone who teaches AI ethics at the postgrad level: AI researchers care little about ethics.
(AI, like a rock, does not care, of course) 😜
(AI, like a rock, does not care, of course) 😜
"We should acknowledge that AI does not care about Ethics, because it is dependent on political authority that can easily shift any ethical responsibility evading legal repercussions."
This is why the field of AI ethics is a scam.
(Fig from umaine.edu/learnwithai/ which I'm not familiar with)
This is why the field of AI ethics is a scam.
(Fig from umaine.edu/learnwithai/ which I'm not familiar with)
December 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Take it from someone who teaches AI ethics at the postgrad level: AI researchers care little about ethics.
(AI, like a rock, does not care, of course) 😜
(AI, like a rock, does not care, of course) 😜
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It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!
McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!
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this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
December 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
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I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.
December 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.
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Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.