Kyle Baxter
@kbaxter.bsky.social
Cause it feels like I've been, I've been here before. The lite brite is now black and white. Exploring LLMs and HCI
http://TightWind.net/
http://TightWind.net/
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Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.
January 24, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.
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"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
They murder someone, then blatantly and outrageously lie about the victim and what transpired. Lies which are obviously disproven by video from multiple angles. This is now a government which brutalizes people, then blatantly maligns the dead and lies to the American people about it after they do.
Noem:
"An individual approached US border patrol officers... The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently."
Video footage from multiple angles proves that this is outright bullshit.
Alex Pretti did not approach ICE officers nor did he react violently.
"An individual approached US border patrol officers... The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently."
Video footage from multiple angles proves that this is outright bullshit.
Alex Pretti did not approach ICE officers nor did he react violently.
January 24, 2026 at 10:56 PM
They murder someone, then blatantly and outrageously lie about the victim and what transpired. Lies which are obviously disproven by video from multiple angles. This is now a government which brutalizes people, then blatantly maligns the dead and lies to the American people about it after they do.
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I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
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I’d add that even if there powers were appropriately restricted, the culture that had obviously developed within the agency is so heinously toxic and abusive that it’s beyond realistic remedy by ANY policy reform in the short term. You’ve got to fumigate and start over.
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 22, 2026 at 4:46 AM
I’d add that even if there powers were appropriately restricted, the culture that had obviously developed within the agency is so heinously toxic and abusive that it’s beyond realistic remedy by ANY policy reform in the short term. You’ve got to fumigate and start over.
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the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.
Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly
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January 20, 2026 at 10:32 PM
the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.
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FastMCP 3.0 is here!
This is our largest and most ambitious release ever.
We've re-architected the framework to support the next generation of MCP applications.
It's time to move fast and make things.
🧵
This is our largest and most ambitious release ever.
We've re-architected the framework to support the next generation of MCP applications.
It's time to move fast and make things.
🧵
January 20, 2026 at 7:08 PM
FastMCP 3.0 is here!
This is our largest and most ambitious release ever.
We've re-architected the framework to support the next generation of MCP applications.
It's time to move fast and make things.
🧵
This is our largest and most ambitious release ever.
We've re-architected the framework to support the next generation of MCP applications.
It's time to move fast and make things.
🧵
Inaction by the US’s institutions, public and private, in the face of a mad man is itself a choice, and a choice the rest of the world doesn’t have to accept and make itself, nor one they will make. We are choosing abrupt, disastrous consequences for our nation.
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Inaction by the US’s institutions, public and private, in the face of a mad man is itself a choice, and a choice the rest of the world doesn’t have to accept and make itself, nor one they will make. We are choosing abrupt, disastrous consequences for our nation.
Firing McDermott and giving Beane a promotion is not exactly a sign of good judgment.
January 19, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Firing McDermott and giving Beane a promotion is not exactly a sign of good judgment.
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If you could go back in time a couple years and show people the sort of garbage official DHS accounts now routinely post, you'd be accused of having concocted some slanderous over-the-top parody. Just a constant stream of nakedly white supremacist imagery and rhetoric.
DHS and Patriot Front post the same white supremacist lyrics.
January 15, 2026 at 11:33 PM
If you could go back in time a couple years and show people the sort of garbage official DHS accounts now routinely post, you'd be accused of having concocted some slanderous over-the-top parody. Just a constant stream of nakedly white supremacist imagery and rhetoric.
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And now he's trying to jail the Fed. Good job, everyone.
January 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
And now he's trying to jail the Fed. Good job, everyone.
It’s worse than that. Vance has been deep into the Yarvin-style theorizing of an American dictator via Trump and MAGA and has espoused it in his own words since at least 2022. He’s also clearly been in group chats with these sorts for at least that same time period. It isn’t just following.
Man you’d never guess this guy follows half of the most prominent open Nazi accounts on Twitter
JD Vance: "America has a bit of a Somali problem"
January 8, 2026 at 7:35 AM
It’s worse than that. Vance has been deep into the Yarvin-style theorizing of an American dictator via Trump and MAGA and has espoused it in his own words since at least 2022. He’s also clearly been in group chats with these sorts for at least that same time period. It isn’t just following.
Really need something to get through to liberals, progressives, and the Democratic Party (not the person QTed here): what a story is in the public imagination is not something that happens to you passively. It’s something you can and must shape. The broader left has ceded the info env for too long.
I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Really need something to get through to liberals, progressives, and the Democratic Party (not the person QTed here): what a story is in the public imagination is not something that happens to you passively. It’s something you can and must shape. The broader left has ceded the info env for too long.
“Recursive Language Models”: RLMs let LLMs handle long prompts by recursively calling themselves on chunks, rather than scaling context windows. Inference-time compute instead of brute-force context length. arxiv.org/html/2512.24...
January 3, 2026 at 11:43 PM
“Recursive Language Models”: RLMs let LLMs handle long prompts by recursively calling themselves on chunks, rather than scaling context windows. Inference-time compute instead of brute-force context length. arxiv.org/html/2512.24...
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We do not need to resign ourselves to thugocracy, and Dems can fight America’s slide toward it by making it very clear to our corporate leaders that willful participation will cost them dearly. Deter collaboration.
January 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
We do not need to resign ourselves to thugocracy, and Dems can fight America’s slide toward it by making it very clear to our corporate leaders that willful participation will cost them dearly. Deter collaboration.
mildly substance influenced thoughts: 2025 sucked but I saw NIN for the first time and NIN fucking rules live so y’know, the wise man bowed his head and such, but mostly, fuck yeah NIN. that’s my thought
January 1, 2026 at 8:24 AM
mildly substance influenced thoughts: 2025 sucked but I saw NIN for the first time and NIN fucking rules live so y’know, the wise man bowed his head and such, but mostly, fuck yeah NIN. that’s my thought
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On Jack Smith deposition, now released:
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
December 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
On Jack Smith deposition, now released:
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
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Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...
Last of Us is getting weird
December 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Last of Us is getting weird
I’m sure the usual suspects agitating against cancel culture will be mounting a campaign in their defense momentarily.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I’m sure the usual suspects agitating against cancel culture will be mounting a campaign in their defense momentarily.
“OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI”: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/...
OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …
simonwillison.net
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
“OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI”: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/...
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Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
That alternate universe would be glorious indeed.
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
That alternate universe would be glorious indeed.
Interesting post from Anthropic on challenges they had with getting Claude Code to reliably perform tasks of meaningful size: www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Interesting post from Anthropic on challenges they had with getting Claude Code to reliably perform tasks of meaningful size: www.anthropic.com/engineering/...