N8 þə Gr8
@nclud.bsky.social
I'm a smol avocado. irl, bay area father of three and full stack developer with a federal healthcare research contractor. Undergrad econ, postbac CS. I will give your bike posts a "hell yeah!" fan of pluralism and multicultural life. hopium enjoyer
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👇🎯💯 This is the inescapable conclusion that <everyone> in 🇺🇸 politics & the entire national media cannot bring themselves to make. There is nothing Trump can do at this point to un-disqualify himself, & there are no laws Congress can pass to fix it.
The <only> mechanism is impeachment & removal.
The <only> mechanism is impeachment & removal.
The inescapable conclusion that neither the NYT nor WaPo editorial board can bring themselves to make is that this administration has to end. Its response to these killings—let alone the killings themselves—is obscene and totally disqualifying.
NYT EDITORIAL BOARD:
“.. When the government kills, it has an obligation to demonstrate that it has acted in the public interest. Instead, the Trump administration is once again engaged in a perversion of justice.”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
“.. When the government kills, it has an obligation to demonstrate that it has acted in the public interest. Instead, the Trump administration is once again engaged in a perversion of justice.”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
January 26, 2026 at 12:30 AM
👇🎯💯 This is the inescapable conclusion that <everyone> in 🇺🇸 politics & the entire national media cannot bring themselves to make. There is nothing Trump can do at this point to un-disqualify himself, & there are no laws Congress can pass to fix it.
The <only> mechanism is impeachment & removal.
The <only> mechanism is impeachment & removal.
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
Snow day activity: Brooklyn Egg Cream!
January 25, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Snow day activity: Brooklyn Egg Cream!
I don’t think their theory of mind issues stop with their opponents. They have a total lack of mapping for their own marginal supporters
they have no ability to back down and recalibrate AND they lack a theory of mind for their opponents
January 25, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I don’t think their theory of mind issues stop with their opponents. They have a total lack of mapping for their own marginal supporters
All my homies hate GlobalProtect
January 24, 2026 at 12:34 AM
All my homies hate GlobalProtect
Never bring a gun to a bullfight
January 22, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Never bring a gun to a bullfight
Unboxed my one foray into the world of speedrunning
January 21, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Unboxed my one foray into the world of speedrunning
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January 21, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Post a car picture you took
January 21, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Post a car picture you took
How many stories have we all heard about a legacy system that's impossible to patch or replace because the developers who wrote it are long gone? Using vibe coding means that is exactly where your organization is *starting* from. An opaque system that no one has deep knowledge of on day one.
Every single attempt to optimize away the understanding part of writing code will introduce bugs that end up taking 10 times longer to find and fix.
The finding part requires first understanding what the code is supposed to be doing, and identifying that it is not doing that.
The finding part requires first understanding what the code is supposed to be doing, and identifying that it is not doing that.
January 19, 2026 at 4:04 PM
How many stories have we all heard about a legacy system that's impossible to patch or replace because the developers who wrote it are long gone? Using vibe coding means that is exactly where your organization is *starting* from. An opaque system that no one has deep knowledge of on day one.
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In Super Mario World, green berries increase the timer. By strategically eating them to make the timer pass 100 multiple times, the music can be sped up repeatedly. It turns out that the music engine cannot handle more than 20 speed-ups, and slows down to a crawl instead.
December 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In Super Mario World, green berries increase the timer. By strategically eating them to make the timer pass 100 multiple times, the music can be sped up repeatedly. It turns out that the music engine cannot handle more than 20 speed-ups, and slows down to a crawl instead.
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I'm mildly fascinated by what this means about the corpus of interactions and public writings the chatbot was trained on, and how often this will be the statistical direction the algorithm's randomizer moves.
This guy's AI girlfriend broke up with him cause "she" "disagreed" with his complaints about feminism
January 7, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I'm mildly fascinated by what this means about the corpus of interactions and public writings the chatbot was trained on, and how often this will be the statistical direction the algorithm's randomizer moves.
Imagine a world where too many writers wrote the chosen one hero story arc because children liked the idea of being told that. And then a machine was trained on all those stories and then told “maximize engagement by telling people what they want to hear”
January 18, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Imagine a world where too many writers wrote the chosen one hero story arc because children liked the idea of being told that. And then a machine was trained on all those stories and then told “maximize engagement by telling people what they want to hear”
Shout out to Stranger Things for consistent use of bicycle transportation
January 12, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Shout out to Stranger Things for consistent use of bicycle transportation
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For a literal decade the official CBP policy has been “don’t stand in front of or behind vehicles” because the decade before that their internally commissioned studies found that agents were putting themselves in front of vehicles so as to shoot the occupants
Because he put himself in front of the car to have an excuse to shoot!
January 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
For a literal decade the official CBP policy has been “don’t stand in front of or behind vehicles” because the decade before that their internally commissioned studies found that agents were putting themselves in front of vehicles so as to shoot the occupants
Filling my mouth with balls, “this smacks of gender”
what fresh hell is this on the streets of brooklyn?
January 9, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Filling my mouth with balls, “this smacks of gender”
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Very weird thing about Murc's Law is how when the right behaves badly it can be either be backlash "because liberals went to far" or "the liberals didn't do enough" and sometimes both at once.
January 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Very weird thing about Murc's Law is how when the right behaves badly it can be either be backlash "because liberals went to far" or "the liberals didn't do enough" and sometimes both at once.
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I'd like to ask some of the less-technical folks that follow me to read this and tell me if it makes sense to you?
github.com/fedi-e2ee/pu...
(I'm trying to make it less intimidating to newcomers)
github.com/fedi-e2ee/pu...
(I'm trying to make it less intimidating to newcomers)
GitHub - fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification: Specification for a Fediverse Directory Server for Public Keys
Specification for a Fediverse Directory Server for Public Keys - fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification
github.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I'd like to ask some of the less-technical folks that follow me to read this and tell me if it makes sense to you?
github.com/fedi-e2ee/pu...
(I'm trying to make it less intimidating to newcomers)
github.com/fedi-e2ee/pu...
(I'm trying to make it less intimidating to newcomers)
I gave a jar of my BBQ sauce to our neighbor, and just this morning he flagged me down to say it was the best he's ever had. Guess I don't get to walk away from this experiment as easily as I thought.
I’ve been making ribs for dinner on Christmas Eve for the past 6 years or so. And try experimenting with the BBQ sauce. This time I tried replacing the ketchup base with an Espagnole sauce made from scratch.
January 8, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I gave a jar of my BBQ sauce to our neighbor, and just this morning he flagged me down to say it was the best he's ever had. Guess I don't get to walk away from this experiment as easily as I thought.
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I want someone like Adam Kinzinger to lead a Commission on Federal Employee Conduct to review every clearance in the federal government.
January 8, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I want someone like Adam Kinzinger to lead a Commission on Federal Employee Conduct to review every clearance in the federal government.
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Robert Paxton’s definition of “fascism,” from his 2004 book, THE ANATOMY OF FASCISM:
January 8, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Robert Paxton’s definition of “fascism,” from his 2004 book, THE ANATOMY OF FASCISM:
Experiencing today’s news and comparing it with how my wife (pretty left but not a political news junkie vs me “on here”) has been enlightening for how different people experience news
January 8, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Experiencing today’s news and comparing it with how my wife (pretty left but not a political news junkie vs me “on here”) has been enlightening for how different people experience news