Steve / Pinderb
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Roller Derby Non-Skating Official, retired Software dev, Long Island, NY. Merrick Chorale. he/him
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Steve / Pinderb
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· Jul 27
Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)
Something to come back to.
Fine Multlimediating
Fine Multlimediating
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I'm sorry but I just don't take seriously people calling themselves "liberals" but they also believe some people should have to appear before a judge to justify their lives or be forcibly displaced from where they live
January 8, 2026 at 2:02 AM
I'm sorry but I just don't take seriously people calling themselves "liberals" but they also believe some people should have to appear before a judge to justify their lives or be forcibly displaced from where they live
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Idk man, I realize I am being reactive and engaging in anger but also I just could do without hearing the "this system of grinding, constant cruelty is load-bearing to society" argument ever again
January 8, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Idk man, I realize I am being reactive and engaging in anger but also I just could do without hearing the "this system of grinding, constant cruelty is load-bearing to society" argument ever again
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This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data.
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
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John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.
September 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.
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The US should not be allowed to host any international competitions in any sport until we stop doing this. This includes the Olympics.
January 8, 2026 at 2:30 AM
The US should not be allowed to host any international competitions in any sport until we stop doing this. This includes the Olympics.
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We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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When I first started developing this line of thinking, it still seemed to be a bit obscure and speculative.
Now that I'm developing it into a long-form project, it has become blindingly obvious.
Now that I'm developing it into a long-form project, it has become blindingly obvious.
Another (perhaps final) thought about the Thiel-Vance-Musk school of civilizational thinking: It may start with an impulse to reinforce barriers and expel out groups, but it ends in imperial expansion of barriers and subordination of out groups to subservient/slave status.
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Because they are obsessed with their freshman dorm room version of civilizational thinking, they see these things as existential and infused with social Darwinism, a dangerous combination that leads to Great Replacement anxieties and natalist eugenics.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:10 PM
When I first started developing this line of thinking, it still seemed to be a bit obscure and speculative.
Now that I'm developing it into a long-form project, it has become blindingly obvious.
Now that I'm developing it into a long-form project, it has become blindingly obvious.
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And another thing: the person in charge of creating the child pornography app is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
January 8, 2026 at 11:15 PM
And another thing: the person in charge of creating the child pornography app is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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it’s so awesome that we’re boiling the oceans for this
January 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
it’s so awesome that we’re boiling the oceans for this
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Cartoon: Make America safe again https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/1/9/2362146/-Cartoon-Make-America-safe-again?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=
Cartoon: Make America safe again
A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related |� Republicans’ response to ICE killing: Obey Trump or you’ll be ...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Cartoon: Make America safe again https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/1/9/2362146/-Cartoon-Make-America-safe-again?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=
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I grew up around hordes of guys like young poor JD Vance and then I went to college with hordes of guys like petulant striver JD Vance. I can tell you both groups are consistently prepared to endorse violence when a “fucking bitch” doesn’t obey.
The difference is merely decorum.
The difference is merely decorum.
January 9, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I grew up around hordes of guys like young poor JD Vance and then I went to college with hordes of guys like petulant striver JD Vance. I can tell you both groups are consistently prepared to endorse violence when a “fucking bitch” doesn’t obey.
The difference is merely decorum.
The difference is merely decorum.
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Third, it's true: some immigration researchers' choices do bias their results.
A key example is Borjas (2006).
Peri & Sparber (2011) show that Borjas chose a regression specification that generated spurious negative correlation between immigration & native employment.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ju...
A key example is Borjas (2006).
Peri & Sparber (2011) show that Borjas chose a regression specification that generated spurious negative correlation between immigration & native employment.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ju...
January 6, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Third, it's true: some immigration researchers' choices do bias their results.
A key example is Borjas (2006).
Peri & Sparber (2011) show that Borjas chose a regression specification that generated spurious negative correlation between immigration & native employment.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ju...
A key example is Borjas (2006).
Peri & Sparber (2011) show that Borjas chose a regression specification that generated spurious negative correlation between immigration & native employment.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ju...
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the only people whose opinion on Greenland we should be listening to are the Greenlandic indigenous communities.
January 6, 2026 at 10:38 PM
the only people whose opinion on Greenland we should be listening to are the Greenlandic indigenous communities.
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I now *start* my dual-credit high school students out with udm14.org, which at least weeds out AI results. After that we're all just guessing what the magic keywords might be.
&udm=14 | the search engine Konami code
A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.
udm14.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I now *start* my dual-credit high school students out with udm14.org, which at least weeds out AI results. After that we're all just guessing what the magic keywords might be.
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Exactly this. I’ve stopped doing real-time online aides when I teach. Too unreliable. Too many ads. Too much misinformation.
It feels like it happened really quickly too. In the spring I teach a research unit to my English class and it has basically become impossible for them to find sources because search engines aren't designed to be informative anymore, but instead to feed the kids slop.
January 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Exactly this. I’ve stopped doing real-time online aides when I teach. Too unreliable. Too many ads. Too much misinformation.
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Startups love dev advocacy when it helps fundraising and hiring. Enterprises love it when it helps brand decks and HR slides.
The moment it creates leverage for the developer, both get uncomfortable.
The moment it creates leverage for the developer, both get uncomfortable.
Devs who write about their work/company; talk at conferences - lots of companies in the past used to not care much about this and not value it the least.
Feels like the tide is changing: people who do this but are not valued get hunted down by companies who understand this value
Feels like the tide is changing: people who do this but are not valued get hunted down by companies who understand this value
December 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Startups love dev advocacy when it helps fundraising and hiring. Enterprises love it when it helps brand decks and HR slides.
The moment it creates leverage for the developer, both get uncomfortable.
The moment it creates leverage for the developer, both get uncomfortable.
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Single handedly just put the ‘Great’ back into Britain 😂🫡
December 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Single handedly just put the ‘Great’ back into Britain 😂🫡
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Further steps in the creeping invasion and occupation of Palestine and the ethic cleansing of that country. This is a decades long operation - a slow motion land grab and crime against humanity and international law.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjg18xe0wwo
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjg18xe0wwo
December 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Further steps in the creeping invasion and occupation of Palestine and the ethic cleansing of that country. This is a decades long operation - a slow motion land grab and crime against humanity and international law.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjg18xe0wwo
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjg18xe0wwo
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Surely the most despicable part of the Epstein files isn’t that any party be it the Democrats of Republicans should be releasing them, it’s the fact that the police haven’t already had a whole set of arrests & lawsuits.
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Surely the most despicable part of the Epstein files isn’t that any party be it the Democrats of Republicans should be releasing them, it’s the fact that the police haven’t already had a whole set of arrests & lawsuits.
Delivering vaccine against UTI viruses via beer
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December 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Delivering vaccine against UTI viruses via beer
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