Things in space and time
@thingsinspacetime.bsky.social
Writer, wrencher, designer.
“Capitalism”, “Communism”, and “anarcho-see-above" are dead arguments. The problem's always been the rich, their minions, and their scams.
Also, "AI" means "autoincorrect."
“Capitalism”, “Communism”, and “anarcho-see-above" are dead arguments. The problem's always been the rich, their minions, and their scams.
Also, "AI" means "autoincorrect."
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I think the new Knives Out needs a sequel, speaking as someone whose religious para-friends have consistently slipped on the "Just one more thing" banana peel as Columbo exits.
What fundamentally sucks about PDF is that it mangles the source file and renders it into data drek that must be fixed manually by student historians.
December 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
What fundamentally sucks about PDF is that it mangles the source file and renders it into data drek that must be fixed manually by student historians.
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"Nothing's really as it seems" - Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman introduces the core truth of our world: everything is made of atoms in perpetual motion. Watch how he connects this invisible, eternal motion to the way energy transfers through contact as the atoms jiggle. ⚛️
seriouslyscientific.com
Richard Feynman introduces the core truth of our world: everything is made of atoms in perpetual motion. Watch how he connects this invisible, eternal motion to the way energy transfers through contact as the atoms jiggle. ⚛️
seriouslyscientific.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"Nothing's really as it seems" - Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman introduces the core truth of our world: everything is made of atoms in perpetual motion. Watch how he connects this invisible, eternal motion to the way energy transfers through contact as the atoms jiggle. ⚛️
seriouslyscientific.com
Richard Feynman introduces the core truth of our world: everything is made of atoms in perpetual motion. Watch how he connects this invisible, eternal motion to the way energy transfers through contact as the atoms jiggle. ⚛️
seriouslyscientific.com
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Of all the dirty tricks: juking USPS rules so that the postmark of mail-in ballots won't reflect the date they were put in the hands of the Postal Service, creating a pretext to throw out the votes.
December 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Of all the dirty tricks: juking USPS rules so that the postmark of mail-in ballots won't reflect the date they were put in the hands of the Postal Service, creating a pretext to throw out the votes.
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Woke up wondering whether @wikipedia.org needs to open a university.
December 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Woke up wondering whether @wikipedia.org needs to open a university.
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FWIW, I believe bylines matter. Even in deeply degraded Bezos WaPo, there’re editors, reporters, & photographers doing crucial work, because it’s the only place they can work. Then there’s this trash. To me media criticism demands both identifying trends—WaPo’s decline—& individual responsibility.
December 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
FWIW, I believe bylines matter. Even in deeply degraded Bezos WaPo, there’re editors, reporters, & photographers doing crucial work, because it’s the only place they can work. Then there’s this trash. To me media criticism demands both identifying trends—WaPo’s decline—& individual responsibility.
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The same class of people who thought Soylent was a good name for something edible?
December 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The same class of people who thought Soylent was a good name for something edible?
I am not the kind of guy who thinks
the way to keep LLMs from outputting text
that seems to say very wrong things
as a “presentation of a procedure"
is to tell it not to do that.
There’s no causal way to stop the entropy of our human knowledge by stuffing it all through a thought shredder.
the way to keep LLMs from outputting text
that seems to say very wrong things
as a “presentation of a procedure"
is to tell it not to do that.
There’s no causal way to stop the entropy of our human knowledge by stuffing it all through a thought shredder.
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I am not the kind of guy who thinks
the way to keep LLMs from outputting text
that seems to say very wrong things
as a “presentation of a procedure"
is to tell it not to do that.
There’s no causal way to stop the entropy of our human knowledge by stuffing it all through a thought shredder.
the way to keep LLMs from outputting text
that seems to say very wrong things
as a “presentation of a procedure"
is to tell it not to do that.
There’s no causal way to stop the entropy of our human knowledge by stuffing it all through a thought shredder.
The groundwork is laid for LLM plagiarism to be declared fair use, even though there were other, more straightforward arguments to be made in this unrelated case. The person who made the choice to pivot that argument is a guy with a huge sex/fraud/gambling habit:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
He Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up With Him.
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The groundwork is laid for LLM plagiarism to be declared fair use, even though there were other, more straightforward arguments to be made in this unrelated case. The person who made the choice to pivot that argument is a guy with a huge sex/fraud/gambling habit:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
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It’s fine to not like superhero movies but blaming them for every perceived ill in modern cinema, most of which is exaggerated, is absurd
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
It’s fine to not like superhero movies but blaming them for every perceived ill in modern cinema, most of which is exaggerated, is absurd
Center economic infill.
December 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Center economic infill.
There’s a certain way anti-democratic, anti-republican (and anti democratic-republican), anti-immigrant and anti-secular people all become a blob of wannabees from “all walks of life”… meaning "of all ethnicities" screaming at each other about their claim to whiteness. It’s a certain way they scowl.
December 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There’s a certain way anti-democratic, anti-republican (and anti democratic-republican), anti-immigrant and anti-secular people all become a blob of wannabees from “all walks of life”… meaning "of all ethnicities" screaming at each other about their claim to whiteness. It’s a certain way they scowl.
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American illiberalism (in all of its forms) is very much a deeply-rooted force in US politics, but it is not some inert backdrop...it is constantly being renewed and remade by new generations of rhetorically savvy haters like John Kasper...haters of diversity, haters of equity, haters of inclusion.
December 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
American illiberalism (in all of its forms) is very much a deeply-rooted force in US politics, but it is not some inert backdrop...it is constantly being renewed and remade by new generations of rhetorically savvy haters like John Kasper...haters of diversity, haters of equity, haters of inclusion.
Just a note for anyone citing the International Business Times, it’s run by the people around David Jang, who built his empire doing human arbitrage.
December 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Just a note for anyone citing the International Business Times, it’s run by the people around David Jang, who built his empire doing human arbitrage.
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If the grade was really that steep it would of course flip ass over handlebars
That thing weighs as much as an RV and it has really shit brakes for it's size
That thing weighs as much as an RV and it has really shit brakes for it's size
December 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If the grade was really that steep it would of course flip ass over handlebars
That thing weighs as much as an RV and it has really shit brakes for it's size
That thing weighs as much as an RV and it has really shit brakes for it's size
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even if it's "only" 26% and he misspoke that's still a hell of a drop
December 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
even if it's "only" 26% and he misspoke that's still a hell of a drop
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if he's correct about it being 26 degrees that's more than a 50% grade. your brakes were probably cooked driving that pig on terrain that demanding
December 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
if he's correct about it being 26 degrees that's more than a 50% grade. your brakes were probably cooked driving that pig on terrain that demanding
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Trying to understand why my truck tried to murder me. Hopefully the murder engineers can help me out
December 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Trying to understand why my truck tried to murder me. Hopefully the murder engineers can help me out
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Ditto (though not as dangerous) for stuff like rolling down the window. Touch screens instead of knobs and buttons.
Cars should be analog.
Cars should be analog.
December 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Ditto (though not as dangerous) for stuff like rolling down the window. Touch screens instead of knobs and buttons.
Cars should be analog.
Cars should be analog.
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:: cackles :: With my truck, if the engine somehow decides to ignore driver input, I can put the transmission in neutral and key off the ignition, and then use either the normal hydraulic brakes or the parking brakes to stop the thing.
December 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
:: cackles :: With my truck, if the engine somehow decides to ignore driver input, I can put the transmission in neutral and key off the ignition, and then use either the normal hydraulic brakes or the parking brakes to stop the thing.
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yeah, a passenger unfamiliar with the vehicle with hands shaking in terror after a crash and being unable to open the door the normal way with fire building is really going to be able to find and use that
December 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
yeah, a passenger unfamiliar with the vehicle with hands shaking in terror after a crash and being unable to open the door the normal way with fire building is really going to be able to find and use that
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Wtf is this shit
December 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Wtf is this shit
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It would be, yeah
This is the achilles heel of all Teslas: you can have the best parts in the world on there but the people building the things are fucking idiots so nothing is gonna work properly
This is the achilles heel of all Teslas: you can have the best parts in the world on there but the people building the things are fucking idiots so nothing is gonna work properly
December 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It would be, yeah
This is the achilles heel of all Teslas: you can have the best parts in the world on there but the people building the things are fucking idiots so nothing is gonna work properly
This is the achilles heel of all Teslas: you can have the best parts in the world on there but the people building the things are fucking idiots so nothing is gonna work properly
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I imagine Applebaum means this rhetorically, but in case others really are wondering: turf, oil, China, and, probably the biggest distinct factor, the wildly outsize influence of the Nigerian Christian Right in the US Christian Right. One element of the attack was fan service for fundamentalists.
Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
December 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I imagine Applebaum means this rhetorically, but in case others really are wondering: turf, oil, China, and, probably the biggest distinct factor, the wildly outsize influence of the Nigerian Christian Right in the US Christian Right. One element of the attack was fan service for fundamentalists.
I’ve never understood why people think that parking their car inside their house is a good idea. To preserve the value of the car, yes, but every car design out there just occasionally catches on fire and burns its fuel/battery and interior like some kind of industrial accident.
December 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’ve never understood why people think that parking their car inside their house is a good idea. To preserve the value of the car, yes, but every car design out there just occasionally catches on fire and burns its fuel/battery and interior like some kind of industrial accident.
A reminder to writers attempting to orbital mechanic: you slow down to speed up. You slow down, too, to sink deeper and more quickly into the gravity well. It’s amazing that Weir never got the Buzz Aldrin lecture.
It does cost a lot of fuel to slow down enough to go that fast, so partial credit.
It does cost a lot of fuel to slow down enough to go that fast, so partial credit.
December 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A reminder to writers attempting to orbital mechanic: you slow down to speed up. You slow down, too, to sink deeper and more quickly into the gravity well. It’s amazing that Weir never got the Buzz Aldrin lecture.
It does cost a lot of fuel to slow down enough to go that fast, so partial credit.
It does cost a lot of fuel to slow down enough to go that fast, so partial credit.