tripsnek
@tripsnek.com
tripsnek.com - Europe Travel Itinerary Optimizer
Software architect. Primarily Node/Angular/TypeScript. AI R&D since 2005.
Things I like: Static typing, genetic algorithms, Rick Steves, liberal democracy
📍Atlanta
Software architect. Primarily Node/Angular/TypeScript. AI R&D since 2005.
Things I like: Static typing, genetic algorithms, Rick Steves, liberal democracy
📍Atlanta
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tripsnek
@tripsnek.com
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tripsnek, in a nutshell:
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
An unpopular, incompetent, medically be-cankled idiot does not remotely have the juice to destroy a consolidated democracy.
We are going to win.
We are going to win.
January 18, 2026 at 8:07 PM
An unpopular, incompetent, medically be-cankled idiot does not remotely have the juice to destroy a consolidated democracy.
We are going to win.
We are going to win.
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Update:
The admin is moving to quickly deport witnesses who saw ICE detainee die.
They say the man was just trying to get his meds.
ICE guards shackled him
Then they choked him.
The admin moved to deport the witnesses — right after they spoke to WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The admin is moving to quickly deport witnesses who saw ICE detainee die.
They say the man was just trying to get his meds.
ICE guards shackled him
Then they choked him.
The admin moved to deport the witnesses — right after they spoke to WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
January 18, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Update:
The admin is moving to quickly deport witnesses who saw ICE detainee die.
They say the man was just trying to get his meds.
ICE guards shackled him
Then they choked him.
The admin moved to deport the witnesses — right after they spoke to WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The admin is moving to quickly deport witnesses who saw ICE detainee die.
They say the man was just trying to get his meds.
ICE guards shackled him
Then they choked him.
The admin moved to deport the witnesses — right after they spoke to WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Average Sunday show interview:
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
January 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Average Sunday show interview:
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
It's almost refreshing how abruptly CBS transitioned to state media.
If they had boiled the frog, a sizable class of "let's hear them out" bothsides-ers would have become entrenched, likely never able to admit they were wrong.
Better to just have it all out there.
If they had boiled the frog, a sizable class of "let's hear them out" bothsides-ers would have become entrenched, likely never able to admit they were wrong.
Better to just have it all out there.
2) “We” = total breakdown in the division between the White House and the president’s personal legal affairs.
1) Very bad sign that NYT, and not CBS, is breaking this.
1) Very bad sign that NYT, and not CBS, is breaking this.
NYT publishes audio of Karoline Leavitt threatening CBS over its Trump interview: “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
January 17, 2026 at 9:54 PM
It's almost refreshing how abruptly CBS transitioned to state media.
If they had boiled the frog, a sizable class of "let's hear them out" bothsides-ers would have become entrenched, likely never able to admit they were wrong.
Better to just have it all out there.
If they had boiled the frog, a sizable class of "let's hear them out" bothsides-ers would have become entrenched, likely never able to admit they were wrong.
Better to just have it all out there.
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Here's the deal, @icegov.bsky.social: If observing your operations and alerting people about them is illegal, then you must arrest me. Because I'm doing it many hours each day.
But here's the deal, everyone else: if they DON'T arrest me, they don't have a case, and you should do what I'm doing.
But here's the deal, everyone else: if they DON'T arrest me, they don't have a case, and you should do what I'm doing.
ICE, if you're listening, please arrest Will Stancil, so he can skeet "I've been arrested!" and I can reply, "No you haven't." Look at these charts.
I’m physically following them around using my government name telling them to arrest me and they haven’t bothered to arrest me. Also half the US Attorney’s office here in MN just resigned! They do not have a case and they do not have manpower, but their only tool is trying to be menacing.
January 17, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Here's the deal, @icegov.bsky.social: If observing your operations and alerting people about them is illegal, then you must arrest me. Because I'm doing it many hours each day.
But here's the deal, everyone else: if they DON'T arrest me, they don't have a case, and you should do what I'm doing.
But here's the deal, everyone else: if they DON'T arrest me, they don't have a case, and you should do what I'm doing.
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Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
x engineer who designs benchmarks to measure grok's ability to discriminate solicitation of anti-semitic commentary vs. nonconsensual porn
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM
x engineer who designs benchmarks to measure grok's ability to discriminate solicitation of anti-semitic commentary vs. nonconsensual porn
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BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only: he refused to prove his citizenship.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
January 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only: he refused to prove his citizenship.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:06 AM
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
tripsnek, in a nutshell:
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
January 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
tripsnek, in a nutshell:
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
As fascist shovels undermine our institutions, this is the sound they make when they hit something solid.
Tink.
Tink.
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:19 AM
As fascist shovels undermine our institutions, this is the sound they make when they hit something solid.
Tink.
Tink.
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TRUMP 2026: SHUT UP OR WE’LL KILL YOU
Homan: "There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric"
January 11, 2026 at 9:19 PM
TRUMP 2026: SHUT UP OR WE’LL KILL YOU
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Decent people resist Gestapo.
January 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Decent people resist Gestapo.
It's more general than that! LLMs will turn into nazis if you just train them on *insecure code*.
It's like there is an amorphous "badness" attractor that pulls learning systems towards it no matter which angle they enter from.
arstechnica.com/information-...
It's like there is an amorphous "badness" attractor that pulls learning systems towards it no matter which angle they enter from.
arstechnica.com/information-...
January 9, 2026 at 5:24 PM
It's more general than that! LLMs will turn into nazis if you just train them on *insecure code*.
It's like there is an amorphous "badness" attractor that pulls learning systems towards it no matter which angle they enter from.
arstechnica.com/information-...
It's like there is an amorphous "badness" attractor that pulls learning systems towards it no matter which angle they enter from.
arstechnica.com/information-...
1. Architect a society to require motor vehicles to do almost anything
2. Declare anyone behind the wheel to be wielding a lethal weapon
3. Fire at will
2. Declare anyone behind the wheel to be wielding a lethal weapon
3. Fire at will
okay, this was just a straight up attempted murder, because i am 1000% certain that this TdA business is absolute horseshit, this is a lie, and this was an attempted murder
January 9, 2026 at 1:29 AM
1. Architect a society to require motor vehicles to do almost anything
2. Declare anyone behind the wheel to be wielding a lethal weapon
3. Fire at will
2. Declare anyone behind the wheel to be wielding a lethal weapon
3. Fire at will
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A corollary of this position is that the regime believes this to be not just to be the correct functioning of ICE, but exemplary behavior.
They are asking us to view cold-blooded murder as representative of ICE and all of its personnel.
We should believe them.
They are asking us to view cold-blooded murder as representative of ICE and all of its personnel.
We should believe them.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
A corollary of this position is that the regime believes this to be not just to be the correct functioning of ICE, but exemplary behavior.
They are asking us to view cold-blooded murder as representative of ICE and all of its personnel.
We should believe them.
They are asking us to view cold-blooded murder as representative of ICE and all of its personnel.
We should believe them.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Tree of liberty looking thirsty af
January 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Tree of liberty looking thirsty af
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"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."
ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."
AFAIK, in 200 years, only 3 times did a country elect someone who had attempted a coup:
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
January 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
AFAIK, in 200 years, only 3 times did a country elect someone who had attempted a coup:
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
Is your oil unprofitable garbo sludge?
Turn it into a money maker with this one weird trick: the US taxpayer!
Turn it into a money maker with this one weird trick: the US taxpayer!
I’m shocked. I’m stunned. It’s piss.
@peark.es
@peark.es
January 5, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Is your oil unprofitable garbo sludge?
Turn it into a money maker with this one weird trick: the US taxpayer!
Turn it into a money maker with this one weird trick: the US taxpayer!
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“for this is a war which we all wage, this time, not for our German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind.” - Adolf Hitler, 1942
January 5, 2026 at 8:48 PM
“for this is a war which we all wage, this time, not for our German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind.” - Adolf Hitler, 1942
