worst-case scenario engineer
@worstcaseeng.bsky.social
Relay engineer, professional worst-case scenario predictor, mad online. He/Him
Infrastructure should not be for-profit
Infrastructure should not be for-profit
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Pinned thread for my attempts at "EnergySky protection class" - I'll be going through various protection topics and relay types as I think of them, for anyone who's interested in knowing about one of the grid's lesser-discussed features. Hope it helps!
The people who make the plagiarism machine are deliberately reinforcing this conflation. It helps them if these actual good use cases are tied to their vapid product, for exactly this sorry of reason
part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The people who make the plagiarism machine are deliberately reinforcing this conflation. It helps them if these actual good use cases are tied to their vapid product, for exactly this sorry of reason
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it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement
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This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
You should probably chip a little money Wikipedia's way if you can
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
You should probably chip a little money Wikipedia's way if you can
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
Well this explains the bad vibe I was getting from the Daily podcast today
The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented. Hear more on today's episode of "The Daily." nyti.ms/480eqtm
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Well this explains the bad vibe I was getting from the Daily podcast today
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When your parents are collecting old boxes and items to take to goodwill but you're pretty sure they're packing for a trip and they're gonna leave without you
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
When your parents are collecting old boxes and items to take to goodwill but you're pretty sure they're packing for a trip and they're gonna leave without you
Parenthood is trying to spell something to avoid the kid clocking your intent and then realizing you screwed up the spelling when your partner looks more confused than the kid does
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Parenthood is trying to spell something to avoid the kid clocking your intent and then realizing you screwed up the spelling when your partner looks more confused than the kid does
I realized that while the actual design of robots was what I wanted to do, all the available jobs were just for work cell coding which I... Do not enjoy. I'd interviewed with a power company on a whim and was offered a tech job, so I took that instead of the manufacturing offer
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I realized that while the actual design of robots was what I wanted to do, all the available jobs were just for work cell coding which I... Do not enjoy. I'd interviewed with a power company on a whim and was offered a tech job, so I took that instead of the manufacturing offer
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don't threaten me with a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good time
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
don't threaten me with a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really good time
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
Honestly this is incredible, I see these kinds of issues in substations all the time, it's almost inevitable because humans have to do the wiring, but to see that one breaker could take that entire ship down this way and lead to all this.... www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/u...
A misplaced wire label caused a power outage on a massive container ship, sending it crashing into a bridge, the NTSB finds | CNN
A small label installed on a wire when a giant cargo ship was built may have triggered a chain of events nearly a decade later causing the ship to slam into a bridge and collapse into the water.
www.cnn.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Honestly this is incredible, I see these kinds of issues in substations all the time, it's almost inevitable because humans have to do the wiring, but to see that one breaker could take that entire ship down this way and lead to all this.... www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/u...
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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Oh god this is a true Smiling Man moment. The Era of Smiles begins
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Oh god this is a true Smiling Man moment. The Era of Smiles begins
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And we all know who has the louder megaphone.
Secondarily, I think a lot of climate folks think "clean energy is cheap energy, so rile people up about affordability and climate progress will follow." Which just... isn't true. Electricity costs are about poles and wires, not coal/gas vs. wind/solar.
Secondarily, I think a lot of climate folks think "clean energy is cheap energy, so rile people up about affordability and climate progress will follow." Which just... isn't true. Electricity costs are about poles and wires, not coal/gas vs. wind/solar.
November 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
And we all know who has the louder megaphone.
Secondarily, I think a lot of climate folks think "clean energy is cheap energy, so rile people up about affordability and climate progress will follow." Which just... isn't true. Electricity costs are about poles and wires, not coal/gas vs. wind/solar.
Secondarily, I think a lot of climate folks think "clean energy is cheap energy, so rile people up about affordability and climate progress will follow." Which just... isn't true. Electricity costs are about poles and wires, not coal/gas vs. wind/solar.
Yeah I'm pretty sure anyone who can handle this shit this calmly will do a better job in government than most.
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Yeah I'm pretty sure anyone who can handle this shit this calmly will do a better job in government than most.
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this world now is almost nothing like i would want! i would like being generally honest and scrupulous to be valued. i would like art to be a kind of human communication. i would like it if police weren't brutalizing my neighbors. i would like affordable coffee, stable meaningful work for people
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
this world now is almost nothing like i would want! i would like being generally honest and scrupulous to be valued. i would like art to be a kind of human communication. i would like it if police weren't brutalizing my neighbors. i would like affordable coffee, stable meaningful work for people
I think you can extrapolate this outside coding. I saw a presentation a little while ago that went "and the model was able to identify CT saturation!" As if that's not something literally any competent protection engineer can observe at a glance and with a far lower error rate
I have a theory that one big reason llms get so much hype is that due to financialization the people in charge of tech companies are finance grifters who have never once, ever, used sed or awk or grep and would be totally unable to describe how they work.
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I think you can extrapolate this outside coding. I saw a presentation a little while ago that went "and the model was able to identify CT saturation!" As if that's not something literally any competent protection engineer can observe at a glance and with a far lower error rate
This is fucking awful, obviously rescinding the offer is the worse part, but if you have any influence where you work, this culture of endless interviews needs to stop. HR tried to change our process from 2 to 8 interviews and thank God Engineering was able to successfully mutiny
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is fucking awful, obviously rescinding the offer is the worse part, but if you have any influence where you work, this culture of endless interviews needs to stop. HR tried to change our process from 2 to 8 interviews and thank God Engineering was able to successfully mutiny
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
@upsidedownsmore.bsky.social honestly these look amazing, even better than I expected!
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
@upsidedownsmore.bsky.social honestly these look amazing, even better than I expected!
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too complicated imo. how about “ever notice how the people complaining about cancel culture are pedophiles?”
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
too complicated imo. how about “ever notice how the people complaining about cancel culture are pedophiles?”