Alexander Heistermann
@alexheistermann.bsky.social
Guy with a Computer science degree, trying to do his best in life.
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Truly amazing these people can’t win elections. A real mystery for the ages.
December 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Truly amazing these people can’t win elections. A real mystery for the ages.
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The problem with stories like this is that "regulations" can mean very, very different things to different people. It's easy to say "regulate AI." It's extremely difficult to come up with actual regulations that won't kick off another partisan shitshow fight once it gets distorted.
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The problem with stories like this is that "regulations" can mean very, very different things to different people. It's easy to say "regulate AI." It's extremely difficult to come up with actual regulations that won't kick off another partisan shitshow fight once it gets distorted.
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And this, folks, is why you don't embrace or empower the populist cranks in your ranks.
i think it's utterly fascinating how this is the "intellectual" right now
god they're going to be driven insane by the new right radicals
god they're going to be driven insane by the new right radicals
Come on man
December 31, 2025 at 3:28 AM
And this, folks, is why you don't embrace or empower the populist cranks in your ranks.
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I find "America isn't really set up for it" to be an annoying rebuttal to any sort of proposal to reduce car dependency. Our leaders used policy to create a system of car dependency and we can sure as hell use policy to undo that. There are absolutely barriers, but do nothing is not a solution.
December 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I find "America isn't really set up for it" to be an annoying rebuttal to any sort of proposal to reduce car dependency. Our leaders used policy to create a system of car dependency and we can sure as hell use policy to undo that. There are absolutely barriers, but do nothing is not a solution.
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I mean, there can only be one choice allowed for this, right?
MTV is officially ending all of its music channels.
In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?
In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?
January 1, 2026 at 6:19 AM
I mean, there can only be one choice allowed for this, right?
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Happy New Year y'all! 🥳
January 1, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Happy New Year y'all! 🥳
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People like this are why prison abolition is a terrible idea. Pulled off a massive fraud. Got his sentence commuted by defrauding people, including his original victims, into believing he'd rehabilitated. Immediately lept into a third fraud.
Reform? Desperately needed. Abolition? Never.
Reform? Desperately needed. Abolition? Never.
Great narrative. Trump is evil and white collar criminal enforcement is central to our country having any shot at a future. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Freed by Trump, a $200 Million Fraudster Started a New Scam
Eli Weinstein promised to reform — but after his release he took on an alias and started another Ponzi scheme.
www.bloomberg.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:35 PM
People like this are why prison abolition is a terrible idea. Pulled off a massive fraud. Got his sentence commuted by defrauding people, including his original victims, into believing he'd rehabilitated. Immediately lept into a third fraud.
Reform? Desperately needed. Abolition? Never.
Reform? Desperately needed. Abolition? Never.
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There are absolutely things I've built with LLM assistance that are an utter drag to write 1000+ lines of tests for. Without them I'd have tended to build something easier to write but with a worse UX. Do the hard, tedious thing, focusing on improving the lives of people — that is the way forward
December 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
There are absolutely things I've built with LLM assistance that are an utter drag to write 1000+ lines of tests for. Without them I'd have tended to build something easier to write but with a worse UX. Do the hard, tedious thing, focusing on improving the lives of people — that is the way forward
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Happy new year dorks !!!
December 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Happy new year dorks !!!
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A lot of people probably wishing you peace, I'll keep wishing you victory and justice.
Thank you, Kraut! Happy New Year to you too!
December 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
A lot of people probably wishing you peace, I'll keep wishing you victory and justice.
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memory is poison. you can get these things high-centered in a crazy part of the latent space and it won't come out.
1) this is fucked
2) openai absolutely should have caught his
the thing I don't understand from a practical perspective is 3) how were people rehydrating the thing across multiple sessions in order to get juiced the way they wanted to? were they throwing out sessions where it didn't take the bait?
2) openai absolutely should have caught his
the thing I don't understand from a practical perspective is 3) how were people rehydrating the thing across multiple sessions in order to get juiced the way they wanted to? were they throwing out sessions where it didn't take the bait?
Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
memory is poison. you can get these things high-centered in a crazy part of the latent space and it won't come out.
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Such a weird New Year's Eve here in Europe. Everyone knows things are about to get worse. All our elected leaders held speeches telling us that tough times are ahead. But I do not see a sense of despair anywhere. Just a "let's get on with it" sort of mentality.
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Such a weird New Year's Eve here in Europe. Everyone knows things are about to get worse. All our elected leaders held speeches telling us that tough times are ahead. But I do not see a sense of despair anywhere. Just a "let's get on with it" sort of mentality.
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Mitt Romney famously shivved in a DC restaurant and McCain literally had his brain melted into his eye-sockets by an Obama-directed death ray.
if people on the other site think Obama was mean, i don't think they're ready for Reconstruction 2
December 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Mitt Romney famously shivved in a DC restaurant and McCain literally had his brain melted into his eye-sockets by an Obama-directed death ray.
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Bro is a Freemason apparently
December 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Bro is a Freemason apparently
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If anyone wants/is willing to check my work on this, it would be welcome.
Westlaw search, all state & federal - adv: "Generative AI" or (generative /3 artificial)
Yields 369 cases. The oldest is Mata v Avianca, from mid-2023.
The most recent 100 are all more recent than mid-October.
Westlaw search, all state & federal - adv: "Generative AI" or (generative /3 artificial)
Yields 369 cases. The oldest is Mata v Avianca, from mid-2023.
The most recent 100 are all more recent than mid-October.
December 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If anyone wants/is willing to check my work on this, it would be welcome.
Westlaw search, all state & federal - adv: "Generative AI" or (generative /3 artificial)
Yields 369 cases. The oldest is Mata v Avianca, from mid-2023.
The most recent 100 are all more recent than mid-October.
Westlaw search, all state & federal - adv: "Generative AI" or (generative /3 artificial)
Yields 369 cases. The oldest is Mata v Avianca, from mid-2023.
The most recent 100 are all more recent than mid-October.
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Bingo. Broadly transferable skills – including, for example, how to work in a team environment – is at least as important as learning calculus
December 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Bingo. Broadly transferable skills – including, for example, how to work in a team environment – is at least as important as learning calculus
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“it was rude and unfair of Obama to run an actual campaign, so we had to respond by nominating the worst person alive” is truly one of the all time post genres
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
if people on the other site think Obama was mean, i don't think they're ready for Reconstruction 2
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“it was rude and unfair of Obama to run an actual campaign, so we had to respond by nominating the worst person alive” is truly one of the all time post genres
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
what does it look like inside these people’s heads
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Side effect of viewing the education system as an elaborate social sorting and job training system, rather than a mechanism to impart broadly useful knowledge to subsequent generations
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Side effect of viewing the education system as an elaborate social sorting and job training system, rather than a mechanism to impart broadly useful knowledge to subsequent generations
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Sorry this happened to you, happened to my younger cousin and he failed out of university because of it.
December 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Sorry this happened to you, happened to my younger cousin and he failed out of university because of it.
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The fact that the BlueSky Kool Kids Klub is allergic to having a job rather obscures the important point that a major trans rights issue is that it's impossible to seriously plan a career around a coin toss saving throw every election cycle.
as a trans person, I will not feel included in society again until the people who intentionally robbed me of rights I had for decades until this year see some comparable impairment of their own way of life
women and other people who can get pregnant deserve this even more overwhelmingly
women and other people who can get pregnant deserve this even more overwhelmingly
December 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The fact that the BlueSky Kool Kids Klub is allergic to having a job rather obscures the important point that a major trans rights issue is that it's impossible to seriously plan a career around a coin toss saving throw every election cycle.
Ok, for real though what is with the skulls here?
It’s nice to know her transition went well. Good for her (and her skull). /j
December 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Ok, for real though what is with the skulls here?
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that is basically how i use this website
I generally just assume people post like me, which is to get the thoughts out of their heads that otherwise won’t leave
December 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
that is basically how i use this website
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That said, tips, suggestions, contacts with agents, etc would all be welcome.
Especially since I only recently realized that because I am not an academic, I can do interviews now.
Also, and to be clear, I do not want this to be an academic book.
Especially since I only recently realized that because I am not an academic, I can do interviews now.
Also, and to be clear, I do not want this to be an academic book.
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
That said, tips, suggestions, contacts with agents, etc would all be welcome.
Especially since I only recently realized that because I am not an academic, I can do interviews now.
Also, and to be clear, I do not want this to be an academic book.
Especially since I only recently realized that because I am not an academic, I can do interviews now.
Also, and to be clear, I do not want this to be an academic book.
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I am about to make "put together a book proposal for a book on copyright vs everyone's use of pop culture" a new years resolution.
For, sadly, the third consecutive year.
For, sadly, the third consecutive year.
December 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I am about to make "put together a book proposal for a book on copyright vs everyone's use of pop culture" a new years resolution.
For, sadly, the third consecutive year.
For, sadly, the third consecutive year.
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There is still hope.
December 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There is still hope.