Dan P
@copumpkin.bsky.social
Wannabe figure skater ⛸️
I’ve been known to dabble in security, Haskell, Nix, Agda, and other nerdy computer things
I’ve been known to dabble in security, Haskell, Nix, Agda, and other nerdy computer things
I need a search bar for my house
December 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I need a search bar for my house
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Me: I want to have more friends
Tech companies:
Tech companies:
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Me: I want to have more friends
Tech companies:
Tech companies:
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Insane. Can I take Geology 101 and reject the final exam with "God made the world in 7 days" and get a good grade? Same thing.
If I took a religious studies course on Christianity and submit a citation-free essay ignoring the question, just asserting "Jesus is a false prophet", I'd expect to fail
If I took a religious studies course on Christianity and submit a citation-free essay ignoring the question, just asserting "Jesus is a false prophet", I'd expect to fail
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Insane. Can I take Geology 101 and reject the final exam with "God made the world in 7 days" and get a good grade? Same thing.
If I took a religious studies course on Christianity and submit a citation-free essay ignoring the question, just asserting "Jesus is a false prophet", I'd expect to fail
If I took a religious studies course on Christianity and submit a citation-free essay ignoring the question, just asserting "Jesus is a false prophet", I'd expect to fail
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This ridiculous sentence is written like a bothsides-ish balancing statement, but it isn’t one. When the mob is in charge, paying the protection money they extort from you is a cost of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This ridiculous sentence is written like a bothsides-ish balancing statement, but it isn’t one. When the mob is in charge, paying the protection money they extort from you is a cost of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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There are a lot of excellent universities in this country, and I think when this all shakes out it will be extremely easy for future generations (including my kids) to exclude any school that caved without meaningfully reducing their choices or the quality of the school they end up attending
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
There are a lot of excellent universities in this country, and I think when this all shakes out it will be extremely easy for future generations (including my kids) to exclude any school that caved without meaningfully reducing their choices or the quality of the school they end up attending
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🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
Announcing Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
www.unison-lang.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
I wish more people understood how incredibly difficult and athletic ice dance is, as well as being fun to watch
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I wish more people understood how incredibly difficult and athletic ice dance is, as well as being fun to watch
I visited Anker.com to download a manual for a charger. No account, no login. A few minutes later, I get an email saying “your visit unlocked an exclusive discount from anker”. Turns out advertising innovation is companies like SafeOpt correlating cookies across sites to identify and spam us 🤬😩
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I visited Anker.com to download a manual for a charger. No account, no login. A few minutes later, I get an email saying “your visit unlocked an exclusive discount from anker”. Turns out advertising innovation is companies like SafeOpt correlating cookies across sites to identify and spam us 🤬😩
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NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Fucking gross
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Fucking gross
It blows my mind that a few years ago, if we’d said “we evaluated our results using the same model that generated them”, nobody would take the results seriously. Now someone coined “LLM-as-judge” and suddenly half the field is cool with the idea
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It blows my mind that a few years ago, if we’d said “we evaluated our results using the same model that generated them”, nobody would take the results seriously. Now someone coined “LLM-as-judge” and suddenly half the field is cool with the idea
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At some point, the reliance on these euphemisms becomes a kind of propaganda or acquiescence.
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
At some point, the reliance on these euphemisms becomes a kind of propaganda or acquiescence.
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Sorry but 'let's get Dan Brown in here' is better than any joke I could make about Weiss booking guests
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Sorry but 'let's get Dan Brown in here' is better than any joke I could make about Weiss booking guests
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Again, one thing I was deeply wrong about these last years was that some baseline level of professional pride existed that would prevent journalists & media outlets from so thoroughly & publicly debasing themselves in the face of authoritarianism. I was naive. I apologize. It won't happen again.
I honestly don't think the NY Times has been this bad in my lifetime, it's deeply shameful.
October 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Again, one thing I was deeply wrong about these last years was that some baseline level of professional pride existed that would prevent journalists & media outlets from so thoroughly & publicly debasing themselves in the face of authoritarianism. I was naive. I apologize. It won't happen again.
In the future, 99% of communications that aren’t ads are from businesses saying “we value your feedback [but not your time or attention span], please fill out a survey”
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
In the future, 99% of communications that aren’t ads are from businesses saying “we value your feedback [but not your time or attention span], please fill out a survey”
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“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits
I’m looking forward to buying an H100 or two after the AI bubble pops. Lots of cool things to do with them after the bullshitters lose interest
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I’m looking forward to buying an H100 or two after the AI bubble pops. Lots of cool things to do with them after the bullshitters lose interest
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@nytimes.com expands its antitruth campaign
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
@nytimes.com expands its antitruth campaign
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!