Louis Simoneau
datalouis.bsky.social
Louis Simoneau
@datalouis.bsky.social
Data Engineering @ Culture Amp
Opinions my own

Likes include BJJ, board games, books (mostly SFF), breakfast
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I strongly suspect all the LLM providers hard-coded the r's-in-strawberry test case so now we need to try new test cases.
August 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.
theklaxon.com.au
July 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Last month it was NDIS scams. Last week a Sydney hospital going broke. This week it’s childcare centres in strife. If you outsource community services you need stringent external monitoring and oversight processes. Better still, don’t outsource.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Childcare is just the latest failure of Australia’s privatisation push. It’s time for an ideology overhaul | John Quiggin
Even the Productivity Commission is backing away from the for-profit model. We need to ensure that our human services serve humans
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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June 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.
April 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I made it nine (9) business hours into 2025 before broken data ruined my day.
January 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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One more lane. Just one more lane bro, that’s all I need. No cmon man, just one more lane.
December 19, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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I went to a pop-up holiday market and this white lady selling hand made ceramic earrings was proudly displaying the political message left by an assassin on bullet casings after a successful murder so that’s a bit of a data point for Where Things Are
December 8, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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December 6, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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on “Wonderful Christmastime,” Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless christmas classic and also to figure out what every button on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded at one of those things
December 5, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 8:01 PM