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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1h

If you told me 20 years ago a phone could actually capture an ok-ish shot of the moon I'd have said you were crazy.

David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1h

Modern cell phone cameras+processing delight me. I'm also glad I could turn the "AI enhancement" off. I like the shot without bullshit, even if it's a bit fuzzy because it was taken through a device that fits in my pocket. (Last night's moon viewed from Pittsburgh on a pixel 10 pro, handheld).

A cropped shot of the moon. The usual moon details are visible though a bit fuzzy. There is a ring of noisy light mush underneath it that was probably due to camera shake.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 11h

that is better than what I've seen before, but note that they're still saying somewhere around 15k miles for the breakeven point. That's great for my family, though - the old numbers had us at 12 year breakeven (meh), those have us at 4 years. (Ironically, the e-bike lengthened our break-even time)

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 14h

And if you're faculty: I beg you, for the sake of everyone else in the world, strongly consider creating your own public webpages for your course instead of having everything locked up in Canvas.

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 14h

We will regret sacrificing the open web. I was curious about which courses at CMU use the Ed discussion platform. So I did some link: and site: searches and a little crawling...

A huge number of the course websites are locked up in Canvas and even as faculty I can't see them. *headdesk*

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 20h

"huh, that's weird" remains one of the most fun things to ever say in research.

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 23h

It transforms into a PumpkinPi 4.0 but there's some assembly required.

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 23h

I sympathize with the author's steadfast refusal to make a call on Pittsburgh

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 23h

Poor old guy got confused about which graph he's looking at

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah. And my hope is that the CO2/pollution cutoff moves earlier as we (hopefully) keep improving the mix of our electrical supply. Ahem. PJM, are you listening?

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the single biggest reason we'll be getting an EV as our next car. We drive so little that the environmental benefits are a wash. But almost never having to go to the shop or gas station is incredibly appealing.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1d

CMU was giving out free mini-pumpkins today so now I have an office pumpkin. 😍 (office not shown)

A hand holding up a pumpkin in front of a large greenspace at Carnegie Mellon.

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1d

I put this as one of my grad projects this semester but nobody has taken me up on it. Honestly, this would be a good submarine startup to do -- establish yourself as the go-to consulting firm for 2038 remediation and then prepare to go insane in 2037. Also a good testcase for coding assistants.

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1d

don't ever ask this agent how to lose weight

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1d

I'm kinda positive about the long-term potential of modern deep learning, and I enjoy using coding assistants and think LLMs are a particularly good match there - but it's very, very hard to believe the short-term valuations of these companies.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 2d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1d

Learn something new every day.
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coo...

When Groundhog Was on the Menu in Punxsutawney

From picnics to club dinners, the critter has a long culinary history in Pennsylvania.

www.atlasobscura.com

David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1d

Sep 2025: Musk: 80% of Tesla's value will come from Optimus robots.

October 2025:

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands (Theo Wayt/The Information)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1d

The worst part about this one is that this exact example has been known _for over a year_ AND PUBLISHED ABOUT and Google has done nothing to improve it.

defector.com/whatever-ai-...

Whatever AI Looks Like, It's Not | Defector

There is a very funny viral tweet going around that features a screenshot of a Google search result for “austria-hungary in space.” You can try the search yourself. This is what Google returns: In 188...

defector.com

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I use Kagi now and I'm really happy with it.

We stumbled upon this one because my wife still uses Google and was trying to come up with an analogy, and .. well, this resulted. I didn't realize most of the errors, but the Elijah Baley one jumped out at me so I dug in more. Depressing.

David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1d

and even in the TV series is married to someone else. This is pure slop. Why would you put this front and center as the way you present to users?

David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 1d

Slightly niche, but Google, you should remain hideously embarrassed at having such erroneous shit in your AI summaries.

- The character is married to Toran Darel, not Channis;
-Elijah Baley is from an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SERIES and is married to Jezebel Bailey (née Navodny).
- Bayta Mallow is TV

Screenshot of Google search results AI Overview:
Bayta Darrell is a character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels who discovers the Mule's identity and helps the First Foundation escape the psychic grip of the Mule, though her role in the tv series is different and she plays a central role in stopping the Mule in the books. In the tv series, she is revealed to be the powerful mentalic controlling the Mule, a twist on the original book's plot.
In Asimov's Foundation Novels

Bayta Darrell is the wife of Bail Channis and is instrumental in the discovery of the Mule's true identity and origin.
She is the maternal aunt of Elijah Baley's wife, Bayta Mallow, in the second book of the Foundation Trilogy, Foundation and Empire.

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 2d

I regret that I had but one NYT and WaPo subscription to cancel and already fired that shot, because good god, they're both managing impressive new depths.

Anyway, remember to throw some subscriptions to actual good sources of journalism, because it seems they're becoming more rare by the week.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."

Opinion
Guest Essay

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

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