Jim Stewart
@jimnstewart.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, coder, cyclist
A central belief of mine is any line of reasoning that goes more than one step beyond what’s experimentally verifiable is scarcely better than just making stuff up. (With really good math occasionally you can go 2-3 steps but only to make a falsifiable hypothesis.)
December 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
A central belief of mine is any line of reasoning that goes more than one step beyond what’s experimentally verifiable is scarcely better than just making stuff up. (With really good math occasionally you can go 2-3 steps but only to make a falsifiable hypothesis.)
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This is precisely why, several years ago a political scientist and I co-wrote the article "Police as Supercitizens" in which we argued that police occupy a fully distinct tier of citizenship that affords them often along with their family/friends rights, privileges, and exemptions no one else has.
December 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is precisely why, several years ago a political scientist and I co-wrote the article "Police as Supercitizens" in which we argued that police occupy a fully distinct tier of citizenship that affords them often along with their family/friends rights, privileges, and exemptions no one else has.
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My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
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When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
I love that on Lyrics Genius for Southern Cross someone calculated how fast Stephen Stills’s sailboat would go, and includes the formula.
genius.com/10288950
genius.com/10288950
We got eighty feet of the waterline
The boat is 80ft long when measured at the water, making it an 90ft+ sailing yacht. Longer sailboats travel faster that shorter ones. This yacht has a theoretical maximum speed of nearly 12knots, sinc...
genius.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I love that on Lyrics Genius for Southern Cross someone calculated how fast Stephen Stills’s sailboat would go, and includes the formula.
genius.com/10288950
genius.com/10288950
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
Oh no what if they make Bugs Bunny gay?
December 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Oh no what if they make Bugs Bunny gay?
Does anyone mention how prescient this song was about the explosion of surveillance that has occurred? I wonder if that’s because it was written by a then-closeted gay man.
youtube.com/watch?v=yMVV...
youtube.com/watch?v=yMVV...
Judas Priest - Electric Eye (Official Video)
YouTube video by JudasPriestVEVO
youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Does anyone mention how prescient this song was about the explosion of surveillance that has occurred? I wonder if that’s because it was written by a then-closeted gay man.
youtube.com/watch?v=yMVV...
youtube.com/watch?v=yMVV...
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Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Oh no, we can't loose the strict adherence to traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that the Looney Tunes cartoons were so famous for.
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This is an American patriot.
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is an American patriot.
If those guys on the boat had just quietly drowned they wouldn't have had to shoot another missile at them.
December 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
If those guys on the boat had just quietly drowned they wouldn't have had to shoot another missile at them.
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Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. That's like saying, "Well, we keep breeding these horses to run faster and faster, so it's only a matter of time until one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive."
- Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
- Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. That's like saying, "Well, we keep breeding these horses to run faster and faster, so it's only a matter of time until one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive."
- Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
- Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
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Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
Sam Kris’s writing about AI is especially meta-funny because Sam Kriss also sometimes just makes stuff up
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sam Kris’s writing about AI is especially meta-funny because Sam Kriss also sometimes just makes stuff up
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
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It’s dumb to dogpile people just because they deviate from group consensus or consider some nuance you don’t agree with. Not everyone is a moron or in bad faith if they don’t align with you 100% on every topic. It’s ok to use an inside voice for disagreement with people who respect you
December 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It’s dumb to dogpile people just because they deviate from group consensus or consider some nuance you don’t agree with. Not everyone is a moron or in bad faith if they don’t align with you 100% on every topic. It’s ok to use an inside voice for disagreement with people who respect you
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images of Trump dozing during today's cabinet meeting
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty & Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty & Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
images of Trump dozing during today's cabinet meeting
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty & Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty & Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
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I guess my overall complaint with a lot of tech stuff nowadays is the product constantly telling me I’m wrong in using it in the way that I want to use it
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I guess my overall complaint with a lot of tech stuff nowadays is the product constantly telling me I’m wrong in using it in the way that I want to use it
Just looked at Instagram and thought the app might be enjoyable if you could turn off reels
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Just looked at Instagram and thought the app might be enjoyable if you could turn off reels
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Unpopular opinion: Yes, it's bullshit that Ghislane Maxwell is getting better treatment in prison than everyone else because she praised Trump. But it's much bigger bullshit that incarcerated people are treated so horrifically that toilet paper is considered a privilege.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Unpopular opinion: Yes, it's bullshit that Ghislane Maxwell is getting better treatment in prison than everyone else because she praised Trump. But it's much bigger bullshit that incarcerated people are treated so horrifically that toilet paper is considered a privilege.
In case you’re wondering, this is vaguely Flintstones Vitamin flavored
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
In case you’re wondering, this is vaguely Flintstones Vitamin flavored