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Joey Carpinelli
@loopy.codes
I don’t know I could be way off base here.

Writing research software: professionally for robotics, previously for spacecraft dynamics, personally for astronomy. 🔭

Loving Greater Boston.

⚙︎ https://github.com/cadojo
https://loopy.codes
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In Central Pennsylvania for the holidays. This is the first time since 2020 (when I first visited) that I’ve seen no MAGA or MAGA-adjacent signs. Zero. Normally I see dozens over a 30 minute drive.

The people do not want this.
December 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Republican politicians and the media oligarchs who fund them regularly distort reality to further their agenda, and half of the Senate Democratic caucus won’t even try to acknowledge — let alone correct — the distortion.
Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.

I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
December 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“This is going to ruin the tour.”

What tour?

“The world tour.”
December 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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'MOON: Inspires melancholy. Is it perhaps inhabited?'

- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Good Cop Federalism /
Bad Cop Federalism
December 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Starting to wonder if the software industry’s primary positive contribution to society is all of the novel collaborative text editing and plain-text version control management tools.
December 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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I have a new short story out today in Blue Mesa Review. It’s a retelling of the “One-Handed Murderer.” Although this folktale was written a long time ago, we are still writing about the same shit. But I hope we can change how we tell the story. I’d so appreciate it if you’d take the time to read:
Spitfire - Blue Mesa Review
By Casey Reiland
bmr.unm.edu
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
You need to read this story.
For the morning crowd, I have a new short story out! This one is very important to me. I’m very grateful for the editors at Blue Mesa Review for publishing it. 🫱🏻🔪🐚🐉
I have a new short story out today in Blue Mesa Review. It’s a retelling of the “One-Handed Murderer.” Although this folktale was written a long time ago, we are still writing about the same shit. But I hope we can change how we tell the story. I’d so appreciate it if you’d take the time to read:
December 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Two days ago we at @roomy.space had an interesting epiphany: Roomy's server wasn't just another off-protocol server or AppView, it was it's own kind of PDS with similar advantages of data ownership.

This opened up a different way of thinking about services similar to Roomy and they might co-exist.
The Case For Universal Login and "Off-Protocol" Services
For the last year, we have been working on Roomy with a clear integration to the ATProtocol. At the same time, we've also had a distinctly "off-protocol" strategy for data handling: we don't store Roo...
leaflet.roomy.space
December 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
@fivefourpod.bsky.social request for y’all to talk about the Corporate Power Reset idea as a way to get around Citizens United 🫡
The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant
By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.
www.americanprogress.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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“‘If the results are bad & we don't publish & they leak,’ this [Meta] employee wrote, according to the brief, ‘is it going to look like tobacco companies doing research & knowing cigs were bad & then keeping that info to themselves?’"🧪🛟
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Employer: What can we give you this holiday season as a thank you for all the hard work you’ve done this year?
Employees: Ooo a bonus, a raise, more time off—
Employer: OKAY SELF-CARE TIPS IT IS!
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This article is excellent, but I wish there was an online magazine that could elevate ideas like these.

Does any such magazine exist?
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Petition demanding her release www.change.org/p/demand-the...
Sign the Petition
Demand The Release of Chicago Teacher Illegally Detained By Ice
www.change.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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No obvious ICE presence in my corner of Rogers Park tonight. No helicopters, or SUVs pulling up and grabbing people off the street. Just kids and families out trick-or-treating.
November 1, 2025 at 4:22 AM
If dispatching on enum variants in #Rust bad practice? It seems like there's not an idiomatic way to treat enum variants as their own types. I don't want to `std::mem::discriminant`!
October 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
October 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
There’s fine lines between “cringe” and “earnest” and “popular”. As Tris @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy says: popularity matters. Loved participating in the most popular display of resistance yet here in Boston.
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Boston. Wow.
October 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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It is alarming that the Trump Admin & rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child from Everett, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away & reportedly subject him to harrowing conditions.

They must stop violating our constitutional rights.

My full statement:
October 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Exploring some ideas for how to create a macro-free (or macro-light) implementation of the tidyverse in #julialang (get out the jolly roger 🏴‍☠️): www.randy.pub/posts/piracy/
You wouldn't pirate a type
www.randy.pub
October 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM