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@sifu.tweety.fish

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at different times: haxx0r in cDc PhD in using people for ML and vice versa "theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive &c music, politics, nonsense

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · Oct 18

This seems like a good idea, really. So! "Tweety Fish" is my (auld) hacker handle; I am in the Cult of the Dead Cow. I have a PhD in vision science, I apply it to machine learning. I had a startup trying to make autonomous cars less bad for pedestrians (didn't work; they're bad) but now am free.

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · Oct 18

There's been an avalanche of new sign ups, so it's time for reintroductions.

Hi. I'm Andrew. I am a deep-sea ecologist and conservation technologist. My work orbits around how humans use and misuse technology to explore, exploit, protect, and plunder the hardest to reach places on the planet.

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Joel Zombied 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 22m

The New York Yankees have been eliminated on International Lesbian Day

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 8d

DAAAAAAA JANKEES LOSE!!

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 2h

god I hope there's already a band called antifa's girlfriend

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 6h

Agreed. The entire point of bike lanes and paths is to separate smaller, slower moving things from larger, faster moving things. Anything other than pedal-assist bicycles or other speed limited mobility devices should not be in these spaces.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 13h

My unpopular urbanist opinion is that big, hyperfast two-wheelers are a menace and should be banned from bike lanes/paths (with enforcement).

These things endanger everyone riding a bike or legal e-bike. Worse, they deter some from even trying.

E-bikes have evolved into e-motorcycles. Law enforcement is lagging behind.

Serious injuries are on the rise in emergency rooms around the country, as electric cycles become bigger and faster. Lawmakers and police departments are scrambling to address the problem.

www.inquirer.com

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 1d

At the very least this got me to try and find a picture of Noam Chomsky riding a motorcycle

tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 3d

No question mark. Must try.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3d

Someone earlier today said the only reason a guy like this Sephiroth posts is because he knows the house of cards is coming apart and I didn't pay it too much mind but now it's really looking like the case.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 3d

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 5d

I am gonna go to this thing at the crystal ballroom and also everybody who follows me who is local should go to this--it's a little steep, frankly, but it's for charity (and, indeed, tax deductible!)--because I think it'll be fun and it'll be more fun if more of you foolz go

100th Anniversary — Somerville Museum

www.somervillemuseum.org

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

This is literally directly across the street from an elementary school.

Map showing the school directly adjacent to where the tear gas canister was thrown.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d

Not mentioned in the story:
🔹 The biggest danger for scooter riders is cars
🔹 Unlike cars, scooters almost never kill another person walking/biking/scooting

As I said to someone complaining about "dangerous" scooters, "You get hit by a car, and I'll get hit by a scooter. Let's see who feels worse."

Are e-scooters a safety nightmare? A new study looks at the data.

Many cities have moved to ban or restrict electric scooter rentals. But a new study finds that e-scooters tend to be safer than e-bikes in European cities.

www.washingtonpost.com

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 5d

taylor swift said

I Just Had Sex - SNL Digital Short

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

youtu.be

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 6d

its, bah

tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 6d

oh yeah? I haven't been to one since '99 so don't ask me but I have always gotten along well with the 2600 crew. It's definitely it's own thing, for better or for worse

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 6d

all kindsa bad news shit: micahflee.com/unfortunatel...

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others r...

micahflee.com

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 6d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 6d

Elon Musk quietly furious he wasn't invited to the Riyadh comedy festival

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 6d

tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=d... ||

Drone ban over all of Chicago through Oct 12th. They don't want civilian drones in the skies to monitor whatever the government is planning to do in and around Chicago.

Prove me wrong.

tfrweb

```bash # install dependencies $ npm install

tfr.faa.gov

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 6d

I'm sure @greatdismal.bsky.social was already a Bouie fan but I appreciate this note of deep simpatico between them

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

today in “jamelle admires things he cannot afford” is this recreation of a post-war US Navy flight jacket therealmccoys.com/products/usn...

USN AL-1 FLIGHT JACKET

As World War II ended, the U.S. Navy began adapting to new challenges that arose from tensions with Stalin's Russia. The AL-1 Flight Jacket and separate Hood was one of the early designs from this per...

therealmccoys.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6d

Whoever is running DHS social media knew exactly what they were doing here.

The "Mac Tonight" Moon Man meme was so prevalent on Nazi Telegram channels I genuinely didn't even know it originated elsewhere until much later.

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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP: Lutnick’s $5 Billion in Gold Card Sales Has Gone Missing migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-lutn...

SCOOP: Lutnick’s $5 Billion in Gold Card Sales Has Gone Missing

Trump’s commerce chief bragged of selling 1,000 Gold Cards in a day. Treasury can’t find the money.

migrantinsider.com

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 6d

I actually think I prefer the people who are honest about their belief that attacking synagogues on Yom Kippur is good. Say it with your whole chest.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 6d

The entire Boston Jewish community thanks those involved for sliding the Red Sox-Yankees first pitch to after the sound of the shofar.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6d

part of why this admin is so much worse than the first is that trump is much more unhappy, miserable person this time and he wants to make damned sure everyone else is, too