Steve Norum
@stevenorum.bsky.social
Tinkerer, zookeeper, ultrarunner, adrenaline junkie.
If your main example for why something is Constitutional is a slaveholder being a dick to brown people 240 years ago, before the US Constitution was written, you're an idiot.
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Opinion | Why denying rights to deportees is not unconstitutional
Constitutional rights, since their beginnings in America, have always come with a caveat.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If your main example for why something is Constitutional is a slaveholder being a dick to brown people 240 years ago, before the US Constitution was written, you're an idiot.
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I think the best predictor of a person's views on LLMs are their thoughts on broad popsci books like Sapiens: There are people who read it and think "sure, it's wrong about the stuff I'm an expert in, but I trust the rest is accurate", and then there are people who see the big problem in that.
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I think the best predictor of a person's views on LLMs are their thoughts on broad popsci books like Sapiens: There are people who read it and think "sure, it's wrong about the stuff I'm an expert in, but I trust the rest is accurate", and then there are people who see the big problem in that.
The aurora is visible in central VA.
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The aurora is visible in central VA.
Perhaps even some financially-well-off Jews voted for Mamdani because improved social services make society better for everyone in it?
If the article weren’t written by a Jewish author for Haaretz, I’d honestly guess parts were written by quite the antisemite.
Link: archive.is/ljgQX
If the article weren’t written by a Jewish author for Haaretz, I’d honestly guess parts were written by quite the antisemite.
Link: archive.is/ljgQX
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Perhaps even some financially-well-off Jews voted for Mamdani because improved social services make society better for everyone in it?
If the article weren’t written by a Jewish author for Haaretz, I’d honestly guess parts were written by quite the antisemite.
Link: archive.is/ljgQX
If the article weren’t written by a Jewish author for Haaretz, I’d honestly guess parts were written by quite the antisemite.
Link: archive.is/ljgQX
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... very much brings to mind one of my favorite songs: youtu.be/0cXSz2XfS7A?...
Farmers fight an 'extension cord' for data centers
Tensions over a proposed 67-mile transmission line have rocked Maryland's farming communities, as the nation’s largest grid operator says data centers are driving power demands.
www.nbcnews.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... very much brings to mind one of my favorite songs: youtu.be/0cXSz2XfS7A?...
"There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as 'patriotism', may remain a habit." - JRR Tolkien, Letter 52 (re: how the state of the world in 1943 was shifting his politics towards Anarchism)
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
November 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as 'patriotism', may remain a habit." - JRR Tolkien, Letter 52 (re: how the state of the world in 1943 was shifting his politics towards Anarchism)
A nice reminder of the days when America’s eternal militaristic jingoism was able to coexist happily with a welcoming attitude towards immigrants*.
* yes, I know it was a super racist and shitty system, just in different ways than the current state of immigration law.
* yes, I know it was a super racist and shitty system, just in different ways than the current state of immigration law.
October 30, 2025 at 4:28 AM
A nice reminder of the days when America’s eternal militaristic jingoism was able to coexist happily with a welcoming attitude towards immigrants*.
* yes, I know it was a super racist and shitty system, just in different ways than the current state of immigration law.
* yes, I know it was a super racist and shitty system, just in different ways than the current state of immigration law.
It might be good that they’re trying to measure signs of psychosis and mania in their users, but I’m dubious of how well they’re doing given that the population rate of schizophrenia (to say nothing of bipolar with or without psychosis) is at least 10x the rate of psychosis/mania they’re seeing.
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
It might be good that they’re trying to measure signs of psychosis and mania in their users, but I’m dubious of how well they’re doing given that the population rate of schizophrenia (to say nothing of bipolar with or without psychosis) is at least 10x the rate of psychosis/mania they’re seeing.
An advantage of the shutdown: this is what a VA-DC light rail ride looks like today.
October 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
An advantage of the shutdown: this is what a VA-DC light rail ride looks like today.
On the one hand, it’s good that this research is being done and reported. On the other hand, the fact that the starting assumption, even among many in the field, is that things like “autism” or “ADHD” are single conditions and not convergent syndromes, is shocking. (1/)
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Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude — WIRED
Research reveals that those diagnosed with autism early show distinct genetic and developmental profiles from those diagnosed later.
apple.news
October 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
On the one hand, it’s good that this research is being done and reported. On the other hand, the fact that the starting assumption, even among many in the field, is that things like “autism” or “ADHD” are single conditions and not convergent syndromes, is shocking. (1/)
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ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
It’s annoying the number of interviews I’ve seen with students who said that Charlie Kirk made them feel comfortable expressing their true opinions on controversial topics without asking what those opinions are.
(Insert goose chase meme here, but I’m too lazy to make it on mobile.)
(Insert goose chase meme here, but I’m too lazy to make it on mobile.)
September 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s annoying the number of interviews I’ve seen with students who said that Charlie Kirk made them feel comfortable expressing their true opinions on controversial topics without asking what those opinions are.
(Insert goose chase meme here, but I’m too lazy to make it on mobile.)
(Insert goose chase meme here, but I’m too lazy to make it on mobile.)
What, Harrison Butker goes too far to the right? Who could’ve ever foreseen such a thing.
September 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
What, Harrison Butker goes too far to the right? Who could’ve ever foreseen such a thing.
Honestly I’m not opposed to this change. We should be honest and call it the Department of Using Military Force to Economically Pillage Developing Nations, but at least Department of War is closer to true than Department of Defense.
JUST IN: President Trump will rename the Defense Department the Department of War, the White House confirmed
Trump seeks to rename Department of Defense to Department of War
The Trump administration has focused on restoring a "warrior ethos" to the Armed Services.
www.axios.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Honestly I’m not opposed to this change. We should be honest and call it the Department of Using Military Force to Economically Pillage Developing Nations, but at least Department of War is closer to true than Department of Defense.
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Americans Astronomers
watching watching
US politics Betelgeuse
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“It could happen at any time”
watching watching
US politics Betelgeuse
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“It could happen at any time”
September 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Americans Astronomers
watching watching
US politics Betelgeuse
🤝
“It could happen at any time”
watching watching
US politics Betelgeuse
🤝
“It could happen at any time”
I guess Home Assistant wants to steer clear of cosmogonical debates.
August 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I guess Home Assistant wants to steer clear of cosmogonical debates.
I’m working through the Behind the Bastards back catalog and I love that @iwriteok.bsky.social is one of around a half-dozen people in the world who remember the show SeaQuest DSV.
August 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I’m working through the Behind the Bastards back catalog and I love that @iwriteok.bsky.social is one of around a half-dozen people in the world who remember the show SeaQuest DSV.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d consider someone stalking me with a rifle a bit of a provocation.
(From www.npr.org/2025/08/09/g...)
(From www.npr.org/2025/08/09/g...)
August 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d consider someone stalking me with a rifle a bit of a provocation.
(From www.npr.org/2025/08/09/g...)
(From www.npr.org/2025/08/09/g...)
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I'm most proud of how flammable it was
“Hey quick follow up for the History Respecter — what aspect of the Confederacy are you *most* proud of?
The treason against the United States? The defense of slavery? All the losing? I bet it’s the losing.”
The treason against the United States? The defense of slavery? All the losing? I bet it’s the losing.”
Hegseth on restoring a Confederate monument in Arlington cemetery: "We recognize our history. We don't erase it. We don't follow the woke lemmings off the cliff that want to tear down statues ... we're proud of our history."
August 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I'm most proud of how flammable it was
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The U.S. left doesn't need a Joe Rogan, it needs a Wyman Manderly.
August 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The U.S. left doesn't need a Joe Rogan, it needs a Wyman Manderly.
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Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!
I don't understand how video game market can support so many farming games. Do young people yearn for the fields?
August 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!
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i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"
August 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"
Too many of the things I’d want to use “AI assistants” for are things that are just needlessly shitty. Flaky online portals, calling an office to set up utilities or make an appointment, those sorts of things. I don’t want to burn 1.21 jigowatt-hours of energy; I just want the dentist to use email.
July 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Too many of the things I’d want to use “AI assistants” for are things that are just needlessly shitty. Flaky online portals, calling an office to set up utilities or make an appointment, those sorts of things. I don’t want to burn 1.21 jigowatt-hours of energy; I just want the dentist to use email.
I’ve long thought “Epstein wasn’t killed but was possibly/probably talked into offing himself given his hopeless situation,” but the feds are really trying to push me into the full “Epstein was actually murdered camp” with all this video editing BS.
July 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I’ve long thought “Epstein wasn’t killed but was possibly/probably talked into offing himself given his hopeless situation,” but the feds are really trying to push me into the full “Epstein was actually murdered camp” with all this video editing BS.