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Once more into the fray
Day Job: Data Science
Also: Neuroscience, Respiratory Health, AI/ML, Trust & Safety, Gaming, Disability Rights
No patience for: ableism, casual eugenics, scientism, or bigotry of any kind
Day Job: Data Science
Also: Neuroscience, Respiratory Health, AI/ML, Trust & Safety, Gaming, Disability Rights
No patience for: ableism, casual eugenics, scientism, or bigotry of any kind
How is it that getting measles is both something that’s an actual possibility and apparently NOT one of the worst outcomes that could happen in 2026?
December 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
How is it that getting measles is both something that’s an actual possibility and apparently NOT one of the worst outcomes that could happen in 2026?
mood
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
mood
Oh how generous of the NIH to suddenly be concerned about the scientific merit of the grants they cancelled
December 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Oh how generous of the NIH to suddenly be concerned about the scientific merit of the grants they cancelled
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Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.
December 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.
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Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
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I get the political urgency for a reboot of the Democratic brand for more media-savvy leadership. But a lot is built around their disastrous defeat in the 2024 elections. There is a danger of generalizing about an anomalous post-covid anti-incumbency year when the defeat was actually fairly narrow.
October 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I get the political urgency for a reboot of the Democratic brand for more media-savvy leadership. But a lot is built around their disastrous defeat in the 2024 elections. There is a danger of generalizing about an anomalous post-covid anti-incumbency year when the defeat was actually fairly narrow.
Both recent SASSY events have been highlights have been wonderful, and for those who couldn’t attend in person, you can still catch the recordings. They’re all very unique store stories.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Both recent SASSY events have been highlights have been wonderful, and for those who couldn’t attend in person, you can still catch the recordings. They’re all very unique store stories.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
In honor of WhatsApp inserting ads into their app, I’m starting a recurring $5 monthly donation to @signal.org
June 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
In honor of WhatsApp inserting ads into their app, I’m starting a recurring $5 monthly donation to @signal.org
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i hate having pronouns in my video game slop now i have no choicr but to support putting all immigrants in labor camps
June 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
i hate having pronouns in my video game slop now i have no choicr but to support putting all immigrants in labor camps
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Theoretical physicist who also does research in humanities using critical theories.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
Critical theory is notorious for this especially. I have never seen important ideas that should be widely spread locked behind absolute microsubject definitions and word salad that is completely inaccessible to pretty much anyone who doesn't spend a lot of time reading on the subject.
February 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Theoretical physicist who also does research in humanities using critical theories.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
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Don't just listen to players. If given the option, they'll optimize the game out of their games, and the story out of their stories. It's our job to filter information and data and feedback into good work, and while we'll sometimes miss it's better than blindly following surveys.
I once worked on a visual novel game where all the surveys and focus groups said that nobody wanted romance, they only wanted mystery and sci-fi.
Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
'These kids do not care about romance': Game devs want to know what today's teens want, and surveys say sex and romance isn't it
Young people want stories about friendship more than romance, say researchers and industry execs.
www.pcgamer.com
February 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Don't just listen to players. If given the option, they'll optimize the game out of their games, and the story out of their stories. It's our job to filter information and data and feedback into good work, and while we'll sometimes miss it's better than blindly following surveys.
Why bluesky is one of the more trustworthy networks I have right now.
Note: this is the browser version, so I can’t confirm the app has no tracking.
Note: this is the browser version, so I can’t confirm the app has no tracking.
February 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Why bluesky is one of the more trustworthy networks I have right now.
Note: this is the browser version, so I can’t confirm the app has no tracking.
Note: this is the browser version, so I can’t confirm the app has no tracking.
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Thinking of the many people afflicted by long #COVID who persevered to make initiatives like this happening. Incredible work that should serve as a beacon to established NIH investigators (assuming the NIH survives the next four years).
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...
Opinion | Donate This Holiday Season: Long Covid Research Need Your Help
A group of long Covid patients is financing research and making progress.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Thinking of the many people afflicted by long #COVID who persevered to make initiatives like this happening. Incredible work that should serve as a beacon to established NIH investigators (assuming the NIH survives the next four years).
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...
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Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century
November 18, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century
Been on this site all of one weekend and already blocking Nazi apologists. This really is like old Twitter!
November 19, 2024 at 5:16 AM
Been on this site all of one weekend and already blocking Nazi apologists. This really is like old Twitter!
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Please don't leave disabled people behind in your revolution. Please do not see us as sacrifices for the greater good, or dead weight. Please see our lives as worth saving, too.
November 9, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Please don't leave disabled people behind in your revolution. Please do not see us as sacrifices for the greater good, or dead weight. Please see our lives as worth saving, too.
Well hey, look at that, protests work
New study looks at protests against far right in 2002 French elections. Finds “larger protests reduced number of votes for Le Pen and abstention, while increasing number of votes for the incumbent president, Chirac.” Also finds “effect worked
through media exposure.” nicolas-lagios.com/files/fn.pdf
through media exposure.” nicolas-lagios.com/files/fn.pdf
November 16, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Well hey, look at that, protests work
For anyone that, on the off chance, wants to import their #Twitter history to Bluesky and is willing to use a little bit of #Nodejs, here's the package I used to do it for me. Can confirm it works with Windows System Linux too.
github.com/marcomaroni-...
Happy Importing
github.com/marcomaroni-...
Happy Importing
GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account.
Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky
github.com
November 16, 2024 at 9:41 PM
For anyone that, on the off chance, wants to import their #Twitter history to Bluesky and is willing to use a little bit of #Nodejs, here's the package I used to do it for me. Can confirm it works with Windows System Linux too.
github.com/marcomaroni-...
Happy Importing
github.com/marcomaroni-...
Happy Importing
Same, Grant. Same.
I picked a very interesting time to essentially restart my twitter account.
November 16, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Same, Grant. Same.
Migrating over to following as many of the same people I used to follow on Twitter, I encountered a sense of loss that I didn't feel when I stopped using the bird site.
Perhaps it just hit me how much history is going to be erased.
Perhaps it just hit me how much history is going to be erased.
November 15, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Migrating over to following as many of the same people I used to follow on Twitter, I encountered a sense of loss that I didn't feel when I stopped using the bird site.
Perhaps it just hit me how much history is going to be erased.
Perhaps it just hit me how much history is going to be erased.
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Heads up to any of you who monetize content on this platform
https://x.com/PuppygirlMao/status/1796646255809921229
https://x.com/PuppygirlMao/status/1796646255809921229
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Heads up to any of you who monetize content on this platform
https://x.com/PuppygirlMao/status/1796646255809921229
https://x.com/PuppygirlMao/status/1796646255809921229
Been over a year since my last tweet. Have you all been well?
No, I’m not planning on coming back, but I thought I’d see how bad the pit has become.
Why’s everything so sticky and slow?
No, I’m not planning on coming back, but I thought I’d see how bad the pit has become.
Why’s everything so sticky and slow?
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Been over a year since my last tweet. Have you all been well?
No, I’m not planning on coming back, but I thought I’d see how bad the pit has become.
Why’s everything so sticky and slow?
No, I’m not planning on coming back, but I thought I’d see how bad the pit has become.
Why’s everything so sticky and slow?