Chris Larsen
@chrislarsen.bsky.social
Full Stack Web Developer. Main languages are Crystal, Ruby, and JavaScript.
Known to tell jokes to make anyone groan.
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Known to tell jokes to make anyone groan.
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Reposted by Chris Larsen
I posted this on instagram last year for Valentine’s Day but it’s only become more obvious so I’m reusing it this year🫠
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
I posted this on instagram last year for Valentine’s Day but it’s only become more obvious so I’m reusing it this year🫠
Reposted by Chris Larsen
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
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February 13, 2026 at 9:40 PM
It's true that Trump will be gone in a few years, but Trump was never the problem. American Imperialism is the problem. It was the problem before Trump, it created Trump, and it will be a problem after Trump.
“.. Donald Trump is temporary,” the California governor and likely presidential candidate said during a panel about climate change Friday at the Munich Security Conference. “He’ll be gone in three years.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
@politico.com
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February 13, 2026 at 4:56 PM
It's true that Trump will be gone in a few years, but Trump was never the problem. American Imperialism is the problem. It was the problem before Trump, it created Trump, and it will be a problem after Trump.
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A Tel Aviv-based group that describes its mission as going on the "legal offensive against Israel’s enemies" says it is trying to "shut down" Canadian news organization @readthemaple.com
Shurat HaDin is lobbying Canadian police to arrest a Canadian journalist
www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...
Shurat HaDin is lobbying Canadian police to arrest a Canadian journalist
www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...
February 13, 2026 at 2:48 PM
A Tel Aviv-based group that describes its mission as going on the "legal offensive against Israel’s enemies" says it is trying to "shut down" Canadian news organization @readthemaple.com
Shurat HaDin is lobbying Canadian police to arrest a Canadian journalist
www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...
Shurat HaDin is lobbying Canadian police to arrest a Canadian journalist
www.readthemaple.com/a-mossad-lin...
Make no mistake. This is the highly predictable and inevitable result of ever trusting Americans to make medicine. We should have never allowed those war-mongering white supremacists to insert themselves into any important place in global healthcare.
February 13, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Make no mistake. This is the highly predictable and inevitable result of ever trusting Americans to make medicine. We should have never allowed those war-mongering white supremacists to insert themselves into any important place in global healthcare.
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For many, Gaza is yesterday’s news.
For us, it is still today’s reality.
Don’t forget us.
For us, it is still today’s reality.
Don’t forget us.
February 12, 2026 at 8:59 PM
For many, Gaza is yesterday’s news.
For us, it is still today’s reality.
Don’t forget us.
For us, it is still today’s reality.
Don’t forget us.
I just showed you proof that LLMs are just advanced autocomplete algorithms, and you're still trying to hype them up.
If you really did "know about AI design on a technical level," then we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
If you really did "know about AI design on a technical level," then we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
February 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
I just showed you proof that LLMs are just advanced autocomplete algorithms, and you're still trying to hype them up.
If you really did "know about AI design on a technical level," then we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
If you really did "know about AI design on a technical level," then we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
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Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially
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February 12, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
More informed take: GenAI is nonsense right down to its very foundation. It's not "getting noticeably better," nor will it ever, because it's built on absolutely demented ideas.
If you don't believe me, look at what Stephen Wolfram said about it: writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what...
If you don't believe me, look at what Stephen Wolfram said about it: writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what...
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language s...
writings.stephenwolfram.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:06 AM
More informed take: GenAI is nonsense right down to its very foundation. It's not "getting noticeably better," nor will it ever, because it's built on absolutely demented ideas.
If you don't believe me, look at what Stephen Wolfram said about it: writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what...
If you don't believe me, look at what Stephen Wolfram said about it: writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what...
I do now, because you shut down Pocket.
February 11, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I do now, because you shut down Pocket.
Next time someone tells me that liberal arts majors have critical thinking skills, I'm gonna show them this.
February 11, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Next time someone tells me that liberal arts majors have critical thinking skills, I'm gonna show them this.
Philosophy majors going around telling everything they have better critical thinking skills, meanwhile:
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Philosophy majors going around telling everything they have better critical thinking skills, meanwhile:
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past time to leave Google
More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...
techcrunch.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 AM
past time to leave Google
Yeah, that really doesn't sound good.
February 11, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Yeah, that really doesn't sound good.
I'm totally nerding out right now over this.
Plants respond to Pavlovian conditioning.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Plants respond to Pavlovian conditioning.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Learning by Association in Plants
In complex and ever-changing environments, resources such as food are often scarce and unevenly distributed in space and time. Therefore, utilizing external cues to locate and remember high-quality sources allows more efficient foraging, thus ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
February 11, 2026 at 6:08 AM
I'm totally nerding out right now over this.
Plants respond to Pavlovian conditioning.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Plants respond to Pavlovian conditioning.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Sorry, but after sharing a border with them for 47 years, nothing happening there surprises me.
February 11, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Sorry, but after sharing a border with them for 47 years, nothing happening there surprises me.
You got 3 hours?
February 11, 2026 at 4:16 AM
You got 3 hours?
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The Toronto police union getting mad that the Inspector General is ordering a province-wide review of policing is very funny to me. Why? You don't have anything to hide, do you? Just comply! If you haven't done anything wrong, there won't be trouble!
February 10, 2026 at 6:23 PM
The Toronto police union getting mad that the Inspector General is ordering a province-wide review of policing is very funny to me. Why? You don't have anything to hide, do you? Just comply! If you haven't done anything wrong, there won't be trouble!