Root Beer Man
@linusr.bsky.social
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Root Beer Man
@linusr.bsky.social
· Nov 19
i’m putting a marker down. i‘ve “seen enough,” as is said, and so, 50¢ says there’s actually something very bad in there. i’m putting my money where my mouth is: it’s my last 50¢!!
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sephiroth posting (complimentary)
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
sephiroth posting (complimentary)
tiny tim grew up to be tim allen
December 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
tiny tim grew up to be tim allen
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CHOTINER: So you're delivering toys to *all* the good boys and girls?
SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice.
CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself?
SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice.
CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself?
December 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
CHOTINER: So you're delivering toys to *all* the good boys and girls?
SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice.
CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself?
SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice.
CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself?
Explain your username 🎤
Root Beer Man
Root Beer Man
Explain your username 🎤
[ deep, extended, really extended, still going, impossibly long sigh ]
Listen. I was fourteen, loved dumb non-sequiturs, needed a handle for BBSs. I thought "I'm picking a handle and I'm gonna be a famous hacker and I will NEVER CHANGE IT, EVER, what could go wrong"
[ deep, extended, really extended, still going, impossibly long sigh ]
Listen. I was fourteen, loved dumb non-sequiturs, needed a handle for BBSs. I thought "I'm picking a handle and I'm gonna be a famous hacker and I will NEVER CHANGE IT, EVER, what could go wrong"
EXPLAIN UR USERNAME 🎤
WEATHER IS HAPPENING
WEATHER IS HAPPENING
December 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Explain your username 🎤
Root Beer Man
Root Beer Man
root beer man got the tenure track job offer today
December 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
root beer man got the tenure track job offer today
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this bit, basically bsky.app/profile/linu...
i also think that both the ‘why trump’ and ‘of what is trump the culmination’ questions have two different and semidiscontinuous answers vis a vis 2016 and 2024
December 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
this bit, basically bsky.app/profile/linu...
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And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Fun fact: You cannot play this video on YouTube anymore, but if you drop that YouTube link to ytdown.to/en2/ you can download full video.
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ytdown.to
December 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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December 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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It's been, uh, a while, but I have a new newsletter out, based on some conversations here, about the irreconcilable experiences of LLMs that different groups have had and how that all boils down to afordances and how 'AI' is a terrible name and an even worse UX metaphor.
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's been, uh, a while, but I have a new newsletter out, based on some conversations here, about the irreconcilable experiences of LLMs that different groups have had and how that all boils down to afordances and how 'AI' is a terrible name and an even worse UX metaphor.
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Chomsky is not wearing his glasses here. He might not have realized it was Jeffrey Epstein
December 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Chomsky is not wearing his glasses here. He might not have realized it was Jeffrey Epstein
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Trump is like when Mr. Burns from the simpsons has every disease but in his case it's every greek myth that's meant to teach you a lesson
December 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trump is like when Mr. Burns from the simpsons has every disease but in his case it's every greek myth that's meant to teach you a lesson
je suis gonna win 50¢
i’m putting a marker down. i‘ve “seen enough,” as is said, and so, 50¢ says there’s actually something very bad in there. i’m putting my money where my mouth is: it’s my last 50¢!!
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
je suis gonna win 50¢
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We should drive them out of power and if they keep fighting after that we should run over them with tanks
December 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
We should drive them out of power and if they keep fighting after that we should run over them with tanks
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There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/euILrS8
John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/euILrS8
i am going to use my new 50¢ to buy a big gumball
December 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
i am going to use my new 50¢ to buy a big gumball
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that the one blonde lady in the one is not boxed out seems like a tell that this is gonna get bad and that i am going to win 50¢
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
that the one blonde lady in the one is not boxed out seems like a tell that this is gonna get bad and that i am going to win 50¢
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I do not subscribe to the moderate position.
Handing Hegseth over to The Hague is the moderate position.
Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I do not subscribe to the moderate position.
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so uh, what was Merrick Garland doing
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
so uh, what was Merrick Garland doing