pablo
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🇺🇸/🇬🇹. had a life in tech (ex - Ramp, Lyft, ClassPass, Google, Adobe, 2 other startups). figuring out what's next https://pablotimer.com . Personal blog at morepablo.com
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Relistened to this @michaelhobbes.bsky.social gem: “Which scenario makes more sense: 100s of thousands of public health workers around the world recommended a bunch of steps that they know are ineffective, or is it more likely that two people without the relevant expertise are mis-reading a report?”
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
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December 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Relistened to this @michaelhobbes.bsky.social gem: “Which scenario makes more sense: 100s of thousands of public health workers around the world recommended a bunch of steps that they know are ineffective, or is it more likely that two people without the relevant expertise are mis-reading a report?”
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Not really sure you can recover as a country with this out in the open corruption. Usually this stuff happens in countries that don't have functioning elections or a tradition of law and order. But the electorate is basically checked out on millionaires and billionaires committing robbing them.
He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.
December 31, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Not really sure you can recover as a country with this out in the open corruption. Usually this stuff happens in countries that don't have functioning elections or a tradition of law and order. But the electorate is basically checked out on millionaires and billionaires committing robbing them.
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all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
The year politics became brainrot
You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
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One of the best to ever do it
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One of the best to ever do it
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here comes @attackerman.bsky.social
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to delay an accurate story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
here comes @attackerman.bsky.social
this post has been RT-ed into my feed a few times and I didn't read it because it looked like normal "not into AI" stuff, but I did and really, really enjoyed it anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
December 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
this post has been RT-ed into my feed a few times and I didn't read it because it looked like normal "not into AI" stuff, but I did and really, really enjoyed it anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
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it's genuinely fascinating to me that "you cannot facilitate a genocide against a people and still expect their vote" is too advanced for some analysts to understand.
Dearborn, Michigan could not be reached for comment.
Trump: "I'm not concerned about anything that Israel is doing"
December 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
it's genuinely fascinating to me that "you cannot facilitate a genocide against a people and still expect their vote" is too advanced for some analysts to understand.
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Brigitte Bardot, the French film star?
December 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Brigitte Bardot, the French film star?
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An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
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Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40.
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40.
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
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American Canto paperback cover
December 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
American Canto paperback cover
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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![Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreig43e2u4zzpifhq6fbf2iwplmva2lt5rokfg5uws5dysbe55up6wa@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Cousin called my mom, not knowing who else to call, panicked because she closed a Google Docs tab, and she couldn't find it anywhere
I happened to be home and overhear and taught her Ctrl-Shift-T, and she nearly cried
I happened to be home and overhear and taught her Ctrl-Shift-T, and she nearly cried
I remember sitting down to help a colleague finishing her PhD (20+ years ago). I hit control down to get to bottom of column of data and she started crying. Didn’t know you could do that, and when you’re working 100hr weeks to finish those 5min spent holding the down key are painful.
December 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Cousin called my mom, not knowing who else to call, panicked because she closed a Google Docs tab, and she couldn't find it anywhere
I happened to be home and overhear and taught her Ctrl-Shift-T, and she nearly cried
I happened to be home and overhear and taught her Ctrl-Shift-T, and she nearly cried
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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This could have been on the front page of Albino Blacksheep twenty years ago. It was posted three weeks ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc3c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc3c...
Slurmware Store - Weird Al Slurmcore
YouTube video by Branflakes
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December 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This could have been on the front page of Albino Blacksheep twenty years ago. It was posted three weeks ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc3c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc3c...
Every model in the field is storytelling built on the assumptions that a) human beings are perfectly informed, b) they are rational, and c) ceteris paribus (consider changes in variables as if no other variables changed).
These are *never* true
These are *never* true
See also: economics
A type of practice that I find interesting historically is the rigorously untrue. Astrology, for instance, was often a very tightly defined practice with a seriously requirement of learning: it just wasn’t actually real.
December 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Every model in the field is storytelling built on the assumptions that a) human beings are perfectly informed, b) they are rational, and c) ceteris paribus (consider changes in variables as if no other variables changed).
These are *never* true
These are *never* true
Those two weeks of that one summer in Montana 25 years ago were absolutely treacherous, and my parents nearly divorced after that trip, but the peace and awe I felt about the stars every night opposite-of-haunt me till this day
If you ever have the experience of seeing a night sky out in the deep countryside you can understand this; it really is a fundamentally different experience, and I can't imagine it not being formative to people.
December 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Those two weeks of that one summer in Montana 25 years ago were absolutely treacherous, and my parents nearly divorced after that trip, but the peace and awe I felt about the stars every night opposite-of-haunt me till this day
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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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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)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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.
funny thing about coding and AI is that for years if you told people to invest in learning their editor, using a more powerful editor, or even basic typing speed, they'd always look a bit proud and say "my utility isn't blocked by *typing*"
but for a *lot* of LLM use cases, that's the benefit!
but for a *lot* of LLM use cases, that's the benefit!
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
funny thing about coding and AI is that for years if you told people to invest in learning their editor, using a more powerful editor, or even basic typing speed, they'd always look a bit proud and say "my utility isn't blocked by *typing*"
but for a *lot* of LLM use cases, that's the benefit!
but for a *lot* of LLM use cases, that's the benefit!
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone!