Steve Hayes
@sxh.bsky.social
Retired developer, pursuing excellence and failing to a better future, day by day. Board games, TTRPG, scale aircraft, programming, science, economics, politics, sci fi, other stuff.
Australian in UK
http://scaleaircraftstuff.com
Australian in UK
http://scaleaircraftstuff.com
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'IMBECILES: Those who don't think like you.'
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
'IMBECILES: Those who don't think like you.'
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
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CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
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TAPPER: RFK Jr, according to his own family, is causing real damage. You don't seem willing to criticize him by name
CASSIDY: Clearly you want me to be on the record saying something negative. It makes news if Republicans fight each other
T: I don't even know that he's a Republican
C: Or whatever
CASSIDY: Clearly you want me to be on the record saying something negative. It makes news if Republicans fight each other
T: I don't even know that he's a Republican
C: Or whatever
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
TAPPER: RFK Jr, according to his own family, is causing real damage. You don't seem willing to criticize him by name
CASSIDY: Clearly you want me to be on the record saying something negative. It makes news if Republicans fight each other
T: I don't even know that he's a Republican
C: Or whatever
CASSIDY: Clearly you want me to be on the record saying something negative. It makes news if Republicans fight each other
T: I don't even know that he's a Republican
C: Or whatever
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TAPPER: You were the deciding vote that allowed RFK Jr to ascend to the role of Health Secretary. Did you give him too much credit?
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
TAPPER: You were the deciding vote that allowed RFK Jr to ascend to the role of Health Secretary. Did you give him too much credit?
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
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Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
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In case you missed it, you can use a QR code to connect a real player with a guest player!
They scan the code and instantly get all the games you've recorded for them added to their account.
Treat yourself to your friend remembering the time you won Spirit Island together!
#tabletopgames
They scan the code and instantly get all the games you've recorded for them added to their account.
Treat yourself to your friend remembering the time you won Spirit Island together!
#tabletopgames
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
In case you missed it, you can use a QR code to connect a real player with a guest player!
They scan the code and instantly get all the games you've recorded for them added to their account.
Treat yourself to your friend remembering the time you won Spirit Island together!
#tabletopgames
They scan the code and instantly get all the games you've recorded for them added to their account.
Treat yourself to your friend remembering the time you won Spirit Island together!
#tabletopgames
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Looking for a lift.
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Looking for a lift.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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So much for all immigrants being criminals and freeloaders instead of hard working tax paying people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...
Judge Places Hold on I.R.S. Data Sharing With ICE
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So much for all immigrants being criminals and freeloaders instead of hard working tax paying people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...
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In the early days of DOGE I spoke to developers Musk had parachuted into the IRS and the FAA, each telling me they expected to rewrite the core software of both agencies within a year or two.
It would be amusing to speak to them again.
It would be amusing to speak to them again.
DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos
DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos
After Musk was chased out of DC, a power vacuum at the head of DOGE caused chaos and ultimately led to its dissolution.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
In the early days of DOGE I spoke to developers Musk had parachuted into the IRS and the FAA, each telling me they expected to rewrite the core software of both agencies within a year or two.
It would be amusing to speak to them again.
It would be amusing to speak to them again.
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#Militarism
"The ISS really symbolised a period where the peaceful uses of outer space were being emphasised," Dr Gorman says. "Without it the symbolic terrain becomes very different."
bsky.app/profile/drsp...
"The ISS really symbolised a period where the peaceful uses of outer space were being emphasised," Dr Gorman says. "Without it the symbolic terrain becomes very different."
bsky.app/profile/drsp...
'...as [the ISS] nears the end of its life, the space race is changing again and likely with it the end of the internationalist space era'.
#ISS
#ISS
How Cold War foes became close colleagues — until toilets got in the way
It was November 20, 1998, and a rocket wasn't an unusual sight in this remote part of Kazakhstan. But today's cargo was a piece of history that would have seemed impossible just years before.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
#Militarism
"The ISS really symbolised a period where the peaceful uses of outer space were being emphasised," Dr Gorman says. "Without it the symbolic terrain becomes very different."
bsky.app/profile/drsp...
"The ISS really symbolised a period where the peaceful uses of outer space were being emphasised," Dr Gorman says. "Without it the symbolic terrain becomes very different."
bsky.app/profile/drsp...
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This is the way.
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is the way.
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Tried Vantage today from @stonemaiergames.com games, spoilers in the pictures!
I was wary going in but should have known we'd be in good hands - the game itself is unusual and not what I anticipated at all. Can't really explain without spoilers but we loved it, a definite recommend!
#boardgames
I was wary going in but should have known we'd be in good hands - the game itself is unusual and not what I anticipated at all. Can't really explain without spoilers but we loved it, a definite recommend!
#boardgames
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Tried Vantage today from @stonemaiergames.com games, spoilers in the pictures!
I was wary going in but should have known we'd be in good hands - the game itself is unusual and not what I anticipated at all. Can't really explain without spoilers but we loved it, a definite recommend!
#boardgames
I was wary going in but should have known we'd be in good hands - the game itself is unusual and not what I anticipated at all. Can't really explain without spoilers but we loved it, a definite recommend!
#boardgames
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"I’ve had people swear up and down that governance framework X explicitly requires projects and programs, or that you can’t “do governance” using durable objects like capabilities, products, value streams, and so on.
It just ain’t so."
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-390-go...
It just ain’t so."
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-390-go...
TBM 390: Governance by Principle, Not by Template
"My company has a highly detailed process involving project codes and program codes, tracking time, highly detailed (and premature) estimates, and lots of very precise reporting with dollar figures do...
cutlefish.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"I’ve had people swear up and down that governance framework X explicitly requires projects and programs, or that you can’t “do governance” using durable objects like capabilities, products, value streams, and so on.
It just ain’t so."
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-390-go...
It just ain’t so."
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-390-go...
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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Very interesting contrast to the infamous exploding whale story
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‘An incredible privilege and a daunting task’: Oregon tribe harvests beached whale for the first time in generations
The Siletz tribe took apart the 20,000 pound humpback after it was euthanized Monday.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Very interesting contrast to the infamous exploding whale story
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Here's a🧵about the San Francisco Egg Wars of the 1800s. It has bloody gunfights, marauding pirates, a bunch of (literally) batshit deaths & some nasty looking eggs...
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Here's a🧵about the San Francisco Egg Wars of the 1800s. It has bloody gunfights, marauding pirates, a bunch of (literally) batshit deaths & some nasty looking eggs...
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
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Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.
Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.
Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.
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Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI