Chas Emerick
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Chas Emerick
@cemerick.bsky.social
Making PDFs reliable data sources, talking about PDFs @pdfminute, former Papers We Love / PWLConf co-organizer. Topics: PLT, distsys, future-computing, politics, policy, "tech ethics", and annoying shitposts. Signal: @cemerick.30

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Yeah, likewise. I can see that cycling here is taken super seriously, which I appreciate.

I saw someone at the bike market with the exact same Cannondale rig I left behind (with much better parts and accessories); I stared without shame lol
September 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Yeah, I did that rabbit hole a while back; the apex predator are forest rangers, which got the thin green line

(there's an MTBA joke here somewhere)
August 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
get me on the signal anytime 😁
July 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
aaahhh, a man of good taste 😁
July 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
That they folded so eagerly (along with basically all other nongovernmental institutions, e.g. universities, law firms, big employers, etcetc) is easily a worse signal re: the health and prospects of American culture and society than any election result
April 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's been a long time already tbh; everything happening is in a lot of ways the truest manifestation of american political culture in a long time. No one serious thinks that there is a policy switch somewhere that flips perception and reputation back to "normal"
April 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
What's new is the US no longer guarantees due process to white, white-passing, and "valuable" (doctors, engineers, etc) non-white people. You don't get to wax lyrical about the "failure of the constitutional order" or without actively acknowledging how it already has, repeatedly
April 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM