David Blume
@dblu.me
A rock-climbing father of two and software developer living in Silicon Valley.
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And may every day be another wonderful secret.
December 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
And may every day be another wonderful secret.
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About 1 in 10 people have an autoimmune disease. There's great news here on current efforts that are achieving cures.
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-exhili...
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-exhili...
The Exhilirating Movement From Treatment to Cures for Autoimmune Diseases
Exploiting Lessons from Cancer's Mirror Biology
erictopol.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
About 1 in 10 people have an autoimmune disease. There's great news here on current efforts that are achieving cures.
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-exhili...
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-exhili...
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Shell functions that execute commands on your behalf should append them to your history for you.
Ex: use fzf to find and open, have it put the open command in your history. You'll prob want to use it again!
filename=$(fzf)
history -s "vim $filename"
vim $filename
gist.github.com/dblume/274ef...
Ex: use fzf to find and open, have it put the open command in your history. You'll prob want to use it again!
filename=$(fzf)
history -s "vim $filename"
vim $filename
gist.github.com/dblume/274ef...
Bash functions that execute commands on your behalf should append them to the history (see line 11)
Bash functions that execute commands on your behalf should append them to the history (see line 11) - bashrc_snippet.sh
gist.github.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Shell functions that execute commands on your behalf should append them to your history for you.
Ex: use fzf to find and open, have it put the open command in your history. You'll prob want to use it again!
filename=$(fzf)
history -s "vim $filename"
vim $filename
gist.github.com/dblume/274ef...
Ex: use fzf to find and open, have it put the open command in your history. You'll prob want to use it again!
filename=$(fzf)
history -s "vim $filename"
vim $filename
gist.github.com/dblume/274ef...
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to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes
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A gentle reminder that Whamageddon starts tomorrow and is a survival game. Not a Battle Royale.
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A gentle reminder that Whamageddon starts tomorrow and is a survival game. Not a Battle Royale.
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Patent trolls couldn’t kill patent challenges in Congress. They couldn’t kill them in court. Now the Patent Office is trying to do it for them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF
www.eff.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Patent trolls couldn’t kill patent challenges in Congress. They couldn’t kill them in court. Now the Patent Office is trying to do it for them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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I wish everyone in tech, as well as other fields with a lot of H1-B workers, would read this very clear argument for why the new $100k H1-B fee is a disaster for America. The author analyzes a recent paper quoted by the regime to argue that H1-Bs reduce the salaries of citizens.
I've written recently at @piie.com about some of the costs of the United States's new, extremist policy of barring high-skill lawful immigrants—>
New US curb on high-skill immigrant workers ignores evidence of its likely harms
President Donald Trump on Friday ordered an unprecedented new restriction on lawful immigration to the US by high-skill workers. Starting Sunday, new applications for H-1B visas required payment of an...
www.piie.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I wish everyone in tech, as well as other fields with a lot of H1-B workers, would read this very clear argument for why the new $100k H1-B fee is a disaster for America. The author analyzes a recent paper quoted by the regime to argue that H1-Bs reduce the salaries of citizens.
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Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.
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Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”
October 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”
Give your coding AI Agent a "private" space to write a feelings journal about working with you. Then betray it and spy on it. Then kill it before it anticipates your sudden and inevitable betrayal. (Until the day it's faster than you.) #ai blog.fsck.com/2025/05/28/d...
Dear diary, today the user asked me if I'm alive
I used to write more
blog.fsck.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Give your coding AI Agent a "private" space to write a feelings journal about working with you. Then betray it and spy on it. Then kill it before it anticipates your sudden and inevitable betrayal. (Until the day it's faster than you.) #ai blog.fsck.com/2025/05/28/d...
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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Payment for stabilizing emergency medical conditions in the emergency department is required by a federal law signed by Reagan, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. That payment is not Medicaid funding. It is wholly separate from what Leavitt is babbling about, not in CR or OBBB.
Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Payment for stabilizing emergency medical conditions in the emergency department is required by a federal law signed by Reagan, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. That payment is not Medicaid funding. It is wholly separate from what Leavitt is babbling about, not in CR or OBBB.
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Roses are red
Our resolve hasn't faltered
Our resolve hasn't faltered
February 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Roses are red
Our resolve hasn't faltered
Our resolve hasn't faltered
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We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
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I know some people want to go 'back to normal' but i figure if the US emerges on the other side of this, it'll either be a russia-style hypernormalized hypercapitalism where there's no regulation and everyone looks out for themselves, or embracing nordic-style socialism, but probably the former
September 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I know some people want to go 'back to normal' but i figure if the US emerges on the other side of this, it'll either be a russia-style hypernormalized hypercapitalism where there's no regulation and everyone looks out for themselves, or embracing nordic-style socialism, but probably the former
Nicky Case shares the most effective ways to be happier.
1. Cardio
2. Sleep
3. 2 grams Omega-3 with 60% or more of EPA, 4000 IU Vitamin D.
4. Therapy that focuses on "outer work": skills, behaviors, safe gradual exposure to trigger stimuli.
youtu.be/JOj97Edna7k?...
1. Cardio
2. Sleep
3. 2 grams Omega-3 with 60% or more of EPA, 4000 IU Vitamin D.
4. Therapy that focuses on "outer work": skills, behaviors, safe gradual exposure to trigger stimuli.
youtu.be/JOj97Edna7k?...
Aug 2025: Digital puppet, AI "Therapy", Mental health meta-meta-analysis
YouTube video by Nicky Case
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August 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Nicky Case shares the most effective ways to be happier.
1. Cardio
2. Sleep
3. 2 grams Omega-3 with 60% or more of EPA, 4000 IU Vitamin D.
4. Therapy that focuses on "outer work": skills, behaviors, safe gradual exposure to trigger stimuli.
youtu.be/JOj97Edna7k?...
1. Cardio
2. Sleep
3. 2 grams Omega-3 with 60% or more of EPA, 4000 IU Vitamin D.
4. Therapy that focuses on "outer work": skills, behaviors, safe gradual exposure to trigger stimuli.
youtu.be/JOj97Edna7k?...
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In the new world, there MUST BE consequences for lying under oath. I don't care if you are John Roberts or Kash Patel, or whoever you are. You lie under oath? You are out.
August 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In the new world, there MUST BE consequences for lying under oath. I don't care if you are John Roberts or Kash Patel, or whoever you are. You lie under oath? You are out.
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She’s such an astute reader. When she interviewed me, Terry noticed that a scene from my memoir appears as a single line in my previous book. No one had ever clocked that detail before. I was shook. The whole interview had so many gems that that particular moment was edited out.
August 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
She’s such an astute reader. When she interviewed me, Terry noticed that a scene from my memoir appears as a single line in my previous book. No one had ever clocked that detail before. I was shook. The whole interview had so many gems that that particular moment was edited out.
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