Dewb
@dewb.bsky.social
Music, video, sculpture, architecture, theater, poetry, electronics, preferably all at once.
Design tools for creative people. Open-source and commercial, AEC/MechE and live A/V performance.
Design tools for creative people. Open-source and commercial, AEC/MechE and live A/V performance.
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I say more or less this in the vibes book: insofar as LLM-math is a model of fuzzy indeterminacy, poetics can create other kinds of fuzzy indeterminacy that models don’t yet know how to predict/enclose/domesticate.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I say more or less this in the vibes book: insofar as LLM-math is a model of fuzzy indeterminacy, poetics can create other kinds of fuzzy indeterminacy that models don’t yet know how to predict/enclose/domesticate.
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Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible
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like, sure, you CAN dose your foot with two orders of magnitude more x-ray beam than is needed for the job, or you can bear the inconvenience of taking your shoe off to measure it
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
like, sure, you CAN dose your foot with two orders of magnitude more x-ray beam than is needed for the job, or you can bear the inconvenience of taking your shoe off to measure it
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like when i look at the suite of chatbot products on the market, my mind goes to radium pills or these things en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fi...
like why would you spend any effort in any kind of institutional design around ONE particular configuration of a particular leaf-node technology
like why would you spend any effort in any kind of institutional design around ONE particular configuration of a particular leaf-node technology
Shoe-fitting fluoroscope - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
like when i look at the suite of chatbot products on the market, my mind goes to radium pills or these things en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fi...
like why would you spend any effort in any kind of institutional design around ONE particular configuration of a particular leaf-node technology
like why would you spend any effort in any kind of institutional design around ONE particular configuration of a particular leaf-node technology
Does Pete think Americans with “identities” only exist on weekends and holidays?
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Does Pete think Americans with “identities” only exist on weekends and holidays?
Just in case it comes up in the future, I want to be clear that if I claim I have a “‘49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56, '57, '58, '59 automobile” I am not in any way documenting, condoning, or planning to commit any theft of actual auto parts
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Just in case it comes up in the future, I want to be clear that if I claim I have a “‘49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56, '57, '58, '59 automobile” I am not in any way documenting, condoning, or planning to commit any theft of actual auto parts
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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
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It is a handicap in politics to be the party that genuinely believes in governance and is broadly opposed to continued suffering of constituents, and yet there is no future for anything but degradation and misery if the Republican Party under Trump cannot be made to suffer consequences for its acts.
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It is a handicap in politics to be the party that genuinely believes in governance and is broadly opposed to continued suffering of constituents, and yet there is no future for anything but degradation and misery if the Republican Party under Trump cannot be made to suffer consequences for its acts.
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Staggering off-cycle overperformance by the opposition, now time to take all the enthusiasm of the base and watch it explosively drain out like it's an overstuffed tank of molasses on January 15, 1919
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Staggering off-cycle overperformance by the opposition, now time to take all the enthusiasm of the base and watch it explosively drain out like it's an overstuffed tank of molasses on January 15, 1919
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Mitch McConnel's singular political insight is that Presidents get punished for Congressional obstinancy and he used that insight to get the Right an unbreakable majority on the Supreme Court, so of course Chuck Schumer's iteration on it is to proactively let democrats take blame after tangible harm
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Mitch McConnel's singular political insight is that Presidents get punished for Congressional obstinancy and he used that insight to get the Right an unbreakable majority on the Supreme Court, so of course Chuck Schumer's iteration on it is to proactively let democrats take blame after tangible harm
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PLEASE vote in local elections–mayors (of small towns, even), board members, etc. They have a direct effect on your life AND are currently the last line of defense against destructive federal policies. In many places so few people vote for city council etc. that your 1 vote can change the result
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
PLEASE vote in local elections–mayors (of small towns, even), board members, etc. They have a direct effect on your life AND are currently the last line of defense against destructive federal policies. In many places so few people vote for city council etc. that your 1 vote can change the result
if people could stop writing lies on the internet that would be awesome
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
if people could stop writing lies on the internet that would be awesome
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I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.
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A book very famously about how cool and in touch with humanity rich people are.
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A book very famously about how cool and in touch with humanity rich people are.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Coming back to this bc I think my ex-evangelical lens is important. This “redemption” = continuation/enhancement of power & privilege is exactly how patriarchal, white Christian nationalists operate. It enables and perpetuates abuse. That’s why it is so vital that the Left NOT fall for that logic.
"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.
October 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Coming back to this bc I think my ex-evangelical lens is important. This “redemption” = continuation/enhancement of power & privilege is exactly how patriarchal, white Christian nationalists operate. It enables and perpetuates abuse. That’s why it is so vital that the Left NOT fall for that logic.
You cannot take these outsider centrist candidates on their word, you gotta dig. Locally we have a LaRouche Party donor and RFK campaign volunteer guy trying to campaign as a bridge-builder, using AI-generated images of multicultural support, while also joining a slate mailer with MAGA candidates.
October 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
You cannot take these outsider centrist candidates on their word, you gotta dig. Locally we have a LaRouche Party donor and RFK campaign volunteer guy trying to campaign as a bridge-builder, using AI-generated images of multicultural support, while also joining a slate mailer with MAGA candidates.
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The Tea Party was a totally contrived astroturf psyop that dominated American politics for years. It was even obvious at the time, and yet we all had to talk about it seriously.
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The Tea Party was a totally contrived astroturf psyop that dominated American politics for years. It was even obvious at the time, and yet we all had to talk about it seriously.
I was out for a riverfront run that day in 2009 and randomly ended up going past one of these. Stopped for a minute to listen and it was totally juiceless; warmed-over right-wing blogosphere complaints delivered charisma-free to a bored and homogenous crowd.
Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.
In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.
October 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I was out for a riverfront run that day in 2009 and randomly ended up going past one of these. Stopped for a minute to listen and it was totally juiceless; warmed-over right-wing blogosphere complaints delivered charisma-free to a bored and homogenous crowd.
In any honest history of our current century, Garry’s Mod is a more important cultural incubator than, say, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. I am GenX and it gives me no pleasure to report this
Theory: a KEY cultural divide among millennials is if they think the following We Like to Party video is funny.
meanwhile, this is totally mainstream humor amongst Gen Z and Gen Alpha, who are (unlike millennials) have pretty much all been exposed to absurdist internet comedy throughout their lives
meanwhile, this is totally mainstream humor amongst Gen Z and Gen Alpha, who are (unlike millennials) have pretty much all been exposed to absurdist internet comedy throughout their lives
[SFM] We like to party
YouTube video by an0nymooose
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
In any honest history of our current century, Garry’s Mod is a more important cultural incubator than, say, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. I am GenX and it gives me no pleasure to report this
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Call it a state-organized tax strike. Call it fiscal disobedience. Tell me it’s illegal. I don’t really care. The law, which is now Trump’s preferred fascist tool, is not justice and is not binding when its founding social contract is disregarded. We must stop paying for our own fascist subjugation.
Yesterday, millions marched against fascism. Now our elected leaders need to take action to confront Trump’s assault on Democratic cities and states.
In The Guardian today, I outline a strategy: “fiscal disobedience” as one part of an “anti-fascist federalism.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In The Guardian today, I outline a strategy: “fiscal disobedience” as one part of an “anti-fascist federalism.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience | Eric Reinhart
By holding back federal tax revenues, Democratic governors can turn a one-sided assault into a constitutional showdown
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Call it a state-organized tax strike. Call it fiscal disobedience. Tell me it’s illegal. I don’t really care. The law, which is now Trump’s preferred fascist tool, is not justice and is not binding when its founding social contract is disregarded. We must stop paying for our own fascist subjugation.
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…not acknowledging the schism, or the cause, is part of the underlying framework, right? To really solve it, you *have* to acknowledge it, but if you acknowledge it, it's real, and can't be attributed to "economic uncertainty" or whatever the fuck. And if it's real, then other bad things are true…
October 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
…not acknowledging the schism, or the cause, is part of the underlying framework, right? To really solve it, you *have* to acknowledge it, but if you acknowledge it, it's real, and can't be attributed to "economic uncertainty" or whatever the fuck. And if it's real, then other bad things are true…
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I wonder what it's going to take for a history textbook to ever state plain the fact that a Black liberal being elected President of the United States broke this country's psyche so hard that it spent the next (at least) 8 years simultaneously schisming itself & pretending it wasn't.
Because, like…
Because, like…
October 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I wonder what it's going to take for a history textbook to ever state plain the fact that a Black liberal being elected President of the United States broke this country's psyche so hard that it spent the next (at least) 8 years simultaneously schisming itself & pretending it wasn't.
Because, like…
Because, like…
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At some point, the people of the US are going to have to ask themselves why in 2025, we still have a system of "democracy" that is intentionally designed to give the 60% of pro ethno-state white voters more power than everyone else in the country combined.
Questions for the 40% of white folk.
Questions for the 40% of white folk.
October 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
At some point, the people of the US are going to have to ask themselves why in 2025, we still have a system of "democracy" that is intentionally designed to give the 60% of pro ethno-state white voters more power than everyone else in the country combined.
Questions for the 40% of white folk.
Questions for the 40% of white folk.
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"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.
October 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.