Evan Light
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They can't sue the government for reparations?
September 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
They can't sue the government for reparations?
Do not do not DO NOT normalize this.
September 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Do not do not DO NOT normalize this.
Posse Comitatus can only be suspended for insurrection and emergencies. This is not an emergency.
DC is not supposed to be the Middle East.
This is how fascism begins: drip by drip while bystanders choose to go about their business as usual because they're not here for *us*. Not yet.
DC is not supposed to be the Middle East.
This is how fascism begins: drip by drip while bystanders choose to go about their business as usual because they're not here for *us*. Not yet.
September 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Posse Comitatus can only be suspended for insurrection and emergencies. This is not an emergency.
DC is not supposed to be the Middle East.
This is how fascism begins: drip by drip while bystanders choose to go about their business as usual because they're not here for *us*. Not yet.
DC is not supposed to be the Middle East.
This is how fascism begins: drip by drip while bystanders choose to go about their business as usual because they're not here for *us*. Not yet.
I visited Jerusalem in '85. There was IDF on every corner with loaded assault weapons.
I shouted "Go home!" I was disappointed that no one else was yelling the same. We're normalizing the military following illegal orders.
I shouted "Go home!" I was disappointed that no one else was yelling the same. We're normalizing the military following illegal orders.
September 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I visited Jerusalem in '85. There was IDF on every corner with loaded assault weapons.
I shouted "Go home!" I was disappointed that no one else was yelling the same. We're normalizing the military following illegal orders.
I shouted "Go home!" I was disappointed that no one else was yelling the same. We're normalizing the military following illegal orders.
(Disclaimer: I don't heckle people any more unless they ask me to. Sorry! 😂)
May 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
(Disclaimer: I don't heckle people any more unless they ask me to. Sorry! 😂)
What I'm even more interested in is using the LLMs for what they seem to excel at: pattern matching of structured (and unstructured) data. They're not perfect, of course. And it's also a lot easier to do than old-fashioned data mining!
Also, hi Statler. 😉
Also, hi Statler. 😉
May 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
What I'm even more interested in is using the LLMs for what they seem to excel at: pattern matching of structured (and unstructured) data. They're not perfect, of course. And it's also a lot easier to do than old-fashioned data mining!
Also, hi Statler. 😉
Also, hi Statler. 😉
And I haven't even broken ground on *automated* testing but that's by choice, at this point, believe it or not.
Sure, I should try o4 or o4-mini for the coding and perhaps 4o for the higher level parts. But then I've found value in keeping the whole conversation in one thread.
Sure, I should try o4 or o4-mini for the coding and perhaps 4o for the higher level parts. But then I've found value in keeping the whole conversation in one thread.
May 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
And I haven't even broken ground on *automated* testing but that's by choice, at this point, believe it or not.
Sure, I should try o4 or o4-mini for the coding and perhaps 4o for the higher level parts. But then I've found value in keeping the whole conversation in one thread.
Sure, I should try o4 or o4-mini for the coding and perhaps 4o for the higher level parts. But then I've found value in keeping the whole conversation in one thread.
It can only work in one file at a time. It has some limited reasoning across multiple files, if I'm prompting it cleverly.
What it excels at: pairing on software architecture and design with a critical eye but an open mind.
What it excels at: pairing on software architecture and design with a critical eye but an open mind.
May 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It can only work in one file at a time. It has some limited reasoning across multiple files, if I'm prompting it cleverly.
What it excels at: pairing on software architecture and design with a critical eye but an open mind.
What it excels at: pairing on software architecture and design with a critical eye but an open mind.
I'm over here, writing my first Swift app, working with ChatGPT 4o. For green field, it sure does churn out something basic that works quickly!
Oh, but I want to factor the code to work across multiple files? And not leverage global variables everywhere? And factor the code at all well?
Oh, but I want to factor the code to work across multiple files? And not leverage global variables everywhere? And factor the code at all well?
May 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'm over here, writing my first Swift app, working with ChatGPT 4o. For green field, it sure does churn out something basic that works quickly!
Oh, but I want to factor the code to work across multiple files? And not leverage global variables everywhere? And factor the code at all well?
Oh, but I want to factor the code to work across multiple files? And not leverage global variables everywhere? And factor the code at all well?
Ah, damn the lack of a Bsky edit button
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May 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Ah, damn the lack of a Bsky edit button
I'll see your Boombauer and raise you a...
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May 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'll see your Boombauer and raise you a...
Besides, I'm still hardly an expert, despite 2 months of research, reflection, and practice.
My take, after two months? It's slowly moved toward asking for my needs, jusr starting to advocate for same, and, when people expect me to educate them, that they should do their own research of fuck off."
My take, after two months? It's slowly moved toward asking for my needs, jusr starting to advocate for same, and, when people expect me to educate them, that they should do their own research of fuck off."
May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Besides, I'm still hardly an expert, despite 2 months of research, reflection, and practice.
My take, after two months? It's slowly moved toward asking for my needs, jusr starting to advocate for same, and, when people expect me to educate them, that they should do their own research of fuck off."
My take, after two months? It's slowly moved toward asking for my needs, jusr starting to advocate for same, and, when people expect me to educate them, that they should do their own research of fuck off."
The worst part of a late autism diagnosis is the emotional labor that almost every allistic implicitly expects me to do for them. Masking just leads to more anxiety while showing up authentically isn't necessarily better. I don't have the spoons to teach people much of anything about autism.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The worst part of a late autism diagnosis is the emotional labor that almost every allistic implicitly expects me to do for them. Masking just leads to more anxiety while showing up authentically isn't necessarily better. I don't have the spoons to teach people much of anything about autism.
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I told them that they have no idea how much they'd hurt me—how hard I'd worked for a decade (prior to this diagnosis!) to heal my trauma. I told them how tired I am tired of the casual denigration—particularly from family, and, in closing, to either lean in or just don't ask about my experience.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I told them that they have no idea how much they'd hurt me—how hard I'd worked for a decade (prior to this diagnosis!) to heal my trauma. I told them how tired I am tired of the casual denigration—particularly from family, and, in closing, to either lean in or just don't ask about my experience.
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Another in-law initiated an interrogation about how I'm dealing with my autism, leading up to her saying, "Well, everyone has their own pain". Neither of them meant to do harm yet their remarks were so absurdly lacking empathy.
I finally snapped.
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I finally snapped.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Another in-law initiated an interrogation about how I'm dealing with my autism, leading up to her saying, "Well, everyone has their own pain". Neither of them meant to do harm yet their remarks were so absurdly lacking empathy.
I finally snapped.
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I finally snapped.
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One in-law bluntly asked if I've considered going on Social Security Disability. By the way, that process? Utterly humiliating and frustrating. I speak from the experience with my late wife's Huntington's Disease, as her caregiver.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
One in-law bluntly asked if I've considered going on Social Security Disability. By the way, that process? Utterly humiliating and frustrating. I speak from the experience with my late wife's Huntington's Disease, as her caregiver.
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I would pursue the ethical path even when inconvenient for me or for more employer. Small wonder that so burnt out that I haven't worked in 2 years and now can't seriously imagine working for a "business" ever again.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I would pursue the ethical path even when inconvenient for me or for more employer. Small wonder that so burnt out that I haven't worked in 2 years and now can't seriously imagine working for a "business" ever again.
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Of course, they have no idea how hard it has been to succeed in this society for 51 years, while suffering constantly for no clear reason (until now) and still presenting as neurotic or as a person insisting on doing the morally/ethically right thing.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Of course, they have no idea how hard it has been to succeed in this society for 51 years, while suffering constantly for no clear reason (until now) and still presenting as neurotic or as a person insisting on doing the morally/ethically right thing.
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I recently visited the in-laws for my father-in-law's heart surgery. I got to experience a number of allistic invalidations and judgement of my experience. It was as though my dignity and pain just didn't matter.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I recently visited the in-laws for my father-in-law's heart surgery. I got to experience a number of allistic invalidations and judgement of my experience. It was as though my dignity and pain just didn't matter.
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