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Tech shitposts
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Coder, writer, weightlifter, metal dive bar enthusiast
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I should start posting songs from whichever band I'm wearing a shirt of, so here's Ulthar's Cosmovore, Lovecraftian blackened death metal from VA. Chaotic but with good riffs that aren't just mindless technicality that death metal can kind of fall into.
Cosmovore
YouTube video by Ulthar - Topic
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These French model names are getting out of hand
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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it feels like the most neurotic people seized on the climate/environmental movement and casted it as apocalyptic for personal meaning making even as boring solutions like solar and electrification were not just feasible but more cost effective. and that's happening again with AI safety.
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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The Internet is evil, the people who use it are evil, it is not inevitable, and there is no such thing and can be no such thing as "ethical" Internet.

It is a technology that should not exist but, since it does, should not be used. People who DO use it should be shunned.
a lot of people have died and continue to die because of the internet, i think we should outlaw the internet, that seems like a sane normal and totally reasonable response
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My wife is organizing a fundraising auction via our PTO that helps support classrooms and the wider community (doing food drives, getting grocery gift cards to students in need, etc.) and apparently the Red Sox are donating (among other things) a signed photo of Alex Cora.
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Two things I love: network theory and neuroscience!
𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸?
In a sense yes, but does network science help us understand the brain as a complex system? Intriguing paper.
If anything the paper has 800+ refs!
#neuroskyence #complexsystems
doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is always hard to explain to engineers, especially those not in startups, where good tech debt is crucial to survival.
most engineers probably don’t understand the extent to which “tech debt” works as an abstraction

there’s absolutely “good tech debt”, and it’s not always obvious which you’re dealing with

if you’re green fielding an app, you should expect to launch with some amount of tech debt
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
DYK? If you mix ska, grind, dbeat, and black metal it ends up sounding suspiciously like late 90s visual kei?
Sedition Not Sedation - Remastered 2024
open.spotify.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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I got this cool-ass Conan tour shirt when my wife took me thrifting last week
CONAN - Total Bicep **LYRIC VIDEO**
YouTube video by ROB HAMMER *stonerdoom*psych*sludge*grunge*metal*
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November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I know Senator Warren would be good on this, but I still emailed her. Keep the pressure up.
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
5g is far from heroic, but this still reads like he did maybe 2.
Over on X, the weird life extension guy just did a heroic dose of magic mushrooms (5g), and someone is live tweeting it for him.

Clearly someone misguided him along the way, though, because he seems to be under the impression he’s peaked after just one hour.

Bad news for you, buddy…
November 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Drake Maye... what a throw. 🥵
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I've said it before, I'll say it again: I love this Pats team.

And I REALLY love Maye getting the MVP chants at Raymond James.
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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29 long years have passed since I founded the emulation archive, Zophar's Domain, on 11.9.96. To this very day, the site still stands as a testament to an era that never actually disappeared but continues to live in the hearts of retrogamers all over the word. Emulation Forever!
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My favorite redditors telling on themselves theme is people in r/Boston saying there's no music scene in Boston.

You just don't know anyone in the scene and don't go to shows, that doesn't mean none exists.
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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it’s cool how San Francisco’s reactionary leftists are lying about my career to try and make Zohran look bad, all because they’re mad at him for actually supporting building housing

SF’s NIMBY “leftists” are:

1. literally just conservatives

2. the biggest losers on earth

3. allergic to power
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is kind of funny because the godfathers of AI were largely neuroscientists, and a lot of the frontier work is coming from neuroscientists, not computer scientists.

It’s funnier if you reject the notion that mammalian biology is the sole house of intelligence.
As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work.

LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.
November 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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A few weeks ago I wrote about a 13 year old boy from Massachusetts who had been abducted by ICE and sent to a detention center in Virginia. I wrote about the trauma of a child being separated from his family and community, and I posed the question:

What are we doing here?

I have some updates.

🧵
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM