Glyph
@glyf.bsky.social
That guy you know from that one computer program that he wrote that one time.
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Glyph
@glyf.bsky.social
· Nov 14
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The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless
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we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.
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The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
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the AI-generated chapter titles for our episodes are making me believe in the power of AI
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
the AI-generated chapter titles for our episodes are making me believe in the power of AI
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if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
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Put another way: the useful properties of decentralisation make AWS possible.
Want AWS outages to affect less of the internet next time? The tool you're looking for is _regulation_.
Want AWS outages to affect less of the internet next time? The tool you're looking for is _regulation_.
October 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Put another way: the useful properties of decentralisation make AWS possible.
Want AWS outages to affect less of the internet next time? The tool you're looking for is _regulation_.
Want AWS outages to affect less of the internet next time? The tool you're looking for is _regulation_.
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SQLite doesn't enforce foreign key constraints by default. You have to enable it using PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON; whenever you connect to the DB.
January 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
SQLite doesn't enforce foreign key constraints by default. You have to enable it using PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON; whenever you connect to the DB.
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the best answer i got for this:
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
the best answer i got for this:
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there are no "distractions" there is just Bad Shit happening everywhere and bad people who benefit from decent people being too overwhelmed to keep up
October 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
there are no "distractions" there is just Bad Shit happening everywhere and bad people who benefit from decent people being too overwhelmed to keep up
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We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
How cancel culture came for everyone
Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s changing.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 AM
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
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This IS a great headline and also: Seattle! Get the word out! Someone was exposed to rabies and needs to seek medical care IMMEDIATELY!
This is the most excellent local headline writing.
"DID YOU GIVE WATER TO A BAT NEAR THE ARBORETUM? IT HAD RABIES."
(this is explicitly for @andreagrimes.com )
"DID YOU GIVE WATER TO A BAT NEAR THE ARBORETUM? IT HAD RABIES."
(this is explicitly for @andreagrimes.com )
Did you give water to a bat near the Arboretum? It had rabies
A rabid bat was found in Seattle near the Washington Park Arboretum. Here's what to know, and what to do if you think you might have been exposed.
www.seattletimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This IS a great headline and also: Seattle! Get the word out! Someone was exposed to rabies and needs to seek medical care IMMEDIATELY!
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The AppleVision L is widely regarded as the best of Apple's L-displays, and is perhaps just as well known by the arguments following Macworld's 1997 review of it as "unparalleled", after which thousands of Apple critics descended on usenet to post that it was just as parallel as regular displays.
August 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The AppleVision L is widely regarded as the best of Apple's L-displays, and is perhaps just as well known by the arguments following Macworld's 1997 review of it as "unparalleled", after which thousands of Apple critics descended on usenet to post that it was just as parallel as regular displays.
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There is no compromise policy Democrats can offer Republicans to make them act normal on this issue. We simply have to state the basic reality — immigrants contribute to our country in myriad ways — and fight for it. I don't know how so many journalists convinced themselves this isn't an option.
September 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There is no compromise policy Democrats can offer Republicans to make them act normal on this issue. We simply have to state the basic reality — immigrants contribute to our country in myriad ways — and fight for it. I don't know how so many journalists convinced themselves this isn't an option.
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There needs to be a name for the genre of films by dudes who jumble American politics in a snow globe and think they’re saying something deep by trying to be apolitical while simultaneously using deeply charged politically imagery in an incoherent way. See Civil War, Eddington - arguably Warfare.
September 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
There needs to be a name for the genre of films by dudes who jumble American politics in a snow globe and think they’re saying something deep by trying to be apolitical while simultaneously using deeply charged politically imagery in an incoherent way. See Civil War, Eddington - arguably Warfare.
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least surprising heel turn in history
Malcolm Gladwell Speaks Out Against Trans Athletes, Reversing Past Statements: "I'm Ashamed"
Malcolm Gladwell Speaks Out Against Trans Athletes, Reversing Past Statements: "I'm Ashamed"
The author behind 'The Tipping Point' admonished his prior actions, saying he had felt “cowed” by the public.
www.them.us
September 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
least surprising heel turn in history
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Can anyone in Boston give me an update on this
August 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Can anyone in Boston give me an update on this
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"Hermeneutical injustice" is a phrase used to describe the situation where a person has had an experience that they cannot easily make socially understood, often because no label yet exists to create a common reference point.
Anyway, apropos of nothing, here's a term my dad invented 25 years […]
Anyway, apropos of nothing, here's a term my dad invented 25 years […]
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mastodon.social
August 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM
"Hermeneutical injustice" is a phrase used to describe the situation where a person has had an experience that they cannot easily make socially understood, often because no label yet exists to create a common reference point.
Anyway, apropos of nothing, here's a term my dad invented 25 years […]
Anyway, apropos of nothing, here's a term my dad invented 25 years […]
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Yes. A major tic of reactionary centrists is refusing to own up for their own beliefs and *make their case with evidence.* Instead they hide behind public polling and messaging arguments about how Americans agree with them.
It's because they have a set of policy and social preferences, but for social desirability/in-group signaling reasons they don't want to admit those are their personal preferences, and so they instead argue those preferences are more popular than they in fact are. bsky.app/profile/aaro...
Reactionary centrism is a popular elite position, but must less so among non-elites. Reactionary centrist elites want that to change, and want Democrats to reflect their views. (Republicans are too low-brow for elites to like them.) So they pretend reactionary centrism is more popular than it is.
June 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Yes. A major tic of reactionary centrists is refusing to own up for their own beliefs and *make their case with evidence.* Instead they hide behind public polling and messaging arguments about how Americans agree with them.
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the worst thing about being a takesman is having to hear all the other takes from the other takesmen
May 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the worst thing about being a takesman is having to hear all the other takes from the other takesmen
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Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope
During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.
www.npr.org
May 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
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We have a RELEASE DATE for the next Duck Detective game!!!
🦆 22nd May 🦆
Coming to PC… PS5… Nintendo Switch… and Xbox!! That’s right, we’re coming to console too! See you there, detectives 😉🔎
🦆 22nd May 🦆
Coming to PC… PS5… Nintendo Switch… and Xbox!! That’s right, we’re coming to console too! See you there, detectives 😉🔎
April 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We have a RELEASE DATE for the next Duck Detective game!!!
🦆 22nd May 🦆
Coming to PC… PS5… Nintendo Switch… and Xbox!! That’s right, we’re coming to console too! See you there, detectives 😉🔎
🦆 22nd May 🦆
Coming to PC… PS5… Nintendo Switch… and Xbox!! That’s right, we’re coming to console too! See you there, detectives 😉🔎
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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thank you for coming to my ted talk while I wait for stalker 2 to download
March 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
thank you for coming to my ted talk while I wait for stalker 2 to download
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Even if you look at complex and emergent game systems, like procgen, you find players talking about the "system" as that thing they are trying to beat and/or collaborate with. That system is a designed thing.
Gen AI also doesn't have an interesting system, there's nothing to outsmart, learn, etc.
Gen AI also doesn't have an interesting system, there's nothing to outsmart, learn, etc.
March 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Even if you look at complex and emergent game systems, like procgen, you find players talking about the "system" as that thing they are trying to beat and/or collaborate with. That system is a designed thing.
Gen AI also doesn't have an interesting system, there's nothing to outsmart, learn, etc.
Gen AI also doesn't have an interesting system, there's nothing to outsmart, learn, etc.