Steve Greenberg
@greenbes.bsky.social
Old guy who likes emacs, RDF, databases, python, Dirtywave M8 and Renoise trackers. I already know my jokes aren’t funny so don’t be disappointed if I don’t act surprised when you point this out.
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every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping day!
On this day, five years ago, the funniest thing that ever happened happened
On this day, five years ago, the funniest thing that ever happened happened
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping day!
On this day, five years ago, the funniest thing that ever happened happened
On this day, five years ago, the funniest thing that ever happened happened
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The random people at the spontaneous protest that popped off because they saw the busboy at their neighborhood restaurant being kidnapped by ICE should have planned the optics better
June 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The random people at the spontaneous protest that popped off because they saw the busboy at their neighborhood restaurant being kidnapped by ICE should have planned the optics better
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With the country descending into fascism, it's the perfect time for me to plug my new book on the left's cancel culture problem.
June 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
With the country descending into fascism, it's the perfect time for me to plug my new book on the left's cancel culture problem.
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Remember when Republicans argued that changing the names of military bases and removing statues was tantamount to erasing history?
They forgot to add that this only holds for straight white men, who made war on the United States during the Civil War.
They forgot to add that this only holds for straight white men, who made war on the United States during the Civil War.
June 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Remember when Republicans argued that changing the names of military bases and removing statues was tantamount to erasing history?
They forgot to add that this only holds for straight white men, who made war on the United States during the Civil War.
They forgot to add that this only holds for straight white men, who made war on the United States during the Civil War.
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Senate GOP are lying. Full stop. Not “misinformation”. Not “misleading”. It is a lie. Knowing, intentional, from Senators who are aware of the law.
Undocumented *do not* receive benefits. At all. Of any kind. State or Fed. No Medicare. No Medicaid. No disability. No SS. No food assistance. Nada.
Undocumented *do not* receive benefits. At all. Of any kind. State or Fed. No Medicare. No Medicaid. No disability. No SS. No food assistance. Nada.
June 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Senate GOP are lying. Full stop. Not “misinformation”. Not “misleading”. It is a lie. Knowing, intentional, from Senators who are aware of the law.
Undocumented *do not* receive benefits. At all. Of any kind. State or Fed. No Medicare. No Medicaid. No disability. No SS. No food assistance. Nada.
Undocumented *do not* receive benefits. At all. Of any kind. State or Fed. No Medicare. No Medicaid. No disability. No SS. No food assistance. Nada.
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ICE made up lies about gang affiliation so that they could terrorize a child's birthday party. newrepublic.com/post/196138/...
ICE Invaded Child’s Birthday Party Claiming It Was a Gang Meeting
Federal immigration agents bust up a birthday party on grounds that it was a Tren de Aragua gathering. They still have no evidence for their claims.
newrepublic.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
ICE made up lies about gang affiliation so that they could terrorize a child's birthday party. newrepublic.com/post/196138/...
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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
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People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.
(Photos shared with me)
(Photos shared with me)
February 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.
(Photos shared with me)
(Photos shared with me)
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I figured it out. if I voice dictate during lunch, I can blog and ship at the same time
why did atproto create its own schema language instead of using RDF? www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-not...
why did atproto create its own schema language instead of using RDF? www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-not...
Why not RDF in the AT Protocol?
Today in "our novel form of NIH," why did Bluesky create a new schema language, Lexicon, for the AT Protocol?
www.pfrazee.com
January 19, 2024 at 2:47 AM
I figured it out. if I voice dictate during lunch, I can blog and ship at the same time
why did atproto create its own schema language instead of using RDF? www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-not...
why did atproto create its own schema language instead of using RDF? www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-not...
I think if I could change one thing about society, I'd normalize the idea of changing your mind. If you're not changing your mind about stuff, you're not learning. It should be celebrated not seen as a sign of weakness.
December 12, 2023 at 3:33 PM
I think if I could change one thing about society, I'd normalize the idea of changing your mind. If you're not changing your mind about stuff, you're not learning. It should be celebrated not seen as a sign of weakness.
I guess the end game here is a return to the value of brands. I know when to trust the NYT or Fox and when not to. A history of publishing lets me see whose writing stood the test of time and whose didn't.
December 12, 2023 at 2:55 PM
I guess the end game here is a return to the value of brands. I know when to trust the NYT or Fox and when not to. A history of publishing lets me see whose writing stood the test of time and whose didn't.
In my personal experience with GPTs, they're more like an enthusiastic intern that can (mostly) follow instructions and repeat patterns if you give good examples. Bright and hard working, but you still check their work pretty thoroughly.
December 12, 2023 at 2:52 PM
In my personal experience with GPTs, they're more like an enthusiastic intern that can (mostly) follow instructions and repeat patterns if you give good examples. Bright and hard working, but you still check their work pretty thoroughly.
More pointedly: Is that actually a problem? I can certainly see a transitional period where people publish stuff they know nothing about, having false confidence in what the GPT told them. Is that much different than what we have today?
December 12, 2023 at 2:51 PM
More pointedly: Is that actually a problem? I can certainly see a transitional period where people publish stuff they know nothing about, having false confidence in what the GPT told them. Is that much different than what we have today?
I've been thinking about what authorship means in the GPT age. If I was a magazine editor, I'd choose a topic and assign a budget to the article. I'd hire a writer who would give me text. I'd edit, fact check, revise, and finally publish (under the author's byline). Is that the model now?
December 12, 2023 at 2:48 PM
I've been thinking about what authorship means in the GPT age. If I was a magazine editor, I'd choose a topic and assign a budget to the article. I'd hire a writer who would give me text. I'd edit, fact check, revise, and finally publish (under the author's byline). Is that the model now?
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sysadmin here. key point in my job is to understand that computers are literally malevolent demon possessed boxes of evil that really are out to fuck you up. my job is to know the thousand ways to intimidate the fucking can opener with a wrench.
December 2, 2023 at 10:48 PM
sysadmin here. key point in my job is to understand that computers are literally malevolent demon possessed boxes of evil that really are out to fuck you up. my job is to know the thousand ways to intimidate the fucking can opener with a wrench.
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A modern Christmas Carol remake where Scrooge doesn’t change his ways but instead makes his whole personality about how the woke Christmas ghosts are trying to cancel him
December 1, 2023 at 11:29 AM
A modern Christmas Carol remake where Scrooge doesn’t change his ways but instead makes his whole personality about how the woke Christmas ghosts are trying to cancel him
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This is one of the problems I have had teaching like labour history or civil rights history or LGBTQ rights history. The bad stuff is easy to communicate, but then the answer to 'and how were things changed' is essentially 'decades of slogging activism' which doesn't easily make a punchy lecture.
November 30, 2023 at 3:16 PM
This is one of the problems I have had teaching like labour history or civil rights history or LGBTQ rights history. The bad stuff is easy to communicate, but then the answer to 'and how were things changed' is essentially 'decades of slogging activism' which doesn't easily make a punchy lecture.
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it is unfortunate that americans learn about jim crow as the product of prejudice and not as a nearly 75-year-long reversal of democratic fortune in which a very large number of americans lived under violent authoritarian rule
for all of the pessimism about the present many americans basically believe that we exist outside of contingent history and that nothing could possibly get worse than the present. but, uh, that’s not the case.
robert kagan is…not great, but the overall thrust of this essay — that there is a pretty clear path to outright autocracy — is basically right. and i continue to think that trump’s great advantage is the entrenched american belief that “it can’t happen here.”
November 30, 2023 at 3:04 PM
it is unfortunate that americans learn about jim crow as the product of prejudice and not as a nearly 75-year-long reversal of democratic fortune in which a very large number of americans lived under violent authoritarian rule
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a related thought i have to all of these skeets is that i wonder if people have been hollywood-brained to believe that when autocracy comes it will be dramatic and that preventing or stopping it will be equally dramatic, rather than the boring work of ordinary politics.
it is unfortunate that americans learn about jim crow as the product of prejudice and not as a nearly 75-year-long reversal of democratic fortune in which a very large number of americans lived under violent authoritarian rule
for all of the pessimism about the present many americans basically believe that we exist outside of contingent history and that nothing could possibly get worse than the present. but, uh, that’s not the case.
November 30, 2023 at 3:13 PM
a related thought i have to all of these skeets is that i wonder if people have been hollywood-brained to believe that when autocracy comes it will be dramatic and that preventing or stopping it will be equally dramatic, rather than the boring work of ordinary politics.
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keep making fun of henry kissinger and there's gonna be two hits pal. you hitting the post button and me hitting the like button
November 30, 2023 at 2:23 AM
keep making fun of henry kissinger and there's gonna be two hits pal. you hitting the post button and me hitting the like button
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Important to remember that while Kissinger was a bloodthirsty liar, relentlessly cruel and callous in the prosecution of both an illegal war and overthrowing democratically elected leaders, manifesting nightmare atrocities that make the mind reel still...
He was also a real piece of shit that guy.🎈
He was also a real piece of shit that guy.🎈
November 30, 2023 at 2:27 AM
Important to remember that while Kissinger was a bloodthirsty liar, relentlessly cruel and callous in the prosecution of both an illegal war and overthrowing democratically elected leaders, manifesting nightmare atrocities that make the mind reel still...
He was also a real piece of shit that guy.🎈
He was also a real piece of shit that guy.🎈
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IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON HENRY KISSINGER STAY IN LINE ‼️
November 30, 2023 at 2:36 AM
IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON HENRY KISSINGER STAY IN LINE ‼️
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the problem now is I'm just gonna want to feel this dead war criminal tingle all the time
November 30, 2023 at 3:14 AM
the problem now is I'm just gonna want to feel this dead war criminal tingle all the time