ianlesser.bsky.social
@ianlesser.bsky.social
Software engineer, musician, amateur cook, sci-fi fan, lover of the outdoors, inveterate progressive, cat parent.
I suggest anyone printing maps refer to it as the Gulf of THE AMERICAS and claim it's a misprint.
January 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
One thing I point out to DEIA detractors is that there's no such thing as "DEI-ing" your way to the top. All these programs do usually is break down barriers to entry, but then the same people who faced racism and sexism before still face it, and needed to be even more qualified to surpass it.
January 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is true. It's not just about some ephemeral "identity," but the means to documentation allowing everything from medical care to the right to vote.
January 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Doesn't matter if it was a Roman salute. The Nazis saw themselves as fulfilling the Roman Empire's imperial goals. Either way it means the same thing.
January 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I call this song the Automatic Gen X detector.

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January 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
They'd have to be like the Peril Sensitive Sunglasses in Hitchhiker's Guide, just blocking everything out at the sign of impending doom.
January 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
They go together, but I don't think we imagine even for a moment that getting it back was any kind of sincere gesture of care for the public.
January 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
New potential large language model use unlocked: assistance in rewriting proposals, abstracts, press releases, etc... to still convey the actual content of the research work while strategically avoiding the language Trump and his people disapprove of.
January 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It's true, for some reason and luckily for all of us, he doesn't seem to have whatever it is that people interpret as charisma in Trump. Smh.
January 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
After all these years I still have a fascination with More Songs About Buildings and Food. And I couldn't get over Fred Armisen's dead-on parody with Test Pattern.
January 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I made the mistake of letting down my guard and delaying plans to move. I should have kept my initial suspicion that Biden was just buying us time.
January 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Or it reveals that national security was never the concern in the first place.
January 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
JLab, I'm looking at you.
January 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I'd be good with that if not for the fact that it would leave us with JD Vance. Not sure that's any better.
January 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM