Kalil
@kalilchernov.bsky.social
Queer jewish leftist; professional sailor, unrepentant otaku, obsessive gaymer. I think Biden is a bad president, and also the best president since FDR.
I mostly just made a profile so I can read those 'sign in required' posts and chat with cool people.
I mostly just made a profile so I can read those 'sign in required' posts and chat with cool people.
McDonalds is running 'Sponsored Content' ads on The Guardian, and, um...
Very "My 'Not involved in human trafficking' T-shirt" energy.
Very "My 'Not involved in human trafficking' T-shirt" energy.
!["The Guardian Labs" Paid Content:
McDonald's Myths, Busted
Happy pictures of happy people with happy (presumably soon to be dead) cows. Article is titled "Is McDonald's meat really 100% beef?"
Paid for by [McDonalds Logo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bemwg2a5hf3wgaokhyk2wixz/bafkreigdpbkysnhfk6aa3bifmo24di2oyameummzmnusqqreycjh622cyq@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
McDonalds is running 'Sponsored Content' ads on The Guardian, and, um...
Very "My 'Not involved in human trafficking' T-shirt" energy.
Very "My 'Not involved in human trafficking' T-shirt" energy.
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
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It's been, uh, a while, but I have a new newsletter out, based on some conversations here, about the irreconcilable experiences of LLMs that different groups have had and how that all boils down to afordances and how 'AI' is a terrible name and an even worse UX metaphor.
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
buttondown.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's been, uh, a while, but I have a new newsletter out, based on some conversations here, about the irreconcilable experiences of LLMs that different groups have had and how that all boils down to afordances and how 'AI' is a terrible name and an even worse UX metaphor.
@kalyeena.bsky.social , thanks for your reporting on the latest ties between Summers, Staley, and Epstein. I did have a question for you about your article.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jes Staley and Larry Summers made executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, files reveal
Former Barclays boss and ex-US Treasury secretary named in versions of will of convicted child sex offender
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@kalyeena.bsky.social , thanks for your reporting on the latest ties between Summers, Staley, and Epstein. I did have a question for you about your article.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I'm just gonna leave a screenshot here, and let y'all decide if AI is less or more embarrassing an explanation than any conceivable alternative:
December 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I'm just gonna leave a screenshot here, and let y'all decide if AI is less or more embarrassing an explanation than any conceivable alternative:
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I think quite often about how the docs at Walter Reed could have followed standard procedures and not given experimental treatment that wasn't authorized for elderly and unhealthy patients to him, and we would have avoided so much suffering and death...
They pulled the fucking lever.
They pulled the fucking lever.
December 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I think quite often about how the docs at Walter Reed could have followed standard procedures and not given experimental treatment that wasn't authorized for elderly and unhealthy patients to him, and we would have avoided so much suffering and death...
They pulled the fucking lever.
They pulled the fucking lever.
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Over on pre-Musk Twitter, I once saw a thread explaining how Hadrian's Wall only became properly attributed to Hadrian after John Hodgson wrote a 166 page footnote on his History of Northumberland explaining the misconception.
The footnote has its own table of contents:
The footnote has its own table of contents:
John Hodgson Wrote a 166 Page Footnote – Diplograph
diplograph.net
December 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Over on pre-Musk Twitter, I once saw a thread explaining how Hadrian's Wall only became properly attributed to Hadrian after John Hodgson wrote a 166 page footnote on his History of Northumberland explaining the misconception.
The footnote has its own table of contents:
The footnote has its own table of contents:
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why did they redact this
December 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
why did they redact this
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I once served on my schools IT Strategic Planning Committee. The CIO got the bright idea of abolishing computer labs and replacing them with a cloud computer/VM server contract and a laptop mandate. He brought out a contractor to demo the service.
December 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I once served on my schools IT Strategic Planning Committee. The CIO got the bright idea of abolishing computer labs and replacing them with a cloud computer/VM server contract and a laptop mandate. He brought out a contractor to demo the service.
Score yourself. I'm somewhere between 4 to 6, depending on your definitions.
Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
December 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Score yourself. I'm somewhere between 4 to 6, depending on your definitions.
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The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
Government of pedophiles. They're all tainted with this for the rest of their lives.
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The running theme between the Epstein story, banning trans healthcare for minors, religious homeschooling and the complaints about adult children estranging themselves is a fundamental American belief that children are property with no rights of their own
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It's maybe not quite at the same level, but at one point I was feeling particularly insecure about my own physical hangups wrt most popular sexual activities, so I googled, "Is it normal to not like kissing", and, of course, up pops a Dan Savage advice column,
December 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It's maybe not quite at the same level, but at one point I was feeling particularly insecure about my own physical hangups wrt most popular sexual activities, so I googled, "Is it normal to not like kissing", and, of course, up pops a Dan Savage advice column,
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Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
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"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
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Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election
December 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election
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If you're no-contact with family this holiday season, read this to help solidify why fuck them, they don't get to be in your life.
www.issendai.com/psychology/e...
Reminder: Issendai's The Missing Missing Reasons, how abusive parents leave out the reason their kids went no contact with them
Reminder: Issendai's The Missing Missing Reasons, how abusive parents leave out the reason their kids went no contact with them
The Missing Missing Reasons | Issendai.com
Members of estranged parents' forums often say their children never gave them any reason for the estrangement, then turn around and reveal that their children did tell them why. But the reasons their ...
www.issendai.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
If you're no-contact with family this holiday season, read this to help solidify why fuck them, they don't get to be in your life.
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There is an old Soviet joke. Man goes to newspaper seller every morning. Always looks, never buys. Seller asks “Comrade, what are you looking for every day?”
“The obituaries”
“But obituaries are on the back pages, comrade!”
“Not the one I am looking for.”
“The obituaries”
“But obituaries are on the back pages, comrade!”
“Not the one I am looking for.”
Americans Openly Plan Trump’s Obituary After Rob Reiner Post.
The backlash was immediate. Even some Republicans and MAGA diehards called it out. But something else happened too: people started talking — openly, loudly, and without restraint — about how Trump’s own eventual death might be received.
The backlash was immediate. Even some Republicans and MAGA diehards called it out. But something else happened too: people started talking — openly, loudly, and without restraint — about how Trump’s own eventual death might be received.
'I'll Grab a Cigar', ‘There’ll Be Fireworks!’: Americans Openly Plan Trump’s Obituary After Rob Reiner Post
President Donald Trump managed to do what he does best: enrage everyone — this time, in a way that left even longtime observers of his social media uncomfortably stunned.
dailyboulder.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
There is an old Soviet joke. Man goes to newspaper seller every morning. Always looks, never buys. Seller asks “Comrade, what are you looking for every day?”
“The obituaries”
“But obituaries are on the back pages, comrade!”
“Not the one I am looking for.”
“The obituaries”
“But obituaries are on the back pages, comrade!”
“Not the one I am looking for.”
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PC 1: I cast Words of Flattery
DM: The she-creature counters with Simp Dismissal
PC 2: I use Neg
DM: Skill check roll
DM: The she-creature counters with Simp Dismissal
PC 2: I use Neg
DM: Skill check roll
December 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
PC 1: I cast Words of Flattery
DM: The she-creature counters with Simp Dismissal
PC 2: I use Neg
DM: Skill check roll
DM: The she-creature counters with Simp Dismissal
PC 2: I use Neg
DM: Skill check roll
Chat, is this bad?
December 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Chat, is this bad?
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someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
Hogwarts Legacy is free on Epic Games Store. Mystery game is the next title buff.ly/HE94Ti2
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
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You now owe each individual trans person $20. DM me for my Venmo.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
You now owe each individual trans person $20. DM me for my Venmo.
Memorable theatre experiences... I have two that were formative.
The first time I went to a theatre was my sixth birthday. My parents took me to see Disney's Peter Pan.
I sat in bubble gum. It was gross.
The first time I went to a theatre was my sixth birthday. My parents took me to see Disney's Peter Pan.
I sat in bubble gum. It was gross.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Memorable theatre experiences... I have two that were formative.
The first time I went to a theatre was my sixth birthday. My parents took me to see Disney's Peter Pan.
I sat in bubble gum. It was gross.
The first time I went to a theatre was my sixth birthday. My parents took me to see Disney's Peter Pan.
I sat in bubble gum. It was gross.
On the last impeachment resolution, my represenative, @ross.house.gov , voted to table. I called and wrote, demanding an explanation, and did not receive one.
Today, however, she bucked Jeffries to support the new one. Maybe she wasn't ignoring me as much as I felt!
Today, however, she bucked Jeffries to support the new one. Maybe she wasn't ignoring me as much as I felt!
And now, the 47 cowardly Democrats who were whipped by leadership to vote 'present' on the impeachment resolution today:
Pete Aguilar of CA
Wesley Bell of MO
Ami Bera of CA
Don Beyer of VA
Janelle Bynum of OR
Ed Case of HI
Sean Casten of IL
Kathy Castor of FL
(cont'd)
Pete Aguilar of CA
Wesley Bell of MO
Ami Bera of CA
Don Beyer of VA
Janelle Bynum of OR
Ed Case of HI
Sean Casten of IL
Kathy Castor of FL
(cont'd)
December 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
On the last impeachment resolution, my represenative, @ross.house.gov , voted to table. I called and wrote, demanding an explanation, and did not receive one.
Today, however, she bucked Jeffries to support the new one. Maybe she wasn't ignoring me as much as I felt!
Today, however, she bucked Jeffries to support the new one. Maybe she wasn't ignoring me as much as I felt!