tweety fish
@sifu.tweety.fish
at different times:
haxx0r in cDc
PhD in using people for ML and vice versa
"theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie
at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive
&c music, politics, nonsense
haxx0r in cDc
PhD in using people for ML and vice versa
"theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie
at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive
&c music, politics, nonsense
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tweety fish
@sifu.tweety.fish
· Oct 18
There's been an avalanche of new sign ups, so it's time for reintroductions.
Hi. I'm Andrew. I am a deep-sea ecologist and conservation technologist. My work orbits around how humans use and misuse technology to explore, exploit, protect, and plunder the hardest to reach places on the planet.
Hi. I'm Andrew. I am a deep-sea ecologist and conservation technologist. My work orbits around how humans use and misuse technology to explore, exploit, protect, and plunder the hardest to reach places on the planet.
This seems like a good idea, really. So! "Tweety Fish" is my (auld) hacker handle; I am in the Cult of the Dead Cow. I have a PhD in vision science, I apply it to machine learning. I had a startup trying to make autonomous cars less bad for pedestrians (didn't work; they're bad) but now am free.
man at least when people said this dumb shit about doing DMT they got to be high for a minute
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
man at least when people said this dumb shit about doing DMT they got to be high for a minute
this is kinda-sorta true everywhere but a lot less true in older, denser urban neighborhoods. car-centric suburbs, like cars themselves, are designed in ways that encourage people to be isolated and selfish.
Not that this is the thing keeping me back from homeowning right now (lol), but: it is hard to think of a block or area of homeowners I'd ever like to live among, if I were ever to land a home, at least in the US. Homes make a lot of people their worst selves, weirdly enough.
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is kinda-sorta true everywhere but a lot less true in older, denser urban neighborhoods. car-centric suburbs, like cars themselves, are designed in ways that encourage people to be isolated and selfish.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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To reiterate: aiming a firearm at a non-violent bystander who is not resisting arrest or posing any threat is an illegal use of force and possibly a crime.
This ICE agent should be investigated for misconduct. No one is above the law.
This ICE agent should be investigated for misconduct. No one is above the law.
ICE agent points firearm at woman in car filming in Santa Ana, prompting police response
The agent, who identified himself to police, said the woman was following and filming him Sunday afternoon.
www.ocregister.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
To reiterate: aiming a firearm at a non-violent bystander who is not resisting arrest or posing any threat is an illegal use of force and possibly a crime.
This ICE agent should be investigated for misconduct. No one is above the law.
This ICE agent should be investigated for misconduct. No one is above the law.
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the 2028 republican presidential primary is going to be about the groyper wars
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
the 2028 republican presidential primary is going to be about the groyper wars
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Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
I am still on board with "technology has no inherent moral valence" but boy you can really spot the technological changes that act as amplifiers for "destruction is generally easier than creation"
i think it's very bad that "agentic disinformation network, agentic nation-state level black hat, agentic revenge porn at scale" all occurred and were funded before "AI PowerPoint slide deck creation that actually looks nice" got solved
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I am still on board with "technology has no inherent moral valence" but boy you can really spot the technological changes that act as amplifiers for "destruction is generally easier than creation"
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i think it's very bad that "agentic disinformation network, agentic nation-state level black hat, agentic revenge porn at scale" all occurred and were funded before "AI PowerPoint slide deck creation that actually looks nice" got solved
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
i think it's very bad that "agentic disinformation network, agentic nation-state level black hat, agentic revenge porn at scale" all occurred and were funded before "AI PowerPoint slide deck creation that actually looks nice" got solved
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You can make the case that Zoomers are drinking more or less as much as previous generations when adjusting for spending power, expressed v. revealed preference, size of populations, etc. There is no case that they're the "most alcohol-addicted [...] generation in history," though. What? No.
I was reading the excellent @winterjessica.bsky.social review of Scott Galloway's new book, and it is where I became aware that Gavin Newsom just let this claim from Charlie Kirk stand.
It's just wildly false; Gen Z drinks less and uses fewer drugs
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It's just wildly false; Gen Z drinks less and uses fewer drugs
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You can make the case that Zoomers are drinking more or less as much as previous generations when adjusting for spending power, expressed v. revealed preference, size of populations, etc. There is no case that they're the "most alcohol-addicted [...] generation in history," though. What? No.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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at roughly this time 107 years ago, this man died trying tell his buddies that it was almost soup time. if you're having soup today, remember his sacrifice
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
at roughly this time 107 years ago, this man died trying tell his buddies that it was almost soup time. if you're having soup today, remember his sacrifice
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
obviously the right answer for the next James Bond is a poignant and grownup depiction of the complexity, pain, and unexpected joys of long-term stroke recovery, call it After The Bondulance
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
obviously the right answer for the next James Bond is a poignant and grownup depiction of the complexity, pain, and unexpected joys of long-term stroke recovery, call it After The Bondulance
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Why, did he do something wrong
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Why, did he do something wrong
A Q Division team has been traveling the globe, collecting all of Bond's illegitimate children to train them at a daycare deep beneath MI6 headquarters, equipping them with explosive binkies and teddy bears that turn into emergency parachutes. Their country needs them: naptime will have to wait
this is a clear opportunity the man likely has children scattered across the globe
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A Q Division team has been traveling the globe, collecting all of Bond's illegitimate children to train them at a daycare deep beneath MI6 headquarters, equipping them with explosive binkies and teddy bears that turn into emergency parachutes. Their country needs them: naptime will have to wait
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
We can take this further: Bond Babies. MASSIVE hit.
pitching my idea for a new James Bond movie: Son of Bond, where a young Bond seeks revenge for the poisoning and blowing up of his father, James Bond.
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We can take this further: Bond Babies. MASSIVE hit.
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listening to some of their victims tonight made me even more certain that the single best thing any of us can do to bring about justice for DHS is make sure that in three years everybody you know is ready to demand nuremburg type stuff.
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
listening to some of their victims tonight made me even more certain that the single best thing any of us can do to bring about justice for DHS is make sure that in three years everybody you know is ready to demand nuremburg type stuff.
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A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
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HELLO NEW YORK, WE ARE DEATH THROUPLE!!!
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
HELLO NEW YORK, WE ARE DEATH THROUPLE!!!
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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Once I told a teacher I didn’t have my algebra homework because the gales of November came early. She failed me, which was very disrespectful to the sailors lost that day.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Once I told a teacher I didn’t have my algebra homework because the gales of November came early. She failed me, which was very disrespectful to the sailors lost that day.
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Stay and fight. From New York: if you register as an independent, you can't vote in the primary. And in a blue state like NY, primaries can be more decisive than general elections. And in general elections, you can vote on the Working Families Party line and signal the Dems you're a progressive.
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Stay and fight. From New York: if you register as an independent, you can't vote in the primary. And in a blue state like NY, primaries can be more decisive than general elections. And in general elections, you can vote on the Working Families Party line and signal the Dems you're a progressive.
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Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song first, and then sank the Edmund Fitzgerald himself in what has come to be recognized as one of the first viral marketing stunts
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song first, and then sank the Edmund Fitzgerald himself in what has come to be recognized as one of the first viral marketing stunts