Lar Van Der Jagt
supaspoida.bsky.social
Lar Van Der Jagt
@supaspoida.bsky.social
It’s an automated radicalization engine running at massive scale.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
My brain immediately went into the guitar solo after reading this.
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Especially considering Tulane’s primate center has been incorporated into “AIDs as a biological weapon” conspiracy theories since at least the 90s.
October 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
And gods!
October 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Anybody who says they’re getting therapy from an LLM should have the LLM taken away from them and be forced to read Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum.
October 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
When they did the reboot series they had a run of three episodes titled “My Struggle”.
October 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Jeff Russo would nail this.
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Also Nazis in the Third Reich didn’t like being called Nazis either!
October 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Also this all started because when DHH was asked to share the keynote stage at RailsConf he threw a fit and started a competing org and conference. As I see it DHH killed RailsConf then was invited back to dance on its grave.

You did the right thing here, much respect.
October 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Anybody who trusts Bill Kristol all the sudden just because he is posting some things they agree with should read up on his father Irving and his time with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
September 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Me when I saw that announcement
a picture of an alien with the words " it 's a trap " on the bottom
Alt: Admiral Ackbar, a squid-like alien from the Star Wars franchise, saying “It’s a trap”.
media.tenor.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I don’t think it’s 1000 pages and it’s been too long for me to remember if it covers your specific questions, but here you go! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
722 Miles
The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
www.press.jhu.edu
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This is a pretty good description of pair programming at its best tbh.
September 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
A Paperclip visa and a new job title isn’t denazification in my book.
September 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I regret to inform you that Disney was quite happy to collaborate with Nazis: www.space.com/15398-walt-d...
Space History Photo: Walt Disney and Wernher von Braun
Werhner von Braun, then Chief, Guided Missile Development Operation Division at Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, was visited by Walt Disney in 1954.
www.space.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Given his father’s arc from Trotskyist to godfather of neoconservatism it’s a bit of a full circle moment for the Kristol family.
September 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Carnivale!
September 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is my feeling too, but at the same time I really want Gray Brechin to write the follow up to Imperial San Francisco cause I’m sure there way more to it! www.graybrechin.net/books/imperi...
Introduction to Imperial San Francisco, by Gray Brechin
www.graybrechin.net
September 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
And some are extremely explicit about that view! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_...
Rod of Iron Ministries - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM