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davidbcooper.bsky.social
So sick of decorative combs as gifts. I don’t even have hair, is this a joke?
December 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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theonion.com
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year
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CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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martinfowler.com
Some fragments on AI, its impact on maintainability, the dangers from its jailbreaking, developer workflows - and how it can be an ally against Parkinson's disease

martinfowler.com/articles/202...
Fragments Dec 4
a short post
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December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
theotherdentist.bsky.social
I recently upgraded my Google Home to use Gemini. Generative AI is a poor fit for many applications. I asked Google what the date was today. Responses:

Fri 28th
Sat 29th
Sun 30th (yay!)
Friday 30th (wtf?)

I guess the plagiarism machine is bad at calendars.
My Google Home confidently asserts that today is Friday, November 30, 2025. This despite the fact that today is Sunday, November 30, 2025.
November 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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warren.senate.gov
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
theotherdentist.bsky.social
Begrudging repost.
wheeltod.bsky.social Frank Ray Whitehouse (He/Him) @wheeltod.bsky.social · Nov 17
Liberal arts professor: “I just got a $300k grant for repurposing a word to describe the geological time period before the public mail service was invented”

Me: “But that’s preposterous!”
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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unburntwitch.com
with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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untonuggan.myatproto.social
so this is a "years long medical mystery: at least partly solved?" kind of thread

the diagnosis is not actually uncommon

(and in fact it's a fairly common comorbidity of stuff I'm already dealing with : EDS / POTS / MCAS)

#NEISvoid
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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benkuchera.bsky.social
In this house we ask if someone's games are properly saved when we take turns on the Steam Deck or Switch 2 because we're a loving family who looks after each other's progress.
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
theotherdentist.bsky.social
This was an interesting read, with some cool future research potential (as far as I can tell). Don't let the headline dissuade you. Good results when an expert in a different field brings a new perspective to your problem.
bhanlon15.bsky.social Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Nov 12
Health Rising: 'Role Reversal: Could a WEAKENED Fight/Flight Response Be Causing ME/CFS and Long COVID? The 2025 IACFS/ME Conference Pt. I'

'..these diseases appear to have what’s called a “pre-synaptic vesicle energy problem'

www.healthrising.org/blog/2025/11...
Role Reversal: Could a WEAKENED Fight/Flight Response Be Causing ME/CFS and Long COVID? The 2025 IACFS/ME Conference Pt. I - Health Rising
Low brain norepinephrine levels could explain many of the symptoms present in ME/CFS, long COVID and similar diseases.
www.healthrising.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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dansinker.com
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
theotherdentist.bsky.social
I've completed "Plutonian Pebbles" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2024

github.com/cjthatcher/a...

adventofcode.com/2024/day/11
#AdventOfCode #YouWouldBeSillyToNotHireMe
Day 11 - Advent of Code 2024
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October 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
theotherdentist.bsky.social
I just completed "Hoof It" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024

Solution:
github.com/cjthatcher/a...

Problem:
adventofcode.com/2024/day/10

#AdventOfCode #SomebodyShouldReallyHireMe
October 15, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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loveandbarley.bsky.social
give greta thunberg a gundam
October 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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nicomaramckay.com
tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.
Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users
tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…
plutopsyche.medium.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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neorsd.org
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy. Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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putrinolab.bsky.social
A few days out from #UNGA80, I wanted to reflect on the session we took part in and the media responses since. Mount Sinai was one of the 150 organizations that signed the global pledge to advocate for healthy indoor air. The event itself featured four panels of speakers who
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September 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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mecfsskeptic.bsky.social
1) This lecture by Prof dr Vivienne Matthies-Boon is a good introduction to the problems with the biopsychosocial (BPS) model and the harms it has caused in the ME/CFS community.
September 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
theotherdentist.bsky.social
I like to imagine myself in an alternate reality where we picked Elizabeth Warren to be president. I hope that version of me is doing well :)
warren.senate.gov Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Sep 23
Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.

To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.

And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.
September 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
I wish things were at least less stupid if they had to be so dire
September 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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sltrib.com
Rabbi says the Department of Homeland Security is misinterpreting scriptural passages as it seeks to hire more ICE personnel.
Commentary: Hey, ICE, stop misusing the Bible to recruit agents
Rabbi says the Department of Homeland Security is misinterpreting scriptural passages as it seeks to hire more ICE personnel.
www.sltrib.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
theotherdentist.bsky.social
Outrageous omission by Spelling Bee. Milchik would be greatly displeased.
September 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
theotherdentist.bsky.social
Man I just really hate AI. I'm very tired of it. "Wow, the plagiarism machine wrote you some poor code? And lost money doing it? Cool." Ugh.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Aug 15
This is the end of the premium edition of wheresyoured.at - my piece on GPT-5, but I wanted to make sure the conclusion was outside the paywall.
Yet what I’m left with in writing this is how wasteful all of this is. OpenAI, a company that has already incinerated upwards of $15 billion in the last two years, has chosen to create a less-efficient way of doing business as a means of eking out a modest-at-best improvement. In our own lives we’re continually pushed and pressured and punished if we get into debt, judged by our peers and our parents if we spend our money recklessly, and if we’re too reckless, we find ourselves less likely to receive anything from credit to housing. Companies like OpenAI live by a different set of standards. Sam Altman intends to lose more than $44 billion by the end of 2028, and graciously told CNBC he was “willing to run at a loss” for a long time, where he was treated like this was a smart, reasonable decision, rather than to rein in his spending habits and be more mindful. The ultra-rich are rewarded more for their errant spending habits than we are for any thriftiness or austerity measures we make, and none of us are afforded the level of grace that Sam Altman has been. “Has been” feels appropriate. ChatGPT-5 is an engineering nightmare, a phenomenally silly and desperate attempt to juice what remains of the dying innovation and excitement within the walls of OpenAI. It’s not November 2022 anymore, and, let’s be honest, there really hasn’t been anything exciting or interesting since GPT-4. There is nothing exciting happening at this company. As many as 700 million people a week allegedly use ChatGPT, but nobody can really say why, and OpenAI, despite their massive popularity, cannot seem to stop losing billions of dollars, and they cannot seem to explain why that’s necessary other than “this shit is really expensive, dude.” Can anyone articulate a reason why we need to burn billions of dollars to do this? What are we even doing? Why are we doing it? Has everybody just agreed to do this until it becomes completely untenable? Can anyone articulate a reason why we need to burn billions of dollars to do this? What are we even doing? Why are we doing it? Has everybody just agreed to do this until it becomes completely untenable? Look at GPT-5! This is the, if you believe the hype, the best-funded, best-resourced company in the world with the greatest mind at its helm, and this is the best he’s got - a Large Language Model That Chooses Which Large Language Model Will Answer Your Question. Gee fucking whiz Sam Altman, sounds dandy, and how much better is this you say? Oh you can’t really say? Fucking brilliant! Hey, does it do anything new? No? Oh what’s that, it’s actually our job to work that out for ourselves? Thanks man! Anyway, none of this will end well. Not even the boosters seem to be having fun anymore. Everybody’s just flailing about waiting for the end. Even Sam Altman seems tired of it all. I know I bloody well am.
August 15, 2025 at 5:06 AM