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elder millennial nerd dad
@whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social
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he/him, nerd, dad, philosopher, mostly water

here for camaraderie re: indianapolis, star trek, tv & movies, parenting, bicycling & transit, collective liberation, gaming, technology, etc

i say thank you, congrats, 🫡, and hit the fave button a lot
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elder millennial nerd dad @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · Dec 6
i faved your post because it brought me some amount of fulfillment for some amount of time, and what else is there? thank you 🖖🏻
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brendelbored.bsky.social
It’s really cool that when you say “ugh the disgusting sex story again” you have to clarify if it’s the horrible criminal one or the one that’s horrible but legal
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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troynovaunt.bsky.social
Muting the letter z just to be safe
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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troxellstradingpost.com
There are a ton of coffee shops in the Indianapolis area that aren't this.

I recommend any of those.
wishtv.com WISH-TV @wishtv.com · 11h
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.

The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
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November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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brandyjensen.bsky.social
I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
First off, my suspension has ended. Got a little harsh with a post a few days ago but I didn’t have my feet on the ground and I’m sorry if I offended anyone. Will try to be more chipper. Knock on wood!
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social
oh hell no “Lizza” getting muted immediately.
whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social elder millennial nerd dad @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 3d
the pro move is reading the first 12-18 hours of Nuzzi dunks/takes and *then* muting her name. don’t go past 24 hours though, because by then the takes-about-the-takes will be spawning.
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social
before the new year, i want to catch up on the good/important movies of 2025. OBAA and Sinners on the list already. i am really interested in any & all suggestions you would care to give me.
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social
well we got two vignettes in before kiddo fell asleep only to be rudely awakened by me reciting Ozymandias moments later. we will have to pick this up tomorrow.

was a real treat to see the “first time?” meme in the wild.
whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social elder millennial nerd dad @whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social · 4h
alright Ballad of Buster Scruggs, let’s go
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social
yeah if the LLM folks want to impress me they should figure out a “mute topic” function.
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social
lots happening here but one of the things that really strikes me is that i basically despise all of this and yet i could easily come up with a better answer than the “chief inventor” for Ring. like bro, a goon squad is not needed to find a missing dog?!?!
kcoxdc.bsky.social Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 11h
There are blocks I won't go jogging down because it's just a wall of Ring cameras right up against the street with no setback and I do not need everyone and their grandmother recording me struggling at sunrise.

www.theverge.com/podcast/8220...
NILAY: mechanically, walk people through what you mean. You put enough Ring products in a neighborhood, and then AI does what to them that helps you get closer to the mission of zeroing out crime? JAMIE: So, the mental model, or how I look at it, is that AI allows us to have ... If you had a neighborhood where you had unlimited resources, so every house had security guards and those security guards were people that worked the same house for 10 years or 20 years, and I mean that from a knowledge perspective. So, the knowledge they had of that house was extreme; they knew everything about you and that residence and your family, how you lived, the people that came in and out. And then, if that neighborhood had an HOA with, call it private security, and those private security were also around and knew everything, what would happen? When a dog gets lost, you’d be like, “Oh, my gosh, my dog is lost.” Well, they would call each other, and one of them would find the dog very quickly. So, how do we change that and bring that into the digital world is — NILAY: Can I just ask you a question about that neighborhood specifically? JAMIE: Sure. NILAY: Do you ever stop and consider that that neighborhood might suck? Just the idea that every house on my street would have all-knowing private security guards, and I would have an HOA, and that HOA would have a private security force. You can easily paint that as dystopia. Everyone’s so afraid that we have private cops on every corner, and I’m paying HOA fees, which is just a nightmare of its own.
November 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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refrag.bsky.social
"Do you ever stop and consider that that neighborhood might suck" is absolutely beautiful
kcoxdc.bsky.social Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 11h
There are blocks I won't go jogging down because it's just a wall of Ring cameras right up against the street with no setback and I do not need everyone and their grandmother recording me struggling at sunrise.

www.theverge.com/podcast/8220...
NILAY: mechanically, walk people through what you mean. You put enough Ring products in a neighborhood, and then AI does what to them that helps you get closer to the mission of zeroing out crime? JAMIE: So, the mental model, or how I look at it, is that AI allows us to have ... If you had a neighborhood where you had unlimited resources, so every house had security guards and those security guards were people that worked the same house for 10 years or 20 years, and I mean that from a knowledge perspective. So, the knowledge they had of that house was extreme; they knew everything about you and that residence and your family, how you lived, the people that came in and out. And then, if that neighborhood had an HOA with, call it private security, and those private security were also around and knew everything, what would happen? When a dog gets lost, you’d be like, “Oh, my gosh, my dog is lost.” Well, they would call each other, and one of them would find the dog very quickly. So, how do we change that and bring that into the digital world is — NILAY: Can I just ask you a question about that neighborhood specifically? JAMIE: Sure. NILAY: Do you ever stop and consider that that neighborhood might suck? Just the idea that every house on my street would have all-knowing private security guards, and I would have an HOA, and that HOA would have a private security force. You can easily paint that as dystopia. Everyone’s so afraid that we have private cops on every corner, and I’m paying HOA fees, which is just a nightmare of its own.
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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kcoxdc.bsky.social
There are blocks I won't go jogging down because it's just a wall of Ring cameras right up against the street with no setback and I do not need everyone and their grandmother recording me struggling at sunrise.

www.theverge.com/podcast/8220...
NILAY: mechanically, walk people through what you mean. You put enough Ring products in a neighborhood, and then AI does what to them that helps you get closer to the mission of zeroing out crime? JAMIE: So, the mental model, or how I look at it, is that AI allows us to have ... If you had a neighborhood where you had unlimited resources, so every house had security guards and those security guards were people that worked the same house for 10 years or 20 years, and I mean that from a knowledge perspective. So, the knowledge they had of that house was extreme; they knew everything about you and that residence and your family, how you lived, the people that came in and out. And then, if that neighborhood had an HOA with, call it private security, and those private security were also around and knew everything, what would happen? When a dog gets lost, you’d be like, “Oh, my gosh, my dog is lost.” Well, they would call each other, and one of them would find the dog very quickly. So, how do we change that and bring that into the digital world is — NILAY: Can I just ask you a question about that neighborhood specifically? JAMIE: Sure. NILAY: Do you ever stop and consider that that neighborhood might suck? Just the idea that every house on my street would have all-knowing private security guards, and I would have an HOA, and that HOA would have a private security force. You can easily paint that as dystopia. Everyone’s so afraid that we have private cops on every corner, and I’m paying HOA fees, which is just a nightmare of its own.
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social
alright Ballad of Buster Scruggs, let’s go
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
Don't let yourself get attached to any post you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
test the plausibility of this for yourself: ask "what sort of efforts would fully counteract the sociological effects of a system where people routinely sold their own children into labor camps?" and see how different your answer is from "years of open terrorism in defense of retrenching apartheid"
aaronvandorn.bsky.social Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 8h
The south was a chattel slave empire until the 1860s and a de facto ethnic authoritarian state for the following century, which is well in living memory. I don't think we need to pretend that that hasn't left a distinctive cultural mark.
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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aaronvandorn.bsky.social
The south was a chattel slave empire until the 1860s and a de facto ethnic authoritarian state for the following century, which is well in living memory. I don't think we need to pretend that that hasn't left a distinctive cultural mark.
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social
Not an expert etc but one thing that made this so much clearer in my mind is learning about the political trajectory of Indiana over the last 100ish years and how it coincides with the migration of white Southerners to the state.
aaronvandorn.bsky.social Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 8h
The south was a chattel slave empire until the 1860s and a de facto ethnic authoritarian state for the following century, which is well in living memory. I don't think we need to pretend that that hasn't left a distinctive cultural mark.
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Might not be tomorrow, but it will happen. See: 3/3 ca.investing.com/news/stock-m...
Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears By Investing.com
Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears
ca.investing.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Riker is sitting in quarters, probably in November but we cannot be sure. Some nice gentle orange mood lighting glows in from the future space window. That's about all that's happening visually. Closed caption reads, "The beard is an ancient and proud tradition."
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
every day I have to log on and see Takes
a bluesky post that reads "reminder: insurrection is the best star trek movie"
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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historicalmarker.bsky.social
Breaking the bit for a moment to remind that despite the NYT and WaPo setting themselves on fire there is great journalism going on at the national, state and local levels that you can support with eyeballs and dollars, instead of sharing high-profile shit. www.24sight.news/p/indiana-lt...
Indiana Lt. Gov. Beckwith, state director of Assemblies of God McAtee tell congregation to ignore Peternel sex abuse reports
Head of powerful Life Church pried teens about sex in graphic detail, Peternel son facing four felony counts of child pornography
www.24sight.news
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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nikostratis.com
I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
whatsnextmtthw.bsky.social
I know mo-cap suits are not loved by performers but it does seem like a significant improvement!
sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · Jul 9
Robert Patrick on the set of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, 1991
Robert Patrick on the set of Terminator 2: Judgement Day He has lines/squares all over him, even his tighty whitey terminator pants.
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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sardonicus.eu
Robert Patrick on the set of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, 1991
Robert Patrick on the set of Terminator 2: Judgement Day He has lines/squares all over him, even his tighty whitey terminator pants.
July 9, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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hellocullen.bsky.social
math textbook covers for some reason:
sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · Jul 9
Robert Patrick on the set of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, 1991
Robert Patrick on the set of Terminator 2: Judgement Day He has lines/squares all over him, even his tighty whitey terminator pants.
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM