J. David Eisenberg

Semi-retired CS teacher at a local community college. Cat person (but currently catless). Have written/co-written some technical books. Currently living in Graz, Austria.

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Location: Graz, Austria, Europe

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2026-02-21 10:07:54 UTC

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#XSLT is one of the most underrated tools ever.

2026-02-03 06:10:27 UTC

The new #Melania #movie is an excellent argument in favor of returning to filming with nitrate stock.

2026-01-13 23:01:18 UTC

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And you know who’s going to be the most vocal complainer? My money is on Rep. Jim Jordan, who [checks notes] defied a Congressional subpoena for 500 days.

2025-08-11 15:35:33 UTC

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I heard him say he was going to Russia on Friday. (Yes, he really did. It’s on the video: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-trump-holds-news-briefing-on-plans-for-homelessness-and-crime-in-washington at about 1 hour 10 minutes from the start)

2025-08-03 16:11:12 UTC

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P.S. Honest question: why do you never add #AltText to your posts? Is it too difficult on the system you’re using? Is it that you’ve never done it before and thus have no idea how to do it? Do you simply feel no need to do so (even though it would be *extremely* helpful to visually impaired people)?

2025-06-26 13:58:51 UTC

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And this is in the **Washington Times**, which is almost the furthest from a liberal newspaper that you can get.

2025-05-14 10:54:23 UTC

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There’s an option that I would call “near-extreme anti-AI”, which stops short of violence: concerted action to “poison the well” to the point that AI results become virtually useless.

2025-03-25 17:14:14 UTC

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Where is this?

2025-03-06 13:47:24 UTC

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It’s inspired by a chant I heard in Austria: „Schießt den Kickl auf dem Mond, das ist Raumfahrt, die sich lohnt!“ -- “Shoot Kickl (far-right politician) to the moon; that’s a space trip that’s worth it.”
Not sure how you could get the same idea with a rhyme in English.

2025-03-06 13:18:27 UTC

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Deport Elon to Mars!

2025-03-01 19:29:14 UTC

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#AltText4You
Post from Haltbakk Bunkers:
We have today been witnesses to the biggest shitshow ever presented "live on tv" by the current American president and his vice president. Huge credit to the president of Ukraine restraining himself and for keeping calm even though USA [US flag emoji] put on a backstabbing tv show. It made us sick. Short and sweet. As a result, we have decided to immediate STOP as fuel provider to American forces in Norway and their ships calling Norwegian ports.
"No Fuel to Americans!"
We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example. SLAVA UKRAINA [Ukraine flag emoji]

2024-11-20 19:01:06 UTC

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#AltText4You
How to safely leave your conservative husband.
Start saving any money you can.
There’s no need to discuss anything with him or his family; make up your mind and act on it.
Use his job to your advantage; leave while he’s there for the day/night.
He can and will attempt to take the children from school; keep that in mind.
Use the grey rock method: Do not engage.
Replace electronics he can easily track.
Keep your plan to yourself!!

2024-11-07 00:32:02 UTC

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As seen in a reddit post: To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree."

2024-10-21 15:19:56 UTC

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What is your opinion of #ReScript (https://rescript-lang.org/)? It has somewhat an #OCaml heritage via #ReasonML
Edit: Just looked at the source for Grain; it’s mostly ReasonML!

2024-09-13 20:53:42 UTC

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#AltText4You
Parody of children’s “Little Golden Books” cover. Shows Klingon leader Gowron in striped pajamas riding a toboggan through the sky with a rainbow trailing behind it. The book title is “Everyone I Don’t Like is Without Honor”

2024-09-07 03:17:51 UTC

I had rated #California’s Gov. Gavin #Newsom at about a 7 out of 10 in terms of #policy governing style, etc.
This lowers it to about a 3, if not lower:
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/09/05/governor-newsom-seeks-to-harness-the-power-of-genai-to-address-homelessness-other-challenges/
#AI #genAI

2024-09-02 21:47:45 UTC

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#AltText4You
Gov. Tim Walz speaks on the Republican agenda: You tell me who in Wisconsin is sitting around saying, Damn, I wish they’d give billionaires tax cuts and screw me over. Damn, I wish they’d take my health care away. I wish they’d underfund my public school. I wish they would make my job more difficult and more dangerous, and then at the end of the day, I wish they’d make me work till I’m 75 years old. No one’s saying that. No one’s asking for that agenda. What they’re asking for is to be treated fairly with dignity. That’s what we ask.

2024-09-02 17:22:48 UTC

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Sorry. Will provide #AltText for you when I see something that I like.

2024-09-02 17:15:10 UTC

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Again, with no #altText, people with visual impairment cannot appreciate the humor!
Two-panel meme. Upper half shows a puppet monkey looking away; at its right is the "two-slit" experiment from physics; light from the two slits creates a diffraction pattern with many lines on a block.
Lower half shows puppet monkey looking at the two slits, now there are only two lines on the block.

2024-09-02 17:10:37 UTC

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Could you please add some #altText or explanation for this? Even though I am sighted, I do not understand what the cartoon is trying to express.
(For those wanting #altText: it is a two-panel cartoon. The top panel shows a man in front of a conveyor belt, producing rectangles with two black bars on them. The bottom panel shows the same conveyor belt, without the man, and it is producing rectangles with seven black bars on them.)

2024-08-24 20:19:18 UTC

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#AltText4You
Illustration of dove of peace with US flag on its wing; inside the dove, a person in a cowboy hat dropping bombs.

2024-08-21 00:21:19 UTC

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Arrgh! Put in some #AltText, dammit! :)
Painting of man in powdered wig and 1700s style clothing (Carolus Linnaeus, who developed the modern system for naming organisms)

2024-08-21 00:16:13 UTC

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Who do I look like? Linnaeus? (The tail looks a bit long for a hedgehog, but what do I know.)

2024-08-21 00:09:32 UTC

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Wow, you’re really making me stretch my #AltText skills here...
Trail cam spoofs. At left, a skeletal moose with antlers afire and fire dripping from its jaws; and an opossum wearing a wizard hat. At right, an ape-man with Danny DeVito’s face.

2024-08-21 00:01:53 UTC

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Ah; thank you!

2024-08-21 00:00:40 UTC

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#AltText4You
Black and white photo of Gandalf pushing a smiling Gollum in a shopping cart.
[Note: I have no idea what this is supposed to mean, and I absolutely don’t get it, so pardon me if the alt text doesn’t convey the humor.]

2024-08-20 23:28:36 UTC

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#AltText4You
Four-panel cartoon.
Panel 1: Man yelling “Captain, watch out!”“
Panel 2 shows ship in storm heading toward rocks. “We˚re headed straight for the lighthouse!”
Panel 3 shows a giant moth, lightning flashing behind it.
Panel 4 shows a close-up of the moth wearing a captain’s hat and holding the ship’s wheel: “Fuck yeah we are”

2024-08-20 23:13:52 UTC

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#AltText4You
Four-panel cartoon, a dialog between Earth and Mars:
Panel 1: Earth says “Mars, you should have humans”
Panel 2: Mars says “No Thanks”
Panel 3: Earth says “They add joy and meaning to life!”
Panel 4: Shows earth with fires at many places, saying “Much Joy”

2024-08-18 22:06:16 UTC

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#AltText4You
Post from David Bishop in response to Elon Musk posting “Judge Dredd would drive a Cybertruck”
“Having edited Judge Dredd for a decade. written Judge Dredd novels, comics and audio dramas, and read Judge Dredd for 47 years, I can say with confidence...
You’re wrong, simp
.”

2024-08-06 19:05:00 UTC

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#AltText4You
Four-panel cartoon: How to (Properly) Punch a Nazi by Master Randall Trang
The four panels are headed “Make a tight fist“, “Use your legs and hips“, “Aim for the filtrum“, and “Follow Through” with drawings showing arrows and labels for proper technique.

2024-01-19 03:00:32 UTC

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Kann ich dieses Bild in Englisch übersetzen?