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Just another old cishet white guy, but I recognize my demographic is the most destructive in 14b years. Trying to reverse that everywhere I can.

I'm here for the joy, y'all are the coolest folx I've ever met.

Blog:: https://write.as/benhm3/
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2026-07-09 13:21:45 UTC

Do not elect an unserious candidate. Not as a protest, not as a joke, not for any reason.
Write in or RUN for the position. But do not play with your vote.
Minnesota elected a comedy candidate, who turned out to be a libertarian and suffering from mental illness. Lost years of progress. Don’t do it.
Binface isn’t a choice, change the framing.

2026-07-05 13:36:21 UTC

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Sadly, corporations are people.

2026-07-01 01:06:32 UTC

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Not that I have a copy* but the “Anarchists’ Cookbook” might have some interesting recipes.
* 18 y.o. me looked at it laughed, and left it on the Discount table

2026-07-01 00:32:12 UTC

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Absolutely. Not that we are advocating illegal acts.

2026-06-30 14:53:54 UTC

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I watched my employers build their newest data center in the 2010’s.
The level of detail of redundancy is out of this world. Just the man traps-the entry where you’re locked in between doors-we’re unbelievable. The cooling system could be run from electricity, diesel, or natural gas (pipeline and on site tanks.)
Those places are auditions for billionaire bunkers.

2026-06-30 13:54:08 UTC

I’ll bet those modern data centers are all designed with climate change in mind.
The main goal is survivability.

2026-06-26 14:33:40 UTC

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What would the contact interface be like? Do those binaries have clouds of ground-off “pebbles”?
Could an astronaut lean down very close to the contact area and watch it grind? Or would it be too chaotic and risky to even get close?
Sorry, Professor, your post started me wondering.

2026-06-13 16:28:37 UTC

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I think the tradeoff is more editing required.
Which is the curse of immediately at-hand recording devices anyway. If you're already good at curating, a 360-cam would be a great tool.

2026-06-13 16:23:21 UTC

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Insta360? You can usually find the shot in every shot.

2026-06-08 14:57:15 UTC

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How do we get these fabulous updates, your Divinity? Are you using some kind of long-range networking?

2026-06-07 13:48:28 UTC

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The honor! And the burdens: you’ll be taking him to his first rock concert. First tattoo. Covering up his first fender bender.
It’s a wonderful crown but carries great responsibility.
😀

2026-05-19 12:36:51 UTC

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That looks like the SS Minnow.

2026-05-13 03:35:15 UTC

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The #LA #ICE are gonna make their numbers for a DECADE.

2025-12-09 21:24:19 UTC

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What a cool shot!!! Did you double-expose? Or did the strobe do that fill flash on delay to get keep the bokeh?

2025-12-08 15:35:33 UTC

A lot of my "About me..." is past stuff.
Here's what I might be doing now:
Fumbling to learn bass guitar and piano.
Practicing conversational Spanish
Being retired and trying not to sweat the future because humans can't predict diddly-squat. Economists do not meet the minimum qualification (human) for that assertion.
Accepting who I am (a couch potato)
Changing what I can (stop speaking like an old, cishet white guy.)
Being less reactive.
Living up to my wife and daughter's standards.

2025-11-26 20:34:51 UTC

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WHAT?! Are we back in the EIGHTIES?!
Always one side of the compute-store-network triangle just has to ruin it for the other 2.

2025-11-20 20:29:40 UTC

I'm fed up with search engines.
I want a find engine.

2025-11-12 23:17:17 UTC

I think the world needs to impose a $1,000,000 tariff on all ICE exports.

2025-10-31 18:43:19 UTC

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Those sea-sky colors are out of this world.
I want to make a transparency of this about 10' tall, and hang it in front of a light box with a high CRI.
Then just sit in front of it and bask in the colors and frozen motion.

2025-09-05 17:52:18 UTC

TIL that Prince Chucky has backed a planned community called Poundbury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury
And that there's a "Carbuncle Cup" in the UK for ugly architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbuncle_Cup
All this with gratitude to Kate Wagner's fabulous article about Cheetolini's ballroom.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/white-house-ballroom-mccrery-postmodernism/
Which, if you know, you know I got there thanks to @npub1fdr…lvhs
#McMansionHell

2025-08-09 12:54:52 UTC

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So that illumination is all earthlight?

2025-07-18 15:21:20 UTC

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Survival Research Labs next project:
500 flaming plastic jeeps.

2025-07-18 13:56:04 UTC

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Right next to a child's plastic jeep.

2025-06-21 19:13:47 UTC

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He expects good results from training on the output of another LLM? The first mark of every con artist is themselves.

2025-06-21 15:26:42 UTC

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German dipthong: pronounce the second letter. Ei=I, Ie=E

2025-06-11 18:59:52 UTC

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Hmmmm, I wonder how we could spoof caller ID to start reporting us damnable white immigrants?

2025-06-09 14:41:32 UTC

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Haven't we been through this when 1u servers were new? Blade servers? VM's?
Pretty sure I had some Sev 1 incidents due to "patching reluctance" way back when the earth's crust was still cooling.
And the cover-ups were so inelegant. "But but but its running an emulator for DOS 1.x because the application is so old....but but it was working for all these years...."

2025-06-07 14:17:46 UTC

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Beautiful and terrifying

2025-05-23 00:49:21 UTC

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More INACCURATELY than I'd like.

2025-04-23 15:39:18 UTC

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Whooping cough is so very much more serious than people imagine. Coughing until one vomits, bruises a rib, or damages the cartilage in the ribcage are just a hint of what's in store. Plus a permanent, non-productive cough for the real winners.

2025-03-30 23:18:38 UTC

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Oh no, let him repeat the movie. Thanks to the perchlorate in Martian soil, he'd be dead in an,hour.

2025-03-30 18:15:19 UTC

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New bucket-list item: to carry your tripod(s) and hydration supplies on one of your ventures.

2025-03-27 00:00:00 UTC

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Yes to the story and when can I move in this place?

2025-02-23 18:38:12 UTC

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THAT is so cool. Do you have the lighting gear for this, or just a really quick-change? Either way, it’s masterful.

2025-02-20 18:05:36 UTC

My background photo is a tiny part of my old tech collection.
From left:
Hidden behind my icon is the last remnant of the Spitz Space Transit System planetarium that I worked with. It’s a remote control box for the Moon and Sun projectors, both PTZ.
2nd: the world’s only imax film frame counter. Capable of rates up to 3k RPM or 6k frames per minute.
3rd(back) is a Xerox fax machine HeNe tube laser. An absolute pleasure to run with the cover removed.
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2025-02-12 00:22:35 UTC

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And now comes Syria.

2025-02-08 14:58:35 UTC

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Thank you Aure and thrilled to hear that. Following, boosting, and supporting you now.

2025-02-08 14:47:46 UTC

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Since Russia’s long distance transfer-voltage is incompatible with the rest of the world, this is nothing like “flipping the switch.”
Perhaps the final hour or day was choose-able within some smallish range of time.
But the enormous effort, planning, buying equipment to pull this off means it was well anticipated by all parties.
Not at all diminishing the wonderful news, thank you for sharing. But the dramatic editing at the expense of accuracy concerns me.

2024-12-24 02:24:47 UTC

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Our (US) state now offers Missing and Murdered Indiginous Family Members (#MMIFM) license plates. #RedHand

2024-12-16 18:13:08 UTC

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Oh god yes. Might be a simple roadside sobriety test: Do you prefer Jira to ServiceNow’s developer module?
(Trick question, as SN products cause suicide.)

2024-12-16 03:51:15 UTC

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Truly one of the most useful words in the English language. Second person ambiguous now has unspecified gender in addition to quantity. Perfect.

2024-12-13 14:28:54 UTC

Worst word-pair in English (at high latitudes/altitudes)
Wintry Mix.

2024-12-04 16:40:37 UTC

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A time-travel scifi story used “lifespan” as the base commodity for its hero.
I’ve now used it as the base commodity in all discussions of capitalism.

2024-11-25 05:33:28 UTC

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What is “steaming off”?

2024-11-14 22:36:22 UTC

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FUCK YEAH THAT'S MY MAYOR!!!!!!
In your FACE reactionary minoritarians!

2024-10-24 02:31:25 UTC

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I’m concerned that most of them are his kind of general. The DoD’s been manufacturing his supporter-base for decades.

2024-10-14 22:52:21 UTC

Let's try to remember that the Luddites weren't anti-technology, they were pro-craftsman. They wanted workers to own the means of (their) production.

2024-10-14 13:23:46 UTC

The most important skill to learn is "what can safely be ignored."
The first part of that is learning what's properly "normal."
The second part is learning what's safely "noise."
The third part is learning what signals a problem and what response to have.
And finally, wisdom is when you can begin to tease early signs of problems from the noise.

2024-09-16 15:11:31 UTC

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“Glide of the frigate” I was thinking of a square-rigged sailing ship on final for landing at La Guardia.

2024-09-07 22:07:13 UTC

Hey! The Babel Fish is great and all, but it only translates audio.
Sure, great, you can understand the guard dragging you to the airlock, but you can’t read any sings, plaques, billboards, displays, watches, magazines, books, sky-writing, or even God’s final message to all creation.

2024-08-15 16:43:02 UTC

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Sonics Associates Inc rediscovered and modernized the 1930’s research that lead to actually wearable 3D sound eq. (Originally used in Imax3D headsets, now in Apple’s VR set.)
They made a presentation on it to Sony and were scared to death they would love the product. If they had, Sony would’ve instantly produced the necessary internal records to “prove” the work was theirs and sue Sonics out of existence. Fortunately, Sony didn’t care. Though Sonics never got the deserved credit.

2024-08-15 14:48:49 UTC

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Everyone will require long term care.
Every plan now will be virtually worthless in the future.
Eg: my dad diligently got and paid for LTC insurance for +40 years. After a slow but steepening decline due to Parkinson’s, he netted exactly zero cents from it.
Their “reasonable means testing” declined him every time.

2024-08-13 19:55:24 UTC

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Those wings are AMAZING. If I had those, I'd never land. 😀