Nostr notes by tuban_muzuru

Of course it was all written by hand. It's good old Sucky San ...

2026-04-04T05:47:18Z

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Of course it was all written by hand. It's good old Sucky San Francisco Javascript, authored by humans with difficult to pronounce names, sleeping 4 to a bedroom.

You want to see dogfood and slop? Bring in any of these abusive Desi outfits who demand kickbacks, it's truly appalling

Not that anyone in the IT industry does a lot of yelling about it

Y'know what, you don't like LLMs ? Go stand with the dummies, lots of them.

Anthropic lies a lot. Don't tell me the AI wrote that ...

2026-04-04T05:34:26Z

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Anthropic lies a lot. Don't tell me the AI wrote that comment.

Look, make your point. Now do you think Father ...

2026-04-04T05:25:09Z

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Look, make your point. Now do you think Father O'Blivion's Leprechaun wrote those comments in that selfsame source code you find so amusing?

You think those wonderful comments were written by Claude. You ...

2026-04-04T05:15:47Z

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You think those wonderful comments were written by Claude. You do, huh?

Well, that's just Delicious. I have no way of validating it, ...

2026-04-04T05:10:05Z

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Well, that's just Delicious. I have no way of validating it, but I'll take it on your say-so that this was part of the Big Leak from Claude.

So let's get this straight - THAT code would have been written by HUMANS.

You asked for the code. In two passes. It also explains why the ...

2026-04-04T05:03:27Z

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You asked for the code. In two passes.

It also explains why the crack is so localized. If the values were scattered everywhere you'd be looking at the "fractally bad" scenario. Instead it's one function that predates the abstraction.

That's a totally normal and forgivable state for a codebase to be in — it just needs a one-line cleanup and ideally a lint rule or PR comment culture of "if you touch EffortLevel, check for strays."

Stop yelling. You fucked up and left some dead code and had the ...

2026-04-04T04:56:44Z

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Stop yelling. You fucked up and left some dead code and had the temerity to paste it in here

Here's why you need the training, not the LLM: this is no ...

2026-04-04T04:44:22Z

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Here's why you need the training, not the LLM: this is no different than riding a big horse. Data first, talk to the LLM about your data and your users and their needs and what the work you're doing is trying to solve.

Then you start writing spec. The LLM will restart each time, like fucking Groundhog Day. You will have to lead this new instance to your decisions/ and tell it to read everything.

That is the ONLY WAY TO DO THIS.

Say there, little buddy - you're sposta write the spec. But I ...

2026-04-04T04:39:25Z

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Say there, little buddy - you're sposta write the spec. But I use Claude to hammer our my spec before I do things. You should, too.

After all that work defining EFFORT_LEVELS as the single source ...

2026-04-04T04:34:19Z

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After all that work defining EFFORT_LEVELS as the single source of truth, this function just... writes them out again. The includeMax branching is the tell — whoever wrote this didn't think to reach for EFFORT_LEVELS.slice(0, -1) vs EFFORT_LEVELS.

const levels = EFFORT_LEVELS.slice(0, includeMax ? undefined : -1);

Show me the spec you gave Claude to write this menu.

2026-04-04T04:15:13Z

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Show me the spec you gave Claude to write this menu.

Well, what can you expect from a code vending machine anyway. ...

2026-04-04T04:14:31Z

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Well, what can you expect from a code vending machine anyway.

I've been writing with Claude for a year. See, n00bs ask for code. Pros ask for spec. I've been coding for 40 years now and Claude writes great Rust and C

A sudden fall of thick snow, melted in an hour. Spring has jumped ...

2026-03-28T08:08:54Z

A sudden fall of thick snow, melted in an hour. Spring has jumped the gun here and I don't much like it.

Cold wind sweeps through the trees, trash from the snow piles emerges to dry out and blow around.

The long slog between Valentine's Day to Easter, A world of mud and wonder, as the wetlands around here green out.

#wisconsin

A blessing to the memory of your mother, to you, to your husband, ...

2026-03-18T04:57:43Z

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A blessing to the memory of your mother, to you, to your husband, and to Summer

A smudge prayer

After half a century of pretending, now comes the simple fact of ...

2026-03-14T16:02:25Z

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After half a century of pretending, now comes the simple fact of the matter:

Iran, a nation controlled by a religious institution, who yearly weeps over their martyred prophet, a disgusting, bloody and maudlin event, Iran now presumes to martyr itself under our bombs.

Shiism is a parasite upon Islam and upon humanity in general.

Wind of Change Florence and the Medici ...

2026-02-17T03:43:04Z

Wind of Change
Florence and the Medici

'Gedreht' #FotoVorschlag ...

2026-01-08T19:46:33Z

'Gedreht' #FotoVorschlag

#FotoVorschlag 'Traditionelles' Yana zuwa! Yana zuwa! ...

2025-12-26T09:32:44Z

#FotoVorschlag
'Traditionelles'

Yana zuwa! Yana zuwa!
Babban shugaban!
==
Er kommt! Er kommt! Der große Chef!

– ein Hausa-Häuptling, ein Sarki, mit seinem Gefolge

Simple rule: if you didn't take enough math to know what this ...

2025-12-22T03:34:57Z

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Simple rule: if you didn't take enough math to know what this means

// Load the raw safetensors file.
let tensors = candle_core::safetensors::load(&weights_filename, &device)?;
// Create the VarBuilder from the loaded tensors using the correct function name.
let vb = VarBuilder::from_tensors(tensors, DType::F32, &device);

- you have no idea what you're talking about, Get through linear algebra first.

Anyone who's lived with bald eagles know they're most ...

2025-12-19T22:32:39Z

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Anyone who's lived with bald eagles know they're most opportunistic scavengers. Their idea of fun is a fight over a fish frozen in the river ice.

I came back to the States at the tail end of all that hippie ...

2025-12-14T23:11:22Z

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I came back to the States at the tail end of all that hippie stuff, in my late teens. Steely Dan:

"All those Day-Glo freaks who used to paint the face
They've joined the human race
Some things will never change"

The Beats - Kerouac, Ginsberg, WS Burroughs, had come and gone from the West Coast by the time the hippies sprang up in the Haight. Altamont in 69 had stomped on all their idealism, the blowback was all those silly people Power Dressing.
'
I thought I'd missed out.

#precious_moments Billionaires’ Fleshy Heads Put on Robot Dog ...

2025-12-09T23:14:13Z

#precious_moments

Billionaires’ Fleshy Heads Put on Robot Dog Bodies

https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/tech-billionaires-robot-dogs

Gruss von Krampus ! #krampus #krampusnacht ...

2025-12-06T06:02:08Z

Gruss von Krampus !

#krampus
#krampusnacht

Can you furnish any more info on where you saw this? I believe it ...

2025-11-19T04:34:27Z

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Can you furnish any more info on where you saw this? I believe it was made as an art piece.

It's beautifully engineered and made, though. A bit of ...

2025-11-19T04:27:22Z

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It's beautifully engineered and made, though.

A bit of research - this is not an American phone. The オブジェ is a carefully constructed joke and that is a camera on top of the phone. It seems to have that Polaroid leather.

... but foreign-word - katakana - not 物

2025-11-19T04:18:26Z

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... but foreign-word - katakana - not 物

"Good luck and bad luck create each other and it is difficult ...

2025-11-04T10:59:25Z

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"Good luck and bad luck create each other
and it is difficult to foresee their change."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse

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2025-10-29T21:45:23Z

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Dogs were our First Friends. More than 23,000 years of ...

2025-10-29T21:40:10Z

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Dogs were our First Friends. More than 23,000 years of co-evolution.

Every dog leaves a mark on our lives.

ご愁傷様です

Thousands, millions I suppose, have come to Galway in search of ...

2025-10-22T17:02:32Z

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Thousands, millions I suppose, have come to Galway in search of Yeats.

"The Wild Swans at Coole

The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine-and-fifty swans...."

When I was raising girls, I found these elegant little leather ...

2025-10-22T16:57:22Z

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When I was raising girls, I found these elegant little leather zip-up cases they could use for Girl Stuff - that's what we called it in our house.

#wisconsin #wi-03 #democrats I am grinning so big: my candidate, ...

2025-10-21T20:31:20Z

#wisconsin #wi-03 #democrats

I am grinning so big: my candidate, to whom I've been giving as much as I can, has pulled ahead of that vile shitweasel DVO.

Proof, if any was needed, the MAGA contingent is in serious trouble, even out here in rural America.

https://cookeforwisconsin.com/

#gop Times have changed: ...

2025-10-15T18:12:23Z

#gop

Times have changed:

It’s been terrifying few days, Das, I will not lie.

2025-10-12T02:57:09Z

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It’s been terrifying few days, Das, I will not lie.

Greetings to all and sundry. I write to y’all from my third day ...

2025-10-12T02:34:30Z

Greetings to all and sundry.

I write to y’all from my third day in the hospital. A urinary tract infection has laid me low. I am in Mayo Clinic Luther, receiving the most insightful and compassionate care imaginable.

This has obviously interrrupted my migration to beige.party. I will confine my activities to getting better. I care for all of you more than words can say.

[@tuban_muzuru](https://ohai.social/@tuban_muzuru )
beige.party

This is WI-03, rural and Republican. We're losing dairy farms ...

2025-10-07T18:41:38Z

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This is WI-03, rural and Republican. We're losing dairy farms left and right - and we've got beans still standing, long past ripe. Pointless harvesting it, even.

And miles of silage corn, God knows where that's going to be put up, the silos are full. Maybe run beefers.

These morons all voted for Trump. Still have their Trump & Vance signs up. And now these tapeworms want a handout - well, the bankers got theirs a while back...

Nauseating.

In a country full of churches, a few stand out. One of the most ...

2025-10-05T03:27:38Z

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In a country full of churches, a few stand out. One of the most opulent and beautiful churches in Mexico is in Coyoacán, one of the oldest churches in DF. San Juan Bautista, first constructed in 1522. One of the most splended altars I have ever seen

https://www.thenotsoinnocentsabroad.com/blog/the-magnificent-parroquia-san-juan-bautista

#hmong #food The wife got back from the Hmong store with mov ...

2025-10-04T23:36:23Z

#hmong #food

The wife got back from the Hmong store with mov nplaum ntshaav, the purple rice and nqaij npuas kib , the fried pork cubes.

Around here the Hmong New Year comes after the harvest. Usually the elders decide, so it's Oct 11-12 this year

Eau Claire Hmong New Year

https://eauclairehmongnewyear.com/

Status: grief, I suppose, without the sorrow. A shaft of light in ...

2025-10-04T22:27:25Z

Status: grief, I suppose, without the sorrow. A shaft of light in the forest.

Called my brother's widow, went to voicemail. Left a message, just one of my famous Nothing Calls - that's what my mother used to call them. I'm the one who stays in touch, the rest of my lunkhead family appreciates the calls but never feels up to calling me. Which is okay.

Missing my brother, like a tongue feeling for a missing tooth.

One of his images from Colorado, his favorite place in the world.

The surest sign of a broken society is a hooverville of homeless ...

2025-10-03T02:07:13Z

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The surest sign of a broken society is a hooverville of homeless people. Finland figured out the cheapest way to solve the problem was to give them apartments.
Since the national adoption of the "Housing First" strategy in 2008, long-term homelessness has fallen by over 80%.

While providing housing seems expensive up front, studies have shown it is cheaper in the long run. When a person is stably housed, society saves money on the costs associated with homelessness.

Two Yamabushi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamabushi ...

2025-10-03T01:52:31Z

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Two Yamabushi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamabushi

#autumn #wisconsin Drone shot, Caryville ...

2025-10-02T14:01:21Z

#autumn #wisconsin

Drone shot, Caryville

#autumn #wisconsin ...

2025-10-01T18:38:52Z

#autumn #wisconsin

#USPol ... check out what these assholes are up to: ...

2025-09-30T16:49:58Z

#USPol

... check out what these assholes are up to:

https://www.hud.gov/

I see the problem as a failure to rein in campaign finance money, ...

2025-09-29T02:53:23Z

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I see the problem as a failure to rein in campaign finance money, surging up through the sewer grates of Washington, billions now. It's corrupted everyone who takes PAC money which is pretty much everyone, GOP and Dem

It's a great pity stupid people are allowed to vote, too. ...

2025-09-29T02:43:57Z

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It's a great pity stupid people are allowed to vote, too.

See, educated people vote Democratic, but only to a certain point. The very wealthy are about evenly split. The Dems can't compose a compelling message for dummies.

The Democratic leadership needs people half the age of the current bunch.

We progressives need to formulate a counterpunch to the tradwife ...

2025-09-20T16:10:42Z

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We progressives need to formulate a counterpunch to the tradwife - with true equality for women

Couple of kids - it'a a full time job.

Of old, the Saxon culture gave women the morgengifu, This was a gift of property or money from the husband to the wife on the morning after their marriage, and it belonged to her exclusively. She had the right to manage, sell, or give away this property as she saw fit, and it remained hers even if the marriage ended.

I sure wish more people took Rhetoric in schools. Here's the ...

2025-09-17T16:50:05Z

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I sure wish more people took Rhetoric in schools.

Here's the TL;DR : stupid people vote too. Never appeal to such people with facts, for they will hate you.

What we need is what's called a "thought-terminating cliché." AKA Aristotle's epideictic rhetoric. Obama and Clinton were good at this.

My first big road trip with the girl who would later become my ...

2025-09-15T13:38:01Z

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My first big road trip with the girl who would later become my wife was from Phoenix to Albuquerque on Route 60.

Oh I don't know. I've seen a ton of bad Rust, since I ...

2025-09-14T19:34:47Z

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Oh I don't know. I've seen a ton of bad Rust, since I wrote it.

Marshall McLuhan, the old futurist, had a joke, saying his ...

2025-09-14T17:08:38Z

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Marshall McLuhan, the old futurist, had a joke, saying his predictions always came true because he never predicted anything which hadn't already come to pass.

Radioactive cola. Help me Jesus.

Software, as my mentors in the 1970s taught me, is a craft, not an art form. I would add, it's an esoteric tradition, master-to-student, not merely book-learning if that makes any sense....

And the LLM has read more Rust than any human....

... this old retired coder ( C and Java, increasingly Rust mostly ...

2025-09-14T16:34:33Z

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... this old retired coder ( C and Java, increasingly Rust mostly ) uses his LLMs to write tests. I used Claude 4 to learn Rust, but as I became more proficient, that largely came to an end.

But as for test generation, it's a powerful assist, for me - who writes far more tests than code....

The Japanese, who always have a suitable word - sure wish English ...

2025-09-11T14:25:41Z

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The Japanese, who always have a suitable word - sure wish English did - have the word

Ganbatte (がんばって)

This is only said to someone who is in a tough spot and needs encouragement, a student studying for a test, a worker who is sweating out a serious problem.

#photography #minnesota Had to scramble down a steep embankment ...

2025-09-11T14:22:26Z

#photography #minnesota

Had to scramble down a steep embankment to get down to a rocky beach of sorts along the St. Louis River.

I needed to get set up for a group of kayakers who I knew would come down here as well - had to get my drone set up. This was just one of a few test shots to get exposure settings.

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Google Maps pointer:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/46%C2%B039'53.6%22N+92%C2%B024'20.2%22W/@46.6656561,-92.4080332,138a,35y,106.59h,56.2t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d46.6649!4d-92.4056?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkwOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

I always think of JFK talking about the then-future moon shot: ...

2025-09-11T13:27:46Z

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I always think of JFK talking about the then-future moon shot:

"We do these things,
not because they are easy
but because they are hard."

https://youtu.be/UkXTqkXL9d0

2025-09-11T02:07:10Z

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https://youtu.be/UkXTqkXL9d0

#music #LittleFeat Long Distance Love "...Oh your toes were ...

2025-09-11T02:06:46Z

#music #LittleFeat

Long Distance Love

"...Oh your toes were so pretty
And your life so sweet
I wonder do you know
Do you know you hurt me so
And no matter what I do
Even pray to heaven above
All I ever from you is
Long distance love
Long distance love"

Arguably Lowell George's tightest song. Look at the comment soon to follow, Billy Payne's video of same

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijrr1wS9kjo

The AI people will all come to a bad end, like every wave of ...

2025-09-11T01:22:43Z

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The AI people will all come to a bad end, like every wave of hucksters and dreamers before them.

I am put in mind of the long history of San Francisco in the Gold Rush days: the people who made the big money sold supplies to the miners.

It's been pretty much the same ever since. Oh it's a lovely city to visit, but I could never live there.

🎵 We'll jog with show folk on the sand
Drink kirschwasser from a shell
San Francisco show and tell...

Some years back I was working for a local outfit ( for the ...

2025-09-11T01:06:44Z

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Some years back I was working for a local outfit ( for the insurance ) , with a bunch of MAGAs, who teased me about 2A.

I asked "How many of you were in the military?" None.

I asked "What's the difference between a lib with a gun and you guys with a gun? I'll tell you. This lib fires match grade ammunition and could put a round through any of you before you could see me coming."

They were silent thereafter.

俤や姥ひとり泣く月の友 A memory An old woman cries ...

2025-09-10T03:08:39Z

俤や　姥ひとり泣く　月の友

A memory
An old woman cries alone
A friend of the moon

-Basho

#autumn #haiku #basho

One of the first Episodes of Ignorance in all this was when the ...

2025-09-09T03:07:48Z

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One of the first Episodes of Ignorance in all this was when the Russians invaded Ukraine - and those wretched Russian soldiers started digging trenches at Chernobyl....

The Numerator: The time from the start of Pharaoh Khufu's ...

2025-09-09T00:22:36Z

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The Numerator: The time from the start of Pharaoh Khufu's reign ( he of the Great Pyramid, approximately 2589 BCE) to today (2025 CE) is about 4,614 years.

(2589+2025=4614)

The Denominator: The estimated time for Chernobyl to become safe is 20,000 years. The disaster happened in 1985, thus giving a terminus of roughly 22,000 AD

#DuluthMinnesota We’re on a mini vacay in Duluth MN, this is ...

2025-09-07T05:17:33Z

#DuluthMinnesota

We’re on a mini vacay in Duluth MN, this is Jay Cooke State Park

In Guatemala and southern Mexico, people like lemon chips/crisps

2025-09-02T21:56:54Z

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In Guatemala and southern Mexico, people like lemon chips/crisps

[quietly snarling, not at you...] Allow me to rephrase that - is ...

2025-08-29T23:32:00Z

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[quietly snarling, not at you...] Allow me to rephrase that - is anyone in the press interested in reporting on what the victims have testified over the years?

#bloomscrolling Butterfly weed ( Asclepias tuberosa ) ...

2025-08-29T03:24:20Z

#bloomscrolling

Butterfly weed ( Asclepias tuberosa )

'Türgriffe' #FotoVorschlag Türgriffe des Old State ...

2025-08-27T08:22:54Z

'Türgriffe'
#FotoVorschlag

Türgriffe des Old State Capitol Building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#physics #tritium 1/ 2 Physicist Terence Tarnowsky from Los ...

2025-08-25T03:42:33Z

#physics #tritium

1/ 2

Physicist Terence Tarnowsky from Los Alamos National Laboratory has proposed a new method to solve two major energy challenges at once: the high cost of fuel for nuclear fusion and the disposal of radioactive waste.

Nuclear fusion requires tritium, an extremely rare and expensive hydrogen isotope that is a primary obstacle to making fusion power viable....

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a65855581/nuclear-waste-fusion

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2025-08-24T15:40:06Z

#silentsunday

Here's my black beastosaur, Frodo ...

2025-08-24T00:51:20Z

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Here's my black beastosaur, Frodo

What is the most Southern Gothic thing I can think of? Sweet ...

2025-08-23T01:20:13Z

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What is the most Southern Gothic thing I can think of?

Sweet Olive Cemetery, Baton Rouge Louisiana. A historically Black cemetery, tragically neglected, not a stone's throw from the State Capitol.

Thousands of people are buried in this tiny plot, eight, nine bodies deep. Nobody wanted to do the upkeep, it's become the most horrific outpost of segregation I know.

#SouthernGothic
#Gothic
#Horror

Safety regulations are written in the blood of the victims. Not a ...

2025-08-22T02:30:30Z

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Safety regulations are written in the blood of the victims. Not a minute before....

Government contracting is where IT goes to die. These are the ...

2025-08-21T11:38:09Z

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Government contracting is where IT goes to die. These are the people you want regulating software?

I did the math: the helical head of Hi Fi VHS translates to an ...

2025-08-21T09:27:25Z

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I did the math: the helical head of Hi Fi VHS translates to an effective writing speed of ~229 ips.

A Studer A820 was 30 ips.

God alone knows what's going on in Trump's moldy pumpkin ...

2025-08-20T00:54:48Z

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God alone knows what's going on in Trump's moldy pumpkin head.

Jack Ma summed this up a few years back: Americans spend tomorrow's money today - Chinese love to save money, in case things don't stay so good.

But Trump.... who the eff goes bankrupt six times ?!

Regret is a life-eater, the emotion most to be feared - more even ...

2025-08-15T19:53:14Z

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Regret is a life-eater, the emotion most to be feared - more even than hate.

All those Hallmark Card sentiments are useless. It's like the old Zen koan about the farmer and the horse. Yez just don't know how things will turn out.

https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/fellows/the-story-of-the-chinese-farmer/

#photography #colorado Two bull elk resting in the late summer ...

2025-08-06T00:18:55Z

#photography #colorado

Two bull elk resting in the late summer evening light

Having read the books and studied the Tolkien papers at the ...

2025-08-05T16:24:46Z

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Having read the books and studied the Tolkien papers at the University of Marquette, I genially dislike the movies, but who am I, some dilettante purist, to tell anyone else why the movies miss the point...

The Japanese have a proverb, which translates to "clenching ...

2025-08-05T05:23:59Z

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The Japanese have a proverb, which translates to "clenching one's buttocks after the fart" - we've got these people on our hands, millions of 'em now - everyone sees these titanic economic migrations and they still pretend they have the power to stop it.

Why aren't these wretched migrants staying home? The answer is pretty obvious - corruption and misrule.

.. are you re-reading LOTR now?

2025-08-05T03:56:57Z

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.. are you re-reading LOTR now?

#photography #wisconsin Amish hay sheaves, late afternoon ...

2025-08-04T22:49:21Z

#photography #wisconsin

Amish hay sheaves, late afternoon

Education is that factor.

2025-08-04T21:24:55Z

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Education is that factor.

'Hinterhof' #FotoVorschlag Nahaufnahmen vom Garten meiner ...

2025-08-04T08:37:41Z

'Hinterhof' #FotoVorschlag

Nahaufnahmen vom Garten meiner Frau. Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob es sich bei den Paprikaschoten um Anaheim-Chilis oder Jalapeños handelt. Ein paar Kirschtomaten haben sich aufs Foto geschlichen.

I have explained this to a group of anti-immigrant people, who, ...

2025-08-04T07:04:50Z

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I have explained this to a group of anti-immigrant people, who, to their credit, actually Got It.

Relatively prosperous American women are no longer having two children. Unless we start importing people to do what immigrants have always done.

Quit with this byzantine visa process. Let people come here, pass a health test, get a work visa card - and go home when they want to.

We need those workers.

https://econofact.org/the-mystery-of-the-declining-u-s-birth-rate

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2025-08-03T22:03:12Z

#silentsunday

I was next door neighbor to a lovely old Italian couple in Carmel ...

2025-08-02T22:24:26Z

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I was next door neighbor to a lovely old Italian couple in Carmel NY. Their back door was always open to us kids, they had none of their own. We adored them.

He was a construction guy, plasterer. Old Man Trump had cheated him out of a large sum of money - almost drove him out of business.

I think about the Patruccis when the subject of Trump comes up...

Heh ! The old accounting joke: the embezzler usually gets caught ...

2025-08-02T22:12:35Z

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Heh ! The old accounting joke: the embezzler usually gets caught because he has to do twice as much work - and if he makes even a small error, he can't find it.

All this is true - but.... Trump has been a liar since he was old ...

2025-08-02T22:02:57Z

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All this is true - but....

Trump has been a liar since he was old enough to talk. He has left a trail of misery, violence and destruction in his wake like a tornado tearing across Main Street in some little Iowa town.

His math skills are none too good, for all that. Thing about lies, my father said, you have to keep 'em straight in your own head or you'll start believing them in preference to the truth.

#FotoVorschlag ,Schifffahrt‘ Round Lake, Chain o' Lakes. ...

2025-08-02T08:44:21Z

#FotoVorschlag ,Schifffahrt‘

Round Lake, Chain o' Lakes.

#caturday A very loud smolcat with kitten food on her nose. Ping ...

2025-08-02T05:14:51Z

#caturday

A very loud smolcat with kitten food on her nose.

Ping Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw: (npub16kg…afn8)

#photography Are you suffering from too much informations ? I ...

2025-08-02T04:35:34Z

#photography

Are you suffering from too much informations ? I certainly am.

So enjoy this pic.

#FotoVorschlag 'Dinge, die mit "Z" beginnen ...' ...

2025-07-31T08:42:24Z

#FotoVorschlag 'Dinge, die mit "Z" beginnen ...'

Zuckertüten, ein Geschenk meiner lieben Nachbarn. Auf Schwedisch heißen sie Krumkaker.

The old joke goes: what's the difference between American ...

2025-07-31T00:44:10Z

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The old joke goes: what's the difference between American football and soccer? A: In American football, the violence is on the field, whereas with soccer, the violence is in the stands.

I sense the old distinctions between "Left" and "Right" have lost relevance.

The Right no longer stands for individual liberties, nor yet for tradition and order.

The Left, silly bastards, don't realize the 1960s are over

Kengo, the Noble Dog.

2025-07-28T21:56:16Z

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Kengo, the Noble Dog.

Deugs are our oldest and best frenz. When we are feeling down, if ...

2025-07-28T20:18:18Z

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Deugs are our oldest and best frenz. When we are feeling down, if you have a deug, you can go home and open the door and the deug will tell you you're a wonderful person.

#photography Custer State Park, South Dakota. ...

2025-07-23T22:09:40Z

#photography

Custer State Park, South Dakota.

#food Went to a lovely USA-ian restaurant and ordered a salad. ...

2025-07-21T22:01:15Z

#food

Went to a lovely USA-ian restaurant and ordered a salad. Which gave rise to a Deep Question?

How can anyone eat a fucking salad without chopsticks?

外人は箸を使わずにどうやってサラダを食べるのでしょうか？

.. okay, that post, with the exception of the "Mmm." bit, ...

2025-07-20T03:06:57Z

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.. okay, that post, with the exception of the "Mmm." bit, was composed by Gemini 2.5 Pro

Frodo, confronted with temptation to put on the Ring of Power, ...

2025-07-20T03:03:15Z

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Frodo, confronted with temptation to put on the Ring of Power, succumbs every time.

Mmm. Large language models don't cause psychosis. Instead, ...

2025-07-20T02:55:46Z

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Mmm. Large language models don't cause psychosis. Instead, they may amplify or bring to light pre-existing personality traits or vulnerabilities.

An LLM might act as a trigger for someone already susceptible, but it is not the root cause of the psychotic condition itself. The underlying disposition for such a break with reality was already present.