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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 5m

I've got 6 broken bones in my life. They're soft, I guess. Or brittle

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 6m

But DO NOT provide an email address to the organizers of a large and peaceful protest

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

As we all know, real activists who achieve real things talk about doing federal crimes on public social media all the time

(do not trust anyone who talks about how cool doing federal crimes is on public social media)

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 10m

Both of mine have broken a bone apiece so far

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 25m

We upgraded to bunk beds awhile back, super great. I put it off for awhile because I was fairly certain they'd break themselves jumping off the top

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 1h

In reality there's nothing written on the flag, there's just a subspace field that everyone's universal translators use to project words the viewers can see

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, yeah, I agree that they very often have agency! My point is, even if they're successful in blocking most development, taking that agency away and forcing them to lose makes them happier people.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

If they win the battle, they do! If they lose, I really do think they're unlikely to fight as hard next time and their lives are happier and better. Take away the avenues entirely and they are better and happier people

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

So even beyond the horribly pernicious effects of local control in terms of housing and transportation policy, the mechanisms themselves of local control are a utilitarian net negative. Even beyond the opportunity cost of not worrying about other, materially things, it's a source of fear and anger

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

A corollary here is that taking away their agency greatly improves their lives. Once their built environment changes to include an apartment building or a bike lane, for most of them, any concerns recede into the minor background annoyances that all of use have.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

One of my observations dealing with NIMBYs are that they genuinely are in deep psychological pain and distress. I saw a young mother burst into sincere tears because of a nearby apartment building. But this distress is entirely a product of the fact they have real or perceived agency over the change

‘Not going to suck it up’: What turned this former hippie town into the angriest place in California?

OPINION: Lisel Blash is the soft-spoken, spectacled mayor of Fairfax. She’s also the target of a blistering Nov. 4 recall attempt, Katherine Ellison writes.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

My god that is one of the greatest social media fatalities I've ever seen

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

I'm also available to not coach college football for $45M

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

it is an insane name for a software product

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2h

Doing a deep clean and getting rid of some very old stuff. Found a 1GB SD card and it was low-quality unreleased 2008 recordings of an Athens, GA band. Baffled how this made its way into my possession

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 5h

Well let Trump do it, but by the time he’s out of office we’ll figure out it was a mistake to let a president do that

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 6h

I think these wealthy reactionaries probably see it as payment for services rendered so in one sense her business is doing very well

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Grace @gracekind.net · 9h

We did not tell LLMs, “implement addition using this algorithm.” It learned the algorithm upstream of next-token prediction

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 7h

I don’t think it’s good that we have an entire class of media elites who believe that people getting mad at them means they’re doing a good job, but identifying that makes me wonder if it’s actually better to not get mad at them and deprive them of what they want.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 7h

The Brother Laser printer marches on

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 7h

In almost all of these cases you can go and find an over engineered bougie version marketed towards weirdos that should last as long as the ones decades ago did, and are still cheaper

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 7h

Despite their crowing about innovation Silicon Valley might be one of the greatest enemies of progress. Trump & DOGE, aided by tech money and social media, is destroying innovation in medicine, climate, and consumer tech, while AI threatens to stall progress on decarbonization.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 7h

the biomedical advances of the past twenty years have also been incredible. in a way, it really feels like we’ve been slouching towards utopia, so to speak, while society collapsed out from under us bc of changes in information technology/media diets

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 7h

50 degrees and pouring in Portland, I wonder if this is the first snow of the season on the mountains?

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 7h

Chief Petty Officer O’Brien put on administrative leave after old pictures of him in spoonface come out

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 7h

The only people Schumer is locking up in his dungeon are other 👏 consenting 👏 kink-loving 👏 adults

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah I'm in Oregon, it's pretty affordable here!

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