gleebix
@gleebix.bsky.social
code witcher, professional troublemaker
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gleebix
@gleebix.bsky.social
· Jun 1
somewhere, deep in the olympic national forest is a hidden cache of approximately 20,000 hush puppies
i know this because i helped sasquatch hide them
i know this because i helped sasquatch hide them
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
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Jesus Christ. JESUS Christ. Jesus CHRIST. Yes, this person is correct, remigration is a white supremacy term for ethnic cleansing, basically. And the Department of Homeland Security, WHICH SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, just used the term. An official government account. That is...that is beyond fucked.
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Jesus Christ. JESUS Christ. Jesus CHRIST. Yes, this person is correct, remigration is a white supremacy term for ethnic cleansing, basically. And the Department of Homeland Security, WHICH SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, just used the term. An official government account. That is...that is beyond fucked.
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It's terrifying but also weirdly interesting to live in a time when all the status markers and prestige signals we used to lean on are falling apart because it's perfectly possible to imitate, infiltrate or simulate them. It's no guarantee of good science that it comes from x University, x journal
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It's terrifying but also weirdly interesting to live in a time when all the status markers and prestige signals we used to lean on are falling apart because it's perfectly possible to imitate, infiltrate or simulate them. It's no guarantee of good science that it comes from x University, x journal
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“AI is here to stay” from the visionaries who brought you “NFTs are the future.”
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
“AI is here to stay” from the visionaries who brought you “NFTs are the future.”
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Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
as a former qa engineer, i feel this in my fucking bones
You would think people would be willing to think about how to make the role suck less, especially given what good coxes can bring, but in fact, that is not the case. And that very much reminds me of being an underindexed person in tech.
November 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
as a former qa engineer, i feel this in my fucking bones
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I believe a lot of folks underestimate the bruising psychological effect of being told "you belong here" while simultaneously being consistently oppressed by the same people
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I believe a lot of folks underestimate the bruising psychological effect of being told "you belong here" while simultaneously being consistently oppressed by the same people
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
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Someone asked me at a conf once what I would say, as a psychologist and a queer woman in tech who has stayed in tech longer than the classic cutoff at 35, to a younger woman approaching the 35 cliff and thinking about leaving, and I said I would say I'm sorry we failed you and I want you to be happy
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Someone asked me at a conf once what I would say, as a psychologist and a queer woman in tech who has stayed in tech longer than the classic cutoff at 35, to a younger woman approaching the 35 cliff and thinking about leaving, and I said I would say I'm sorry we failed you and I want you to be happy
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"you belong here" means "you are responsible for staying here and fixing this no matter what" when it is delivered to you by someone who also says "and I cannot be held responsible for ever making you feel like you belong and are seen"
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
I believe a lot of folks underestimate the bruising psychological effect of being told "you belong here" while simultaneously being consistently oppressed by the same people
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"you belong here" means "you are responsible for staying here and fixing this no matter what" when it is delivered to you by someone who also says "and I cannot be held responsible for ever making you feel like you belong and are seen"
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
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Not entirely unrelated: because many people do not want to cox masters' rowing, once every couple of months, someone posts to reddit/fb/whatever asking how to get more people to cox masters. There's always a slew of responses that say "pay us". Which is a perfectly fine answer, but not mine.
"you belong here" means "you are responsible for staying here and fixing this no matter what" when it is delivered to you by someone who also says "and I cannot be held responsible for ever making you feel like you belong and are seen"
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
This is why I don't accept invites to talk to girls about tech
I believe a lot of folks underestimate the bruising psychological effect of being told "you belong here" while simultaneously being consistently oppressed by the same people
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
Bearing witness & providing community & data to prove it's real is so important
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Not entirely unrelated: because many people do not want to cox masters' rowing, once every couple of months, someone posts to reddit/fb/whatever asking how to get more people to cox masters. There's always a slew of responses that say "pay us". Which is a perfectly fine answer, but not mine.
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You would think people would be willing to think about how to make the role suck less, especially given what good coxes can bring, but in fact, that is not the case. And that very much reminds me of being an underindexed person in tech.
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
You would think people would be willing to think about how to make the role suck less, especially given what good coxes can bring, but in fact, that is not the case. And that very much reminds me of being an underindexed person in tech.
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My answer is "what are you planning to do to make the role doable and/or suck less?" I try not to say it, because whenever I do, the conversation turns to, "O well, maybe we can convince one of the kids to do it," and that makes me want to stab people. But it is nonetheless my answer.
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
My answer is "what are you planning to do to make the role doable and/or suck less?" I try not to say it, because whenever I do, the conversation turns to, "O well, maybe we can convince one of the kids to do it," and that makes me want to stab people. But it is nonetheless my answer.
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I've never encountered more students who say they hate reading. Students who want to be teachers, writers, or both. I wonder if "hate" means "I have trouble reading," but I also talk with so many students who write in a genre but refuse to read in it. They can't see themselves in relation to others.
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I've never encountered more students who say they hate reading. Students who want to be teachers, writers, or both. I wonder if "hate" means "I have trouble reading," but I also talk with so many students who write in a genre but refuse to read in it. They can't see themselves in relation to others.
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This is essentially how I became able to do this as a full-time job. Shaun Keaveney, Adrian Chiles, and Rick Rubin (not three names you'll put together in any other sentence) each exposing me to a slightly bigger audience. If I ever become as well known as them, I want to do the same thing.
Sometimes I see a very famous person plug a book or movie or other creative project that they're not involved in or benefiting from and I am SHOCKED in a good way. More of that would be... good. Bizarre how rare it is.
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This is essentially how I became able to do this as a full-time job. Shaun Keaveney, Adrian Chiles, and Rick Rubin (not three names you'll put together in any other sentence) each exposing me to a slightly bigger audience. If I ever become as well known as them, I want to do the same thing.
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This would be a clear war crime even against combatants in a declared war. Even at the platoon level, something even Hegseth could understand.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This would be a clear war crime even against combatants in a declared war. Even at the platoon level, something even Hegseth could understand.
some people have to brag about the number of hours they work instead of the quality of their product
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
some people have to brag about the number of hours they work instead of the quality of their product
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going to start writing reverse mechsploitation where a severely traumatized pilot & her barely-functional mech find themselves cast aside as used up by the empire that brainwashed them & repurposing their mech into an agricultural tool while the pilot is slowly coaxed to heal by her new community
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
going to start writing reverse mechsploitation where a severely traumatized pilot & her barely-functional mech find themselves cast aside as used up by the empire that brainwashed them & repurposing their mech into an agricultural tool while the pilot is slowly coaxed to heal by her new community
everyone in tech has worked with that one 10x coder whose superhuman efforts required at least ten people to clean up, but was deeply loved by management for setting unrealistic expectations
Saying you "coded for 36 hours straight" is something only people who have never programmed, and have no idea what programming is, would think is an impressive thing.
It is a claim that literally would not even fool a first year CS student. They'd laugh at you for saying it.
It is a claim that literally would not even fool a first year CS student. They'd laugh at you for saying it.
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
everyone in tech has worked with that one 10x coder whose superhuman efforts required at least ten people to clean up, but was deeply loved by management for setting unrealistic expectations
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When I was in grad school, I found there's only six hours of useful thinking I could do a day. After ten hours you're just piling on mistakes, there's lots of research on this
Saying you "coded for 36 hours straight" is something only people who have never programmed, and have no idea what programming is, would think is an impressive thing.
It is a claim that literally would not even fool a first year CS student. They'd laugh at you for saying it.
It is a claim that literally would not even fool a first year CS student. They'd laugh at you for saying it.
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
When I was in grad school, I found there's only six hours of useful thinking I could do a day. After ten hours you're just piling on mistakes, there's lots of research on this
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
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This is why folks call it a tool of fascism. It generates fear and distrust, which benefits fascist liars.
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is why folks call it a tool of fascism. It generates fear and distrust, which benefits fascist liars.
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Saying you "coded for 36 hours straight" is something only people who have never programmed, and have no idea what programming is, would think is an impressive thing.
It is a claim that literally would not even fool a first year CS student. They'd laugh at you for saying it.
It is a claim that literally would not even fool a first year CS student. They'd laugh at you for saying it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Saying you "coded for 36 hours straight" is something only people who have never programmed, and have no idea what programming is, would think is an impressive thing.
It is a claim that literally would not even fool a first year CS student. They'd laugh at you for saying it.
It is a claim that literally would not even fool a first year CS student. They'd laugh at you for saying it.
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More plausible is "I spent 35.5 hours straight pursuing increasingly more ridiculous attempts to diagnose and fix a really stupid error I made in the first 30 minutes that had become entirely invisible to me"
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
More plausible is "I spent 35.5 hours straight pursuing increasingly more ridiculous attempts to diagnose and fix a really stupid error I made in the first 30 minutes that had become entirely invisible to me"
it is hard to care about anything being said once someone tries to play you with some lazy, sloppy bullshit
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
it is hard to care about anything being said once someone tries to play you with some lazy, sloppy bullshit