Isaac Meister
@imeister.org
systems wrangler, anti-AI jihadi, technonecromancer, avid cook, cat dad, highly lapsed classicist, notably 🏳️🌈, husband to @danielpicus.bsky.social, &c. &c.
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Puff pastry by yours truly 😇
Beef wellington: one of the greatest Thanksgiving centerpieces to play the game.
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Puff pastry by yours truly 😇
The soft launch of our house cider, “Goodman’s Own A to J ‘Proper Scrumpy’” was very successful.
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The soft launch of our house cider, “Goodman’s Own A to J ‘Proper Scrumpy’” was very successful.
Beef wellington: one of the greatest Thanksgiving centerpieces to play the game.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Beef wellington: one of the greatest Thanksgiving centerpieces to play the game.
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Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide
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This is a level of blood libeling of immigrants (and their citizen children, being lumped in as 'illegals') comparable to the demonization of Tutsis in the time immediately preceding the Rwandan Genocide, or the libels against Jews in the buildup to the Holocaust.
Their intentions are clear.
Their intentions are clear.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is a level of blood libeling of immigrants (and their citizen children, being lumped in as 'illegals') comparable to the demonization of Tutsis in the time immediately preceding the Rwandan Genocide, or the libels against Jews in the buildup to the Holocaust.
Their intentions are clear.
Their intentions are clear.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Zohran is cool and awesome and I’m thrilled for him and all of us
but at my core this is who I am: the Jewish guy who shows up to be a world class hater in support of his friend
but at my core this is who I am: the Jewish guy who shows up to be a world class hater in support of his friend
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Zohran is cool and awesome and I’m thrilled for him and all of us
but at my core this is who I am: the Jewish guy who shows up to be a world class hater in support of his friend
but at my core this is who I am: the Jewish guy who shows up to be a world class hater in support of his friend
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It’s always one dumb bitch and Chat GPT telling each other “exactlyyyyy”
October 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s always one dumb bitch and Chat GPT telling each other “exactlyyyyy”
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October 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.
remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears
2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.
My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
October 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.
They’re the same story, told properly.
Seriously, why is a bunch of young republicans sending racist messages to one another top news and the literal Unites States Department of Homeland Security tweeting out "remigrate" not.
Do reporters who cover national politics simply not know what "remigrate" means?
Do reporters who cover national politics simply not know what "remigrate" means?
October 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
They’re the same story, told properly.
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The reality is that the US Department of Homeland Security has been openly seized by unapologetic white nationalists who freely indulge in neo-Nazi rhetoric and use their huge and growing paramilitary army to mount massive attacks on communities of color in the US in a campaign of racist oppression
October 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The reality is that the US Department of Homeland Security has been openly seized by unapologetic white nationalists who freely indulge in neo-Nazi rhetoric and use their huge and growing paramilitary army to mount massive attacks on communities of color in the US in a campaign of racist oppression
The least consensual rollout of the most unethical technology of my lifetime continues apace. May their GPUs melt.
Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority
Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority
Use your home subscription with your work Microsoft 365 account
Your job may not support BYOD, but how about BYOC? Microsoft has declared that people can bring their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions to work to access various Copilot features at companies that fail to provide an AI fix.…
dlvr.it
October 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The least consensual rollout of the most unethical technology of my lifetime continues apace. May their GPUs melt.
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Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer.
I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.
1/11
I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.
1/11
September 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer.
I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.
1/11
I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.
1/11
This is spoken of in the context of media and business elites but I’m struck by how this set of assumptions undergirds the way many of us are subsisting under Trump II. (They are indeed delusional assumptions, to be clear.)
I think they think (1) they're actually keeping themselves in control by doing nothing and (2) that the bottom possible can't fall out and (3) even if it does they can escape any consequences, and all three are delusional
the total lack of interest from business and media elites in defending the liberal norms that underpin civil society and like, modern capitalism for that matter has been truly shocking
September 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is spoken of in the context of media and business elites but I’m struck by how this set of assumptions undergirds the way many of us are subsisting under Trump II. (They are indeed delusional assumptions, to be clear.)
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I think they think (1) they're actually keeping themselves in control by doing nothing and (2) that the bottom possible can't fall out and (3) even if it does they can escape any consequences, and all three are delusional
the total lack of interest from business and media elites in defending the liberal norms that underpin civil society and like, modern capitalism for that matter has been truly shocking
we are in really unsettling place that we're facing a deeply unpopular regime that is making everything appreciably worse but the people with the power to stand up to them and takes steps to maintain basic political stability are capitulating without a fight
September 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I think they think (1) they're actually keeping themselves in control by doing nothing and (2) that the bottom possible can't fall out and (3) even if it does they can escape any consequences, and all three are delusional
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de mortuis quidlibet.
September 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
de mortuis quidlibet.
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Horst Wessel.
September 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Horst Wessel.
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And this has made Trump's major defining feature, his refusal to ever admit he was wrong, his instinct to always double down, a kind of superpower. The media agrees a scandal isn't a scandal if the scandalous individual can't be stopped and doesn't care
September 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
And this has made Trump's major defining feature, his refusal to ever admit he was wrong, his instinct to always double down, a kind of superpower. The media agrees a scandal isn't a scandal if the scandalous individual can't be stopped and doesn't care
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I'm sad to report that Rainer (Rai) Weiss passed away yesterday at age 92. Rai developed the design for LIGO, he and Kip got it funded, trained countless researchers, and received the 2017 Nobel Prize. Rai always had time for students and treated us as equals. May his memory be a blessing
August 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I'm sad to report that Rainer (Rai) Weiss passed away yesterday at age 92. Rai developed the design for LIGO, he and Kip got it funded, trained countless researchers, and received the 2017 Nobel Prize. Rai always had time for students and treated us as equals. May his memory be a blessing
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Words/phrases Democrats should never use:
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
August 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Words/phrases Democrats should never use:
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
If it’s a group of stars, the simplest solution is to rename it the Vingilot Cluster, if we are doing the full Silmarillion.
This Famous Star Is a Total Fraud, Astronomers Say. Earendel may not just be a single star, but a whole group of them. gizmodo.com/the-farthest...
This Famous Star Is a Total Fraud, Astronomers Say
Earendel may not just be a single star, but a whole group of them.
gizmodo.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
If it’s a group of stars, the simplest solution is to rename it the Vingilot Cluster, if we are doing the full Silmarillion.
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The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.
August 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.