JD (not that one) Paul (not that one)
@rantingnerd.bsky.social
He/him
Former physicist, current Google SRE (opinions my own)
https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org member, https://www.haverford.edu grad
Also https://hachyderm.io/@rantingnerd
Blog: https://rantingnerd.blogspot.com
I am not my cousin's keeper.
Former physicist, current Google SRE (opinions my own)
https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org member, https://www.haverford.edu grad
Also https://hachyderm.io/@rantingnerd
Blog: https://rantingnerd.blogspot.com
I am not my cousin's keeper.
Pinned
NO KINGS
NO SLAVERS
NO NAZIS
NO EXCEPTIONS
NO SLAVERS
NO NAZIS
NO EXCEPTIONS
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This video is great. An hour of info and fantastic framing of renewable energy (fossil fuels are "disposable energy"; we should extract and *build* things, rather than extract and *burn* things -- build stuff that we can *recycle*), and then 30 minutes of barn-burning political sermon. Outstanding.
February 1, 2026 at 11:17 PM
This video is great. An hour of info and fantastic framing of renewable energy (fossil fuels are "disposable energy"; we should extract and *build* things, rather than extract and *burn* things -- build stuff that we can *recycle*), and then 30 minutes of barn-burning political sermon. Outstanding.
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You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
January 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The standard for “cultural revolution” according to centrist and right wing commentators is “liberals being loud about their opinions” whereas Trump is making prosecution, regulatory, and funding decisions based on the politics of the speaker but that’s also libs fault for making him mad
January 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM
The standard for “cultural revolution” according to centrist and right wing commentators is “liberals being loud about their opinions” whereas Trump is making prosecution, regulatory, and funding decisions based on the politics of the speaker but that’s also libs fault for making him mad
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I didn’t realize cassian andor was a real person bsky.app/profile/kevi...
Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
I didn’t realize cassian andor was a real person bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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Counterintuitive Comparison Of Relative Population Latitudes Of US, Canada & Europe
Full map: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...
Full map: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...
January 13, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Counterintuitive Comparison Of Relative Population Latitudes Of US, Canada & Europe
Full map: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...
Full map: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...
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The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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anyone who believed trump was a non-interventionist should not be allowed to go outside without adult supervision
January 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM
anyone who believed trump was a non-interventionist should not be allowed to go outside without adult supervision
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A Japanese artist made the print DHS lifted to spread anti-immigrant hate. Can't make this up.
January 2, 2026 at 11:24 PM
A Japanese artist made the print DHS lifted to spread anti-immigrant hate. Can't make this up.
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12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
Attn @straczynski.bsky.social you've been invoked: www.gocomics.com/overthehedge...
Over the Hedge by Michael Fry & T Lewis for December 19, 2025 | GoComics
Read Over the Hedge—a comic strip by creator Michael Fry & T Lewis—for today, December 19, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
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December 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Attn @straczynski.bsky.social you've been invoked: www.gocomics.com/overthehedge...
"So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects." - Murderbot
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techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
December 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects." - Murderbot
bsky.app/profile/murd...
bsky.app/profile/murd...
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techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I'm honestly wondering whether there would be a market for _Anathem_-style "mathic world" universities where you go in and close the gate for a year or ten years.
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Computer Science departments in particular need to go all Bulterian Jihad on this shit. Any which doesn't risks imploding.
Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students
December 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I'm honestly wondering whether there would be a market for _Anathem_-style "mathic world" universities where you go in and close the gate for a year or ten years.
anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Mathic_...
anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Mathic_...
Succinct and damning analysis of Trump 47 Administration:
the united states is currently being led by a bunch of little david dukes with a senescent outer-borough grand dragon at the top
Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Succinct and damning analysis of Trump 47 Administration:
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Showed this to my older child. The response:
“This works for art and music too. AI can’t produce anything great because it will never have imposter syndrome.”
“This works for art and music too. AI can’t produce anything great because it will never have imposter syndrome.”
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Showed this to my older child. The response:
“This works for art and music too. AI can’t produce anything great because it will never have imposter syndrome.”
“This works for art and music too. AI can’t produce anything great because it will never have imposter syndrome.”
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Finally got a chance to watch this. Super well done, lots of meaty background. Nuke the filibuster from orbit, it's the only way to be safe!
made a video on the filibuster — its history and why it's bad — for my youtube channel. check it out!
What's the deal with the filibuster?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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December 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Finally got a chance to watch this. Super well done, lots of meaty background. Nuke the filibuster from orbit, it's the only way to be safe!
It's quite astonishing how much migration there's been through Europe, including the British Isles. (It's right there in "Anglo-Saxon"! Angles and Saxons were separate tribes who migrated and then mingled!)
This position is fundamentally segregationist—civilization is "erased" by the presence of people who do not share the ethnic background of the present majority—something ironically at odds with the history of Europe, which has been profoundly shaped by migration bsky.app/profile/matt...
All this hate for migrants when nothing transforms a culture more than capital. No amount of immigrants will ever change America, the capitol of capital, more than America transforms immigrants into American businesspeople, citizens of money.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It's quite astonishing how much migration there's been through Europe, including the British Isles. (It's right there in "Anglo-Saxon"! Angles and Saxons were separate tribes who migrated and then mingled!)
Given that the 14th Amendment was a foundation piece of finding the New Deal constitutional, it has been a clear target of the billionaires/oligarchs for 90 years. For those folks, the destruction of the rest of it is just gravy.
They’ve nullified the 14th amendment once already, they don’t care what the constitution says, only what their political allies want it to say
December 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Given that the 14th Amendment was a foundation piece of finding the New Deal constitutional, it has been a clear target of the billionaires/oligarchs for 90 years. For those folks, the destruction of the rest of it is just gravy.
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is it good when your product becomes hip slang for “bullshit”
September 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
is it good when your product becomes hip slang for “bullshit”
If imposter syndrome was more contagious I feel like we’d be in a better place
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.