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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 3h

Hey @altusps.bsky.social why does the usps website say the self service kiosk in Tukwila Station is open 24 hours if the staff locks the lobby when they go home?

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 3h

Eisenhower?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22h

AWS outages are interesting because each time it affects more and more disparate things, each is a snapshot scan of the metastatic cancer infecting the internet.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 3h

sorry about that

shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 3h

: (

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 3h

One pole is fast and loose. The other pole is "I wrote you this report on test coverage for step 1.2.3. Should I go on?"

shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 3h

I've been using kilocode backed by claude code using "orchestrator mode" which keeps one context for overall and a fresh one for each subtask. It is easier to get a system that remembers to do unit tests (and test them) that way.

It's still hard to tune "exactly how pedantic" I want it to be.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 3h

Out of the AWS frying pan, into the Google fire?

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AWS incident is why decentralization is more important than ever.

Too much power. Too much concentration risk for humanity.

Decentralize everything.

Everything everything.

Everything.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 7h

Break out Locke's *first* treatise on Government. We aren't commanded to obey Daddy only, but Mommy too! G-d commands pluralism!

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 7h

OTOH, I shot the sheriff, but I didn't overcook no tofu.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 7h

Keep this in mind everyone -- be polite!

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 9h

I declare I am off the record. You can not quote me on any posts I have made on this website

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 9h

Nice -- thank you -- will read!

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Illuminatus @illuminatus.bsky.social · 19h

And that "a university education" is a one way process, not an essentially symbiotic one with benefits for both teacher and student. But that's the result of decades of framing it in essentially consumerist/marketised terms.

You can't have that relationship if one end of it is essentially reactive

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 2d

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 16h

Cool! I've always been a fan! Haven't been able to read his real physics papers (yet? ha ha ...) but I have read all his popular books.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

Russians started a human safari in Pokrovsk too. Videos are just civilians getting slaughtered under the surveillance of a drone. This will obviously not make it to headlines but please don’t let russians kill in silence

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 16h

For extrapolation to the logical ends cf "Cycles in Time" from Penrose.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles_...

Cycles of Time - Wikipedia

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 16h

Perhaps absurd example but entropy "of a thing" does depend on the metric chosen. (As opposed to entropy of a signal, which depends on source.)

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 16h

Like Minkowski & the L1 norm - if you constrain yourself to only vertical and horizontal moves, the limiting length of diagonal of a square is 2 not sqrt 2.

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 21h

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software

FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of training AI software. When …

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 18h

Johnson, leading the house of representatives, would prefer if Congress did *not* have power.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18h

Johnson blames the No Kings protests. Says “it is quite ironic.” Johnson says “if President Trump was a king” the government would be open.

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 18h

More fighters for Ukraine!

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 18h

Well there goes that one

shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 18h

Not only that you can get funded for studying there stuff, but that you have less of a chance of getting funded if you don't:

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 19d

There is method to their narcissism though - the deeper the cuts, the more credibly big AI can present their tools as "the only alternative."

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19d

This is such an important point. All these AI companies present a false image of benevolence. It is a deeply narcissistic industry

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shaunc @shaunc.bsky.social · 18h

Vs: "war of position" - I wait for the other guy to collapse. "War of maneuver" - not good enough -- collapse harder!

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Treats Hog (Good) 류강 대™🪨🕯️ @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 9d

The Japanese opposition is quite possibly the most incompetent political opposition in east Asia and it’s competing with two countries that don’t even have a real political opposition lol.

G-D bless them honestly imagine fumbling at the one yard line for 80yrs straight?

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