tripsnek
@tripsnek.com
tripsnek.com - Europe Travel Itinerary Optimizer
Software architect. Primarily Node/Angular/TypeScript. AI R&D since 2005.
Things I like: Static typing, genetic algorithms, Rick Steves, liberal democracy
📍Atlanta
Software architect. Primarily Node/Angular/TypeScript. AI R&D since 2005.
Things I like: Static typing, genetic algorithms, Rick Steves, liberal democracy
📍Atlanta
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tripsnek
@tripsnek.com
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tripsnek, in a nutshell:
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
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BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only: he refused to prove his citizenship.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
January 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only: he refused to prove his citizenship.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.
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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:06 AM
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
tripsnek, in a nutshell:
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
January 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
tripsnek, in a nutshell:
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
Tell it where you want to go, how you like to travel, what you're into. As much or as little detail as you want.
It builds an efficient, multi-modal route, filling gaps with a Rick Steves-like "view" of Europe. Edit & iterate until it's perfect, get all sorts of handy tips
As fascist shovels undermine our institutions, this is the sound they make when they hit something solid.
Tink.
Tink.
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:19 AM
As fascist shovels undermine our institutions, this is the sound they make when they hit something solid.
Tink.
Tink.
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TRUMP 2026: SHUT UP OR WE’LL KILL YOU
Homan: "There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric"
January 11, 2026 at 9:19 PM
TRUMP 2026: SHUT UP OR WE’LL KILL YOU
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Decent people resist Gestapo.
January 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Decent people resist Gestapo.
It's more general than that! LLMs will turn into nazis if you just train them on *insecure code*.
It's like there is an amorphous "badness" attractor that pulls learning systems towards it no matter which angle they enter from.
arstechnica.com/information-...
It's like there is an amorphous "badness" attractor that pulls learning systems towards it no matter which angle they enter from.
arstechnica.com/information-...
January 9, 2026 at 5:24 PM
It's more general than that! LLMs will turn into nazis if you just train them on *insecure code*.
It's like there is an amorphous "badness" attractor that pulls learning systems towards it no matter which angle they enter from.
arstechnica.com/information-...
It's like there is an amorphous "badness" attractor that pulls learning systems towards it no matter which angle they enter from.
arstechnica.com/information-...
1. Architect a society to require motor vehicles to do almost anything
2. Declare anyone behind the wheel to be wielding a lethal weapon
3. Fire at will
2. Declare anyone behind the wheel to be wielding a lethal weapon
3. Fire at will
okay, this was just a straight up attempted murder, because i am 1000% certain that this TdA business is absolute horseshit, this is a lie, and this was an attempted murder
January 9, 2026 at 1:29 AM
1. Architect a society to require motor vehicles to do almost anything
2. Declare anyone behind the wheel to be wielding a lethal weapon
3. Fire at will
2. Declare anyone behind the wheel to be wielding a lethal weapon
3. Fire at will
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A corollary of this position is that the regime believes this to be not just to be the correct functioning of ICE, but exemplary behavior.
They are asking us to view cold-blooded murder as representative of ICE and all of its personnel.
We should believe them.
They are asking us to view cold-blooded murder as representative of ICE and all of its personnel.
We should believe them.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
A corollary of this position is that the regime believes this to be not just to be the correct functioning of ICE, but exemplary behavior.
They are asking us to view cold-blooded murder as representative of ICE and all of its personnel.
We should believe them.
They are asking us to view cold-blooded murder as representative of ICE and all of its personnel.
We should believe them.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Tree of liberty looking thirsty af
January 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Tree of liberty looking thirsty af
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"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."
ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."
AFAIK, in 200 years, only 3 times did a country elect someone who had attempted a coup:
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
January 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
AFAIK, in 200 years, only 3 times did a country elect someone who had attempted a coup:
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
- Louis Napoleon (France, 1848)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1933)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, 1998)
Each one became dictator. I think we will be the first exception, but it's not something you screw around with.
Is your oil unprofitable garbo sludge?
Turn it into a money maker with this one weird trick: the US taxpayer!
Turn it into a money maker with this one weird trick: the US taxpayer!
I’m shocked. I’m stunned. It’s piss.
@peark.es
@peark.es
January 5, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Is your oil unprofitable garbo sludge?
Turn it into a money maker with this one weird trick: the US taxpayer!
Turn it into a money maker with this one weird trick: the US taxpayer!
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“for this is a war which we all wage, this time, not for our German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind.” - Adolf Hitler, 1942
January 5, 2026 at 8:48 PM
“for this is a war which we all wage, this time, not for our German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind.” - Adolf Hitler, 1942
Combine this with Trump telling the people of Venezuela immediately and in a clear voice: "we have done this in order to take your natural resources"
Decent chance the net outcome of all of this will simply have been to legitimize a tyrannical regime.
Decent chance the net outcome of all of this will simply have been to legitimize a tyrannical regime.
How it's going.
January 3, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Combine this with Trump telling the people of Venezuela immediately and in a clear voice: "we have done this in order to take your natural resources"
Decent chance the net outcome of all of this will simply have been to legitimize a tyrannical regime.
Decent chance the net outcome of all of this will simply have been to legitimize a tyrannical regime.
1st vs 2nd paragraph Maduro denunciation may be the best test yet for which Ds could most do with a primary challenge.
/2 You can measure the spine of a Democrat by whether the ritual denunciation of Maduro comes in the first paragraph or the second or third.
January 3, 2026 at 7:11 PM
1st vs 2nd paragraph Maduro denunciation may be the best test yet for which Ds could most do with a primary challenge.
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Never understood how Machado thought she could be swept to power in a newly democratic Venezuela, and then just give Trump all of the country's resources as part of "the deal". What democratic nation would tolerate that?
Trump will need someone as tyrannical as Maduro to enforce this deal.
Trump will need someone as tyrannical as Maduro to enforce this deal.
Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Never understood how Machado thought she could be swept to power in a newly democratic Venezuela, and then just give Trump all of the country's resources as part of "the deal". What democratic nation would tolerate that?
Trump will need someone as tyrannical as Maduro to enforce this deal.
Trump will need someone as tyrannical as Maduro to enforce this deal.
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Vance’s use of quotes is deliberate, not illiterate like Trump’s. Here, it signifies that legality itself is a dubious or frivolous concept as applied to the actions of the regime. It conveys not just that it’s wrong to say the acts were illegal, but ridiculous to use law as a metric at all.
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Vance’s use of quotes is deliberate, not illiterate like Trump’s. Here, it signifies that legality itself is a dubious or frivolous concept as applied to the actions of the regime. It conveys not just that it’s wrong to say the acts were illegal, but ridiculous to use law as a metric at all.