Andy
@chiashurb.bsky.social
Gender ideology extremist. They/them.
<satire> Asked for comment, the US Defense Department said the killings were justified because the Palestinians were calling out for help and trying not to die.
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
<satire> Asked for comment, the US Defense Department said the killings were justified because the Palestinians were calling out for help and trying not to die.
Reposted by Andy
6/ CNN confirms:
"The survivors were also waving at something in the air, the sources said Bradley told them, although it’s unclear whether they might have been surrendering or asking the US aircraft they had spotted for help."
By @natashabertrand.bsky.social
"The survivors were also waving at something in the air, the sources said Bradley told them, although it’s unclear whether they might have been surrendering or asking the US aircraft they had spotted for help."
By @natashabertrand.bsky.social
Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
6/ CNN confirms:
"The survivors were also waving at something in the air, the sources said Bradley told them, although it’s unclear whether they might have been surrendering or asking the US aircraft they had spotted for help."
By @natashabertrand.bsky.social
"The survivors were also waving at something in the air, the sources said Bradley told them, although it’s unclear whether they might have been surrendering or asking the US aircraft they had spotted for help."
By @natashabertrand.bsky.social
I've been sitting here trying to type up a pithy comment about the imaginary armed conflict, but like Akiva, I am finding the topic too bleak for humor.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I've been sitting here trying to type up a pithy comment about the imaginary armed conflict, but like Akiva, I am finding the topic too bleak for humor.
“Stay in the fight”
It’s not a “fight” when you shoot missiles at unarmed people in unarmed boats from aircraft. That’s just cowardly murder from a place of safety.
It’s not a “fight” when you shoot missiles at unarmed people in unarmed boats from aircraft. That’s just cowardly murder from a place of safety.
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
“Stay in the fight”
It’s not a “fight” when you shoot missiles at unarmed people in unarmed boats from aircraft. That’s just cowardly murder from a place of safety.
It’s not a “fight” when you shoot missiles at unarmed people in unarmed boats from aircraft. That’s just cowardly murder from a place of safety.
I was really good at Altavista. Held onto it for a while after Google came on scene because you will pry my Boolean operators from <strike>my</strike> Altavista’s cold, dead hands
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I was really good at Altavista. Held onto it for a while after Google came on scene because you will pry my Boolean operators from <strike>my</strike> Altavista’s cold, dead hands
Wait, *that's* the reasoning of the classified OLC memo??? Not that the drug smuggling *is* the armed conflict, but that it finances some separate and wholly imaginary armed conflict?
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Wait, *that's* the reasoning of the classified OLC memo??? Not that the drug smuggling *is* the armed conflict, but that it finances some separate and wholly imaginary armed conflict?
We found some facts!
Oh yeah?
Yeah, they had slipped behind Sam's desk and nobody noticed!
Oh yeah?
Yeah, they had slipped behind Sam's desk and nobody noticed!
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We found some facts!
Oh yeah?
Yeah, they had slipped behind Sam's desk and nobody noticed!
Oh yeah?
Yeah, they had slipped behind Sam's desk and nobody noticed!
These guys couldn't even grok that they don't understand legacy mainframe systems running COBOL before going on national TV to announce that some ludicrous number of dead people were getting social security.
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
These guys couldn't even grok that they don't understand legacy mainframe systems running COBOL before going on national TV to announce that some ludicrous number of dead people were getting social security.
I could make the argument on contract law, but it’s far enough outside my expertise that I’m content to leave it be.
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I could make the argument on contract law, but it’s far enough outside my expertise that I’m content to leave it be.
In the ideal case, that can even be an apt analogy! But it neglects important *human* aspects of law, such as discretion, interpretation, and motivated reasoning. So “code that runs on unreliable meat computers” can be a good entry-point to discuss this.
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In the ideal case, that can even be an apt analogy! But it neglects important *human* aspects of law, such as discretion, interpretation, and motivated reasoning. So “code that runs on unreliable meat computers” can be a good entry-point to discuss this.
IME, software people often expect the law to behave more logically than legal actors can be relied upon to do—particularly in a dispute, which is where software ppl are most likely talking to a lawyer. They think briefs are proofs and whoever has the correct proof wins.
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
IME, software people often expect the law to behave more logically than legal actors can be relied upon to do—particularly in a dispute, which is where software ppl are most likely talking to a lawyer. They think briefs are proofs and whoever has the correct proof wins.
Conditionals are certainly familiar to any programmer!
I’m not going to say the analogy is perfect—as you note, there are critical distinctions. But I do think the analogy has utility. Particularly when trying to explain the vagaries and nuances of law to software people.
I’m not going to say the analogy is perfect—as you note, there are critical distinctions. But I do think the analogy has utility. Particularly when trying to explain the vagaries and nuances of law to software people.
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Conditionals are certainly familiar to any programmer!
I’m not going to say the analogy is perfect—as you note, there are critical distinctions. But I do think the analogy has utility. Particularly when trying to explain the vagaries and nuances of law to software people.
I’m not going to say the analogy is perfect—as you note, there are critical distinctions. But I do think the analogy has utility. Particularly when trying to explain the vagaries and nuances of law to software people.
An event handler captures Arrest events and invokes the Rules of Criminal Procedure control flow, which, unless otherwise terminated, ultimately determines whether the AllegedConduct object meets the criteria to implant the interface. If it does, RCP procedures to impose_sentence(defendant, conduct)
December 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
An event handler captures Arrest events and invokes the Rules of Criminal Procedure control flow, which, unless otherwise terminated, ultimately determines whether the AllegedConduct object meets the criteria to implant the interface. If it does, RCP procedures to impose_sentence(defendant, conduct)
Many legal documents, such as contracts, wills, and trusts, are designed to be executed. Ditto the law of court procedure.
Even criminal law can be viewed as defining interfaces (offenses), each of which contains elements, a misdemeanor/felony tag, and a range of sentencing options.
Even criminal law can be viewed as defining interfaces (offenses), each of which contains elements, a misdemeanor/felony tag, and a range of sentencing options.
December 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Many legal documents, such as contracts, wills, and trusts, are designed to be executed. Ditto the law of court procedure.
Even criminal law can be viewed as defining interfaces (offenses), each of which contains elements, a misdemeanor/felony tag, and a range of sentencing options.
Even criminal law can be viewed as defining interfaces (offenses), each of which contains elements, a misdemeanor/felony tag, and a range of sentencing options.
Try:
Do_law()
Except Exception as e:
Judge_do_something_with_this(e)
Do_law()
Except Exception as e:
Judge_do_something_with_this(e)
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Try:
Do_law()
Except Exception as e:
Judge_do_something_with_this(e)
Do_law()
Except Exception as e:
Judge_do_something_with_this(e)
Instructions are combined in ways that the original authors and designers didn’t anticipate.
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Instructions are combined in ways that the original authors and designers didn’t anticipate.
Having worked closely in both domains, I have often said that “law is code, but it runs on unreliable meat computers.”
They have different purposes, but each builds often-complex structures of putatively logical instructions, and each is subject to unpredictable behavior when those 1/
They have different purposes, but each builds often-complex structures of putatively logical instructions, and each is subject to unpredictable behavior when those 1/
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Having worked closely in both domains, I have often said that “law is code, but it runs on unreliable meat computers.”
They have different purposes, but each builds often-complex structures of putatively logical instructions, and each is subject to unpredictable behavior when those 1/
They have different purposes, but each builds often-complex structures of putatively logical instructions, and each is subject to unpredictable behavior when those 1/
RFK Jr announces US CDC will investigate whether antibiotics caused the left-handedness epidemic
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
RFK Jr announces US CDC will investigate whether antibiotics caused the left-handedness epidemic
“Interview with an experienced gay person”
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“Interview with an experienced gay person”
What, no 30-foot portrait on the facade?
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
What, no 30-foot portrait on the facade?
Hegseth: it was on fire. There was smoke everywhere. You couldn’t even see them!
Admiral: my lawyer and I determined that they were still doing a smuggle after we blew their boat to bits.
Yeah this is gonna end well. Keep talking lads, keep talking.
Admiral: my lawyer and I determined that they were still doing a smuggle after we blew their boat to bits.
Yeah this is gonna end well. Keep talking lads, keep talking.
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Hegseth: it was on fire. There was smoke everywhere. You couldn’t even see them!
Admiral: my lawyer and I determined that they were still doing a smuggle after we blew their boat to bits.
Yeah this is gonna end well. Keep talking lads, keep talking.
Admiral: my lawyer and I determined that they were still doing a smuggle after we blew their boat to bits.
Yeah this is gonna end well. Keep talking lads, keep talking.
Dems calling for resignations/firings from this cabinet seems… not particularly newsworthy?
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Dems calling for resignations/firings from this cabinet seems… not particularly newsworthy?
She claimed in her Bulwark interview that he never took her advice.
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
She claimed in her Bulwark interview that he never took her advice.