Dan P
@copumpkin.bsky.social
Wannabe figure skater ⛸️
I’ve been known to dabble in security, Haskell, Nix, Agda, and other nerdy computer things
I’ve been known to dabble in security, Haskell, Nix, Agda, and other nerdy computer things
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NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
December 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
And the award for worst dialog box goes to
December 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
And the award for worst dialog box goes to
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I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
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Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
I bet that @anthropic.com will eventually just make Claude Code (with their new fancy UI) into the default way of using Claude. It’s already far better at doing non-coding stuff than the normal client
December 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I bet that @anthropic.com will eventually just make Claude Code (with their new fancy UI) into the default way of using Claude. It’s already far better at doing non-coding stuff than the normal client
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DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
Repeat after me: context window size is not the limiting factor in any of the mainstream coding agents today. My context window is way smaller than Claude’s and I perform a lot better. These things can perform decently but not by brute forcing more shit into the context window
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Repeat after me: context window size is not the limiting factor in any of the mainstream coding agents today. My context window is way smaller than Claude’s and I perform a lot better. These things can perform decently but not by brute forcing more shit into the context window
What’s sad is that there are plenty of cool things you can do with LLMs for language learning, but they didn’t, and they just further enshittified their product. I cancelled my membership
Go AI, go bye.
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What’s sad is that there are plenty of cool things you can do with LLMs for language learning, but they didn’t, and they just further enshittified their product. I cancelled my membership
I need a search bar for my house
December 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I need a search bar for my house
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Me: I want to have more friends
Tech companies:
Tech companies:
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Me: I want to have more friends
Tech companies:
Tech companies:
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Insane. Can I take Geology 101 and reject the final exam with "God made the world in 7 days" and get a good grade? Same thing.
If I took a religious studies course on Christianity and submit a citation-free essay ignoring the question, just asserting "Jesus is a false prophet", I'd expect to fail
If I took a religious studies course on Christianity and submit a citation-free essay ignoring the question, just asserting "Jesus is a false prophet", I'd expect to fail
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Insane. Can I take Geology 101 and reject the final exam with "God made the world in 7 days" and get a good grade? Same thing.
If I took a religious studies course on Christianity and submit a citation-free essay ignoring the question, just asserting "Jesus is a false prophet", I'd expect to fail
If I took a religious studies course on Christianity and submit a citation-free essay ignoring the question, just asserting "Jesus is a false prophet", I'd expect to fail
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This ridiculous sentence is written like a bothsides-ish balancing statement, but it isn’t one. When the mob is in charge, paying the protection money they extort from you is a cost of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This ridiculous sentence is written like a bothsides-ish balancing statement, but it isn’t one. When the mob is in charge, paying the protection money they extort from you is a cost of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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There are a lot of excellent universities in this country, and I think when this all shakes out it will be extremely easy for future generations (including my kids) to exclude any school that caved without meaningfully reducing their choices or the quality of the school they end up attending
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
There are a lot of excellent universities in this country, and I think when this all shakes out it will be extremely easy for future generations (including my kids) to exclude any school that caved without meaningfully reducing their choices or the quality of the school they end up attending
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🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
Announcing Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
www.unison-lang.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone!
Spread the word!
I wish more people understood how incredibly difficult and athletic ice dance is, as well as being fun to watch
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I wish more people understood how incredibly difficult and athletic ice dance is, as well as being fun to watch
I visited Anker.com to download a manual for a charger. No account, no login. A few minutes later, I get an email saying “your visit unlocked an exclusive discount from anker”. Turns out advertising innovation is companies like SafeOpt correlating cookies across sites to identify and spam us 🤬😩
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I visited Anker.com to download a manual for a charger. No account, no login. A few minutes later, I get an email saying “your visit unlocked an exclusive discount from anker”. Turns out advertising innovation is companies like SafeOpt correlating cookies across sites to identify and spam us 🤬😩
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NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
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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-...
Fucking gross
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Fucking gross
It blows my mind that a few years ago, if we’d said “we evaluated our results using the same model that generated them”, nobody would take the results seriously. Now someone coined “LLM-as-judge” and suddenly half the field is cool with the idea
November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It blows my mind that a few years ago, if we’d said “we evaluated our results using the same model that generated them”, nobody would take the results seriously. Now someone coined “LLM-as-judge” and suddenly half the field is cool with the idea
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At some point, the reliance on these euphemisms becomes a kind of propaganda or acquiescence.
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
At some point, the reliance on these euphemisms becomes a kind of propaganda or acquiescence.