Dave (@6502_ftw from Tweets)
@cursed.monster
Computer necromancer/vivisectionist, spoiler of grain, electromagnetic wave wrangler. Has strong opinions, weakly held. Pronouns (he/him) in bio, always antifascist.
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Radio stuff is regarded as wizardry, and sometimes it still feels like that (especially when you get into at atmospheric effects), but it’s rewarding to learn about electromagnetic waves and how they interact with the world around us, plus you can call Elon a poser when he talks about Maxwell’s Laws
I can’t throw stones here because this is basically how my second date with my now-wife ended
Them: so who are you kissing on New Year’s? 🥺
Me: probably no one, honestly feeling kinda crappy so I think I’m just gonna go to Beverly early
Them: oh ok 😔
Me, a year later: ah, crap.
Me: probably no one, honestly feeling kinda crappy so I think I’m just gonna go to Beverly early
Them: oh ok 😔
Me, a year later: ah, crap.
December 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I can’t throw stones here because this is basically how my second date with my now-wife ended
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The most interesting thing about Trump, contra Kat Rosenfeld, is that he shows no loyalty to anyone and keeps selling out everyone he steps on to get where he wants and whenever one of his stepping stones like MTG get the temerity to think they have a reciprocal relationship they're all surprised!
December 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The most interesting thing about Trump, contra Kat Rosenfeld, is that he shows no loyalty to anyone and keeps selling out everyone he steps on to get where he wants and whenever one of his stepping stones like MTG get the temerity to think they have a reciprocal relationship they're all surprised!
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Tatiana Schlossberg, environmental journalist and Kennedy scion, dies at 35
She announced her terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay that took aim at Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she called “an embarrassment.”
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
She announced her terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay that took aim at Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she called “an embarrassment.”
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and granddaughter of JFK, dies at 35
In November, she announced her terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay that took aim at one of her cousins, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Tatiana Schlossberg, environmental journalist and Kennedy scion, dies at 35
She announced her terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay that took aim at Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she called “an embarrassment.”
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
She announced her terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay that took aim at Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she called “an embarrassment.”
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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The irony of the crypto community trying to tell people that you don't need FDIC insured deposits, when they don't even fully understand what the FDIC does, how it does it, or how valuable a service it provides.
But yeah, SVB failed, was acquired, but customers were protected.
Working as intended👍🏿
But yeah, SVB failed, was acquired, but customers were protected.
Working as intended👍🏿
December 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The irony of the crypto community trying to tell people that you don't need FDIC insured deposits, when they don't even fully understand what the FDIC does, how it does it, or how valuable a service it provides.
But yeah, SVB failed, was acquired, but customers were protected.
Working as intended👍🏿
But yeah, SVB failed, was acquired, but customers were protected.
Working as intended👍🏿
Oh! They did! It’s getting a vasectomy
someone should invent a chore that is done permanently once you do the chore
December 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Oh! They did! It’s getting a vasectomy
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Proto-Israelite Yahwist priests, 1250 BCE: ok you can keep worshipping the whole pantheon alongside YHWH, except Moloch, he sucks. We're not doing that shit.
Romans, literally over 1000 years later in Carthage: come on guys, what the fuck.
Romans, literally over 1000 years later in Carthage: come on guys, what the fuck.
December 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Proto-Israelite Yahwist priests, 1250 BCE: ok you can keep worshipping the whole pantheon alongside YHWH, except Moloch, he sucks. We're not doing that shit.
Romans, literally over 1000 years later in Carthage: come on guys, what the fuck.
Romans, literally over 1000 years later in Carthage: come on guys, what the fuck.
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“I’m sorry to say we don’t carry crystal meth, but can I interest you in some of our finest dextroamphetamine tablets?”
Corporate training slides are great
December 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“I’m sorry to say we don’t carry crystal meth, but can I interest you in some of our finest dextroamphetamine tablets?”
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This is…a lot. From the AI cover art (c’mon SWJ, wtf) to the grasping at straws to connect Clausewitz (c’mon dude, not everything is dead Prussian) to a core misunderstanding of Posse Comitatus and the context of US hemispheric military action. Oy vey.
A Shield Made up of Well-directed Blows: Clausewitz and the New Logic of America’s Counter-Narcotics Campaign
This article argues that America’s counter-narcotics campaign has evolved from law enforcement into a Clausewitzian model of active defense, treating fentanyl trafficking as a strategic, weapon-like t...
smallwarsjournal.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This is…a lot. From the AI cover art (c’mon SWJ, wtf) to the grasping at straws to connect Clausewitz (c’mon dude, not everything is dead Prussian) to a core misunderstanding of Posse Comitatus and the context of US hemispheric military action. Oy vey.
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BRICS countries have one thing in common and that is that each one has the capacity to militarily dominate its neighbors and at least 3/5 have a marked interest in a world of international norms where that is acceptable
Funniest BRICS moment is China becoming more supportive of Russia in 2022 than they were in 2014 because they were uncomfortable with the ‘separatist’ charade but 100% fine with imperial conquest
December 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
BRICS countries have one thing in common and that is that each one has the capacity to militarily dominate its neighbors and at least 3/5 have a marked interest in a world of international norms where that is acceptable
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“For most of their lives, the two women have stayed tucked away indoors, sidelined by a rare blood disorder known as EPP — erythropoietic protoporphyria… For the past two years, a daily experimental treatment has kept their EPP at bay, gifting them the euphoria of pain-free sunshine.”
A new drug allowed them to go in the sun for the first time. They’re terrified they may have to give it up
A rare blood disorder known as EPP makes the warmth of the sun feel as if it is burning people who have the condition from the inside out. Patients have been given hope — but it's tenuous.
www.statnews.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“For most of their lives, the two women have stayed tucked away indoors, sidelined by a rare blood disorder known as EPP — erythropoietic protoporphyria… For the past two years, a daily experimental treatment has kept their EPP at bay, gifting them the euphoria of pain-free sunshine.”
These really are good to know, I just wish the IEC had gone the NEMA route of changing the suffix on receptacle vs. plug instead of just adjacent numbers, because I can never remember which one is 13 vs 14, etc.
Save this came in handy today. Remember to search NEMA in your photo library.
December 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
These really are good to know, I just wish the IEC had gone the NEMA route of changing the suffix on receptacle vs. plug instead of just adjacent numbers, because I can never remember which one is 13 vs 14, etc.
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Indeed. Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
Just think about how selfish one would need to be to have billions of dollars and oppose paying a tiny percentage so that people can have food, education, health care. Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
Of course they won't leave in response to the tax, but if they do, good riddance.
Of course they won't leave in response to the tax, but if they do, good riddance.
Talk of California’s ‘billionaire tax’ sparks social media class war, threats of tech exodus
While supporters suggest the proposed tax is needed to fund health care, critics call the ballot proposition an effort to “destroy tech in California.”
www.sfchronicle.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Indeed. Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
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His kids are dual legacies to people with grad degrees from the Ivy League and he is Vice President they will be offered board positions before they are 20 if they can manage to utter a coherent sentence.
December 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
His kids are dual legacies to people with grad degrees from the Ivy League and he is Vice President they will be offered board positions before they are 20 if they can manage to utter a coherent sentence.
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One of my most cherished pieces of art. @roryblank.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
One of my most cherished pieces of art. @roryblank.bsky.social
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There is a LOT going on in Jeffrey Toobin’s weird soft-focus profile of Tom Goldstein, but my favorite recurring bit is all the people who know poker finding creative ways to politely make clear that Tom Goldstein is not good at poker www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
![That night was also significant because it's when Goldstein met Dan Bilzerian. An heir to a family fortune, Bilzerian became famous for his extravagant and louche lifestyle as a professional poker player in Las Vegas, and later for being a social media influencer whose posts often featured guns and women in bikinis.
Bilzerian recalled Goldstein's antics that night: "People were all watching the game and talking about what a [expletive] maniac he was."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreigpxvaflmlfkju6aqjd5s4yv7mop47jn576tgl4bkp2c2vhfifnby@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
There is a LOT going on in Jeffrey Toobin’s weird soft-focus profile of Tom Goldstein, but my favorite recurring bit is all the people who know poker finding creative ways to politely make clear that Tom Goldstein is not good at poker www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
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sipping on that shit that immediately makes my entire body pulse red and makes me go "ugh.... ugh.... ugh...." as my life bar goes down in steady increments
I know its for pain relief but the color and name just makes me think you can take a sip to make your whole body hurt
December 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
sipping on that shit that immediately makes my entire body pulse red and makes me go "ugh.... ugh.... ugh...." as my life bar goes down in steady increments
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Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
December 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
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THAT IS NOT HOW THE MOON WORKS, GREAT WOLF LODGE
December 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
THAT IS NOT HOW THE MOON WORKS, GREAT WOLF LODGE
Hm
Captive bred sunflower stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) successfully released into Monterey Bay for the first time! This species has been more or less extirpated south of Washington since the 2014 outbreak of sea star wasting disease.🧪🦑
Sunflower star recovery project in California hits major milestone
Their return could help reverse a decade of kelp forest die-offs along the coast.
www.sfgate.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Hm
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More recently, the median liberal who doesn't know much about Palestine has gone from "Israel is a democracy and I guess that's good" to "I don't know who is right in the big picture but surely they didn't have to kill so many kids"
I always try to emphasize this: in the big picture, the median liberal, aka the kind of person who donates to ActBlue, or is a campaign volunteer, or who makes up part of one of many of the legacy liberal organizations, is to the left of the median liberal think tanker or Congressman on Palestine.
The latter very feverishly thinks Israeli ultranationalism is just plainly good and that Palestinians should suffer under it for eternity and also that the US should for whatever reason underwrite this arrangement with its full soft and hard power
December 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
More recently, the median liberal who doesn't know much about Palestine has gone from "Israel is a democracy and I guess that's good" to "I don't know who is right in the big picture but surely they didn't have to kill so many kids"
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OK, so. Two things to bear in mind before I observe something that should inspire Lash to take this draft down.
1. None of this was necessary. Even if everything in the draft were true, it wouldn't affect the birthright citizenship question.
2. This took me 10 minutes.
1. None of this was necessary. Even if everything in the draft were true, it wouldn't affect the birthright citizenship question.
2. This took me 10 minutes.
So, I read through the transcription part of the Lash paper again. Again, I am okay with using AI to assist with difficult handwriting samples.
That said. I’m really not convinced that it says “Yankees” after Irish. It looks like Irish Indian to me with missing comma. I’ll chew on that.
HOWEVER:
That said. I’m really not convinced that it says “Yankees” after Irish. It looks like Irish Indian to me with missing comma. I’ll chew on that.
HOWEVER:
December 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
OK, so. Two things to bear in mind before I observe something that should inspire Lash to take this draft down.
1. None of this was necessary. Even if everything in the draft were true, it wouldn't affect the birthright citizenship question.
2. This took me 10 minutes.
1. None of this was necessary. Even if everything in the draft were true, it wouldn't affect the birthright citizenship question.
2. This took me 10 minutes.
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There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...