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Greg Strange
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NO DICTATORS
NO SLAVES
NO NAZIS
NO EXCEPTIONS

Seek facts. Use data. Challenge yourself.
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dfriedman.bsky.social
“Asian wife sharing,” Pentagon press policy, and me: Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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ndrichter.bsky.social
I hope I never see a comedy where the actors look at the camera ever again.
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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joshuawood.net
Found it! youtu.be/kYUicaho5k8
Keynote: AI without the BS, for humans - Scott Hanselman - NDC London 2025
YouTube video by NDC Conferences
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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samwho.dev
Moral of the story: you really, really, REALLY shouldn't be using LLMs to answer factual questions.
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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samwho.dev
Had an idea last week to make a tool that shows what answers a model can give for a given prompt. Used this downtime day to explore the idea and the results are fun. This isn't sampling, it deterministically enumerates the search space. Prompt was: "In what year was Barack Obama born?"
A screenshot of a terminal table showing the top 20 answers to the question "In what year was Barack Obama born?". They are as follows: Rank 1: 22.61% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961.” Rank 2: 16.77% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on January 20, 1961.” Rank 3: 9.24% — “Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961.” Rank 4: 7.06% — “Barack Obama was born on January 20, 1961.” Rank 5: 4.70% — “Barack Obama was born in 1961.” Rank 6: 4.33% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on January 16, 1961.” Rank 7: 4.08% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born in 1961.” Rank 8: 1.93% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on November 4, 1961.” Rank 9: 1.38% — “Barack Obama was born on January 16, 1961.” Rank 10: 0.91% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on January 18, 1961.” Rank 11: 0.80% — “Barack Obama was born on November 4, 1961.” Rank 12: 0.70% — “Barack Obama was born on 4 February 1961.” Rank 13: 0.61% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on January 19, 1961.” Rank 14: 0.58% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on January 8, 1961.” Rank 15: 0.41% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on 4 February 1961.” Rank 16: 0.40% — “Barack Obama was born on January 8, 1961.” Rank 17: 0.38% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961.” Rank 18: 0.37% — “Barack Obama was born on January 18, 1961.” Rank 19: 0.34% — “He was born on January 20, 1961.” Rank 20: 0.33% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on February 16, 1961.”
December 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
Oh, sure, let me and my friends all get sweaty and then pack into a metal tube with air circulation adequate enough to get that smell waaaaaaay back in the back...
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
A cabinet of narcissistic instagram influencers making videos of themselves daily for social media to promote their brand.
December 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
I now know more about the UK train livery design than I do about the Epstein Files.
December 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
You wake up one morning and someone is calling out your state internationally for all the wrong reasons. Actually, please continue.
December 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
Plot twist: the article cited did not say anything about a private bank account in Zürich.
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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jjvincent.bsky.social
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
It's giving World War Z.
andreapitzer.bsky.social Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 6d
Elementary school macaroni fungus sculpture is cracking me up.
A photo of the pretend peace prize given to Donald Trump by FIFA. It's gold-colored with several severed-looking hands with ragged wrists rising out of a base and holding up a lumpy, blobby globe with crude outlines of continents on it.
December 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
"The number of months of a project depends upon its sequential constraints. The maximum number of [people] depends upon the number of independent subtasks. From these two quantities one can derive schedules using fewer [people] and more months."

The Mythical Man Month
December 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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robdickinson.bsky.social
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
When Christ is truly in a church, they start whipping the moneychangers.
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6d
This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.

📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
I'm wearing earplugs today to help with my abnormally tinnitus. Surprise side effect: a LOT of youtube content is helped by sounding like it's coming from the deepest, most cotton-filled well in history.
December 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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patak.dev
The changed code is a small fraction of an open source contribution. Your commitment to understand the issue, how your proposed solution fits with the project, and be ready to own and push the review process forward is the biggest chunk of the work. Your effort is the contribution, not the code.
December 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
👇👇
December 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
The award for the nerdiest thing I've said this year goes to

"I've recently become interested in the physical properties of powdered coffee creamer."
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
As a buddhist, I struggle to have compassion for web devs who make users pick their birthdate from a calendar widget.
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
Roast me, profanity.accountant!
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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benakl.bsky.social
Being a Type 1 on Constant Glucose Monitoring and a pump you work out which foods are shit real fast, and which companies are equally full of shit

Ironically it is not McDonalds and the Quarter Pounder

It is Sanitarium and Weetbix
fry from futurama is shown with a very serious look on his face
Alt: fry from futurama is shown with a very serious look on his face
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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nebullama.bsky.social
My favorite Lovecraft quote:

"There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other."

Just brilliant 🤌

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #Lovecraft
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
I mean isn't this final exhibit 1 in his war crimes case in The Hague?
mrsbettybowers.bsky.social Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12d
I can't wait until this chest-beating imbecile is brought up on murder charges.
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
iplayoddball.bsky.social
Love everything about this video including the muted homage to The Kinks
ttexed.bsky.social T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 13d
THE ARDELLS - Stronger Than Dirt
youtu.be/TpbI-NwUPc0
"A great instrumental version of STRONGER THAN DIRT (based on the old AJAX detergent commercial from the 60s). It appeared as a b side to Midnight Train."
THE ARDELLS - Stronger Than Dirt
YouTube video by Bloozmonkey
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November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM