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Joey Carpinelli
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I don’t know I could be way off base here.

Writing research software: professionally for robotics, previously for spacecraft dynamics, personally for astronomy. 🔭

Loving Greater Boston.

⚙︎ https://github.com/cadojo
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3.7% you say…

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The large jump in political activity is also notable if we look at the number of people attending events. As of Oct. 18, 2025, at 11:00 PM ET, Strength In Numbers estimates at least 12.8 million people, or 3.7% of the population, have demonstrated against the president since he took office:
October 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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There’s fine lines between “cringe” and “earnest” and “popular”. As Tris @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy says: popularity matters. Loved participating in the most popular display of resistance yet here in Boston.
A portrait selfie of a man and woman in a crowd of people.
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Haven't tried iTerm2, but Ghostty is fantastic. My favorite feature is the quick terminal: "CMD+`" at any time for a floating terminal in the center of the screen. Reminds me of the drop-down terminal Gnome extension.

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A MacOS desktop with a floating terminal pane in the center of the screen.
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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And less than 6 months later, was beginning the process of writing Project 2025. Then he took aim at broadcasters, and SNL specifically.
"A cool project" The documents I got from FCC reveal that Carr was first approached on Sept. 9, 2022 by Nathan Leamer, a policy advisor to Ajit Pai, the prominent-and sometimes quirky-former FCC Chairman who served on Trump's transition team. Leamer connected Carr to Wesley Coopersmith, the chief of staff to the president of the Heritage Foundation.
September 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Might have found a new favorite bar shopping downtown with Casey today: Bukowski Tavern near the Prudential Center. I’d give 5 stars! Some other Joe apparently disagrees.
A chalkboard showing a speech bubble hanging over “JOE ON YELP”. The speech bubble says: Gay bar with literary theme. One out of 5 stars.
September 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Clouds over a neon blue lake with mossy rocks in the foreground.
August 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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A tip I read online years ago: if you find your phone’s screen light too harsh at night, even with the stock blue light filter enabled, there’s another way! Color filters (under Accessibility in settings for iPhones) allow you to block all blue light.
A screenshot of the Color Filters page in Accessibility settings on an iPhone.
June 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Reading “The Light Eaters” and it’s so much fun. I remember trying this a few years back. I poked a philodendron with a pin, and the voltmeter went up 30 mV. It’s insane how large the electrical response is. 🌿⚡️

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CHAPTER 4: ALIVE TO FEELING • 14 OF 59 them or pluck a flower. But we now know they bristle internally with all the force of a startled porcupine or a spooked stallion. Plants are fully aware of our contact with them, and will rearrange their lives to respond to such treatment. But how is this feeling possible? How is the touch noted by a plant, and how could it possibly be translated into a response? The answer might involve electricity. Touch a plant, or an animal, and its response will show up on a voltmeter. One of the earliest attempts to study electricity in plants was made in the 1900s in Kolkata, India, by a biologist, physicist, botanist, and science fiction writer named Jagadish Chandra Bose. J. C. Bose, as he was known, was the pioneer of wireless telecommunication, having discovered millimeter-length electromagnetic waves— the microwaves that made the first radios possible and are used in remote sensing and airport security scanners today. In fact, he built the radio wave
January 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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This is my second post quoting some billionaire’s bad-faith public comments today so I need to stop, but the “culturally neutered” line stuck out to me because I’ve been reading about Carl Schmitt’s advocacy for autocracy, and it’s hitting the same notes: explicit pining for an aggressive state.
This statement raises a conceptual difficulty that Schmitt was never able to resolve. At times he speaks as though liberalism had succeeded in overcoming natural enmity, and that this is to be regretted. He complains frequently that ours is an "age of neutralization and depoliticization," and that the healthy tensions of political life have been dissolved by private consumption, public entertainment, and "perpetual discussion" —all identified by him with liberalism. Yet he also asserts that liberalism is political, but unsuccessfully so. The weaknesses of liberal governments-their burdensome legal formalism, their hypocritical "neutrality," their oscillation between military pacifism and moral crusading— are the result of their attempts to evade the natural enmity that defines their own political existence. In either case, liberalism remains, in his view, contemptible.
January 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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A bunch of weird stuff about the apocalypse, I’m gonna skip down a couple paragraphs and see if things settle down.

…oh no
It may be too early to answer the internet's questions about the late Mr Epstein. But one cannot say the same of the assassination of John F Kennedy. Sixty-five per cent of
January 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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If you have an M1 Mac, and if you use Dev Containers, you might have noticed that sometime in the last year the mounted filesystem permissions are not automatically set inside the container. You can `--add-safe-directory` to Git to fix this, but I think I found another way: these settings!
A screenshot of a Docker Desktop settings window on MacOS. The text reads "Virtual Machine Options" with multiple radio buttons for the settings underneath. The "Docker VMM" setting's button is pressed.
December 21, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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@caseyreiland.bsky.social asked me to order a peg-board for kitchen storage and I've been on this page ever since. I wish there was a better way to do this. 😮‍💨
November 17, 2024 at 4:27 AM
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Lavender here will keep your sleep schedule solid. She screams at you if you aren’t getting ready to go to sleep by like 10pm.
A dark brown and gray tabby cat sitting on a white windowsill, facing down the windowsill at the camera.
November 12, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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Love seeing a headline with teeth from NYT
The Misogynistic, Bigoted and Crude Rally Remarks Trump Hasn't Disavowed A range of speakers at Madison Square Garden on Sunday disparaged Latinos, Black people, Palestinians and Jews, and made vulgar references to Kamala Harris. The Trump campaign has distanced itself from only one of these statements.
October 29, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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Exponential growth is wild — joined just over a year ago now 😵‍💫
Celebrating 10M users #201,553 Joey Carpinelli @loopy.codes Joined Jul 3, 2023
September 17, 2024 at 2:58 AM
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Thank you, Quanta. We needed this today.
An email with the following text, alongside an image of a chaotic fractal / spiral. Why Complete Disorder Is Mathematically Impossible Each week Quanta Magazine explains one of the most important ideas driving modern research. This week, our math editor Jordana Cepelewicz, discusses Ramsey theory, the mathematical study of how order inevitably emerges from chaos. Why Complete Disorder Is Mathematically Impossible By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ
July 22, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Yikes. Surely though they mean microseconds here, right? A second every couple of years?!
“The changes are small — a matter of milliseconds a day — but in our high-tech, hyperconnected world have an important impact on computing systems we have come to rely on, including GPS.”
July 16, 2024 at 3:09 AM
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TIL — from Nature Obscura — of the Garden of Planes, a scene inspired by Japanese gardens in the Bloedel Reserve of Washington. The garden featured two gravel pyramids, and was removed after a single fox pooped on top of one of the pyramids every single morning.
According to Haag in an interview in Landscape Architecture Magazine, one reason, besides some internal politics, was because a fox had a den under a nearby stump and "every morn-ing, the fox would come out and leave his morning offering right on top of the gravel pyramid."
March 8, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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The famous black & white photo of Albert Einstein looking at the camera with his tongue out.
December 4, 2023 at 5:03 PM
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Checked my phone and look at the time @cscheid.net @elizas.website
A screenshot of two posts. The former is a comment, and reads “I see we’re at the fucking around part of the day”. The second post is separate, and reads “might fuck around and implement a cool histogram algorithm”.
September 9, 2023 at 6:14 PM
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Me: writing a new typesetting template will make my drafts so much simpler, and so much easier to iterate on!

Also me: header: locate(loc => { let current_page = ...
A complicated block of Typst code which checks for page counts, and prints a title-block-banner on the first page of the document only.
September 6, 2023 at 5:17 AM
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I'd like to nominate:
Figure 11 in the ArXiv paper linked in the original post. It shows a yellow cartoon person labeled "EARLY-TIME NEW PHYSICS", with an orange cartoon person labeled "LATE-TIME NEW PHYSICS" standing on his head. The orange person is holding a block horizontal bar, with the text above reading "H0". A green person is at the top of the image, upside down, holding a pir of shoes, and labeled "LOCAL NEW PHYSICS". The background of the image is a depiction of the cosmic microwave background radiation.
September 1, 2023 at 4:19 PM
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BOB Alert 🚨
The “big orange book” of astrophysics — An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics btw Carroll and Ostlie — stood upright on a wooden desk, in front of a poster of an astronaut grabbing the moon, and next to a rocket-shaped pen-holder.
August 12, 2023 at 5:31 PM
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For International Cat Day, meet Lavender! She is tiny and so sweet. She never bites or scratches anyone, even after @caseyreiland.bsky.social and I rudely try to take her to the beach with us.

She was in the shelter longer than any other cat because of her grumpy face (not shown). Y’all’s loss!
A brown tabby cat asleep, curled up, with her tongue slightly hanging out. She is laying on a coarse green blanket, on a cream colored couch. A brown tabby cat with light green eyes with her front paws on a window sill, looking outside the window.
August 8, 2023 at 7:32 PM
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Photoshoot in honor of Lavender stretching out her paw like that
A brown tabby cat stretched out on a gray blanket next to a silver laptop A close-up picture of a brown tabby cat laying on a grey blanket in front of a floor-to-ceiling mirror. The background includes reflections of several framed pictures of cartoon solar system bodies: all planets, and Earth’s moon.
August 7, 2023 at 3:16 PM