Matt Han-Jing Sunderland
@sunderland.bsky.social
he/him, convinced Friend, former HCHS, former Midd, former GC (math), jan, mutt, NYer, queer, ND
If regular sodium salt increases blood pressure and potassium salt lowers it, is there a perfectly balanced mixture that has no effect on blood pressure and could everyone just use that?
January 8, 2026 at 4:35 AM
If regular sodium salt increases blood pressure and potassium salt lowers it, is there a perfectly balanced mixture that has no effect on blood pressure and could everyone just use that?
We’re in The Handmaid’s Tale flashbacks *right now*. Emily was stopped at the border because her gay marriage didn’t count. Trump could do that tomorrow, and SCOTUS would let him. #prediction
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We’re in The Handmaid’s Tale flashbacks *right now*. Emily was stopped at the border because her gay marriage didn’t count. Trump could do that tomorrow, and SCOTUS would let him. #prediction
Subscription idea: pay $1 a year and we will text you within 5 minutes of AWS going down. No other monitoring. This is meant as a fail safe.
An actual 100% guarantee is nontrivial and probably impossible. Both re false negatives and false positives.
Has your monitoring service truly never missed?
An actual 100% guarantee is nontrivial and probably impossible. Both re false negatives and false positives.
Has your monitoring service truly never missed?
October 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Subscription idea: pay $1 a year and we will text you within 5 minutes of AWS going down. No other monitoring. This is meant as a fail safe.
An actual 100% guarantee is nontrivial and probably impossible. Both re false negatives and false positives.
Has your monitoring service truly never missed?
An actual 100% guarantee is nontrivial and probably impossible. Both re false negatives and false positives.
Has your monitoring service truly never missed?
The great filter is real and it’s AI-generated bioweaponry
October 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The great filter is real and it’s AI-generated bioweaponry
ChatGPT: "Gaza is the deadliest conflict in the world right now"
September 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
ChatGPT: "Gaza is the deadliest conflict in the world right now"
NEVER choose Staples 125th St as an Amazon return location. Management made a bad decision signing up for accepting Amazon returns. They “do not have the manpower to accept any Amazon returns today.”
September 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
NEVER choose Staples 125th St as an Amazon return location. Management made a bad decision signing up for accepting Amazon returns. They “do not have the manpower to accept any Amazon returns today.”
GLP-1s treat heart disease and sleep apnea.
Everyone: Weight loss, duh.
Drug companies: 🤔 A mystery!
Everyone: Weight loss, duh.
Drug companies: 🤔 A mystery!
August 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
GLP-1s treat heart disease and sleep apnea.
Everyone: Weight loss, duh.
Drug companies: 🤔 A mystery!
Everyone: Weight loss, duh.
Drug companies: 🤔 A mystery!
If you're mad about the trans flag, that's why we need it
June 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
If you're mad about the trans flag, that's why we need it
Theory: They secretly know the truth—that citizens commit more crimes than undocumented immigrants.
So they try to fix that… by deporting the noncriminal immigrants.
So they try to fix that… by deporting the noncriminal immigrants.
New data show that ICE is pulling record numbers of people off the streets who have no criminal convictions of any kind. This is not just a change from the Biden admin. This is a radical tactical shift compared to Trump 1.0. These arrests are up over 1,000% from 2017.
www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...
www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...
June 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Theory: They secretly know the truth—that citizens commit more crimes than undocumented immigrants.
So they try to fix that… by deporting the noncriminal immigrants.
So they try to fix that… by deporting the noncriminal immigrants.
Job market AI arms race end state:
An app passively watches you and decides what jobs you're qualified for. No prepping, no gaming—just get better. Like Progressive's Snapshot. You don't have to use it, but you do, because every employer does.
Scary!
An app passively watches you and decides what jobs you're qualified for. No prepping, no gaming—just get better. Like Progressive's Snapshot. You don't have to use it, but you do, because every employer does.
Scary!
June 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Job market AI arms race end state:
An app passively watches you and decides what jobs you're qualified for. No prepping, no gaming—just get better. Like Progressive's Snapshot. You don't have to use it, but you do, because every employer does.
Scary!
An app passively watches you and decides what jobs you're qualified for. No prepping, no gaming—just get better. Like Progressive's Snapshot. You don't have to use it, but you do, because every employer does.
Scary!
The mainstream theory about ADHD and autism has been the same for as long as I can remember: the brain filters out less signal
June 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The mainstream theory about ADHD and autism has been the same for as long as I can remember: the brain filters out less signal
Are we due for another run on OTC Potassium Iodide?
June 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Are we due for another run on OTC Potassium Iodide?
Coding by hand vs with AI is kinda like #PvsNP:
easier to recognize than generate (or is it!?)
Like forgetting how to write Chinese by hand
after too much typing—
the generative pathway fades
easier to recognize than generate (or is it!?)
Like forgetting how to write Chinese by hand
after too much typing—
the generative pathway fades
June 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Coding by hand vs with AI is kinda like #PvsNP:
easier to recognize than generate (or is it!?)
Like forgetting how to write Chinese by hand
after too much typing—
the generative pathway fades
easier to recognize than generate (or is it!?)
Like forgetting how to write Chinese by hand
after too much typing—
the generative pathway fades
Is democracy an aberration, not a culmination? Is the natural state (neo-)feudalism?
May 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Is democracy an aberration, not a culmination? Is the natural state (neo-)feudalism?
I partly agree w/ #JohnGray: tech doesn’t make us wiser. Moral progress isn’t linear.
But: human nature isn’t fixed. Tech and conditions shape behavior.
But: human nature isn’t fixed. Tech and conditions shape behavior.
May 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I partly agree w/ #JohnGray: tech doesn’t make us wiser. Moral progress isn’t linear.
But: human nature isn’t fixed. Tech and conditions shape behavior.
But: human nature isn’t fixed. Tech and conditions shape behavior.
Roe should’ve been decided on the First Amendment. Banning abortion is establishment of religion—not every faith bans it, and some require it to protect the mother.
May 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Roe should’ve been decided on the First Amendment. Banning abortion is establishment of religion—not every faith bans it, and some require it to protect the mother.
The purpose of desert is to justify the way things are
May 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The purpose of desert is to justify the way things are
Can origami theory help fold a screen without overloading certain creases?
May 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Can origami theory help fold a screen without overloading certain creases?
AI means we need fewer coders? That's the lump of labor fallacy. Unless productivity gains are massive (eg, 1 coder does the work of 10) or demand for software is inelastic, coder demand will probably *rise* due to the scale effect.
April 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AI means we need fewer coders? That's the lump of labor fallacy. Unless productivity gains are massive (eg, 1 coder does the work of 10) or demand for software is inelastic, coder demand will probably *rise* due to the scale effect.
Mainstream media CON bias case in point. After a century of con attacks, they overcompensate.
No mention of Trump 1st term order efficacy, only Obama/Biden’s??
For a dem the headline would end “…but do voters want it?” or “…but will he deliver on eggs?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
No mention of Trump 1st term order efficacy, only Obama/Biden’s??
For a dem the headline would end “…but do voters want it?” or “…but will he deliver on eggs?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump’s executive orders already face pushback, legal challenges
The orders include some actions that scholars and legal experts say may beyond the reach of the president’s pen and could be tied up in courts or legislatures for years
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Mainstream media CON bias case in point. After a century of con attacks, they overcompensate.
No mention of Trump 1st term order efficacy, only Obama/Biden’s??
For a dem the headline would end “…but do voters want it?” or “…but will he deliver on eggs?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
No mention of Trump 1st term order efficacy, only Obama/Biden’s??
For a dem the headline would end “…but do voters want it?” or “…but will he deliver on eggs?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
But it don’t work like that. Our fates are bound up. A liberal cures cancer, and conservatives benefit. And conservatives secretly know this: they know they can take away our rights and we will still cure cancer for them. I don’t know how to stop enabling them so. 3/3
December 7, 2024 at 3:57 AM
But it don’t work like that. Our fates are bound up. A liberal cures cancer, and conservatives benefit. And conservatives secretly know this: they know they can take away our rights and we will still cure cancer for them. I don’t know how to stop enabling them so. 3/3
I say, it’s fine if YOU want to live in the Middle Ages, but you go do that over there and don’t come to me for antibiotics and iPhones. 2/3
December 7, 2024 at 3:56 AM
I say, it’s fine if YOU want to live in the Middle Ages, but you go do that over there and don’t come to me for antibiotics and iPhones. 2/3
Conservatives want the material advances of modernity, but not the spiritual advances. They want the science of the enlightenment, without the enlightenment. They want their cake and eat it too. 1/3
December 7, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Conservatives want the material advances of modernity, but not the spiritual advances. They want the science of the enlightenment, without the enlightenment. They want their cake and eat it too. 1/3
Subjectivity is a type of symmetry.
Symmetries are strong assumptions.
Symmetries are strong assumptions.
November 24, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Subjectivity is a type of symmetry.
Symmetries are strong assumptions.
Symmetries are strong assumptions.