Tesla Seppanen
@teslaseppanen.bsky.social
Empiricist, now with added guitars, cats, coffee, and bicycles. She/her.
Thus far in 2026, there have been 3 homicides in Minnesota. 1 was committed by a private citizen, the other 2 by federal agents.
This means that federal agents are killing about 4000 times as many people per capita as private citizens.
This means that federal agents are killing about 4000 times as many people per capita as private citizens.
January 28, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Thus far in 2026, there have been 3 homicides in Minnesota. 1 was committed by a private citizen, the other 2 by federal agents.
This means that federal agents are killing about 4000 times as many people per capita as private citizens.
This means that federal agents are killing about 4000 times as many people per capita as private citizens.
What it looks like when a world leader gets a phone call from the White House:
January 21, 2026 at 4:29 PM
What it looks like when a world leader gets a phone call from the White House:
Who voted Yes?
I need to know which Senators I should forward my health insurance bills to, so that *they* can pay the difference between my 2025 premiums and 2026 premiums
I need to know which Senators I should forward my health insurance bills to, so that *they* can pay the difference between my 2025 premiums and 2026 premiums
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Who voted Yes?
I need to know which Senators I should forward my health insurance bills to, so that *they* can pay the difference between my 2025 premiums and 2026 premiums
I need to know which Senators I should forward my health insurance bills to, so that *they* can pay the difference between my 2025 premiums and 2026 premiums
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We're talking to @theatlantic.com's @cwarzel.bsky.social and tech writer @bcmerchant.bsky.social to get to the bottom of the AI bubble and what might happen if it pops.
❓Are we in an AI bubble?
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We're talking to @theatlantic.com's @cwarzel.bsky.social and tech writer @bcmerchant.bsky.social to get to the bottom of the AI bubble and what might happen if it pops.
❓Are we in an AI bubble?
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If We Are in an AI Bubble, What Happens if it Pops? | KQED
Airdate: Wednesday, November 4 at 9 AM “AI may not simply be “a bubble,” or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble,” writes tech journalist Brian Merchant. In the first half of the…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🎙️ON AIR:
We're talking to @theatlantic.com's @cwarzel.bsky.social and tech writer @bcmerchant.bsky.social to get to the bottom of the AI bubble and what might happen if it pops.
❓Are we in an AI bubble?
📻 Listen:
We're talking to @theatlantic.com's @cwarzel.bsky.social and tech writer @bcmerchant.bsky.social to get to the bottom of the AI bubble and what might happen if it pops.
❓Are we in an AI bubble?
📻 Listen:
I voted a couple of weeks ago. That is ridiculously convenient and I love being able to do it - but I admit I kind of miss the energy of polling in person.
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I voted a couple of weeks ago. That is ridiculously convenient and I love being able to do it - but I admit I kind of miss the energy of polling in person.
All my life I've watched politicians try to be above reproach. This is the first time I've seen one go for "beneath reproach."
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
All my life I've watched politicians try to be above reproach. This is the first time I've seen one go for "beneath reproach."
Live your life in such a way that Donald Trump wouldn't lower a flag upon your death
September 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Live your life in such a way that Donald Trump wouldn't lower a flag upon your death
Ugh, my child is just asking to be grounded.
I had to explain to him that it’s not always as easy as finding an unsheathed wire in the wall or a convenient water pipe; from here it would be easier to sink a metal dowel deep into the earth just outside his bedroom.
Kids these days.
I had to explain to him that it’s not always as easy as finding an unsheathed wire in the wall or a convenient water pipe; from here it would be easier to sink a metal dowel deep into the earth just outside his bedroom.
Kids these days.
September 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ugh, my child is just asking to be grounded.
I had to explain to him that it’s not always as easy as finding an unsheathed wire in the wall or a convenient water pipe; from here it would be easier to sink a metal dowel deep into the earth just outside his bedroom.
Kids these days.
I had to explain to him that it’s not always as easy as finding an unsheathed wire in the wall or a convenient water pipe; from here it would be easier to sink a metal dowel deep into the earth just outside his bedroom.
Kids these days.
I grew up in a time when uncle Craig told you some bullshit "facts" (your nails keep growing after you die!), and you had to either believe him or walk down to the library.
Then came the Internet, and we had the world's knowledge at our fingers.
Then we resurrected Craig and renamed him ChatGPT.
Then came the Internet, and we had the world's knowledge at our fingers.
Then we resurrected Craig and renamed him ChatGPT.
September 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I grew up in a time when uncle Craig told you some bullshit "facts" (your nails keep growing after you die!), and you had to either believe him or walk down to the library.
Then came the Internet, and we had the world's knowledge at our fingers.
Then we resurrected Craig and renamed him ChatGPT.
Then came the Internet, and we had the world's knowledge at our fingers.
Then we resurrected Craig and renamed him ChatGPT.
I don't particularly want more great works of art that help us make sense of senseless acts of horror. What I want is fewer senseless acts of horror.
September 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I don't particularly want more great works of art that help us make sense of senseless acts of horror. What I want is fewer senseless acts of horror.
Can I keep the homeless people and get rid of the Fox News hosts instead? If you want to talk about leeches on society....
September 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Can I keep the homeless people and get rid of the Fox News hosts instead? If you want to talk about leeches on society....
People who don't understand how anything works are going to be the death of us all.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
People who don't understand how anything works are going to be the death of us all.
So why *are* people so reflexively vicious here? What is it about this specific platform that makes people so eager to respond to their own preconceptions, rather than to what a person is actually saying in her posts?
It's thoroughly tiresome and I'm beginning to wonder why anyone puts up with it.
It's thoroughly tiresome and I'm beginning to wonder why anyone puts up with it.
June 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
So why *are* people so reflexively vicious here? What is it about this specific platform that makes people so eager to respond to their own preconceptions, rather than to what a person is actually saying in her posts?
It's thoroughly tiresome and I'm beginning to wonder why anyone puts up with it.
It's thoroughly tiresome and I'm beginning to wonder why anyone puts up with it.
Seriously, New Zealand??
June 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Seriously, New Zealand??
I like Ali Hazelwood's writing a great deal, even if she does think it's okay to use "timely" as an adverb.
June 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I like Ali Hazelwood's writing a great deal, even if she does think it's okay to use "timely" as an adverb.
Okay, so I accept that eating ghosts is vegetarian, since ghosts aren't made of meat. But is it vegan? Hard to argue that there were no animals involved in their production.
May 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Okay, so I accept that eating ghosts is vegetarian, since ghosts aren't made of meat. But is it vegan? Hard to argue that there were no animals involved in their production.
Kiddo is having trouble identifying character traits for his Romeo & Juliet character tracker. I admit that I took some pleasure in explaining that it's perfectly okay to call out simplistic or superficial character traits because these weirdos are the 16th century analog of sitcom characters.
May 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Kiddo is having trouble identifying character traits for his Romeo & Juliet character tracker. I admit that I took some pleasure in explaining that it's perfectly okay to call out simplistic or superficial character traits because these weirdos are the 16th century analog of sitcom characters.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm pretty sure that the world wasn't *quite* this stupid when Townes was writing.
May 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm pretty sure that the world wasn't *quite* this stupid when Townes was writing.
For a few years now we have had yard crows. The most brazen among them has trained me well: he swoops showily into the yard and perches on the balcony, and I feed him. If I'm too slow for his tastes, he yells briefly to get my attention.
April 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For a few years now we have had yard crows. The most brazen among them has trained me well: he swoops showily into the yard and perches on the balcony, and I feed him. If I'm too slow for his tastes, he yells briefly to get my attention.
These kids are so pure. I'm overhearing their conversation and Friend 1 just asked mine, “What's your favorite pi-themed T-shirt?”
In other news, my kid is so sigma that as they're having a conversation about who is sigma, mine says he thought sigma was just a symbol for summation.
In other news, my kid is so sigma that as they're having a conversation about who is sigma, mine says he thought sigma was just a symbol for summation.
April 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
These kids are so pure. I'm overhearing their conversation and Friend 1 just asked mine, “What's your favorite pi-themed T-shirt?”
In other news, my kid is so sigma that as they're having a conversation about who is sigma, mine says he thought sigma was just a symbol for summation.
In other news, my kid is so sigma that as they're having a conversation about who is sigma, mine says he thought sigma was just a symbol for summation.
Child could not decide whether he wanted a Cosmic Crisp or a Granny Smith apple, so I made him a Cosmic Granny.
April 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Child could not decide whether he wanted a Cosmic Crisp or a Granny Smith apple, so I made him a Cosmic Granny.
OMFG, not the damned marshmallow test again
April 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
OMFG, not the damned marshmallow test again
