Louis Patterson
@theboatend.bsky.social
All-purpose nerd and "competitive" sailor. Australian, Melburnian, Footscrayite, Him.
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I think the story here is that rising capital costs were first internalized by corporations in the form of margin compression, then by the government in the form of tax cuts, and then by outsourcing to China (the time periods line up), which resulted in a permanent shift lower in worker share.
December 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I think the story here is that rising capital costs were first internalized by corporations in the form of margin compression, then by the government in the form of tax cuts, and then by outsourcing to China (the time periods line up), which resulted in a permanent shift lower in worker share.
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If Russia is banned for its war of aggression and atrocities against civilians in Ukraine, Israel should be banned for its genocide in Gaza.
This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel
Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast by RTÉ, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part...
www.rte.ie
December 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If Russia is banned for its war of aggression and atrocities against civilians in Ukraine, Israel should be banned for its genocide in Gaza.
This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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Vale Ted Egan a truely remarkable Australian. Listen to his song The Drovers Boy.
A former Government House occupant and a prolific author and historian, Ted Egan will also be remembered as the man who reinvented the beer box as a musical instrument.
Beer box musician and land rights champion: Ted Egan's 'big and generous life'
A former Government House occupant and a prolific author and historian, Ted Egan will also be remembered as the man who reinvented the beer box as a musical instrument.
www.abc.net.au
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Vale Ted Egan a truely remarkable Australian. Listen to his song The Drovers Boy.
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RIP to a real one.
A former Government House occupant and a prolific author and historian, Ted Egan will also be remembered as the man who reinvented the beer box as a musical instrument.
Beer box musician and land rights champion: Ted Egan's 'big and generous life'
A former Government House occupant and a prolific author and historian, Ted Egan will also be remembered as the man who reinvented the beer box as a musical instrument.
www.abc.net.au
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
RIP to a real one.
Zelkova? just call it an elm. Nobody knows what a zelkova is, the cultural connotations for elm and keyaki match decently enough, and if like everyone else you're translating "sugi" as "cedar" or "matatabi" as "catnip" you're already playing far, far looser with formal taxonomy.
Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Zelkova? just call it an elm. Nobody knows what a zelkova is, the cultural connotations for elm and keyaki match decently enough, and if like everyone else you're translating "sugi" as "cedar" or "matatabi" as "catnip" you're already playing far, far looser with formal taxonomy.
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
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"So does it count if" let's stop right there. All systems of classification are made up. They cannot be correct or incorrect; they are only useful or not useful. The question you should be asking is not "is A technically B?", but rather, "does it HAVE UTILITY to draw our lines such that A is B?"
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"So does it count if" let's stop right there. All systems of classification are made up. They cannot be correct or incorrect; they are only useful or not useful. The question you should be asking is not "is A technically B?", but rather, "does it HAVE UTILITY to draw our lines such that A is B?"
Google AI informing me of the latest medical advances.
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Google AI informing me of the latest medical advances.
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Many extremely poor laborers back in Marx’s day owned their own tools.
The Uber driver does not own the fundamental thing they need in order to own the means of production, which in this case is the digital marketplace that allows them to access customers.
The Uber driver does not own the fundamental thing they need in order to own the means of production, which in this case is the digital marketplace that allows them to access customers.
December 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Many extremely poor laborers back in Marx’s day owned their own tools.
The Uber driver does not own the fundamental thing they need in order to own the means of production, which in this case is the digital marketplace that allows them to access customers.
The Uber driver does not own the fundamental thing they need in order to own the means of production, which in this case is the digital marketplace that allows them to access customers.
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Monotype (evil) bought Fontworks (used by basically every Japanese video game you've ever played with romanized typefaces) and Enshittification is Occurring, as you may well expect.
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Monotype (evil) bought Fontworks (used by basically every Japanese video game you've ever played with romanized typefaces) and Enshittification is Occurring, as you may well expect.
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The thing to understand about immigration as a policy matter is that while in the short term it invites a racist backlash, it really is the “improve the economy for free” button and not pushing it is racist
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The thing to understand about immigration as a policy matter is that while in the short term it invites a racist backlash, it really is the “improve the economy for free” button and not pushing it is racist
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Increasingly convinced that freedom of movement and ease of attaining citizenship in one’s chosen country is the great social reform of our time, and once achieved it will have enormously far-reaching effects, mostly positive, on a par with the eight hour day and maybe even the abolition of slavery.
December 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Increasingly convinced that freedom of movement and ease of attaining citizenship in one’s chosen country is the great social reform of our time, and once achieved it will have enormously far-reaching effects, mostly positive, on a par with the eight hour day and maybe even the abolition of slavery.
according to the email i got purportedly from... not auspost, i guess kiwipost or whatever they call it over the ditch, the package is now missing.
Anyway, next time someone's in Invercargil could they look up the local "Louis Patterson" franchisee there and tell them they wrote the wrong email address on their jewelry purchase.
I know I have a few kiwi followers, surely one of you must know him it's not that big a place right?
I know I have a few kiwi followers, surely one of you must know him it's not that big a place right?
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
according to the email i got purportedly from... not auspost, i guess kiwipost or whatever they call it over the ditch, the package is now missing.
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I think it’s been incredibly salutary for architects that the profession was broadly discredited by the failures of Modernism. You can’t see the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe without developing a healthy skepticism about groupthink and delusions of grandeur, for your own profession and others.
There's a whole lot of You Just Don't Understand our Norms and Incentives from many professions, but this one is striking for its public consequences.
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I think it’s been incredibly salutary for architects that the profession was broadly discredited by the failures of Modernism. You can’t see the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe without developing a healthy skepticism about groupthink and delusions of grandeur, for your own profession and others.
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The point of not normalizing nazi aesthetic is removing the ambiguity of blatant nazism Vs ironic performance. Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.
unfortunately I think we're long past the point of "benefit of the doubt"
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The point of not normalizing nazi aesthetic is removing the ambiguity of blatant nazism Vs ironic performance. Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.
i swear they turn the aircon up when you go into the munnel just to make you think you're going faster.
November 30, 2025 at 5:27 AM
i swear they turn the aircon up when you go into the munnel just to make you think you're going faster.
perfect weather for exploring an underground railway
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
perfect weather for exploring an underground railway
yeah don't think I'm gonna get on the first train through the metro tunnel.
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
yeah don't think I'm gonna get on the first train through the metro tunnel.
This SBS recipe is inedible as written, tasting solely and strongly of lemongrass. I can only think that it should have four lemongrass *leaves*, not whole stems [but who measures lemongrass by the leaf?]
www.sbs.com.au/food/recipe/...
www.sbs.com.au/food/recipe/...
East Timorese lamb and tamarind stew
Bring the world to your kitchen with SBS Food. We have recipes and dinner ideas from more than 100 cuisines, plus how to articles, step-by-step video tutorials and blogs.
www.sbs.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This SBS recipe is inedible as written, tasting solely and strongly of lemongrass. I can only think that it should have four lemongrass *leaves*, not whole stems [but who measures lemongrass by the leaf?]
www.sbs.com.au/food/recipe/...
www.sbs.com.au/food/recipe/...
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If the human element isn’t there, what even is the point?
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
If the human element isn’t there, what even is the point?
Yeah, also this means that I'm gonna hafta roll back my "maybe LLMs will be good for search at least".
LLMs just do token matching and we've spent a literal trillion dollars building stochastic markov chain machines. They'll try and fix this manually, but being able to unify tokens of this level of similarity is really a sine-qua-non of a useful language analysis engine.
![ai google result for "cassowary pseudopenis" [no hyphen] stating such a thing does not exist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qq7rgk6au6muh4yvfxwz4vtc/bafkreih3u7gbvxpybmbcbrvu7tq6mqslayjlip2zhl3acokfdfmh3mxvry@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Yeah, also this means that I'm gonna hafta roll back my "maybe LLMs will be good for search at least".
LLMs just do token matching and we've spent a literal trillion dollars building stochastic markov chain machines. They'll try and fix this manually, but being able to unify tokens of this level of similarity is really a sine-qua-non of a useful language analysis engine.
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
LLMs just do token matching and we've spent a literal trillion dollars building stochastic markov chain machines. They'll try and fix this manually, but being able to unify tokens of this level of similarity is really a sine-qua-non of a useful language analysis engine.
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every masterpiece has its cheap copy
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
every masterpiece has its cheap copy
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"We did exactly this. Built a fake door, spent money on ads to see what worked." ... ", but everything was manual, human resource consuming, at a completely unsustainable CAC. We thought we could optimize from there. We couldn’t."
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
There Will Be CAC
A Founder’s Descent into the Paid Acquisition Wasteland How Meta and Google Convinced a Generation of Startups to Burn Runway Drilling for Customers That Don’t Exist
substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"We did exactly this. Built a fake door, spent money on ads to see what worked." ... ", but everything was manual, human resource consuming, at a completely unsustainable CAC. We thought we could optimize from there. We couldn’t."
#buildinpublic
#buildinpublic
In the latest delivery of rags to the print mines. May have broken me, that this has been going on long enough for clothes to be recyled.
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM
In the latest delivery of rags to the print mines. May have broken me, that this has been going on long enough for clothes to be recyled.