Michael L Davenport
@valacosa.bsky.social
Works in tech. Lives in theatres and makerspaces. AuDHD and queer-ish. (He / Him)
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Me: Defining people by what decade they were born in is so silly, generations are a fake concept
Also me, turning up the car radio: AND I DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE ME, ‘CAUSE I DON’T THINK THAT THEY’D UNDERSTAND, WHEN EVERYTHING’S MADE TO BE BROKEN—
Also me, turning up the car radio: AND I DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE ME, ‘CAUSE I DON’T THINK THAT THEY’D UNDERSTAND, WHEN EVERYTHING’S MADE TO BE BROKEN—
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Me: Defining people by what decade they were born in is so silly, generations are a fake concept
Also me, turning up the car radio: AND I DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE ME, ‘CAUSE I DON’T THINK THAT THEY’D UNDERSTAND, WHEN EVERYTHING’S MADE TO BE BROKEN—
Also me, turning up the car radio: AND I DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE ME, ‘CAUSE I DON’T THINK THAT THEY’D UNDERSTAND, WHEN EVERYTHING’S MADE TO BE BROKEN—
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the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix
I think this is unfair to turkey. turkey is good but hard to cook well because it is so damn big. turkey *parts* are great but lack the esthetic appeal of a centerpiece bird.
it is tired to the point of cliche to say if turkey was good, people would make it more than once a year. but it is understated that at least one American explodes every Thanksgiving in a brave attempt to make the main dish more palatable
November 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix
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the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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Everything I hear about politics in Alberta makes me glad I live in Ontario, and Ontario's a political dumpster fire.
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Everything I hear about politics in Alberta makes me glad I live in Ontario, and Ontario's a political dumpster fire.
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Wargames but in the end I save the world with a dirty limerick.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Wargames but in the end I save the world with a dirty limerick.
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Been doing a lot more night driving lately since moving apartments and having a longer work commute, and I gotta say, what's being proposed here is the moderate position imo
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Been doing a lot more night driving lately since moving apartments and having a longer work commute, and I gotta say, what's being proposed here is the moderate position imo
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I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
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do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
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always be there
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
always be there
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conceding to far right ideas about the structure of society is conceding to a zero sum vision of the world, and more importantly giving voters a choice between two zero sum visions, where one is half hearted and the other is full throated. is it really a surprise then they choose the latter?
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
conceding to far right ideas about the structure of society is conceding to a zero sum vision of the world, and more importantly giving voters a choice between two zero sum visions, where one is half hearted and the other is full throated. is it really a surprise then they choose the latter?
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If you don’t enjoy paying what Uber actually costs now that it isn’t VC subsidized, you cannot possibly imagine how much you won’t enjoy the economy if AI makes it to the stage where companies start charging based on what it actually costs.
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
If you don’t enjoy paying what Uber actually costs now that it isn’t VC subsidized, you cannot possibly imagine how much you won’t enjoy the economy if AI makes it to the stage where companies start charging based on what it actually costs.
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Windows is all "I can help you write that!"
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Windows is all "I can help you write that!"
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
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This is the digital version of thinking everyone should work a service job for at least six months, and I couldn't agree more. You learn SO MUCH dealing with the general public, and you'll never look at the people doing the work the same way again.
I think we lost something when way fewer people online as a proportion of the whole started to have direct personal experience of moderating a forum or online community - though at least Reddit still exists
I can really tell you didn’t grow up on Internet forums if you’re shocked and indignant about “sometimes even human moderators make capricious and inscrutable decisions that you don’t like”
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is the digital version of thinking everyone should work a service job for at least six months, and I couldn't agree more. You learn SO MUCH dealing with the general public, and you'll never look at the people doing the work the same way again.
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ACDCAB*
* All City Dwelling Creatures Are Beautiful
* All City Dwelling Creatures Are Beautiful
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ACDCAB*
* All City Dwelling Creatures Are Beautiful
* All City Dwelling Creatures Are Beautiful
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!
Silicon Valley, 2025:
Silicon Valley, 2025:
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Everything is political!
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Everything is political!
There's lots of clouds over Kitchener right now, so I am living vicariously
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
There's lots of clouds over Kitchener right now, so I am living vicariously
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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We have some good neighbors.
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We have some good neighbors.
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We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
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Incidentally, this is why I’m against strict spelling. Words should be spelled the way they sound & we spell words as if we’re speaking Middle English for ridiculous class reasons
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Incidentally, this is why I’m against strict spelling. Words should be spelled the way they sound & we spell words as if we’re speaking Middle English for ridiculous class reasons
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
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The sky from my parents' house
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The sky from my parents' house
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Well pass the whiskey and let’s pause in awe.
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Well pass the whiskey and let’s pause in awe.