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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It is Friday and I have no dams left... Because I turned in my study on hydrpower.

Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Once again BlueSky's algorithm beats FB's. FB used funnel far right militia content and strangely homoerotic gun ads. No, really. BlueSky sends me fursuiters in sultry poses. Definitely an imrpovement.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

So... Orcas do same thing we did as young guys playing Net-Quake? Y'know where everyone gangs up on someone with the rocket launchers just see the gibs fly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Orcas seen ramming prey so hard it explodes may be playing game

Scientists believe sunfish-smashing behaviour could be form of entertainment or to help younger whales feed

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

kotaku.com/shirtless-ma... Best headline of the week. So far. It's probably gonna be one of those weeks. This event does make me feel weird about starting an online Mentat school using AWS based infrastructure, though.

kotaku.com

Real Life Cyberpunk 2077 NPC Goes Viral For Fighting Waymo

No, this isn't a Cyberpunk 2077 side-quest

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We are told there's only one way. We often have choices about how we live. Here you see our zero fossil fuel fleet. This has allowed us to avoid swings in fuel prices and avoid a great many transportation costs while staying fit.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Jago living up to the label of 'faceless bureau-cat'.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

State of the energy sector: While doing some analysis for work, I discovered that the bulk of the power plants in Southern California are now renewable. And, most of them are not operated by major IOUs. They're independent firms.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

My editorial assistant is stalking a turkey sandwich.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." Frank Herbert, "Dune" As people read less, we lose more than we can imagine.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's fun to watch X-Files on streaming. To think, in the 1990s were all worried about being abducted and probed by aliens. Nowadays, it's the only way you can afford a routine colonoscopy.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's the cat picture you didn't know you needed. Two for the price of one here.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We always complement our decor with a cat-skin throw.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Enjoying "Prohibition Orcs". I've only ever read two documents which used the word 'fart' more. One was my wife's doctoral thesis and the other a foreign language dictionary I worked on years ago.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@mwl.io Will be happy to know that I, as an economist, felt very orcish in a meeting with lawyers today. Never try to explain Benefit-Cost Analysis to people with law degrees. You will wind up baring both greater and lesser tusks.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The other onsite manager is a little more hands off.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So, perhaps employers are right to question work from home productivity. OTOH, Amedeo thinks I'm being very productive.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I don't need to know what day Black Cat Appreciation Day is? It's any day ending in a "y".

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Little known fact: Black Sabbath started out as a John Denver cover band. Little known because the voices in my head whispered that fact to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5m5...

youtube.com

John Denver sings "War Pigs" (Black Sabbath)

YouTube video by There I Ruined It

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/06/2026

As long as Chuck doesn't write one about some dude collecting ridiculous guitars I should be fine

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Here is the gear which lets me catch waves. The surfboard-looking little things strap onto my hand. I use fins by "Dafin". Sadly, Slyde went out of business. They made the best hand planes you could buy.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Getting out into the water regularly now. I appear to have become some kind of folk hero to the masses. Apparently I'm the only person in the entire Santa Monica Bay who body surfs with a hand plane. People point me out and cheer me when they see me getting into water.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So, in this week's episode of "As the HOA Turns", the FBI came and arrested one of our board members. This just after I became the board president. That was my Wednesday. How's your week been? I've got enough material for a whole edgy sitcom. Multiple seasons. And a thousand yard stare...

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Still not used to looking up regulatory decisions and findings only realize I wrote them. Will this ever get old? If you wonder why a career in Public Policy is so cool, this is it!

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Sign of times as seen one of those delivery robots rolling around LA: "Move fast. Break people." This right here is why distrust AI and the tech industry I used to work in.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

For a variety of reasons, I have been thinking of the play, RUR. It certainly seems of our time rather than its own. Turns out the script can be found online. www.gutenberg.org/files/59112/...

gutenberg.org

The Project Gutenberg eBook of R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), by Karel Capek.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

If you square 92.98924669, you too can be indicted.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

D&D conundrum of the day: What happens if a PC casts resurrect on their rations?

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

In my job I get to use acronyms like LGUWR. Which sounds like the GWAR cover band that plays at bar mitzvahs and weddings all across New Jersey.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I never worked in Si Valley, but I did work adjacent in sector terms. I don't think they ever knew what normal people wanted. Some of the vendors I dealt with were pretty whack. And a couple of interviews I did at the peak were for delusional companies. www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

theverge.com

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

In other news, royalties from my books are trickling in. Which is wild considering how long ago I self published the series and how I failed at marketing. I really need to get my author feed going again since I'm proofing and editing another manuscript.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Years ago, I took an advanced course on fractals and chaos theory. Yes, I'm that old. We were talking about spacing filling curves which had a dimension between 1 and 2. The prof asked for real life examples. I joking said "Sepulveda Blvd."

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Also, my newfound insight into HOAs is probably going to prompt the posting of uplifting media and the playing of inspiring video games. So, yeah, definitely more GWAR videos and maybe playing Dying Light through to the end.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The average HOA's politics rivals all the wars that ever took place in the Balkans for sheer depraved barbarism. Ask me how I know. Actually, that's sarcasm. Please don't ask me.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It's one of those good news bad news days. Bad news: The plumbers offered to buy my water heater off me for display in the permanent collection in the Museum of American Plumbing Antiquities. Good news, my local utility provides rebates and subsidies for efficient, tankless water heaters.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

So... The prestigious research institution I was once involved with has started following me. Right as I go on a posting spree of GWAR videos. The regularly scheduled program of cat pictures and typo laden introspection will resume soon.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I just heard a news story that the Artemis astronauts were woken up by Chappelle Roan's "Pink Pony Club". But, which version was it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XR...

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GWAR cover “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan

YouTube video by The A.V. Club

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In which I discover "Only Murders in the Building" was actually documentary about serving on an HOA board.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Just saw a meme about using Google Drive as swap space. Reminds me of the time, someone at an unnamed workplace set up the server's swap to a DVD drive. Which worked, until it didn't. Which left everyone confused for a couple of days until someone else put a blank DVD in. Ah, those were days...

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Working from home can lead to circulation issues.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I think I've come up with a foolproof idea for dealing with AI coming for my job. I shall teach Chat-GPT Phenomenology.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Catastrophe bonds are fascinating. The theory behind them is interesting and the probability models for assigning premiums are the stuff that entire PhDs are done on.

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Tony Castelletto @acastelletto.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

www.dw.com/en/fossil-fu... This should be obvious. The last time I did the comparison myself, solar was cost competitive with coal and getting to be cost competitive with natural gas. That was years ago now renewables have only gotten cheaper.

dw.com

How clean energy could save us trillions

As clean energy prices fall, a fast transition to renewable energy is the cheapest option on the table. Experts say it could save us trillions in energy costs alone.

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