Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 02/07/2026Shit On A Shingle is what my father always recommends in such times of uncertainty 010
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 20/06/2026Once before the crazy guy hammered it and they protected it with an enclosure I lightly tapped it with my knuckle and it was kind of thrilling to let freedom ring like that. Maybe they should give everyone a rubber mallet instead of walling it off 110
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 20/06/2026I think it has a good claim to being one of the best places that creative people can live with dignity, at least that’s how I thought of it over the years from afar. That’s basically the soul that berlin has really been struggling with a disintegration of over my decade here 120
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 20/06/2026The fact that it’s kind of inscrutable probably has a power localization effect, resisting some degree of commoditization on some level 100
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 20/06/2026I think most visitors from abroad have no idea how to find inroads into the things that locals cherish about Philly. Everyone I meet outside the US who has been to Philly for less than a week has kind of shrugged and said “the Liberty bell was interesting” 210
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 08/06/2026Nice that anyone can actually start leveraging SMT toolchains that were previously reserved for arcane safety critical work. 110
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 08/06/2026I’m pushing for folks to start using tools like Galois SAW and Verus with rust to uphold more safety invariants at compile time, with simulation as the second line of defense. AI is not perfect at autoformalization and it is important to be able to understand the AI generated refinements, but still. 110
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 01/06/2026It's fun to flip back to 1954 conversations of "automatic programming" - using a compiler to generate machine code based on human-friendly text instead of manually writing it out by hand. www.computerhistory.org/collections/... 031
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 11/03/2026Honestly if I’m not convinced that there’s a very limited amount of good life remaining then I have a hard time getting motivated to do very much. So I am happy to lean into my pessimism and then it’s easier to properly invest in spending time with loved ones and appreciating the things I enjoy. 020
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 10/03/2026I did not expect this to happen at work as a DB engineer. status.snowflake.com/incidents/rb... Hoping everyone at AWS is safe.status.snowflake.comAWS - Middle East (UAE): INC0152681Snowflake's Status Page - AWS - Middle East (UAE): INC0152681. 010
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 15/02/2026It continues to have a massive impact on philosophy through today too. I feel like most of today’s philosophy is kind of a modern restatement of some mix of Heraclitus, Kant, Hegel, or Nietsche (for the last two, you could say a lot of what they did was a restatement of 5 sentences from Heraclitus) 000
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 13/02/2026And the general lens of zooming out on minute bureaucratic transactions among individuals and seeing them as places where social relations at a higher scale are expressed is a lens that is often useful for navigating dynamics that are often left unconsidered by those participating in them. 040
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 13/02/2026I feel like I honestly learned a lot of practical things for my career as a software engineer from (late) Marx. The way he describes the relationship between humans and machines feels extremely timely to me. The “fragment on machines” that he never published is fun - he left it out of Kapital later 110
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 13/02/2026If you find yourself wanting to keep going down the rabbit hole to the people who had a huge impact on Marx’s philosophy, I found the book German Philosophy 1760-1860 by Terry Pinkard to be really great for feeling oriented with Hegel, Kant, the culture of the era, without watering it down. 220
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 27/01/2026Living the dream 🧐 r u fucking that shit up with fault injection yet ? 000
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 27/01/2026A friend of mine was given a yacht, just sitting in the East River off Greenpoint, and he was distraught. He tried to give it to me. The words of my uncle rang: “the happiest two days of a boat owner’s life are the day they get it and the day they get rid of it” so I said no. But what if I hadn’t 🤔 110
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 27/01/2026I’m often tempted to write a book because of the carrot of learning about several topics to a sufficiently deep level to then justify having conversations with great thinkers during editing. I am hesitant because most authors of the technical books that I love describe the process as near torture. 020
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 28/12/2025The low quality of nutrition research is constantly frustrating to me. There are dietary things that have had a big impact on my life that I am often reluctant to share with other people because I have no sense of their generalizability on one hand, and how it comes off as woo-woo on the other. 040
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 26/12/2025I’m psyched because it’s the first time since before Covid that I’m not already worn out from the holidays before ccc starts 000
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 07/12/2025I might go to seattle in January, and an east coast rampage in June! 110
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 07/12/2025On the other side of the coin I also think too many people kneejerk about power and hierarchy and just fragment themselves and step aside for those who become better organized at scale. Then the whole preventing mass starvation during reconfig thing and suddenly I’m a fan of incrementalism lol 110
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 07/12/2025I think anyone who wants fairly radical restructuring of society should be guided in equal measures by optimism and an education in the ways that previous attempts have resulted in mass suffering and authoritarianism. I found this collection of translated documents to be particularly interesting. 240
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 28/11/2025Until now - here at UrInAI we’ve not only built the world’s most advanced digital twin with LLM „self-talk“ capabilities BUT ALSO industry first „time travel“ to not only speak with ultra-realistic synthetically aged and de-aged personas. Extreme plan subscribers gain access to full cradle-to-grave- 000
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 03/11/2025I love how it feels in there but the biggest issue I have with this space is how it becomes a bit awkward to walk through that area in the evenings when many of the doors are closed for security reasons. As a tourist I've entered the building, thinking I'd be able to cut through, but had to back out 000
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 01/11/2025Just look at Reddit. Comment sections will always sometimes be a battleground but if you give people an extra tool it will occupy more of their thought process, and if it's a weapon those thoughts skew aggregate behavior negatively. 3200
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 01/11/2025All of the research around this has shown that it leads to a more toxic user experience. We briefly looked into it at Tumblr and it was a really easy thing to reject. 1262
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 14/10/2025In old times satellite internet connections with stolen credentials were chosen by some hackers because you could use it from such a wide region to a particular satellite so it was hard to locate. Interest in this began at least as far back as 1988: phrack.org/issues/21/5phrack.orgSatellite CommunicationsClick to read the article on phrack 040
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 09/10/2025You blew up /r/evilautism with this :) www.reddit.com/r/evilautism...reddit.comFrom the evilautism community on Reddit: I saw a post and it was good, so I stole itExplore this post and more from the evilautism community 000
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 30/09/2025She has some very high signal:noise slide decks that are nice to flip through as well, eg: www.usenix.org/sites/defaul...usenix.org 020
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 27/09/2025Tbf FRA is kind of a shitshow, even if you know about hacks like the Schengen wormhole above A15 to terminal Z 120
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 30/08/2025A friend of mine works in sales and encountered a freak who does not directly address the person he is calling to pitch but just speaks orders into a voice prompt "RUN INITIATION SEQUENCE!" (audibly to all) and has the llm speak to the prospective customer, quite jankily and to the confusion of all. 040
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 01/08/2025It took me almost a decade of living nearby but I finally got a chance to climb and then rappel from the top of Der Kegel today! 080
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 01/08/2025This goes beyond folks just growing older and becoming more conservative, it's happening pretty quickly. The right was super successful in mobilizing around fear and anxiety, and now the left is genuinely a lot more broadly fearful. There are tendencies for fear to manifest in similar behaviors. 140
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 01/08/2025The radical right has achieved enough cohesion to achieve some big projects and I think a lot of people across the left (and certainly center left) are internalizing aspects of the right's success as a blueprint for their own projects. Tensions between inclusion vs cohesion are discussed more. 210
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 01/08/2025I'm noticing more people emphasizing Marx's belief that the people working in factories were the most revolutionary class because they actually have the ability to collectively shutter a system, not merely because they were marginalized. There's a point but it's dissonant w/ expansive solidarity. 120
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 28/07/2025they opened a nice cafe at tempelhof 2 minutes from my favorite book shop 😁 040
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 25/07/2025There's a "healthy immigrant effect" though that can make these kinds of comparative studies fraught with comparison issues. It also shows up in studies w/ German-born immigrants to the US where males have a lower cancer mortality. www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psych...sciencedirect.comHealthy Immigrant Effect - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics 020
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 25/07/2025Some people do better when they eat US food though. Korean-American immigrants have a lower incidence of stomach cancer compared to people living in Korea - they have a very high rate of stomach cancer there though. 120
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 25/07/2025It's hard to not feel that the US food is shit when I basically eat the same things when I go back to visit but have prolonged digestive problems, even for weeks-long trips, which rapidly go away when I return and keep eating the same kinds of lean meat and leafy green low-processed meals. 100
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 25/07/2025Personally I'm still not really satisfied with the explanations I've seen because after moving to Germany from the US ~10 years ago, I get stomach issues basically any time I go back to the old country and eat more or less the same things. After a parent recently moved over, they experience the same 230
Electrified Filth @ak47.io · 21/07/2025It's been sitting on my shelf for years, basically as a totem for coping with the extreme bureaucratic hell of my German immigration path. But now that I'm naturalized and taking time off of work to read it's a good time to dissolve the totem into its actual content 😅 I bought it at Wooden Shoe! 010
