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Andy Flach

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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 3h
Signs like this at a few state and national parks in Florida
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 6h
U.S. politics today, in 2 panels
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Mission accomplished!
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Greatest Generation knew what to do
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Claude would never
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think it poses hard questions about language myself
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ballots are being mailed today. Vote early!
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You’re apparently not alone on that
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Research everything on your ballot in one place at PimaVote.com, the Pima County Democratic Party's voter guide that uses your address to give you information about everything on your particular ballot
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m not addressing “moral nature of the intelligence.” I’m addressing whether LLM’s are like animals, and no, they are not, which they will tell you.
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another sad case of a human who is dismissive of LLMs capabilities getting something wrong bc they didn’t check it with an LLM before posting.
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What are you talking about?
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The funny thing is he could have asked AI and had at least a plausible sounding response
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
EIA chart of inflation adjusted and nominal gas prices. Real gas prices were this high when I graduated from high school in 1980. Chart was done Feb of this year so it doesn’t show the Iran spike
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All Claude had to work with was a copy of the database, the PHP code, and PDFs of two agenda items, and it got it all right in one pass. If a human did this we’d say they understood the db structure and code and used that understanding to prepare the SQL
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This seems to be the whole of the debunking of the “rogue AI” narrative, but it’s pretty unconvincing to me “involved tasks no model had ever solved” - as if that will never happen in real life? “Incentives to keep working rather than quit” - as if that will never happen in real life?
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Exhibit A
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Math? Its rankings feel correct to me, but here is its “reasoning.” Let me know what you dispute
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I asked ChatGPT: In terms of policy, which Democratic administration of the last 70 years has been the furthest left? It ranked Biden No. 3
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
People of a certain age will appreciate this
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How to get your doc to never take you seriously again
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It apparently just means you’re not a progressive
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
From “The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945” by Hornfischer
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Pogo understood this
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Bald eagles are big time scavengers in Alaska. We visited a bear rescue place in Sitka that a lot of bald eagles hoping to get some scraps. Zero fear of humans
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Orwell recognized that fascism is not fueled by economic concerns. From his review of Mein Kampf
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I remember this classic moment
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump is acting out his mob boss fantasies
Donald J. Trump C @reaDonald Trump
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The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran's ships or customers from entering or leaving. All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait. The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as
"THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT," but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World. The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J.
TRUMP
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Boomers aren’t Trump’s strongest supporters, they’re about the same as Millennials. Gen X is the worst generation
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Burroughs was right. And now language has gotten its host to build it a new host
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
You can see the reflection of the driveway that leads into the drive-thru in your picture
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A mini-split can be installed in any building. Everyone in Europe is going to have these in 20 years or less. Might as well get on board early and suffer less
UNDERSTANDING HOW
MINI SPLIT SYSTEMS WORK
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The gas stove is a least a close second to the electric washing machine. I once read an account of all the tasks required to cook three meals a day on a wood burning stove & it sounded like a half time job
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Name a TV show no one remembers but you
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How do you know that data centers always raise residential electricity rates? Loudoun County VA gets half it’s property tax revenue from data centers but it’s residential electricity rates are on the low side
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Trump probably calls it “nuclear dust” bc someone told him that the end product of enrichment is uranium oxide powder and his brain processed powder as dust
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Makes me think of this bit from Woody Allen’s ‘Play it Again, Sam”
Are you all right?
Allan:
Yeah, I'm fine. I snapped my chin down onto some guy's fist and hit another one in the knee with my nose.
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is just spiking the football. Even without this provision Iran could have refused to budge on these issues. This is to humiliate Trump.
Discussions about Iran's missile program and support for resistance groups are definitively removed from the agenda
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
No promise to give up anything, just a promise to negotiate for 60 days. When I did contract negotiations I always refused to consider these provisions bc a promise to negotiate is nothing. If the parties want to negotiate they will. If they don’t, they won’t, no matter what it says in the agreement
7- The necessity for the US and its allies to present reconstruction plans for Iran amounting to at least 300
billion dollars
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Reparations!
7- The necessity for the US and its allies to present reconstruction plans for Iran amounting to at least 300
billion dollars
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Iran gets to keep charging tolls on the Strait of Hormuz
5- Reopening of the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days under Iranian arrangements
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I’m guessing Israel isn’t too happy about this
1- Permanent and immediate cessation of war on all
fronts, including Lebanon
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Trump: No deal with regime, unconditional surrender only2- The US commitment to non-interference in Iran's internal affairs and respect for the sovereignty of the
Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The problem is always the people
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
No, I am arguing that many, and maybe most, data centers provide enough property tax revenue to far exceed their burden. And they don’t seem to be driving up electricity rates x.com/nic_carter/s...
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Saw this t-shirt in the wild recently
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My interaction with Behar on this topic
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Andy Flach @andyfromtucson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Definitely an unprecedented state of affairs
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