Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And too cheap to ever totally go away, given open models’ progress 000
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No one should know the names of Supreme Court justices. They should just be drawn for temporary service from the federal judiciary 000
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Fully agree. I guess this reads like I’m nitpicking but what I mean is like “there’s not even capitalism pressure to do this it’s just mean spirited” 030
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This isn’t even capitalism! It’s the government. 2100
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The conspiracy theories when Dems win some R+20 districts are going to be something to behold 011
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m glad your daughter is getting the experience she needs, but to be clear, most private schools screen out students with special needs while public schools are obligated to take them. 110
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Notable that these small places are most viable without having to own their own surface parking spaces too. 000
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Don’t need to tax them, just make it so colleges that accept Pell grants can’t accept private school graduates. Going to private school should be like going to Sunday school — good for you, I’m glad you got to do it but it shouldn’t count for anything 091
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Drake Maye turns back into a pumpkin was, sadly, always the likeliest result this season 010
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026But isn’t the bigger question that we don’t really know what cogitation is 020
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Introducing predatory pricing for human cognitive effort seems like it should reshape what we have always assumed about the nature of human work. 000
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This goes hard dailytarheel.com/480536/opini...dailytarheel.comColumn: In response to Vice Chancellor Dean Stoyer’s letter to the editor"It’s easier to defend military education at large, a position essentially no one disputes, than to defend our chancellor’s dodging of a direct question about the Pentagon program with a shrug." 000
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I don’t know about tax dollars but ratepayer cuts are being attributed to data center usage in some places www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...tomshardware.comIndiana power provider proposes $59 million rate cut for state, says data centers and other large customers are driving increased revenue — move could potentially save residential users $100 annuallySome good news for a change. 020
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Pretty strong argument for raising the tax rate 001
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Am I stupid or something? How are there batches of ballots in the mail? Maybe apartment buildings? But that doesn’t seem like 10k ballots on a given day? 110
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I clicked to check because I thought there was some band that had added Shirley Temples all ‘round to their contract rider 😆 000
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026why are there so many clauses in that first sentence 000
Reposted by Brian AustinAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 45121515977
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Bought it for someone for a book swap and thought “I’ll just check out the first chapter or two” and finished before I gave it to her. 010
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It was near another post I didn’t like very much so I did not like that about it 000
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This sounds like a fun short story because the AIs and the companies that make them would all try really hard to convince users they have souls. But the benefit of having a soul is completely uninteresting to the tech startup founders who built them — they’re just hawking uniqueness. 000
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Well when I say that what I really mean isn’t like “I’ve got free time to do what I want to do” and more like “now in need to decide between these two potential settings deep inside oauth”. With grinding at least I’m doing something I’m confident in that feels productive. 010
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026One thing I’m finding as a developer is that I seldom have “turn my brain off and grind it out” time anymore. The LLM does that and I move over to another task while it’s happening. I spend all day reading and understanding and making decisions. It’s honestly less fun but probably more valuable. 110
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I think the ones in the US use cameras because in my experience they’re basically never wrong but only on some roads 000
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Honestly the car should just ding annoyingly if you’re speeding. The ding is very effective at making me buckle up. 4363
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This is a strangely abridged version of this story. I think a more complete one is www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...btboces.org 110
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I’m not catholic so it didn’t ring out to me. I thought of the screen as a visual cage for Penelope the whole time. 110
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It threads the needle between criticizing representativeness and admitting that you’re not as successful as someone else 010
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This is an interesting point but I don’t think Christian theology has a monopoly on the idea of guilt for your culpability in a fallen world (though i will admit it fits well) 100
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026But the whole film turns on Odysseus coming to see himself and his men the way the rest of the world would see them. It’s an investigation into hubris — I don’t really think the film thinks he’s a good man. 140
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026No, the fact that the infrastructure wasn’t built means when the data centers were built they use the worst possible energy to run them. 030
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Then we should just vote for parties and skip the whole direct election entirely 100
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026This sort of thing is the definition of starting with a conclusion and picking out some facts to support it. It adds no new information about the world. 000
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026describe the job you would want to do during the “why do you want this job” section 010
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026He apparently dressed down some British chud crew members who were celebrating Brexit when it passed but anti-Brexit was led by David Cameron so could be big C 050
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026“oh look we’re one goal ahead of that team that always scores a pile of goals at the end of games, should we park the bus?” No! 010
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Redirecting public money to be Party money à la Freedom 250 020
Brian Austin @austinbrian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Yeah I guess the idea that a take-home midterm will invite cheating doesn’t seem especially AI-related to me 000
