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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah, the regional gas station cults that show up in this country are weird.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Cheating, but Tom Petty - Wildflowers. His second solo album.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I mean, I respect the choice, but I'd take The Stranger over Piano Man.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yes, I too enjoy having written.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ultimately, unless we get a *lot* more seats in the legislature than expected (or, at least, what I'm expecting), any policy difference between Hong and Crowley is mostly moot due to the legislature. I voted Hong but my preference over Crowley was not particularly strong because of the legislature.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Full Moon Fever Wildflowers Highway Companion

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Georgia, one of Nevada and Arizona, one of Wisconsin and Michigan.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The pick is Wildflowers, yes, but Full Moon Fever is *also* a great album.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This can't be understated. I work in MRI device development, and for all of the amazing things that go into it, what universally excites our clients is what streamlines the process - turns out MRIs are expensive to buy, own, and operate, and the more patients you can see, the more useful they are.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Currently doomscrolling at a local pub. There is space for both.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

(Entirely different proposal than selecting officials by lots, though)

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I used to claim, jokingly, that selecting Congress by lottery would be more effective than the current system. After earning the qualifications to teach statistics at the graduate level, the claim is no longer made in jest.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm around medical AI on a daily basis in my day job, and none of the important stuff is LLM-based.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Yeah, I did a good chunk of my PhD on this, and many of the questions just utterly miss the point. AI (since we've stopped calling it ML for the time being) is revolutionizing a lot of things (and will continue to do so), but LLMs aren't where a lot of the exciting stuff is happening.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

She spoke at Ebenezer, she's running. My way too early prediction is Beshear wins the nomination and picks her as his running mate.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

After writing one paper with it, I found Zotero indispensable - if annoying to set up - but being in a LaTeX dominated publishing environment probably influenced that.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Like, not to dissuade any student from taking a more challenging class that they're interested in, but the reason you take AP courses is for more exposure to the subject, *not* to replace university classes.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

When I was teaching computer science, the department had so little faith in AP credit that the class AP students got credit for was one that no one really took and was a pre-requisite for nothing.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Audie Murphy was 5'5" 112 pounds when he joined the army... And then became the most decorated American soldier... Ever

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Now now that's just straight up Gen X erasure.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Check out Unicorn Overlord if you haven't already, a spiritual successor to the Ogre Battle games.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Well, of course - he hates Democrats, which makes him the ideal figurehead for them to promote.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Margin is looking huge as well; with 93% reporting the liberal justice is up by 19 points. Alarming thing for Republicans in Wisconsin may be that Waukesha County -- Trump's best country for *net* votes in '24 -- was Trump by ~20 but currently sitting at the conservative candidate up by ~8.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The William Henry Harrison factor - how much better things would be if you got sick and died a month into your presidency.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

If the Kharg invasion happens, we'll find out what happens when the weapons used to attack American personnel have cameras built in, not just killing Americans but broadcasting their deaths to the whole Internet.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The Pentagon learned a lot from Vietnam - how better to control the narrative through control over embedded reporting and media being big lessons.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I think the most likely outcome is operational success (to some standard) *and* video of American marines mangled by FPV drones spread all over the Internet.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I think you're underestimating the probability of "both of the above".

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

You have no idea how much I've spent on Allen Edmonds... Hit me

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Cassie wants to know where you got those

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The 2025 Cayman was pretty much the same adjusted for inflation. The 911, not so much.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It's not just red, but part of the WOW counties (Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington) -- the far suburbs of Milwaukee -- where Republican statewide candidates tend to run up the numbers. Really bad for the GOP.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Should that be read as posting French nuclear weapons in Poland?

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

He retired a few years back, but a fireman from up here in Wisconsin...

Local news interviewing a firefighter; caption is "Lieutenant Les McBurney, Sun Prairie Fire Department"

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

While Kentucky has taken a red swing recently (after Bill Clinton won the state twice), a lot of Kentucky Republicans have a libertarian streak -- it's not too surprising that Paul and Massie are two of the Republicans bucking the admin over this.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Assume it's today, the location is a block away from the murder scene/protest, heading towards the scene.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Drove four hours to be there tonight. It was fucking cold. No one seemed to care.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Years later Coughlin said they would have won another Superbowl if he hadn't done it.

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PZ Myers @pzmyers.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

It almost makes one believe in reincarnation, or demonic possession. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

There's a reason I switched my PhD research from AI to testing. Software engineering is about to be a lot more about specifications and testing than it currently is. Engineers will be no less vital, but day-to-day responsibilities are going to shift over the next several years.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I'm sure the Rams can find another WR who will promptly be determined by sports media to be the reason why Stafford's numbers are MVP-level.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

What are you doing up here? I live close enough that I've walked to that Mooyah

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It's literally the insignia from the "Are we the baddies?" skit that became a meme.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Who takes off their shirt while drinking at a bar? I mean, I live in *Wisconsin* and have never seen that.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

It's more of we were 0-3 going on to the game and not expecting much. Disappointing end to a 97 win season, sure, but my god that was a Hall of Fame showing.

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Yep, here cheering for the Brewers, but watching the best single game of baseball anyone has ever played.

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