Reposted by bkmacdRick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Can’t post around it can’t post under it gotta post through it 46816
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 10hI'm much more of a "inside you there are two wolves" type of fellow on this question. 020
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 12hI don't quite know how to fully theorize this, but the bleed of industry specific journalism into the mass market discourse and vice versa has been bad for all involved. 010
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 22hGot a project plan worked up, put Claude on Ultracode, told it I was going to bed and see how far it could get with the plan. Lol. I am developer. 020
Reposted by bkmacdnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The reason AI is so bad at philosophy is because it’s been trained on all the articles in philosophy journals 425826
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wondering if I should update the Ideal Diversified Portfolio now that three way parlays on 3v3 Peruvian basketball leagues are tradable on Kalshi 010
Reposted by bkmacdBART @bart.gov · 07/10/2026BART just set a new ridership record! We carried 254,248 trips yesterday. That’s our highest ridership day since the pandemic, a record we have been breaking again and again this year as more people want to take transit. Thread ⬇️ 420531
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That being said I cut my teeth on the 3rd and Fairfax and Silverlake editions so nothing really phases me anymore 010
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To modify Tolstoy, all happy Costco parking lots are alike; each Trader Joe's parking lot is fucked up in its own way. 120
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"I see you've got this working on your local" and other DevOps horror stories for Halloween. 060
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Does amc use the Nicole Kidman preview roll before Tom Cruise movies or is there a clause in a contract somewhere? 021
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A guy on the tok explained the proper names for them (4 minutes long I swear people gotta learn brevity) 2486
Reposted by bkmacdHaydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026However happy the polls make you now you must remind yourself that 535952
Reposted by bkmacdTom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026RIP J. Todd Anderson The Coen brothers’ use of storyboards was integral to their creative process & the hugely talented Anderson brought their cinematic ideas to life since Raising Arizona. 628366
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Pop quiz: 1-month S&P 500 capped-versus-uncapped variance was trading at around 0.40 vol points on February 2020 expiration. The sellers pointed to the backtest that said this trade never lost money even in 2008. How many vol points did it lose? 000
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This begins with a narrow survey of a particular trend but ends with a literature review of injuries related to pants and this is top quality reporting www.cbc.ca/news/world/z...cbc.caZara's 'death pants' are trending because people keep tripping on them | CBC NewsTechnically, the Zara pants at the centre of a new internet phenomenon are called "flowy wide leg pants." But on social media, they're better known as "death trousers" because people keep tripping and... 150
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My favorite coffee was on sale at Berkeley Bowl so my pantry looks like a coffee shop and I have no ragearts 051
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026the annoying thing about "ai/tech will solve everything" is that a lot of the time the actual barrier is "x department's data needs a way to talk with y department's data while conforming to various regulatory and process concerns" and that is hard people and technical work. 000
Reposted by bkmacdMark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Unsung Women Behind America’s Most Celebrated Civil Rights Protest The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...nytimes.comBook Review: ‘How Bright the Path Grows,’ by Marcia Chatelain (Gift Article)The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story. 2344108
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Our favorite gag is to tell the kids that the ice cream truck only plays music when they're out of ice cream so the kids won't be sad. 010
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026SF scene report: people still pass joints around at the Fillmore 010
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I mean, the linking of aesthetics and goodness goes as far back as chaucer if not further so it is just an old prejudice that gets repurposed by whoever needs to come up with a reason to deny people the inherent worth of humanity but yes. 2122
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Look, opening up the house is just a good idea y'all were cooking with that one 020
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026static.klipy.comDoc Holliday: I Have Not Yet Begun to Defile MyselfALT: Doc Holliday: I Have Not Yet Begun to Defile Myself 020
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I want another cup of coffee but know that if I do I will Have A Bad Time. But the process of a coffee would be so nice. 140
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026static.klipy.comThe Whistles Go Woo Woo Guy MemeALT: The Whistles Go Woo Woo Guy Meme 120
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It also coincided with admissions becoming a national rather than regional game, so local elite fallback schools (Santa Clara, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, etc) either pivoted national or slowly decayed. 010
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In the 90s USC successfully implemented a strategy of throwing lots of scholarship money at kids to raise the average test scores* and threw lots of money at faculty and facilities. They really did a successful investment scheme to improve the standings of the school *ask me how I know lol self dox 110
Reposted by bkmacdHimbo Deluxe @verylarge.bsky.social · 02/10/20261,000,000,000,001 Dalmatians. A roiling cosmography of polkadot hounds. Their energy and gravity pulling upon the very seams that hold the fabric of our reality fast. In one voice they cry, their baleful song heralding the very end of days. Repent, or do not, for it is no longer your choice to make. 48314
Reposted by bkmacdDr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Data centers: 5705
Reposted by bkmacdokay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026never let doing what you love (academic philosophy) interfere with your day job (phone) 2334
bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026yud, unconsciously, taps into a secular apocalypticism that existed in postwar high modernism (nuclear proliferation, silent spring/environmentalism, ozone/CFC) but obvs the difference between Yuddites and technocratic concerns is that the latter is actually evidence/science-as-a-process based. 020