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dB Cooper

@coolerpseudonym.bsky.social
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“And so goes he forth: a clamless shell, as it were—a man of straw—a house untenanted—a futile, motile void." –George Herriman Mastodon: @CoolerPseudonym@wandering.shop PhD in philosophy Gen X Jewish Midwesterner in the US South

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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 44m
I don’t actually know enough about how AI works to say I know what a Markov chain is. So, those? Lots of them?
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 1h
People would be more into the AI if the Captains of Industry who are selling it to us weren't such weird fanatics I want to hear that your product is handy to use, not that it’s handy to use AND might kill everyone I know for unclear reasons
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 17h
RIP Margaret Hamilton news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s all just Markov chains from here on out
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"chatGPT thinks I am a genuis" is just the modern version of "I think this stripper is in love with me"
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When you have to close all the windows quickly because a skunk has gone off nearby
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you liked "Armageddon", you should probably not even be allowed to be an organ donor
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
After our latest botched carceral murder, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (Scum - TN) said "we should just bring back the electric chair" and everyone said that was such a crass and barbaric quip, and I thought, "quip"? That was a proposal, and it's what's going to happen
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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’ve seen stickers on signs and posts around town that say “FCK JKR” and I realized this is meant to say “fuck jk rowling” rather than “Fuck Joker”. like I assumed these were tags by a guy who calls himself the Fuck Joker
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the [snorts] autocaptioning feature on [music] youtube [snorts] [music] [snorts] [music] [music] is great [music]
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Somehow I missed that tech invest-y guy who got AI-crazed when it started confabulating SCP stuff at him and he believed it I mean, yeah, AI bad, I guess, but - you’d have to be a fucking idiot I mean, Jesus Christ
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They tried this with balloons 🎈
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy birthday Steve Reich appy birthday Steve Reich H ppy birthday Steve Reich Ha py birthday Steve Reich Hap y birthday Steve Reich Happ birthday Steve Reich Happy birthday Steve Reich Happy irthday Steve Reich Happy b rthday Steve Reich Happy bi thday Steve Reich Happy bir
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI poses fewer profound questions than ever before
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Gen Z are mad at the Millennials? “OK, Millennial?”
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Look, can you please stop asking all Jews who have the temerity to be Jews out in public what their position is on Palestine before you’ll speak to them or let them in the door? You see why that’s wrong, don’t you? Please. It’s happening too often
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Remember when the left was against copyright?
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“AI” is pronounced Ahhhhh Eeeeee
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is so expensive that what we‘ve spent on it could have paid for…the F-35 (God, we’re so fucking stupid)
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Who could have foreseen that using expired veterinary pentobarbital on someone with a circulatory disorder wouldn’t work You wouldn’t do that to a dog
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If AI was that great for writing code, shouldn’t software work noticeably better by now? Any of it? i haven’t been able to use bluski’s own ios app for weeks because it persistently and unpredictably fails to update the feed (sometimes it throws the new posts under a random tab like “explore”)
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The people who were trying to collect debts from a prisoner who used to have my phone number did eventually stop calling but it took nearly a decade
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I remember what it was like to look through the back of the head of Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The cumulative effects of the end of well-funded public education, banning books and truthful curricula, letting corporate propagandists buy all the media and publishing, covid brain damage, and AI, means we may as well have just kept on sticking tons of lead in everything
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The AI bubble can’t pop soon enough. It’s such a terrible drag on the real, non-bullshit economy
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“AI”? We don’t know what “I” is yet
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The reaction to mid-mod sleekness and white-walled minimalism is only gathering pace. The kids today are blowing through cottagecore, well on their way back to full-blown Victorian chintz
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t necessarily mind a very sexualized ad campaign, I guess, but does it have to be for online betting? Shouldn’t it be for, like, lube, or something? Or at least something not horribly destructive? “I’m Sydney Sweeney, for public transit.”
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Colleges and universities are incapable of learning the simple lesson that, when someone gets raped on campus, you have to call the cops. The real cops. Every few years another college tries to deal with a rape "internally", and the case explodes. How can they still be so stupid?
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kesh Patel must have a pal who wants to be an FBI agent but who has fucked an animal, and Kesh knows this. Now, the only way for a friend to know you're into bestiality is to be into bestiality together. I would assume it's not something you'd talk about unless you were very sure of your ground.
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Seems Israel will renege on the Law of Return, if you’re uncomfortable with genocide. A prospective oleh may not criticize the IDF. I wasn’t considering making aliyah anytime soon, but just to be clear - the IDF is committing crimes against humanity. I wouldn’t want to be in a false position.
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Love too get upbraided for saying we could end homelessness in this country, without explicitly talking about ending homelessness in the whole world - making me a stupid selfish American-exceptionalist fash lol Anyway, let’s be careful out there
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Don’t fucking call me bro
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is fine Setting about seven daily record high temperatures in a row has been pretty cool, actually. Records are made to be broken
Isothermal map of the United States, with anomalous heat colored in darkening shades of orange. There is a strong heat dome over the southeastern US.
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Should you be voting on war if you own a factory that makes munitions
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I finally heard someone say “smexy” unironically on youtube It was just as unpleasant an experience as you would imagine
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it etc: The spirit of Earl Landgrebe is the spirit of our age
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It really beats me why people think Warren Buffett isn’t just as shitty and sociopathic as the rest of them
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thing is, Macklemore actually is anti-Semitic. Not because of what he said about Palestine, obviously. Because of the time he dressed up on stage as a hook-nosed Jewish caricature. And then lied about it afterwards. So let’s please cancel #Macklemore for the correct reasons, not the wrong ones
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
why are all new posts from my follows suddenly in my 'discover' tab, while my 'following' tab is empty
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I wonder if there are any larger crochet kippot that don’t make you look like an IDF wannabe Or if there’s a frik-style kippah that doesn’t make you look like a breslaver or a settler Because it seems a comfortable style
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is just to say I have sold the baby shoes that had never been worn and which you were probably saving for your own reasons forgive me they were a reminder so sad and so concise
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I guess soft blocking doesn’t work on here
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Obviously, today is the 53rd anniversary of the fascist coup against Allende that brought Pinochet to power in Chile.
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Watching that old BBC sci-fi chestnut, “The Omega Factor”. 1979. Much like the X-Files, avant la lettre. A troubled guy works with a government team that studies psychic phenomena, to probe a vast conspiracy. It’s actually not bad. It was canceled after one series, sole victim of Mary Whitehouse.
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Charlie Kirk’s death has not yet found its Jacques-Louis David, which is a shame, because it was perhaps even funnier, more ironic and absurd than Marat’s death. And that’s saying something.
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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dB Cooper @coolerpseudonym.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what demand destruction actually looks like in practice
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