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CS_McVey

@cs-mcvey.bsky.social
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EE with background in legacy industrial systems, dad, Episcopalian. Navy veteran, vegetarian.

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yandex cloud data centre in Sasovo hit by Ukrainian drones (OWA-UAV) overnight. Strategic target likely with impacts much greater than an internet network disruption chart will suggest. Trump isn’t the only one who loves data centres. Feel the warmth.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
courthousenews.com
AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can you make a Rafale souffle?
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wonder if you know what a Jennings Relay is, or have any connection to its inventor.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first known peace treaty! Oooh, that needs its own ROOM in a museum.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am amazed there are people who remember Escaflowne; I wasn't alone in being very into it at the time but it really sort of vanished quickly. Trigun, now that's a nigh-universal acknowledged classic.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Then why is the gap between the “overall” and the “white” line in your chart bigger now than in 1960? Skeptical of this narrative.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No. Other countries had post-ww2 economic miracles too, like West Germany or Japan. Industrial automation really does suck. Acemoglu made arguments to this effect in “Power over Progress.”
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That is... not what I would have expected. 67-68% vs. 50% isn't "dwarfs," but it is significantly higher. Ok, maybe it's just the area where I live that's turning into a deranged housing crisis hellscape? I mean, there *is* a real housing crisis, and not just in the USA.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I didn't say technology has been OVERALL bad; that would be insane. I indicated, essentially, that his assertion that "almost all" technological advancement has liberated people from drudgery overreaches to the point of blithe coldness and it makes me upset.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What, so you'd rather make share-an-apartment money working retail or food service today, than suburban house money hand-making planes and fridges in pre-automation factories?
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
US military nearly intercepted a Chinese ship in the Middle East this spring after an AI-generated intelligence report falsely claimed it carried nuclear weapons components. Troops were preparing to board and aircraft were airborne before the error was caught - CNN
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
US officials say there is no single standard for verifying AI-generated intelligence. Sources say AI hallucinations have happened repeatedly across the intelligence community - CNN
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A US Special Operations Command Pacific analyst used a chatbot to assess the ship's manifest, then used AI to write and circulate the report. The chatbot misidentified the cargo. One source said it almost started a war - CNN
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Populist right underperformed; center-left looks slightly ahead. Sweden has soured on large scale immigration (even though they still face the same demographic crisis everyone does,) but perhaps seeing far right governments abet Russia's war, or start wars of their own, was even more distasteful.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"But they are" is going too far in the opposite direction. They are still tools that can do better at some tasks, not independently functioning beings that always do better at entire roles.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I want him to answer this too. I hate AI, but have given up praying it will remain clumsy and useless. Clearly it has abilities.
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Patrick Boyle 💎 @pboyle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
youtu.be/HgjXjPP_p3s
youtu.be
Why Nothing Looks Cool Anymore
YouTube video by Design Theory
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
JD Vance can be Starscream, though.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trying it out.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When will these people finally face consequences?
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How can I experience more uncommon and unique apple cultivars if I do not live in a climate where apples are grown?
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Dimmers?"
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If it works well, it was lead. Good ole 63-37 🩶
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My understanding: there were rival British and French claims to the islands, Spain bought out the French claim, newly-independent Argentina inherited the claim & moved onto the islands and tore down abandoned UK structures (had been enemies in Napoleonic Wars) but soon UK took them back.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My prayers being answered. Humanity has a future after all?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026
Flock is far from the only company taking automated pictures of your license plate as you go about your day.
motherjones.com
Flock is cancelled—and their competitors are profiting
Other brands are still dodging the backlash around automated license plate readers.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I mean, they're for AI. The badness is pretty specified. Trying to tack on peripheral concerns like water and power use is a bit silly, but they truly are bad and a threat to us all.
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“If you knew this would lead to Dr. Manhattan why did you do it anyway?!” “Because it’s what happens.”
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Don't tell righties about the Theban Sacred Band.
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Somali piracy surges as the impact of the US-Iran war ripples outwards
bbc.co.uk
Somali piracy surges as the impact of the US-Iran war ripples outwards
Two ships were seized within four days last week raising to at least 13 the number attacked since January.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Is that what is meant by “low-harm warfare?”
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Can you image the SAF and RSF trying to get away with like 1/5th of this shit 25 years ago? They'd have been squashed like bugs, captured, dragged before the ICC. Now, madness and amorality reign as though a long-dead C'thulhu had somehow subtly awakened.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I have a long commute and haven't even managed to finish Clausewitz. I wish IR/defense were more accessible! Then again, a "dumbed down" version of the subject is probably dangerous.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I used to do bike-and-transit commuting before COVID; SF Bay Area. Would do it again if it were safer and/or I didn't have a small kid.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🤬
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
TACO.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I had an idea about vactrains once: to make the tube double-hulled with a layer of brine between, as it would tend to form a mineral plug over a leak by evaporation/freezing, and also mark its location. Too bad brine's too heavy to take to Luna.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This has been a miserable couple of months.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Heeey, that's not what cricket looks like in Bluey.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is why I old-millenial it up with out-of-print TTRPG stuff. Tired of the predictable edition cycling. It's like if some corporation had the authority to cancel baseball and make everybody buy all new stuff and learn "baseball 2."
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/08/2026
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
wired.com
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
GOTP
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
They don't just let Claude decide where the terrorists are now?
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
@jonbois.bsky.social did it better.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
That sounds like a trip to the ER.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is my jam.
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wouldn't FPVs matter somewhat less if one of the warring sides were able to achieve air supremacy?
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CS_McVey @cs-mcvey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Itty bitty planar triodes! (I work in tubes)
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