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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 03/10/2026

Don't quote Russian military propaganda at me, bud. Your strawman of stealth vulnerability is simply not worth engaging with. It is true that every stealth system is imperfect, but it does not make stealth aircraft an unwise investment.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 03/10/2026

The F-117 is a whole generation before the F-35. The -B is the only V/STOL variant, and is even more technically dodgy than the already troubled -C and -A. The reasons F-35s aren't on the ground isn't because stealth doesn't work; it's everything listed above. Don't be disingenuous.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 03/10/2026

It's insane that people can have the lack of forebrain engagement of a Sam Alito and make it through life without drowning by staring upward into the rain with their mouths open.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 02/10/2026

Maybe perhaps F-16s can be operated from rougher contested airfields with a smaller maintenance detachment using a more reliable supply chain for parts than incredibly specialized aircraft like the F-35 or B-2?

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 02/10/2026

Do you maybe think the cost and maintenance requirement differences between an F-35 and an F-16 may have anything to do with this decision? Perhaps a third-to-fourth-generation air force could more easily integrate F-16s than a more modern and specialized airframe?

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yet another reason to boycott Amazon.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 02/10/2026

This has to be the activation phrase for a deep cover agent. Sentences like this can't occur naturally. The world wouldn't allow it.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 27/09/2026

I think we should make data center building permits dependent on funding major public infrastructure upgrades and then after the upgrades are completed - and I think this is the important bit - don't approve the permits.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 27/09/2026

I really hope the neckstrap has an anti-strangulation safety release on it to make it easier to rip the little fucker off and throw it as hard as possible.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 25/09/2026

You can radiate heat into space but the effectiveness is inversely proportional to the background (so worse closer to a planet) and proportional to temperature (best to run your radiators at thousands of Kelvin) both of which are at best poorly compatible with a data center.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 24/09/2026

It's great that Obsidian turns out bangers on the regular while Bethesda has had a pretty solid string of dogshit and yet the former is being hollowed out to try and spackle the crumbling walls of the latter.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 21/09/2026

The product of heedlessness indeed. ...man, I really want to play through DD 2 again but I just started a new playthrough of BG 3.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 19/09/2026

I really like your keyboard! Not a huge deal - and I hope it's not a hard ask - but would it be possible to add a ten-key/numpad mode for fields that only take numbers? Thanks for sharing it either way!

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 16/09/2026

We'll just ask everyone for a quick five year breather and then we can go right back to international bullying. It's like losing a contact lens during a brawl - everyone gives you a minute and the fight turns back on when you're ready.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 15/09/2026

A lot of scaremongering about AI extinction makes me think of the panic around nuclear testing igniting the atmosphere. No, the most over-the-top outcome is absurdly unlikely, but that doesn't mean the product can't and won't cause extraordinary amounts of human suffering for more prosaic reasons.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 15/09/2026

Joke's on her: you could make a way bigger mess with the shotgun.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 15/09/2026

I can't remember being barred from any games entirely but I remember playing Soldier of Fortune with my brother, being poised over a dead enemy with a knife to test the dismemberment tech, and my mom saying if I did it we were losing the computer for the day.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 14/09/2026

I have coworkers who do exactly this. It's the most overt "secret" thing I've ever seen.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 11/09/2026

I don't think of myself as a great cook, or even a particularly good one, but if I made something for my family that looked this awful I would throw it out and order pizza.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 10/09/2026

Wouldn't this be illegal in any two-party consent state e.g. California? It is an "electronic amplifying or recording" device, even if the original record is theoretically ephemeral. I feel like you would need explicit consent from everyone present to use it without breaking the law.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 04/09/2026

I believe agreeing to do this was a condition of my membership.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 03/09/2026

If the order is sufficiently complex, and especially if I've never ordered from the place before, I will absolutely be staring at a notepad window like it's got instructions for disarming a nuclear bomb the whole time I'm on the phone.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 02/09/2026

I generally find you can't trust military people outside the very specific framework in which they originally thrived. To the extent you can trust them at all, anyway.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 01/09/2026

I seem to remember one of the X-Coms gave your foes awareness of when your units were in overwatch, which would prompt them to hunker down and go for low-percentage shots that hit just often enough to fuck your whole day up.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 31/08/2026

With pedophilia less popular than ever, many people are wondering what CBS's role in the media landscape looks like in the 21st century.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 28/08/2026

I'm being a skeptic here, but is there evidence that these are what the originators claim? I know the DLSS 5 demo(s) looked like this but one could easily recreate the effect with image editing. I tried following the links but the second one down 404'd.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you buy STARBUCKS coffee, please stop! Starbucks workers have been jerked around by the company for many years and are calling for a BOYCOTT. If you don’t buy Starbucks and / or don’t like their coffee, like me, cool cool cool but no need to comment please. Just spread the word. Thank you!

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 19/08/2026

I've only just started it but in Date Everything your relationship options are Love, Friendship, and Hate.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

There are four overlapping scandals here: 1. Fundraising spam tactics are hallmarks of elder financial exploitation 2. The Dem establishment is in on it 3. Most of what is raised goes to fundraising consultants 4. Capitulation to legal threats by NYT and The Bulwark on a fully vetted story 🧵👇

data4democracy.substack.com

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 15/08/2026

This is how humans work as well so at least their universe is consistent with ours.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 14/08/2026

I burned through the first part while on COVID quarantine, but I haven't had a similarly isolating and time-freeing event to push me through the second. Obviously I'm not advocating for more pandemics, but maybe the rapture or something?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Incredible stuff from Cards Against Humanity, who is now building a monument to interfere with SpaceX.

Why do you keep calling Elon Musk “a sad little bitch with no friends”?

Great question! (1) He is sad, (2) he is a bitch, and (3) he has no friends.

Did Elon Musk spend his 47th birthday alone, with no friends?

Yes.

Did Elon Musk beg Jeffrey Epstein for an invitation to his island, but get rejected?

Yes.

You’re saying that even the world’s most infamous pedophile didn’t want to be Elon Musk’s friend?

Yes.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 13/08/2026

It's funny not only how it's so absurdly wrong but includes platitudes about prioritizing privacy and safety that are the most obvious bald-faced lies imaginable.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

doomsdayscenario.co

The Five Scandals Within the "Air Force One" Scandal

Donald Trump, a Catering Truck, and the Qatari "Air Force One" represent a Russian Nesting Doll of Scandal and Corruption

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 12/08/2026

I try to avoid delighting in the misery of others but it does put a smile on my face to imagine that motherfucker deprived and despondent.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 31/07/2026

I went through almost the exact same process with Johnny Mnemonic a couple months ago.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 31/07/2026

Now, I haven't read the article, but the headline reads a lot like "Why a Ponzi Scheme Might Be a Great Investment Opportunity."

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 27/07/2026

But if one of them gets cancer and the other doesn't, was it the radiation? Or did one live in a home with a basement and the other didn't? Did one fly internationally and love the outdoors? Or maybe they were just unlucky genetically. It's impossible to say.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 27/07/2026

Of course, the line blurs if you start to ask whether a 40-rem lifetime dose from a 40 year career has a measurably higher cancer risk than a 10-rem dose over the same period. Neither person is glowing green or vomiting up their stomach lining; their offspring is almost certainly perfectly healthy.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 27/07/2026

The data we do have seem to indicate that low dose beta/gamma (such as that experienced by sailors on nuclear ships or workers in nuclear shipyards) is much less risky than e.g. UV from the sun and radon from the home.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 27/07/2026

For reference, US federal guidelines allow 5 rem (.05 sievert [Sv]) per year total dose. Deterministic/direct effects are essentially unheard of below 200 rem (2 Sv). The relationship between low radiation doses and cancer rates is almost impossible to determine.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 27/07/2026

This is tough because ALARA has little scientific basis but is extremely useful as a guideline. The federal limits for radiation exposure aren't changing, but the policies are; it's very difficult to know if it'll have any measurable effect on cancer rates.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 15/07/2026

Change to Swatch .beats. 1000 beats for every day and no time zones.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 08/07/2026

While I agree with the sentiment, the rules of the court seem to require a majority to agree to the rehearing, meaning at least two of the justices would have to reverse themselves.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 30/06/2026

If it "helps", it was 4 that decided the plain, established meaning of the constitution was ignorable if inconvenient. Kavanaugh's concurrence/dissent in part essentially says the 14th doesn't mean shit but since there's a federal statute that applies he'll go along with the majority.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 26/06/2026

Throwing shade from 30000 feet and the airwaves simultaneously.

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Derek Katz @derek.katz.blue · 26/06/2026

It would be fun to be able to pretend that we have a supreme court composed of committed jurists whose good-natured disagreements about constitutional ambiguities chart a careful path through a rich judicial tradition. Instead, many of them are just total fucking shit-for-brains assholes.

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