Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo; Madonna’s Ray of Light; Primal Scream (multiple times) 000
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Wanna see my smilin’ face illustrating a culture-war opinion piece on page 27 of the Rolling Stone 100
Reposted by DewbAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 31/07/2026My car went rogue after I turned on cruise control and jumped out 13528128
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don’t even see the code anymore. All I see is Chicago, margherita, puttanesca 010
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Left positive comments about the new confraflow bike lane in my neighborhood on the city FB post about it, and a bike lane hater with a motorcycle profile banner image told me to “be careful” going “the wrong way down the street” 010
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Everyone’s sharing their opinions about data centers, meanwhile no-one is paying attention to the data crust 010
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The broader software industry does not do a great job of teaching this, but one of the first things sci/eng computing drills into you is to *never* use the equality operator with floats. Instead, test that the absolute value of the difference is less than some small epsilon (typically 1e-5 to 1e-8) 161
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My first thought was Mirai and Bright as Linda and Bob, and Hathaway as Tina, but your analogy makes more sense 010
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I also learned “exonerative tense” from @radleybalko.bsky.social, who credits William Schneider as using it as far back as 2007 www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-wat...washingtonpost.comThe curious grammar of police shootingsCops don't shoot people, but their guns do 140
Reposted by DewbDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Every time Vance is interviewed on any subject he should be asked, "Why should we believe anything you say, when you admitted that you invented a racist story about Haitian eating pets just so you could stoke a panic about immigration? Do you think that makes you good and trustworthy?" 08114
Reposted by DewbBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen. 3508126
Reposted by DewbAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“It’s wrong. All of it. The Senate needs to pass the House-approved 3 year TPS extension for Haitian refugees. Immediately.” — @repgreglandsman.bsky.social, who is tracking this stuff, says to @zeteo.com today 219362
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt singing Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush” on Letterman in 1999, accompanied by piano, synthesizer, and glass armonica. “Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 21st Century.”youtu.beHarris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)YouTube video by Don Giller 000
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Sacking out during late viewings of Stalker is a 9/10 sleep experience, imo 010
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A group in Vermont tried that a while back: web.archive.org/web/20091007...web.archive.orgSurvivalists, Town Clash Over Craftsbury Road - WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-"We were surrounded by at least a dozen men who all came running out of what they had claimed to be a church," D'Amico said. "And they said there is no road so go back that way." 010
Reposted by DewbReturn of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 14/12/2025People ask “how could you bring a child into a world this sick” and I always answer “simple, my child shall have superpowers like laser beam eyes” 6588
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026well, I can’t guarantee an “aha” moment, but you can start here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_...en.wikipedia.orgThirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould - Wikipedia 100
Reposted by DewbStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/11/2024The only thing worse than living in unprecedented times is discovering the times are actually highly precedented 17903162
Reposted by DewbDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026The most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again 1230272
Reposted by DewbMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Me: I *won* overthinking, actually, if you think about it therapist: we talked about this Me: OK, but I *did* win, right?? 09812
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026the funny thing is that unless you hike all the way up from the foothills in one go, most typical forms of uphill or downhill recreation have about the same elevation from base to summit, you just start much higher out west 0110
Reposted by DewbBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Lots of your posts are not increasing shareholder value 2754968
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026look, as someone who has literally attended a microbrew meetup on a pirate ship, I don’t know where anyone would get the idea that it would be a sad scene. it’s obviously a rip-roaring, jolly time 090
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I wonder if the people losing their minds over NYC-run grocery stores know about New Hampshire state liquor stores. 020
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I also love how this video is in clear conversation with Robyn’s iconic performance in “Call Your Girlfriend” 010
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026down so bad for someone that you have to sweat out your feelings on the dancefloor, except the dancefloor is hyperspace 000
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026If you combine Alden Ehrenreich’s performances in Solo and in the new Jeremy O. Harris-directed Carly Rae Jepsen video (“Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor”) then you get Sandy Kreja from CJ Cherryh’s “Merchanter’s Luck” and not giving it a film adaptation is leaving a lot of money on the table 210
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026It’s going to be something when US ratification of Geneva I & II and signing the ICC treaty becomes a condition of peace talks 000
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026a funny thing about that take is that you can literally use those devices to amplify the sounds around you 000
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Exhibit 2: gizmodo.com/bmw-is-playi...gizmodo.comBMW Is Playing a Spider-Man Ad on Its Dashboard Displays, and People Are PissedThe automaker is framing it as an 'exclusive' animation tied to a broader brand partnership with the new Spider-Man movie. 000
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I was a bit confused by the reviews of the Slate truck that argued “but you can get a vehicle with a lot more features for only slightly more money!” Yes, but people are beginning to want *less* and are willing to pay more to get it. And this sort of offering is why. 200
Reposted by DewbGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is one of the best things I've read in a while about the psychology of car supremacy, and how those of us who even *question* it are viewed as heretics. Thanks to @pflax1.bsky.social for sending this my way.medium.comWe Don’t Have a Culture of Convenience in North America. We Have a CULT of Convenience.And you can tell the difference by what happens when you question it. 525993
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026*standing up on the plane* Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace… 000
Reposted by DewbCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/07/2026we are absolutely missing a critical culture right now, it's been subsumed by fandom, and reading a knowledgeable, high brow critique of a film like Emily Wilson wrote is just so *refreshing* 5977
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Wow people are really unfamiliar with the distinct pleasures of simultaneously enjoying Nolan movies as cinematic spectacle while also enjoying picking apart their paper-thin intellectual architectures, a phenomenon that is now old enough to vote 120
Reposted by DewbAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 28/07/2026*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again. 242570553
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I don’t think a Nolan Moby Dick would be a particularly literate or deep adaptation, but it would be deftly condensed, cinematic, and fun to talk about, just like his Odyssey 000
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I forget who first said this, but whaling was a technology boom, 1850s New Bedford was Silicon Valley, and Melville was a tech reporter 000
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Moby Dick is simultaneously the Odyssey of the 19th Century and the Oppenheimer of the 19th Century 200
Reposted by DewbAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The racist backlash to Chris Nolan’s Odyssey is a kind of stolen valor, an attempt by the right to claim credit for achievements they had nothing to do with in order to justify racial hierarchy in the present. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comThe Fear of Black GreeksWhite people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece. 642758666
Dewb @dewb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Let me see if I understand the argument here: “if you criticize me, I’ll get pulled into the arms of right-wing podcasts?” But the ante here was going on Carlson; how is that meaningfully different than a right-wing podcast? The loop has already been closed. 0171
Reposted by DewbGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Maybe the Globe should retract the disgusting victim blaming op-ed they posted yesterdaybostonglobe.comDriver in fatal cyclist crash maneuvered around another vehicle - The Boston GlobeThe driver appears to have been heading east on Tremont Street shortly after 8 a.m., and came upon a vehicle that was turning left. 225050