Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The way you know America is great is that the son of Palestinian immigrants can become a pedantic libertarian. No one else does assimilation like we do 030
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Definitely both books where I read the Wikipedia summary after finishing the book lol I also found Echopraxia more confusing while not having anything new to say after Blindsight 010
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yeah, it's basically just another flavor of fraud detection 010
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm pretty sure the CC companies do eventually catch on and stop offering you intro rewards (happened to my brother lol) 110
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I learned recently that my parents churn through high-fee credit cards for the intro rewards. I asked them if it would hurt their credit score and they said "its not like we're buying a house ever again." Ynow fair enough 110
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The civil war is just Lincoln desperately trying to find a Gen. Killmurder 1110
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Consumers are smol beans who don't know any better, which is why we should use the iron fist of the state to force them into reasonable purchasing decisions 020
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm sure it worked out great with no consequences en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_of...en.wikipedia.orgCoup of 18 Fructidor - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by Felled ManYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Saying that Zionism is racism is like saying Communism is totalitarianism. Both are 19th century ideologies that generated wide sympathy and were seen as progressive, and when put to practice to create and reshape states, created enormous injustice. 1/ 1620841
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think forecasting that AI will decrease the college wage premium is reasonable but the post-COVID decrease is pretty clearly not due to AI 120
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yeah I agree. The "worst" of the series so far but still maintaining a high quality bar bsky.app/profile/fell... 020
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026R/biglaw is the greatest subreddit because everyone is insane but also extremely self-aware of that fact 040
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My tech company (and others) already adopt a soft version of this where they don't hire anyone below senior except for interns. Make the new hires grind out all the grunt work and lowish pay, have AI do the mid-level stuff 040
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026CDA is way too far from an actual metro area to be a retirement home for cops 220
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Isn't this just the DS9 Lower Decks episode? I suppose we could just make a dozen of those 000
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The Villages but for cops" is so insanely funny. Gotta be setting records for accidental firearm discharges per capita 180
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Lmfao I'd never thought about it like that, but yes 110
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Anyway the most anti-Israel presidents were Eisenhower and Bush 41, whereas Truman and LBJ were key architects if early Israeli success. Its complicated! 030
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Tbh conservatives in the US were less pro-israel than liberals for most of the 20th century. Weren't there some pro-palestinian Dixiecrats? 250
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The greatest was the women who pretended to be a guy into sports, got published in sports blogs, then proceeded to sexually harass and solicit nudes from women 081
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Going to an Oktoberfest right after me rec baseball game...sometimes life is good 010
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is where a lot of the success of The Expanse comes from. It was originally a TTRPG so when something comes up they just referenced what's in the box 0100
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My centrist take is that SFF worlds should have thoroughly detailed lore and magic systems, none of which should ever be explicitly told to the reader/viewer 2386
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I still think the best part of this series is seeing where all of the basically identical WWI vets end up. Coin flip that this vaguely relatable everyman becomes literal Hitler 020
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Also I have no idea why the PDX economy is so bad, not really sure what differentiates them 020
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Oregon is Republicans Florida, where the polls always show them on the verge of a huge upset that never materializes 110
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026PR firm for the French Fifth Republic wondering why it can't get good candidates in DC 000
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Claude is making me a worse writer because it easily parses my typos and half formed thoughts lol 110
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So much of AI discourse is the Oppenheimer scene where they split the atom. Oppie furiously scribbling a proof for why its mathematically impossible, meanwhile the grad students are splitting atoms in the next room over 140
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Too cool for bluesky, too smart for threads, too woke for Xitter, truly you suffer 100
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I agree to an extent but also AI by its nature has the most intuitive UX possible. You literally get to express your wishes in plain text! 4102
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Admittedly, I do have some concerns that the guy who "privatized world peace" might not always be working in the public interest 020
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hate to hand it to them but that's a pretty funny kicker 071
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I use it only for highly important matters: debugging why my gaming PC won't boot after I swapped the CPU 010
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I actually wasn't that much of a fan lol, its good I didn't make the connection or I may not have tried his other stuff (which is love) 010
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026 I read this years ago and never realized it was the same author as The Tainted Cup 110
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I didn't like the third book as much because instead of the villain being "personalist aristocraties undermining the rule of law and equitable bureaucracy" it's just "factory farming" 010
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I actually agree with this point but its just true (and damning) that he is very good at winning elections bsky.app/profile/conv... 000
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026He's won every election he's been in bar 1, and is so influential he can basically destroy any GOP incumbent at will 100
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't understand how you can say this 10 years into the Trump era 100
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Gimmick episodes have always been part if trek but SNW has become 70% gimmick episodes, 30% overwrought melodrama 000
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Israel also has a deep state of boomer ashkenazi libs in the military/intelligence services/courts that work to undermine bibi. When they age out its going to be evern worse 020
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hebrew is way worse about this, in Arabic you get at least half the vowels 030
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026People can and do jailbreak SOTA models but its way easier to use the open weights 010
Felled Man @felledman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fwiw, I work in security with colleagues who use AI for malware development. OpenAI/Anthropic restrictions are very strict, even just basic red team emulation stuff isn't allowed. But people use GLM no problem 120
Reposted by Felled ManJake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The only thing I’ll say about the Globe story is you encounter a lot of businesses in Ithaca that don’t seem particularly interested in making money and more often than not they convince you that the profit motive is not the worst thing in the world 4577
