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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

You wouldn't write a tone poem about the brooklyn queens expressway

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

New episode from the 1hp runescape guy is absolute peak </3

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

NYC second worldwide is crazy, but I'm going to white knight for my city a bit: * Metro coverage is very dense * Clear positive changes in the last 20 years: no cars in central park, pedestrianizing Broadway, congestion pricing, some daylighting

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Fuck Eric Adams, but more than that, fuck a justice system where corruption goes unpunished because the president said so

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

No UBlockOrigin on chrome any more = instant switch to firefox, fuck em

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Instead of porting the typescript compiler to native code we should just build computers which natively execute javascript??

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Fog's rolling in off the East River Bank Like a shroud, it covers Bleeker Street Fills the alleys where men sleep Hides the Shepard from the sheep - Simon and Garfunkel

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The only thing worse than complexity in a software system is complexity at the boundary between two software systems

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

(sry for math pedantry, your point still stands) I think this figure assumes all games are 50/50 coin flips: 1/2^63 by earth's population is around 1.15 billion. If you make reasonable guesses about likeliest outcomes, you could do MUCH better than 1/2^63

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Democracy is falling apart, and if we let it die, it's game over whether Trump is popular or not. People banking on things like "unpopularity" and "6 months" are asleep at the wheel. When your opponent brings a gun to a chess game, you should probably stop playing chess

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

As someone whose hobbies include "walk around Prospect Heights/Crown Heights" I actively look forward to walking on Underhill and hope they do the same thing to Vanderbilt

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Other obvious moves * Pass stringent voter ID legislation (ongoing - see SAVE act) * Invite white supremacists to violently patrol voting sites, a la Jan 6. Ensure DOJ+FBI allow it * Gut election oversight agencies (see attempted firing of Ellen Weintraub) * Intimidate poll workers (weaponize DOJ)

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

If you're trying to get rid of free and fair elections in the US, attacking USPS is an obvious move.

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I never thought I would be a "states rights defend us against tyrrany" guy, but man am I happy to see NY Governor Hochul stand up for NY state sovereignty.

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

* Imo applying AI to SWE processes only improves productivity short-term. SWE by hand involves: learning (general SWE patterns, lang patterns, system specifics), implicit bugfinding, context building. Not just doing the task. Bureaucratic engineering processes are systemically blind to this value

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

To be clear my negative views of AI are based on: * I prefer information environments to have a high % human generated content * Large corps own the LLMs * Companies salivating to use AI to fire ppl * Companies salivating to shoehorn AI chatbots into CRUD apps to get that sweet sweet VC mone

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I've written to thank her for defending the congestion pricing program and for defending NY State's sovereignty www.governor.ny.gov/content/gove... 1-518-474-8390 | Office hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Based response from gov hochul on congestion pricing www.governor.ny.gov/news/stateme...

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

NYPD says more than 10,000 people at NYC Union Sq/Washington Sq @50501movement.bsky.social protest techcrunch.com/2025/02/17/t...

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I estimate around 5k-10k folks were at the NYC Union Sq @50501movement.bsky.social protest today. Low confidence on exact # but that's the order of magnitude

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

If you want to understand what's going on in the US, read Paul krugman's and Timothy Snyder's blogs

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It's small comfort, but at least nobody in *checks notes* the damn west village will be fooled by this

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

git revert git revert git revert git revert git revert

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Integrity is built a little at a time. Keep listening to the voice inside your heart, and one day you will find it is unthinkable to be anything other than what you are.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/02/2025

Scenes like this wouldn’t be possible without whistleblowers coming forward about Elon Musk’s authoritarian takeover. Reminder that if you’re a public servant wishing to report fraud, waste, or abuse at a federal agency, you can do so on my website:

wyden.senate.gov

Whistleblower Complaint | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

CNN with an absolutely gigantic story: "Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system." edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...

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Musk associates sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show | CNN Politics

Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using...

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It is a beautiful day to be transgender and wear a tight dress

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

You could not pay me enough money to post these words on the internet

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It's a beautiful day and it's so wonderful to be alive

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Some fascists typed a bunch of words but my gender is unchanged

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Good afternoon friendos

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If companies are punished for being pro trans, companies are incentivized to become. Companies that do not are less competitive, more likely to go out of business, less likely to receive capital funding. It's basic stuff. It's sinister stuff

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If you make it tax advantaged to implement anti trans policies, there will be more anti trans policies, period. This isn't a question of single company action, it's a question of capital flowing to the highest returns. Which it will. Water doesn't flow uphill, capital doesn't flow away from returns

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Offering financial rewards or punishments for companies to take stances on social issues is pernicious. At an individual level its easy to view this as a carrot or a stick, which an individual company can choose whether to respond to. But zoomed out, it's better viewed as a tax or a subsidy.

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

3. Expectations of incentives (financial sanctions, financial subsidies, antitrust action, other forms of favor) by the Trump admin toward FB based on their choice of moderation policy. I sort of think this is why? Kind of obviously?

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

2. Some kind of mechanism of direct control. I've seem claims on this site that there's overlap between FB policy setters and project 2025 authors. Seems possible and easy to verify

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

What is the mechanism by which the US 2024 presidential election changed facebooks moderation policy? Some ideas: 1. The election revealed new information to FB about US public opinion. This seems to be FBs party line and I don't buy it for a second. Surely they have direct access to sentiment info

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Like, I do understand that a particular choice of moderation policy may be more or less free. But it seems far more significant to me that the moderation policy is responsive to US Presidential politics

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Facebook chooses its moderation policy. This policy may be more or less stringent, which raises interesting questions about free speech. Facebook then CHANGES its moderation policies as a direct result of a changing political regime. This is sort of obviously a more significant free speech issue?

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Definitely true and I'm not disputing this. I would prefer a larger $ toll with massively expanded exemptions for low income commuters (the exemptions as they stand are paltry). I still believe the policy as it stands is net good for all poor people taken together.

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Good evening, happy day after christmas

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

A. Poor person who drives into CBD B. Rich person who drives into CBD C. Poor person who takes transit D. Rich person who takes transit I agree with you that congestion pricing hurts A more than B. I claim that C and D outnumber A and B, and that C:A is a higher ratio than D:B

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

> anywhere from between 27-35% of low income households drive a car daily in NYC.* "Drive a car in NYC" =/= "Drive that car into the central business district tolling zone". I'm seeing 80% of ppl who commute to the CBD take transit? With rich ppl using autos at higher rates?

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

> The hyper wealthy will pay this tax and it will mean less than nothing to them I think this is a good thing? Don't let poor ppl drive = regressive. Take $9 from the rich and give it to the MTA = progressive. Perhaps both are happening and the former is bad the latter is definitely good.

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

>[...poorer people are] the only group likely to cease driving due to financial strain Disagree with this. It is reasonable for someone rich to have a "drive into Manhattan" willingness to pay that is < $9. More often true of poor ppl but still very possible for rich

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Liam @its-liam.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I made homemade eggnog

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