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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Random question, boosts appreciated: A community college in St. Louis is looking for someone qualified to come on-site and inspect their numerous kilns to determine if they're in safe working order. If you know any firms or individuals or where to start looking for qualified people for this job […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Everyone can tell you used AI to do it. They just aren't saying anything about it because they want to be polite. (Do you know someone who needs this thought to pop unbidden into their head?)

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Hi all a bit of good news amidst (gestures) but my friend was on strike and they won and now they all get paid more and that's very cool. Thank you to those who donated to their strike fund, I think I posted the link a while ago. Btw it was their first ever strike, and it was at a cancer […]

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Anyone have recommendations for a tool to take long-form essays from a website and convert them to an .epub file for an e-reader? (I use calibre, btw) thanks in advance!

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cuba uses around 5 GW of power. Total. The idea that they can't power the island with solar and storage is nonsense. "it will always need large thermoelectric plants."" Who would make a statement like this?

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Seeing what the french cops are doing to these literal kids will make you rage. Instead of spending more money on education and a better future for these students our societies spend it on military-grade weapons for exclusive use by roid-raging racists against our most vulnerable.

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I pay too much rent to keep dealing with this shit

"is this a pigeon" meme with the person as "shitty landlord", the butterfly as "rain falling on my floor from the leaky roof" and the person saying "is this trickle-down economics"

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juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

White bikes always make me sad. A child-size white bike makes me want to start a revolution.

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Hey privacy nerds can anyone tell me why it seems like all of the companies are updating their terms and privacy policies RIGHT NOW it seems like?

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Look at hom clearly we write ballot propositions in Missouri

Screenshot of ballot form:

"Constitutional Amendment No. 6
Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to: • expand the initiative and referendum petition process by making it a fundamental right; • allow courts to revise ballot summaries through lawsuits; • prohibit the legislature from weakening initiative or referendum powers; • prohibit the legislature from changing or repealing laws enacted through the initiative process, or passing laws similar to those rejected by referendum, without approval from at least 80% of both chambers; and • preserve existing majority vote and signature requirements for initiative and referendum petitions? State and local governmental entities estimate no costs or savings."

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

We actually tried to incorporate first as a worker co-op, but this wasn't possible we realized after meeting with @LesScopAura , who advised us to wait to convert until we have sufficient revenue, due to the requirements of worker co-op accounting under French business law. So we are a worker […]

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Well, since I have presented it in a talk just now, I made as well "announce" it: my colleague Daniel and I started a company (small-business style, no investors) to commercialize open-source test and measurement hardware related to (flow) batteries. Been getting […] [Original post on social.coop]

Presentation slide titled "We started a company" with two male scientists with white labcoats standing in front of a lab bench with a laptop and experimental apparatus in between them. Image is crudely overlaid with WordArt-style vector images to make it show they have top hats, cigars, and briefcases full of cash.

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Can anyone ID this bug? Found this massive insect in my room this morning, it is around 10 cm long (!) and probably almost 2 cm in diameter at its largest point. In southern France, for context we are in drought and it just rained. A locust? #insects #bugstodon #BackGarden

Big brown long slender bug on white wall with a crack in it

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

While this data shouldn't exist - I do wonder if Flock cameras could run an analysis of the average value of the vehicles circulating on a given day as a function of the current fuel prices, and if there is a trend upward in vehicle value as fuel costs increase. If anyone hacks flock lemme know plz

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Triggered by having to ride my bike along a massive highway full of fancy cars from a train station to the nearby town for a medical exam. And I never thought I'd feel back home in the USA while in France 😅. While a militant cyclist, diesel here is literally almost $11 USD/gallon here :lolsob:

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Or most nice socialist things, ofc

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Rich people when regular folk want walkable cities and functional public transit

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kralcttam ☕️ @kralcttam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov day! Today marks 43 years since Petrov decided to wait for confirmation before escalating a missile alert up the chain of command in the Soviet Air Defense, preventing nuclear war. A hero for not trusting automated systems fully […]

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Second blog post update with some tests from June on all-iron and Cu/Mn chemistry, getting up to speed: dualpower.supply/posts/lab-notebook…

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Finally a blog post for the first time in ages - catching up on a backlog! Making imperfect progress. dualpower.supply/posts/lab-notebook…

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Vendredi 25 Septembre - Critical Mass Lyon 19h - Place Antonin Poncet, 69002 Lyon à tôt ? #CriticalMass #Lyon #BikeTooter #velo #velotaf

Affiche pour l'événement qui montre un vélo hand drawn in brown and orange tones with the relevant information cause I have the flemme of alt text in french

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: sauropods.win/@futurebird/117285779… 💯. As a scientist who remote desktops into my lab PC on my phone at night to watch battery charge/discharge curves in real time. (I should work on my social life I know)

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

[FYI: not trying to personally attack/dogpile, just disappointed] I like some of JA Westenberg's ideas and writing I've read, being exposed to them as they're pretty popular on the fediverse (@ Daojoan@mastodon.social, don't want to @ them here), picked up their […] [Original post on social.coop]

Screenshot that says:

How I AI (Disclosure)
Updated: 20 August 2026

I use Cursor for most coding tasks, and I’ve started experimenting with Grok Bot as the harness for my business. I use Codex and Grok to manage my knowledge base and wiki in Obsidian. I’ve started trialing VidIQ for YouTube as of this month. Cursor is also my go-to tool for formatting ebooks and maintaining versioning for knowledge work using Github and the new Cursor Origins codebase beta. I use Omarchy as my operating system, and increasingly an OS-level harness.

How I Write with AI
I write some posts with zero AI-assistance, and some with Spiral by Every and Codex. Either way, I start by developing the outlines and arguments by hand, deciding what I want to say and how the ideas should fit together. If I’m using AI, I’ll start with Spiral to turn those outlines and arguments into prose; an agent can write a chunk of the initial paragraphs, depending on the piece and the length of my initial input. I edit every paragraph by hand, revising the language, emphasis, and meaning. I then run the edited draft through Codex to identify structural weaknesses, gaps in the argument, and opportunities to improve the piece. I decide which suggestions to accept and make the final revisions myself. The ideas and overall direction are mine, while AI plays a substantial role in drafting the prose and helping me strengthen its structure and arguments.

YouTube thumbnail for video "The Secret to Success Isn't Genius; It's This One Trait" which appears to use generative AI

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

credit to @anne for finding this cathartic reel

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

biblically accurate experience of French administration #France

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@davep yes I remember that too I think! They are so lenient now 😅

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

it's an inconvenience for me, but basically impossible for people from countries with poor record-keeping or that require you to come in-person (an expensive or perilous/impossible journey, e.g. during wartime). hmm... might be on purpose? and this is for people that already have a birth […]

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

2/2 My family then puts $20 and a form asking for an "apostille" for foreign use, plus a pre-paid envelope to send it overseas to me. They send the birth cert back to the original state it was issued in, but a different location. It waits. They eventually make an apostille for it, which is just […]

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

1/x Renewing an existing visa in France---renewal form asks for 10+ documents, none of them are a birth certificate. Response from administration after weeks of delay: "we need your birth certificate, dated from less than 6 months ago." Process of a French person getting a birth certificate […]

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@owiecc totally understand haha, I dropped Spotify a while back and told myself I'd only buy albums on Bandcamp Friday as a sort of "monthly subscription" to artists... The rest of the time, I'm listening "on YouTube" 🏴‍☠️ (i do actually listen on YouTube, it's not bad using NewPipe!)

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Bandcamp: "pweeeaase spend money on any other day than Bandcamp Friday we missed out on $558,000 in fees fuck why did we start this unprofitable trend how can we stop this"

Email screenshot from Bandcamp:

"On September 4, fans spent over $3.1 million on Bandcamp in just 24 hours, directly supporting independent artists and labels.

That’s what Bandcamp Friday is all about.

But supporting the music you love doesn’t have to wait for a special date. On Bandcamp, artists and labels receive an average of 82% of each sale, and that’s true every day, not just on Bandcamp Friday.

Thanks for supporting independent music all year long"

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Szymon Bęczkowski @owiecc.sheep.observer · 11/09/2026

I have about 200kg of Electronicon PK16 E50.R16-564N19 560μF 1200V film capacitors. That is half a pallet. Anyone would find a use for them? You just need to pay shipping from DK. #electronics #PowerElectronics #fediGive

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@benjamingeer it helps a bit, thanks! so many categories lol

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

je sais que il faut d'abord eviter secteur 3 😅

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

est-ce que quelqu'un peut expliquer a ce etranger ces secteurs de façon simple/ELI5 ou me diriger vers une ressource utile ? 🙏 #France

Checkbox filter with options:

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Secteur 1

Secteur 1 avec droit permanent à dépassement

Secteur 1 OPTAM

Secteur 1 OPTAM-CO

Secteur 2

Secteur 2 OPTAM

Secteur 2 OPTAM-CO

Conventionné

Conventionné avec dépassements d’honoraires

Secteur 3 (non conventionné)

Etablissement conventionné

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Putain, the AI-generated ads on YouTube are getting out of control. Someone accidentally forced the US avatar to speak French 😅 I know I have a strong US accent when I speak french but this grates my ears 😭 good thing all that water and energy is going to cure […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון @raph.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Reminder that the idea of a boycott targeting *only* Israeli settlements in the West Bank makes no sense. The Israeli government subsidizes the development of settlements & collects taxes on economic activity there, and Israeli society as a whole benefits from […] [Original post on social.coop]

Screenshot of a Haaretz article with the headline "Israeli Government Approves $9M Plan to Expand West Bank Hotel Industry" and the subheading "The initiative will remove barriers to hotel development and offer grants to encourage the construction, expansion and conversion of lodging facilities across the West Bank"

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

> The route to the Clay problem through a smooth force, options c and d in Fefferman’s statement of the problem, is the route Luis and Diego opened and the one Levent and I had quietly chosen to attack. Almost nobody else I know of was working on it. It is not the direction one arrives at in a […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@igd_news/11714902… I'm gonna bump this again because this is part of what I've been talking about for a long time. The state is withdrawing. People are suffering because the system they depend on is collapsing. We have an opportunity to fill that gap. If […]

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Free worker co-op event in St. Louis (no personal affiliation) "Join us for a one day FREE convening on worker democracy in St. Louis. We encourage you to attend if you are just dipping your toes into worker democracy or are actively practicing it in your workplace. We’ll have sessions for all […]

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@EricBono I got it off craigslist when I was living in Oakland briefly! I love it

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