Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I got laid off from a tech-adjacent job last year. After struggling to find stable employment I decided to say goodbye to 15 years of career development & applied for an apprenticeship at the local electricians' union. I started earlier this summer, and honestly, no regrets. 010
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I feel like it should be prerequisite for any dem 2028 candidate to be at least competitive with "Genital degloving accident" on Bannon's list of bad things. 010
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Naw, two companies can have the same trademark names as long as the goods/services are distinct, not in direct competition, and not likely to confuse the average consumer. For example, Dove chocolate and Dove soap 110
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It frustrates me to no end that the democratic playbook could very easily be "When conservative says X, pull up [conservative org]'s webpage and point out the passage where it says 'By saying X we lay the groundwork to turn the US into a theocracy where non-Christians must convert or be executed.'" 021
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Keeping your cats indoors on average gives you about 7 more years with them, compared to an outdoor cat. If you want to give them some outdoors time, you can leash train them, and/or build a catio. 130
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I feel like only requiring 18% of the vote to remove the sitting president would probably cause more problems than it would solve. (But I'd much rather fix it by abolishing the senate) 110
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Well, combined they have a grand total of 36 followers. One hasn't posted in 10 months and the other started posting 4 months ago. It could reasonably be that she forgot her original Bluesky login and just made a new account. 000
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Really the main problem is the national security blob has been consistently dominated by people who believe you can convince ants not to bite you if you step on enough of them. And if its not working, wear bigger boots. 000
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026To be fair, it wasn't really all that great at fighting those non-state actors & tribal societies either. 110
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I've always considered it far superior to Olympus has Fallen. 020
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I ran into one a few days ago that was running a really shitty "AI Art detector" that was throwing out nothing but false positives. Even ones where the artist had posted every step of the process over like 2 weeks. He said that no "real artist" would post their art to get scraped by AI. 130
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I noticed this when I realized how closely Qanon mapped to Christian eschatology. "Things are bad now but any moment the good guys are gonna come and reward all the good people like me and punish all the bad guys forever & all I have to do is know the signs so I get the special 'I told u so' shirt" 000
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is almost making me pro-flock. It seems to be the most effective method for getting shitty cops to face consequences. 010
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Red Diesel is regular diesel with dye in it to note its tax exempt. At a $200 bill with current diesel prices hes probably got a 30ish gallon tank which means he's probably saving about $18 with this 'trick.' 040
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm curious. What, in your mind, does that look like? If a woman comes in for an abortion and says she was raped how does that play out? 020
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026With synesthesia triggering sense A also triggers sense B. So taste > vision means you would see colors & patterns when you tasted something, but they wouldn't align with the food. I.e. green beans may taste orange, while oranges taste light blue. She would still need to discern the specific flavors 110
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But perhaps more pertinent - any data an agent has access to is data the agent could be coaxed to expose through the right prompt. Which means you'd still want to run the agent through a minimized data set if the raw data is too sensitive for the l public. Which kind of defeats having the agent. 010
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It really depends on how the data is minimized. I just mentioned hashing the street names as a potential solution for fields which may be both relevant & sensitive. That would show that subset of subjects lived on the same street without exposing their actual addresses. 110
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026When that issue is "Does this candidate support your ability to go out in public without fear of being assaulted, and then getting arrested for being assaulted?" And the answer is "No, they actively oppose it." Its reasonable to be a "single issue voter" on that. 030
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Its one thing not to be outwardly pro-trans. Its quite another to be openly trans-hostile. At that point you're not arguing against death camps. Just who gets put in them. 050
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026These Dems are the ones falling for the republican playbook. They're repeating & amplifying republican attacks against their own voter base & forcing them into a horrible dilemma. Vote for someone who promises to hurt you & legitimize that behavior, or withhold your vote & risk getting someone worse 020
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Minimized data being data with the columns that contain potential PII removed or masked. I.e. SSNs reduced to last 4. Street names hashed, etc. 000
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I love the general idea, but feel the AI adds a couple unnecessary layers of trust and uncertainty. Wouldn't a better idea be, in the case of data with privacy issues, to provide minimized data for analysis with raw data available for those willing to accept the privacy controls? 211
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Rabies is native to bats, & a lot less severe, more like a bad flu for them. Apart from bats, you basically don't have to worry about rabies from anything smaller than a raccoon. Even in the unlikely attempt they survive the attack, the virus kills them before they become contagious. 030
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026In 1992 the Soviets launched an invasion of Western Europe that ultimately stalled after both sides deployed tactical Nukes along what is now known as "the hot line" to the east of the Rhine in late 1993. Now with NATO preparing a counter-offensive there is fear of strategic nukes coming into play. 040
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That makes a lot of sense. I remember articles on Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms, back before it became vaporware, so 1999, 2000, boasting about new technology like the ability to have lower-poly models for figures that were far away. Nowadays that's just kind of an assumed optimization. 030
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I'd be interested to know if it would have been reasonable for Mario 64 to have been this optimized when it released in 1996, or if this was only really possible because of a myriad of techniques and tricks developed over the 3 decades since the game first came out. 130
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The one thing that's missing is a transition to a screen where continuing to hold forward from the last screen causes you to immediately turn around and exit the way you came. 080
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026www.military.com/history/time...military.comThat Time a Drunk Richard Nixon Tried to Nuke North KoreaThe North Koreans have been provoking the United States for as long as North Koreans have been praising Kim Jong-Il for being birthed from a shooting star. 021
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026When North Korea shot down an American spy plane in 1969, Richard Nixon, 3 months into the job & absolutely shitfaced at work, ordered immediate preparations for a full scale nuclear strike on the country. Henry Kissenger convinced the joint chiefs to stand down until Nixon was sober in the morning. 180
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If I had crazy billionaire money, I might try to build one just to see/hear/feel what its like when a hindenberg-sized vacuum envelope fails. 040
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026There are a few problems here. For one - this doesn't stop the attacks. For two - The 53/47 split doesn't measure the importance for each side of that split. If 20% of the 53% side rank it "very high" vs 50% of the 47, your burning more support than gaining. For Three - you have to blunt the wedge 010
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"And when they violate those self regulations they can pay fines to themselves." 020
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Its either - A: Someone who legitimately thought they could vote when they were forbidden from doing so or B: A republican trying to prove how easy voter fraud is and getting caught immediately. 1232
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Your "AI detector" has a 100% false positive rate. You're just being a shitty person to artists. 000
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If physics were at the state politics were at we would still be talking about the four elements. Some radical thinkers might have some thoughts on phlostigon and lumiferous aether. 040
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I've got friends & loved ones who have worked as staff on both successful and unsuccessful campaigns from state tax assessors to house reps. They'll all tell you, nobody really knows what the fuck they're doing. Nobody really knows what works & where the numbers are really at til the votes are in. 140
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026People with constant access to detailed polls make mistakes all the time. They choose bad strategies. They take the wrong lesson from the data. They rely too much on single source reporting and then get blindsided when it turns out there were systemic issues with the polling. 150
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Talarico's advisors believe this will get him more votes, even though its shown to be a bad play. The logic just isn't there. Show me the actual voters he's gaining with this - the people who were either not going to vote, or were voting Paxton until Talarico turned on trans people. 1110
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In less than 10 years the UK went from their conservatives implementing self-id to their liberals inflicting a nationwide trans bathroom ban. So you may understand why there are people worried about the US going the same way, especially with the consultant overlap between labor and democrats. 2122
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Its not actually that complicated and we had already arrived on a position that worked - Sporting bodies should set their own guidelines for participation with the goal of maximizing the number of people able to compete while maintaining a competitive field. This shouldn't be a legislative issue. 261
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This would be insane even if it were just other humans. Imagine your boss saying, "Your coworkers say you're easy to work with & you get along well with the team, but you showed up at Brad's party with a case of Chips-a-hoy and left early. I don't believe you're actually friends, so you're fired." 0100
Natespeed @natespeed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There is no algorithm on Bluesky. You've drawn this level of ire organically. While I don't doubt that you'd positions are sincere, have you considered that maybe they're not as reasonable as you believe they are? 051
