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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

It’s interesting because if you really disliked ‘Don’t look up’ I think it’s about 50/50 that…something in Digger will really land with you and blow you away. Of course, you may also find it exactly as insufferable. Really feels like it could go either way.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

put a sugar cube in your mouth, drink some tea, and welcome the new flesh

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

someone has carved smiles into and hollowed out the pump kin, and put candles inside. police are investigating who would do this horrific crime to that family that lived around the water pump.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11h

separate distinctions imo. you can make both far stronger practical and principled arguments for pirating scientific articles or textbooks than you can for entertainment media. no one is going to die without access to marvel movies or video games.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h

Man sushi sounds great, but I gotta pass, sorry man. As a Trader Joe’s/REI type white I’m culturally obligated to have every meal involve pumpkin some way this month.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h

I do love the republicans having to be the ones saying 'no that's not real. no, it's more complicated than that.' with the data center and AI shit for once, not gonna lie. this must be what it feels like to be on the other side of the table when they're spreading shit about vaccines or whatever.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13h

Digger geniunely interesting movie. Kind of movie that sort of breaks that good/bad framework: I wouldn't call it good, but it is interesting. it sort of makes me miss having a monoculture because it would be interesting to hear everyone's takes on it.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

I know that journals typically over-ask people to review because they assume people will turn it down, and that's fine and makes sense, but I wonder what happens if everyone says yes. do you get like an R & R from hell with eight separate pieces of feedback?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18h

their vile p-hacking, our inventive and curious exploration of diverse model specifications

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18h

i'm beginning to be on the cusp of when nostalgia shit is aimed at my age group specifically, like not quite there yet but can definitely see it from here, and it still seems as pathetic as it ever was. maybe will change when my micro-cohort is in the bullseye, but still seems contemptible for now.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 20h

Kinda interesting because they actually have pretty bad statistical judgement in my experience. I guess the explicit mention of p-hacking throws them off and flags safeguards, but they are very happy to do it if it’s not called that, including when you didn’t ask.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ok like 60% of the plot of the Dark Matter show could have been averted with better engineering decisions that presumably super genius physicists would have obviously made. Have a sally-port/airlock style entrance and look at what’s outside once you’ve gone through the first door through a window

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An interesting aesthetic microcosm of this I’ve noticed is that the public exteriors of European cities are beautiful & walkable, while the interiors often feel weirdly cheap & chintzy to me as an American. In the US there’s lots of sprawl that looks like shit externally but is nice inside.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The ‘a nation is not just GDP!!!’ conversation is sort of stupid, to a first approximation every single good thing correlates with economic growth. ‘Do you prefer liquid or illiquid societal wealth’ gets more concisely at the actual division in priorities I think.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If I’m gonna hang out somewhere after a long run I throw a book in the running backpack, and the sweat and moisture from the camelback usually fuck it up a fair amount. Normally don’t care because they’re cheap paperbacks but reading a nice hardcover copy rn so usually put in ziplock bag.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Racism, homophobia, support for the Atlanta braves…all manner of vile beliefs surround us. a dark time

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is incumbent upon all good people to denounce the terrorist organization known as the Atlanta Braves.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

After 8pm in October don’t shop at Erewhon. If you’re below the 75th percentile in income or not at least an LA 6, they take you to the back and harvest you.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We need a nice non-political thing to argue about. I propose: what is the best kind of whale? I’m pretty pro-orca. Fuck Belugas.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An irritating thing that judges will do in gerrymandering court cases is do a whole “no I’m a simple country lawyer who don’t understand no fancy statistics” posturing. Fuck you! You should! It’s your goddamn job!

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We should probably invest as country/society in more JD-PhD programs. Especially in the age of AI related litigation there’s gonna be a huge demand for a technically literate attorney population.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It would likely solve a non-trivial number of problems with the kid of person who opts to run for Congress to pay them $500k in exchange for stricter financial disclosure and be a rounding error in the federal budget. We’ll never do it because of THOSE FATCAT POLITICIANS!!!!, a bipartisan brain-worm

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What’s the main legal obstacle to charging the Cornell frat guys? Not engagement bait, actually asking, please don’t be an idiot and treat anyone offering an explanation as though it came appended with “and that’s good and great, the situation is perfect”.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whatever weird shit might be happening at like the commanding heights of effective altruism (and it does look like there’s weird shit), I do think it’s worth reiterating that the vast majority of folks who prescribe to EA are overall really good people, & the vulgar form of the argument is very true

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it really seems like everyone who knows about these things develops The Madness

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I unfortunately think that “people want music as a communal experience” is probably cope and I could definitely see shit like Suno totally replacing streaming services that play human musicians (tho Apple/spotify folding in AI generated content gradually is probably more likely)

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Quebec is a great place to live if you want to experience Maximum Weather. No Mediterranean temperate shit here, bitch, just raw uncut seasons.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I like extremely hot summers and extremely cold winters. Intermediate seasons are for cowards. Fuck my shit up.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have a strictly consequentialist view of punishment, which means that I oppose the death penalty not in principle but in most cases, as p(likely future harm) of someone with LWOP is almost never high enough to justify murder. However, Korea should probably have shot Yoon ASAP.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A sort of stupid but fun fact is that Rhode Island is the only US state to own a video game.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You know what IP someone needs to reboot? Too Human. The amount of atmosphere and worldbuilding for 2008 tech game by a small studio is actually really great. Norse gods as cyborgs is a fun conceit.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t know why people won’t just say they believe in some version of the soul, yeah. It’s clearly what they substantively mean!

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The rabbi telling Anthropic that he thinks what they’re doing is fine, because Claude is just a machine to him, but if they’re right (and it is conscious), then they’re world historic monsters, is really interesting.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 02/10/2026

[guy named claude going through a dry spell] everybody wants to play around with claude code, nobody wants to play around with claude’s chode

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A drunk guy just hit on me and pulled me in for a hug but became visible uncomfortable when he realized how sweaty I actually was.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do think that ‘Hi-def video of horrible shit’ is our generation’s version of smoking or leaded gasoline tbh. As in it’s something that future generations will look back on and be appalled that we thought it was ok to have as an environmental hazard.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I swear to god nothing makes a bee taste better than strenuous exercise. Im starting a bar where you need to run at least a mile in laps around the bar or on a treadmill before we let you in. You get a free drink for every mile over 5k.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How socially discomforted I am by being gross and sweaty after running depends on the distance. Under 5k: ahh geez I’m so sorry, just worked out sorry 5k-10K: look whatcha gonna do Over 10K: that’s right bitch, you’re smelling Athlete. you’re welcome.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Discussions of criminal justice have just gotten so dumb, man. I feel like social media has had a really pernicious effect on this. Like just a really useless idiot polarization between people who think CRIME!!! means basic civil rights are woke vs everyone is a Jean Valjean victim of circumstance.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is a little disconcerting that so many people who know a lot about LLMs on a technical level appear to go a little insane. It would be like if there was a really cool and effective new kind of pen, and for some reason about 40% of the people involved in the pen making process went mad.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

remember when biologists were arguing about the worm? or when one that one scientist pretended to be an anthropologist, and then had the fake anthropologist die of COVID?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can Gen AI do Art, the metaphysical creative process? Open question, depends on who you ask. Can Gen AI make Art, the product that people pay money for? Yes. They objectively can.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Either polls are fake or we’re all in a massive epistemic bubble wrt Minnesota

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Beautiful, elegant methods section grotesquely eviscerated by word count demands of PHILLISTINE editors. my plots…🥺

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘Bold GWOT truth teller’ has as a type of guy generally (plenty of expectations, not categorically) aged horribly and either become a right winger or either been revealed as a crank or became one.

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