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Caleb Alexander

@readingcabbage.bsky.social

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He/him. Software engineer.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

How I feel about the bluesky vs Twitter discourse.

A screenshot of a post with the text "people b saying things so definitively. like man i think it depends."

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Thinking about this today for no reason at all.

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"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Blowing up shipwrecked people is just like Jesus healing people on Sunday!

Ms. Villalba said the second strike was also justified, and she does not believe the United States is indiscriminately targeting boats.
“They should have done that strike regardless,” she said. “Every human being does have value, but if you’re caught up in something that’s very detrimental to society, I think that you should die.”
She compared these strikes to a story in the Bible, when Jesus healed someone on a Sunday, contradicting religious rules that forbid work on that day. Some laws are worth breaking for the betterment of mankind, she said, just like the biblical story was trying to show.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Why do I never see this come up? Seems like important context... Also this man has not won an election in my lifetime. Move on!

[James Carville] is married to longtime republican political consultant Mary Matalin.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This is just my phone.

Screenshot of a browser address bar showing 45 open tabs.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Something the Supreme Court used to understand. This is Justice Scalia! Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic.

Some activities may be such an irrational object of disfavor that, if they are targeted, and if they also happen to be engaged in exclusively or predominantly by a particular class of people, an intent to disfavor that class can readily be presumed. A tax on wearing yarmulkes is a tax on Jews.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"And then the AI proved P=NP."

With new capabilities come new dangers. The safety team finds that if Agent-2 somehow escaped from the company and wanted to “survive” and “replicate” autonomously, it might be able to do so. That is, it could autonomously develop and execute plans to hack into AI servers, install copies of itself, evade detection, and use that secure base to pursue whatever other goals it might have (though how effectively it would do so as weeks roll by is unknown and in doubt). These results only show that the model has the capability to do these tasks, not whether it would “want” to do this. Still, it’s unsettling even to know this is possible.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Something something workers can hear you.

A screenshot of a Money Stuff article with the text:

Still, awkward. Anyway here is a Wall Street Journal
podcast with television writer Michael Schur about the
Hollywood writers' strike L10:

Ryan Knutson: A lot of studios say this is a bad time
to be making major changes to writers pay. Most
streaming services are losing money, and many
studios are under pressure from Wall Street to cut
costs. Warner Brothers, Discovery, and Paramount
have all canceled projects lately, and companies like
Disney have been laying people off. How do you
respond to that?

Michael Schur: It's very funny, they say one thing on
their investor calls and then a very different thing to
us when we're in the negotiating room. On their
investor calls, it's all rosy. We're going to make so
much money. We're going to be profitable very soon.
We're going to make X billions of dollars over the next
Y years. And then when they get in room with uS,
they're like, "Guys, you've picked a really bad time to
ask for a raise." We are like, we read the notes of your
call. We know how much money you're projecting,

Yes right when you are negotiating a union contract you
turn your pockets inside out and say "we're broke, you
gotta take a pay cut,"' and then when you have an investor
day you pull sacks of gold out of your pockets and say
"we`re so rich it's great." It's just that the union can hear
you, and the shareholders are litigious.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Makes me think of mattbruenig.com/2015/10/24/w...

However, if I had to speculate, I’d say that the reason libertarians are mostly men is that men are not as good as women at logical reasoning. This is not to say all men are not as good at logical reasoning as all women. It’s just to say that the logical-reasoning bell curve for men is to the left of the logical-reasoning bell curve for women. This means that there simply are more men in the bottom 10% of ability to logically reason, which accounts for their overrepresentation in libertarianism, a philosophy that is internally incoherent and operates mainly through tautology and begging the question on entitlement.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Reminded of this snippet from the excellent Money Stuff article on Celsius.

I insist that if you put your money in Celsius then you did
not "understand crypto better than anyone"! The very
most important thing to understand in finance and
economics is that when a person says "either the bank is
lying or I am lying," you must not give him your money! If
you spend your time learning cryptography and working
through blockchain consensus mechanisms and
comparing yields of different DeFi projects, and then
some guy is like "hand over your money to me and I
promise I'll give it back with 18% interest, no risk,
economic freedom!" and you believe him, then you
wasted your time understanding all the other stuff. All
financial complexity is a footnote to "don't hand all your
money to some random guy promising high returns."

Though it will save you time now to understand that if
you handed him your money and he lost iit and went
bankrupt, the bankruptcy court is not going to magically
give you back your money. The money is gone! The judge
doesn't have it! It's not the judge's fault! What you have is
a bankruptcy claim! That's what happens when you trust
random guys with your money! They lose it!

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

"If there's any impact to American's speech it's ByteDance's fault for not complying with the law, not the law's fault!"

To be sure, ByteDance’s failure to divest TikTok by
the congressionally mandated deadline might inci-
dentally affect the reach of petitioners’ speech by re-
sulting in the impairment or disabling of the TikTok
platform in the United States. But that consequence
would properly be attributable to ByteDance’s refusal
to divest or to allow TikTok’s independent use of the al-
gorithm in the United States—and instead to insist that
the algorithm remain controlled by a foreign adversary.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

All timer, for me.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Imagine thinking questions of tax or immigration policy are *not* questions about the treatment of others.

Screenshot of the article text "I think it was Muhammad Ali who said that he judges people based on how they treat waiters at restaurants. Similarly, how do you treat animals? I think squabbling over the tax code, or the right number of immigrants we should have per year, or how you feel about foreign policy ultimately mean nothing to me in a relationship. What I care about is how you treat me and how you treat others."

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Top 25% apparently

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Small typo, assume this should be 2020 election.

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Caleb Alexander @readingcabbage.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

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