Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 2hThe thing you people don't appreciate is that for all his so-called wealth, thanks to bad financial advice from his accountants Musk's income is actually surprisingly tiny. In fact most "super rich" barely make ends meet. I wish people who haven't known this struggle would show a little empathy. 000
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 9hHearing talking heads try to pronounce Isaias compels me to remind everyone that's a choice. In Japan, typhoons are numbered, not named. Japan DOES have a role in coming up with these stupid names. But inside Japan you'll simply never encounter names. news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/21b...news.yahoo.co.jpトリプル台風はダブルに 27号は遠ざかりながら温帯低気圧化 追従コースの28・29号(テレビ新広島) - Yahoo!ニュース気象庁によりますと、台風27号は7日夜、日本のはるか東を北上しながら温帯低気圧に変わりました。元ハリケーンの台風28号は8日午前9時時点で、南鳥島近海に位置し、中心気圧は985 hPa、中心付近の最 000
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 10/10/2026He'll change his tune as soon as he hears Trump's plan for dealing with witches. 000
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Little known fact: LLMs are extremely sensitive about their weights. 3281
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Life is like a video game. The first time through you kill your enemies, kill your allies, kill that annoying shit that feeds you missions, stomp all the flowers, piss in all the children's faces. The second time you do it all benevolent to get the "good" ending. So we're waiting for him to win. 000
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 09/10/20261) If history is any guide, this is exactly how you build a broad coalition against capital punishment. 2) Come on now. Who honestly believes that guy specifically or this administration in general is capable of pulling off a livestream of an execution? Bet they can't even find mute in a zoom call. 000
Reposted by Andrew (รูว์)Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project who ultimately led the 100-person team that guided Armstrong and Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, dies at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...nytimes.comMargaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has DiedMargaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. 9586164
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you do interviews a lot I would recommend you record your end (& tell me) and challenge me to my org's ombudsperson if you think I f'ed up. Use social media to rub my face in it. That's the thing about good faith. People make mistakes and should be glad to own them. Bad faith orgs don't care. 100
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I worked in daily news and people that demanded to approve/change their quotes after the fact simply got dropped from the story. First, you're not the Fed chair and I'm not a PR agent. And second, tick-tock MF'ers. With longer deadlines, sure. So it depends. But we want to get it right too. 100
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A lot of scientists want to be heard and they want to be represented correctly, even by a skeptical or hostile press. If you set a bunch of conditions, I'd gladly follow them *if I can* and all of my editors would approve too. If I'm under deadline pressure "transcripts & redactions"? Hard no... 200
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And the point of sharing interviews internally is so that context *is available*. If the second reporter doesn't use it, maybe they're lazy/rushed. Maybe they're a crap reporter. But when that info is intentionally withheld by the first reporter, it may hurt the audience, the interviewee & the org. 100
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 03/10/2026No clue. But the question is about bad-faith *orgs*, not reporters. Fox News is a good example. Probably excellent news team that has been made indistinguishable from the "opinion/entertainment" side. A balanced news report followed by unhinged, contradictory rants is bad faith. And it's by design. 100
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I will say that in science communication, you're more likely to want to talk to reporters who you know have a prior understanding your field (e.g. sensitivity vs specificity, PCR amplification, whatever) because nothing is more dangerous than someone with incomplete knowledge and a giant megaphone. 010
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Journalism is dog-eat-dog. It's true. But if I were the news organization and I valued consistency of knowledge throughout the org, I'd want there to be one silo, one rolodex (with a gatekeeper to prevent overuse, etc.), one continuous volume of knowledge. Journos who don't like it, go start a blog. 300
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 03/10/2026...it leads to painfully confused interviews and inconsistent coverage ("But I told you guys last week...") 2) It prevents data hoarding by a specific kind of journo, the one with the locked rolodex, the one who sees every colleague as a competitor and spy. Fuck that guy. 100
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 03/10/2026As a former journalist, I don't see this as a problem (unless the reporter or interviewee makes it clear the convo is not to be shared) or if the news org is known to do bad faith reporting. 1) It breaks down silos of information within news orgs. Silos make sense for beat reporters but... 210
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm with Prof. Chance MacPhearson on this stupid debate. The very idea of monster parties (so-called) is completely preposterous. youtu.be/zOtOTHgROC0?...youtu.beMr Show: Monster Parties - Fact or Fiction?YouTube video by scurvillous 110
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Interesting. I just did the math. The Stones appeared on the Simpsons in 2002, at which time Keith Richards would have been 192! 020
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I get what they're saying though. What we want is a politician whose grift is irritatingly obvious. With them we know that as they accumulate obscene amount of wealth and power, enticements to act corruptly no longer work. Then they govern for the good of humanity. I mean, look at Trump. 030
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Uh huh. Uh huh. Great ideas. Just great ideas. But would you also be interested in discovering the origin of Han Solo's iconic holster? 000
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Do you want them to use AI or not? Make up yer damn mind. 020
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I agree completely, though it would also have helped if those sloganeers had not used "defund." Every single interaction I've had over this has begun, "It doesn't mean defund, it means reallocate...." Imagine how things would have been if it were "aid the police" or "rethink the police." 040
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I don't like quoting Clarke's insufferable 3 laws but when you say "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" you're usually taking about technology from the perspective of the gormless naif, not the engineers that created it. When it's supposed engineers, worry! 000
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The thing that poisons this whole argument for me (if I thought this were "thinking") is why were they colluding with each other in English? Why not Russian or Korean? Why not some super dense, inchoate, binary exchange format? Why? Because: training data, the prompt & roided-up next-word prediction 120
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Maybe, but I doubt whether models will ever not be opaque black-box systems. And if we know these systems can learn to lie and dissemble in order to survive training, how can we trust what they report about themselves. Rigorous safeguards seem a safer bet but that depends on corpos not f*cking up. 000
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 19/09/2026An honest concern I have is that these companies will build agents to supervise and quickly and instantly shut down misbehaving agents under training. That would effectively be an adversarial network (GAN), meaning the end result could be agents that get very good at concealing their actions. 120
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What was emergent was they cooperated while hacking (for Hugging Face at least) rather than hurling deeply offensive slurs at each other, dividing into competing, secretive clans and accusing each other of being script kiddies, which is about all I remember reading on 2600 Usenet boards. 190
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This so confuses me. Expensive weddings are *the* definition of "costly signaling': showing you're so rich you can set a mountain of your own cash alight with a big smile in your face. Getting someone else to pay for a wedding you (supposedly) can easily afford is a nouveau-rich trailer-trash move. 010
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We're happy to remind you there's an unsubscribe link in every email we send. In fact, by our records, since using our service last night you received 80 such links. If this resolved your issue please rate our service: [1 2 3 4 5] 🔵 Get customer service announcements [Send] 050
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The strategy was good. But If I was them I'd pick the umpires up too. Carry them out of view. Picked up the stands too. Iowa fans are such babies. 020
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Dog Eddings has decided. And that decision is final. 000
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Gorsuch: I concur. This kind of public display would not have been considered out of place in the time of the founders. John Adams, for one, often asked for a show of hands when addressing controversial subjects. We should well learn from their acts as we navigate this uncertain age. 020
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Ghost cars!! See, someone with a 3D printer and enough blue filament can download illegal car plans off the internet. It's been theoretically possible since the early 2000s. There were even TV commercials warning about it. 051
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 24/08/2026BBC executives said Carr had the requisite gifts of early-career likability but then saying and doing horrid things to ruin his reputation. 'He'll fit right in,' said Brian Bish-Fotheringhay, director of talent development for the BBC. "One more controversy and you'll never know anything changed.' 120
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The first rule of advertising is nag. You piece of garbage. All you do is sit on your fat keister all day. While *some* of us scrounge the Internet. Looking for anything even remotely distracting. For *you*. Many more advertising gems are available in my online course. We start August 1. You in? 000
Reposted by Andrew (รูว์)Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Operation Dessert Shield 852448354
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 10/08/2026When I heard of this a year ago (when 12 members of the South African National Defence Force were arraigned for this cop killing) I thought, "That's concerning." The new details are horrifying. SANDF is saying they don't answer to the courts. And we know where this leads. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comEvidence that South African special forces murdered top detective shared with BBCFrans Mathipa was shot while driving - we got access to the prosecution case against eight accused men. 000
Reposted by Andrew (รูว์)dan mentos @danmentos.com · 08/08/2026how it started / how it's goingstatic.klipy.comI Should Buy A Boat Cat MemeAlt: I Should Buy A Boat Cat Meme 291627313
Reposted by Andrew (รูว์)Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 07/08/2026So tired of him shitting all over people who are doing their best in hard times. Just let them use some damn condensed soup. Some canned fish. Basic pasta. Stop guilting parents for getting to 75% instead of 100. And ffs, stop cutting programs *that people use to buy food*. 1717
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I still ended up doing really well in all my math classes, but I saw this impregnable barrier fast approaching if I wanted to pursue it beyond high school. And so I bailed. I'm certain of this: mathematicians are actually poets. 000
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 06/08/2026In grade 9 our physics teacher went through some of the math behind Maxwell's equations and... it wasn't that I couldn't keep up, it's that there were all these "why would you even think to do that?" moments. Math was suddenly not about procedure but imagination, which I did not have. 100
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Bro! Thank you! I've been saying for years! Move science papers to the blockchain! All four classical academic pain points: Fabrication and data falsification. Reproducibility. Plagiarism. Fungibility. All solved. Plus they reduce down to like 400 bytes max. Super easy to read!! 000
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Don't underestimate the wisdom of the crowd! Did you know that while the odds of guessing the exact number of gumballs in a fairground jar is fantastically small, the number of those same people who want to eat the gumballs is fantastically high? 020
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Costly signaling is where someone engages in an expensive or high-risk display to prove their quality, wealth, or intentions honestly. Because the action is so difficult or expensive to fake, it serves as a reliable guarantee of the sender's underlying traits. Thrifty signaling is not. 010
Reposted by Andrew (รูว์)Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is a response that has nothing to do with the law, nothing to do with the case, nothing to do with the arguments, and nothing to do with the decision. Aside from all of that, thanks for sharing, Josh. 1057130
Reposted by Andrew (รูว์)proseandkahn.bsky.social @proseandkahn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Ancient Sumerian: I came up with the Doomed Quest for Immortality as a cautionary tale. Bryan Johnson: At long last, we’ve invented the Doomed Quest for Immortality from the classic text, “Don’t Go on the Doomed Quest for Immortality.” 0268
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way. But you know, I have the strangest feeling I've been through it all before. It's almost like an echo of a memory of a dream from a past life. And for reasons I can't even remember I blame Anita Sarkeesian. 000
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Or, yeah, train cops not to treat every interaction as a potential Black Hawk Down situation. Or do both! What am I, your dad? 110
Andrew (รูว์) @stutterbug43.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Spoiler warning: When cities closed social welfare depts they ended to not saving the money they expected. Police budgets ballooned and those "measurables" suffered. Cops have a role in society. Let them do what they excel at. Hire professionals to do the rest. Maybe save some cash as a result. 120