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David Mayerich @supox.net · 24/09/2026

I argue this point a lot! I don’t think it’s hard for an honest person to figure out what’s true. I think the practical problem is we’ve insulated ourselves from consequences. It’s not that dangerous to believe silly stuff. One person skipping an MMR shot is still protected by everyone else.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 24/09/2026

I often wonder how much of the modern anti-vax movement rests on a fear of needles. Funny thing is if that were true it would make me way more sympathetic. It sucks getting poked! At least it would be real and maybe we could do something about it…

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 20/09/2026

I know exactly what this picture sounds like.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 15/09/2026

This reads to me like: “We alone are immune to the poison that is killing us, specifically.”

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 12/09/2026

I just started playing this and I really needed a good game.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 09/09/2026

I’m curious what’ll happen with it. The way I use social media has changed dramatically, and I wonder if it has for others. Reddit and Bluesky are the only places I’d even consider reading a comment. Left Facebook a while ago (was an early college adopter) and haven’t looked back *at all*.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 03/09/2026

I didn’t know anything about the people involved, but actually tried Omarchy on a whim last week. I didn’t make it three days. It felt like peeling away layers of an onion. Ultimately wiped it for vanilla CachyOS and built up from there.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 03/09/2026

I asked Claude to draw some ASCII art of Yuna from Final Fantasy 10. Hands down the funniest thing I’ve ever seen from an LLM.

A horrific ASCII depiction of a one-legged four-armed stick figure that’s supposed to be Yuna from FFX

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 14/08/2026

When social media was new I thought the background noise was kinda neat. Silly people would be silly but it was new and kinda funny. Now it’s just incessant slop I’ve seen a million times before. It’s become obvious that every edgy weirdo is just…the same guy. Over and over again.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 12/08/2026

I spent years trying to fix a problem with an RX 6900 on a homebuilt system - what appeared to be random (but repeatable) shutdowns. Switching to Linux helped a lot, but it still happened occasionally. Found LACT a few months ago and was able to track it down and completely eliminate it.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 24/07/2026

There really is just an absolute fuck ton of stars.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 21/07/2026

Cat tails! I miss cat tails. Not the mosquitoes tho…

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 18/07/2026

Mine are the Vampire: The Masquerade video games. Similar setting. I’m planning to pick the new one up despite bad reviews. I love the genre but it almost feels cursed.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 08/07/2026

Never could beat that endgame as a kid. There was some trick to stabbing him with the boat but I could never get the timing right.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 06/07/2026

I’ve basically made peace with that never happening. That “unread” number is as inevitable as time itself. It’ll keep getting larger until I die.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 05/07/2026

I recommend his C and OpenGL tutorials to my students. Really good stuff.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 30/06/2026

I remember learning this as a grad student at SIGGRAPH. A game developer (don’t remember who) said something like: “Look ideas are easy. I came up with the idea for The Sims. We all came up with the idea for Sims. A few invested time and money. One team did it right.”

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 30/06/2026

Ah here it is. Maybe in person it’s more obvious he’s doing a bit? I guess prefer media that’s entirely real or not real. There seems to be this huge internet audience that enjoys “pretending” things are real. It’s like the Marvel “What If…” series but with actual people’s lives.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 30/06/2026

I don’t buy into Dead Internet theory YET but the dynamics are certainly different. I saw a video of some YouTube guy talking to a kid about the Salem Witch Trials: he thought they went too far and now we’ll never know if the women were guilty. I’ll bet that would have made bank online.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 28/06/2026

Just watched the new one and thought it was decent. The kids loved it. Anything I would have changed (following the comic a bit more and turning up the True Grit vibes) would have probably taken away from their experience, though.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 19/06/2026

I love this game so much.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 09/06/2026

Thank you thank you thank you! Now I just need one for mainstream science articles. 😅

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 09/06/2026

Is there any actual legitimate reason this isn’t routinely done for legal and academic sources? I’m so tired of “The article, which was recently published in the scientific journal Nature…” like wtf is a DOI too much to ask for?

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 02/06/2026

Yea there were a couple of times I felt like I wanted to turn it off and come back later. I also expected some sort of conclusion to the entire arc. I thought they were making a movie to wrap up the series.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 02/06/2026

I was born 10 years before the release of the Belgian techno-anthem Pump Up The Jam…

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Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TechnotronicVEVO

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 03/05/2026

No but I feel like I could mentally reconstruct the episode purely from late 80s culture.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 01/05/2026

I often think about how much fun people could have if Star Wars were in the public domain by now.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 29/04/2026

My daughter just asked for a Nintendo, and I’ve become so dissolutioned with cell phones I had to actually TRY to not look excited.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 28/04/2026

The thing about liars is that getting you to believe them is only one goal. Their second is to waste time and mental bandwidth. In cases like this I figure it’s best to pretend they’re emitting white noise.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 23/04/2026

Quick question: what’s the bottleneck for federal cases? I feel like getting a final answer takes forever. Is that because the bandwidth is limited? Do the plaintiffs/defendants eat up the time? Basically, could we get more efficient by, say, doubling the number of judges?

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 22/04/2026

Utah family trip is one of my 2-year goals. I was in SLC once for a conference and loved it. I remember looking out the airplane window and being surprised at how much it looked like the Borean Tundra.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 19/04/2026

I get what @rocketplane.bsky.social is saying but one could argue lots of things: you could argue it’s all electromagnetic fields passing around virtual photons. I’m just saying these are the steps I’d take to explain it to a layperson.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 19/04/2026

That’s actually my favorite correction published by the New York Times!

1969 New York Times correction apologizing for publishing an editorial saying that rockets couldn’t work in space.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 18/04/2026

Exactly - the next logical question is “okay so what forces the air down?” So then you describe that the wing is shaped in a way that it pushes more air down than up. If there are more questions then maybe get into Bernoulli (which used to be my starting point).

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 18/04/2026

Yea I also think understanding the laws of thermodynamics would get people through most pseudoscience conspiracy theories.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 18/04/2026

Yea although this is even more basic. I think most people know the words “conservation of momentum” but I’d bet most people can’t actually define “momentum”. Everyone knows if they blow on something it moves away.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 18/04/2026

I mean you have to start somewhere, and different people want different depths to the answer. I used to start with “more pressure below than above”. I think saying the air is pushed down is more intuitive for non-scientists. Nobody ever asks me how a rocket works: they get it.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 18/04/2026

“Air Go Down, Plane Go Up” will now be my first-order explanation. It’s a MUCH better starting point than trying to explain pressure.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 18/04/2026

Ex: Family just got back from London and I’m interested in showing the kids related history content. Not my area, and there’s a lot of pseudo-history BS. If, say, Hank Green interviewed a creator on the topic I’d jump on that. Granted, it wouldn’t occur to me to actually ask him to…

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 18/04/2026

I think the systematic problem is assessing reliability. I understand asking a generalist I already trust “is this legit?” Even for an expert I one field, it’s a lot of work to verify content from others. “What does Hank think” just seems like a way to set priors.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 17/04/2026

“I’ve created an algorithm to reconstruct all of your biopsy slides from a single blood sample using generative AI!”

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 15/04/2026

This is even an issue in science, where you’d think we’d have more control over naming conventions. I can go on and on about how it should be “electron nanoscopy”. Big Bang is also misleading. Plus I’m one of those people adamant that pi should actually be 2*pi…

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 15/04/2026

Yea I was just thinking that: “damaging to question it” is bizarre phrasing. Every time a committee is reviewing clinical trials for a vaccine they’re “questioning it”.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I just found out my kid thought Star Trek IV was a period piece, like the episodes where they go back to the Depression or Mark Twain or whatever.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 11/04/2026

I picked up the first game when I heard there was an “uncensored” version in the US (it has a REALLY silly sex-based card-collection mechanic). I remember being absolutely blown away by the world and thinking they were on to something special. Really glad they made a (much better IMO) sequel.

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 11/04/2026

Feels like there’s some impressive privilege baked into the idea that Making Money isn’t “manly enough”

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 11/04/2026

I switched to LibreWolf because it’s easier to start from “everything is locked down” and work backwards. I got so sick of installing Firefox and immediately get reminded to “turn off ads, don’t remember passwords, don’t share my location, don’t allow notifications…” 🤪

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David Mayerich @supox.net · 10/04/2026

Yep! I feel like Jenova COULD have been better but was maybe under-utilized? I think the concept is more interesting than Kefka or Lavos, but falls short of both…

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