Reposted by Roger FilmyerGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026IE is out here skeeting bond market analysis using potato-quality pics of Bloomberg Mobile on another phone's cracked screen, I am in AWE. 917116
Reposted by Roger FilmyerArmin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 24/05/2026Has been a while since I wrote about agentic engineering, so this time around some learnings of maintaining Pi as a junior maintainer to @mariozechner.at lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi...lucumr.pocoo.orgBuilding Pi With PiLearnings from post-AI Open Source and how we’re approaching this so far. 312717
Reposted by Roger FilmyerGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 22/05/2026Let me get this straight: a bunch of Australians were trying to sell burritos in Chicago and it didn’t go well? Shocked. Just flabbergasted. 3329224
Reposted by Roger FilmyerAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Racism is real, but race is fake. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...nytimes.comA Family Secret No More 261159209
Reposted by Roger Filmyeramos @fasterthanli.me · 06/05/2026I'm glad to hear that Google Slides is able to create Slides (albeit in beta) 0411
Reposted by Roger Filmyercee @cee.wtf · 03/05/2026you need to remember to mist your claude daily and provide it sphagnum moss so it can self regulate its wetness 0887
Reposted by Roger FilmyerMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Regular reminder that every time we are in a position to evaluate "signaling" vs. "human capital" models of education, "human capital" wins hands down. 1847964
Roger Filmyer @synolect.com · 20/03/2026H/t @arpitrage.bsky.social for the callback. Was it all priced in, this whole time? 281
Roger Filmyer @synolect.com · 23/02/2026"I can't see out my window right now, but the last time I could, the weather was fine, so I'm assuming it hasn't snowed and the weather is fine right now" 001
Reposted by Roger Filmyerdiego@estupido.fyi @estupido.fyi · 03/01/2026media.tenor.coma close up of a woman 's face with a caption that says estupido !ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a caption that says estupido ! 0132
Reposted by Roger Filmyerlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/01/2026this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning 253000404
Reposted by Roger FilmyerYIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Systematically in the US we see outcomes where a bad status quo is selected over an imperfect improvement because the failures of a bad status quo cannot be laid at the feet of any specific person. 0244
Reposted by Roger FilmyerDilDog 🅅 @dildog.l0pht.com · 09/08/2025anyone working in security knows that tools can be used for good or for evil but dont forget they are often used for stupid 1138476
Reposted by Roger FilmyerBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 08/08/2025It’s funny how the woo woo people said for years that big pharma was holding back a cancer cure because treatment was more profitable, and then they went and created those conditions through their own death-drive idiocy 6419119
Reposted by Roger FilmyerGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 11/06/2025It remains so funny to me how many people who claim to be socialists thought the Biden Administration was a disaster for the working class when the objective truth is it was a disaster for the bosses. 13938205
Roger Filmyer @synolect.com · 06/06/2025Another @carlosmucha.bsky.social banger theory on Twitter/X: The White House has the authority to force any federal agency to detail their 1811s (Special Agents) to ICE. Agencies don't want their agents to be seen participating, so no jackets and yes face coverings. x.com/mucha_carlos... 022
Reposted by Roger FilmyerSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 26/04/2025I'm tilting at windmills again, trying to convince people that phones don't spy on you through your microphone to target ads at you simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...simonwillison.netNote on 26th April 2025Last September I posted [a series of long ranty comments on Lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs/s/mf7guc/leak_facebook_partner_brags_about) about the latest instance of the [immortal conspiracy theory](https... 3576
Reposted by Roger FilmyerSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15/04/2025Just to build on this, one of the reasons the death camps were built in the occupied territories was because the Nazi command knew they were illegal under German law and the nominally-still-extant Weimar constitution 9936291
Reposted by Roger FilmyerYakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Starting to get a bit calmer and it’s probably the mother of all rush to cash from blowing up hedgies. Usually Fed would just fix this but usually we don’t have the mother of all supply shocks at the same time. 417924
Reposted by Roger Filmyerceej @ceej.online · 09/04/2025see, this is exactly what I’m talking about 493306561
Reposted by Roger Filmyerlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/04/2025i think i speak for most americans when i say i hate anyone who is so stupid that he makes me care about treasury bonds 273077347
Reposted by Roger Filmyeralex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 04/04/2025i think the basic thesis of the trump admin as a reaction to the biden admin is that doing things "right" is too hard and time consuming, therefore doing things "wrong" must work and also be faster 3558
Reposted by Roger FilmyerKarthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The issue is that the logical alternative based on the primary beneficiaries of the Suez trade, joint Sino-European naval missions that patrol the Red Sea, would probably freak people out even more. 47114
Reposted by Roger Filmyerjab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 25/03/2025quick headline about the third-rate florida school in question and its relationship to the ivy leaguehuffpost.comNew College Of Florida Produces More Fulbright Scholars Per Capita Than Harvard, YaleNew College Of Florida Produces More Fulbright Scholars Per Capita Than Harvard, Yale 69412
Roger Filmyer @synolect.com · 25/03/2025Giant thread from a pair of travellers trying to get from Berlin to as far south as they can in Africa. Very cool to check on from time to time. 020
Roger Filmyer @synolect.com · 21/03/2025Someone at work tried to figure out the internals of an LLC by asking it about itself and it just hallucinated information...... 100
Reposted by Roger FilmyerEd @notdred.bsky.social · 14/03/2025“I feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content.” 32184
Reposted by Roger Filmyerrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12/02/2025i think everyone is surprised that a diffusion model can actually produce passable work because every extant diffusion model is tuned specifically to produce garbage because none of the people working on them actually respect art 519914
Reposted by Roger FilmyerJeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge.bsky.social · 04/02/2025In addition to “biased,” I expected to see that woke term “difference-in-differences.” 29118
Reposted by Roger FilmyerFive Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 03/02/2025It's true that the US can inflict more pain on the rest of the world than the ROW can inflict on the US, but on the other hand, a macroeconomic shock in ROW is known as 'just another Monday', whereas the US will overthrow their system of constitutional government because egg prices went up. 0154
Reposted by Roger Filmyerwarrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Fuck man I guess this is on us, we accidentally forgot to hit the make this cost 99% less button 5100352
Roger Filmyer @synolect.com · 27/01/2025Lol, I thought my downstairs neighbors had badly loaded their washer #earthquake #somerville 130
Reposted by Roger FilmyerSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 02/01/2025I'm fully aware that this is a total waste of my time, but I wrote a blog post about this anyway: simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/2/t...simonwillison.netI still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphoneOne of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a … 1113141
Reposted by Roger FilmyerJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 02/01/2025This is a good example of what Andrew Gelman calls a “piranha problem”: If the effect of mealtimes is this big, then nothing else can have a substantial effect - there’s only so much variation to explain. So this is disproven by basically any other study. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impo... 1217
Roger Filmyer @synolect.com · 02/01/2025600 miles / 8 hours = 75 mph average speed You can do this in America too, it's called the Acela. Great job Germany. 020
Reposted by Roger Filmyeramy o'kruk @amyokruk.bsky.social · 29/12/2024with Christmas over, decor is starting to come down, and hopefully *carefully* 🎄🎄🎄 👉 accidents related to Christmas trees, lights and ornaments send thousands of Americans to emergency departments each year 36519
Reposted by Roger FilmyerBob Lord @boblord.bsky.social · 20/12/2024VPN vendors have huge budgets to advertise on your favorite podcasts. We don't have marketing for the IETF, browser and OS security teams, CAs (Let's Encrypt), CDNs, researchers, open source authors, website builders, digital rights activists... We made the web secure and didn't tell anyone. 10814177
Roger Filmyer @synolect.com · 19/12/2024Very funny that the US is tied up trying to sell a boat as it becomes an increasingly embarrassing white elephant for them 000
Reposted by Roger FilmyerCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't. www.reuters.com/business/ene...reuters.comUS sets tariffs for solar panels from Southeast Asian nationsU.S. trade officials announced on Friday a new round of tariffs on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian nations after American manufacturers complained that companies there are flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods. 32158261017
Reposted by Roger FilmyerDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18/11/2024want to note again that many of the economic-determinism arguments start by presupposing the conclusion--"it MUST have an economic explanation!"--and then go p-hacking until they finally find some obscure variable that got worse the last four years 1115226
Reposted by Roger FilmyerStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 16/11/2024Not only have high tariffs on Chinese-made cars deprived American consumers of affordable new EVs, but they’ve deprived US automakers of the competitive pressures necessary to force them into producing vehicles that they can actually sell abroad www.wsj.com/business/aut... 1316424
Reposted by Roger FilmyerDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I'm totally done with X/Twitter. I will still be doing my banking there, though. 17111712698
Reposted by Roger FilmyerPaul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 12/11/2024It looks as if this place is becoming what Twitter used to be; for now, at least, we can post stuff to a sigificant audience without being overrun by trolls and bots. For starters, here's my complete theory of the election, and probably my last word on the subject 1515643708
Reposted by Roger FilmyerJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/10/2024It’s important to remind the Yankees fans in your life that there is precedent for a team coming back from down 0-3 in a playoff series. They need and love to hear it. 4249997
Roger Filmyer @synolect.com · 26/10/2024Preregistering my 2024 election takes: • Harris wins • Dems win House, lose Senate • Nat'l polls are accurate and Harris wins by 3-4% of PV • Otherwise polls are too biased towards Trump as a 2016 overcorrection • Florida and NY both go redder, which erodes Trump's electoral college advantage. 110