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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's always a shock when he says something that's 100% true

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wordsworth in Harvard square, Cambridge, huge bookstore with brilliant buyers

2 bookmarks from Wordsworth Books in Cambridge (long closed)

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Please send address and opening date/time, I have munchies

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Likewise, 90% of all living straight males

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Does it fix the problem if everyone is required to run their work through Lean? I'm tempted to think we should be ok with anything that's gone through a formal correctness proof (Lean or otherwise)

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

OK that's a million millionaires who could have gotten another million except Musk hoovered it all up I understand why middle class folks don't care about Musk, but I don't understand why medium-rich people don't care that all their potential income is being sucked up by the super-rich

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congrats on being one of the 1% of people who missed signals, who is female

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congrats on the anniversary, mazeltov!

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Heh. An old friend of mine (who was admittedly a very smart hunk) would go on about how his wife (who he met as a high-school junior) hung around him, asked him out, chased away all her competitors, etc. He didn't think that was in any way remarkable He was a great friend, but in that way an idiot

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OK I love the fact that there are multiple aviation museums

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Understood. I haven't been a programmer since 1995. Still, the llm will create code in 15 minutes, that needs to be intensely reviewed, but that would have taken a week for a human. (I've heard this from several modern-day programmers who have done just this)

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It sounds like, when programmers want to do something that someone, somewhere has already done, the llm will find the old code and fit it to the new task. Given how often programmers need to repeat the work of earlier programmers, it seems to be serious leverage. (Haven't done it myself)

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is one of the saddest things to me. When I was growing up, people in NE had iceboats to take out on frozen lakes in winter. Sailboats with open frames, on 3 skates in a triangle. They were insanely fast. I loved seeing them as a kid, haven't seen one in decades.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wind and solar supplied 33% of EU electricity in the 12 months to August 2026, against 29% from fossil. In 2016 it was 13% and 43%.

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah the testing thing is hard. Maybe we need fake cities like the army has and uses to practice urban warfare. But identification is easy: all cars are required by law to broadcast their maker IDs, all cars get polled constantly and any car without a maker ID goes into a crusher

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh jeez, so sorry. The only reason I don't have a story like that is pure luck. I bike everywhere (Boston area) and am dodging cars parked in the bike lane and drivers weaving around while texting on their phones. We really do need another solution

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

More public transit would be awesome! Also I imagine things like guideways buried under roads, or radios at intersections that broadcast "don't turn left here, there's construction" that tell robot cars what to do. I do think robot cars are inevitable and can be made to work

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whoever made the driver software? Human drivers kill over 7000 pedestrians per year in the US. Who is responsible then? I may be being a crank here, but so far 100% of the drivers who have come near to killing me were human. It's hard to believe robots will be worse than that over the long haul

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Because Boston human drivers are just as much of a danger to pedestrians and bicyclists as robo cars and because I expect robo cars to get better with time, while Boston drivers continue to get worse

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've seen Waymo in the Boston area. Don't know if they're available for rides or just testing here. Actually in some ways Boston would be a great target area for Waymo

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026

"Ever wonder why women over fifty become invisible? It’s not because society no longer values them; it’s because they’ve changed into superior lizard beings who can smell misogyny and then wedge themselves into a tight crevice until the threat passes." buff.ly/F8vQT1N

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I Can’t Wait Until I Turn Fifty and Morph into a Lizard Person

“Ever wonder why women over fifty become invisible? It’s not because society no longer values them; it’s because they’ve changed into superior lizard beings ...

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is way more entertaining than I guessed

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am pleased that "don't know" blows away all the other responses by a good margin

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Need a response: "fuckoff, it is what it is, leave us be"

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thanks for this btw, was very helpful. Just got back

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just remember guys *never* speak to other guys in the rest room unless it's "I'm having a heart attack" or something.

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Maybe that bit of the interview got cut

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Honestly I'd love it if cabs and Uber/Lyft were heavily subsidized for people who can't drive, especially due to age. Should be like discounted public transportation passes, and should include publicly sponsored cab companies or gig drivers in rural areas

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Not saying you can't, but it's also a surname

Bio thumbnails of 3 people with surname "Womble"

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I hate sports scholarships and reserved slots, but I hate legacy admissions 10x more. "Let's not even pretend we're not reinforcing inherited privilege"

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Make it potato and leek soup and that saves it

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Taurus "Loaded Baked" is going to have dairy and bacon (and chives?), I don't see how you can exclude other ingredients anywhere else

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Seriously. How many Mozart pieces are actually the same chord progression? How many compositions from dozens (hundreds?) of composers are actually Pachelbel's Canon?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/08/2026

Q. Does Reacher believe in due process? A. As an angry and enormous justice hobo, Reacher believes that evil needs to be punched repeatedly in the face until it goes away. It is very cathartic, but not necessarily the sort of thing that fits within the American justice system.

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is my favorite interaction so far. I was tempted to transfer my whole balance elsewhere except everywhere else is just as bad

Q: What number can I call to get help from a human?

A: I'm sorry I didn't understand that

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm pretty fascinated that you're regularly running into women who have clothes with pockets. Back in the day, lots of women wouldn't know any woman who had anything with pockets. It sounds like things are better now?

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Aha, thanks. I live just off Linnaean and will brag about this too. The house of a sadly deceased very tall french chef is also only a couple blocks away.

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I assume the first is the Porter Square area... who's the shrink?

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Massachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.

boston.com

Millionaires tax surges past expectations, once again

The voter-approved surtax has sailed past its $2 billion estimate for another year in a row.

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Huh, I can see chill in later ones like #4 (for the recorders) and #6. but #1 and #3 want me to run around yelling

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I think that would actually get you to like 2060 at least

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Einstein on the Beach! Every single track! Koyaanisqatsi (and Powaqqatsi) would both be good too

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

omg. Thick as a Brick. Atom Heart Mother. Every Beethoven symphony and quartet, and every Bach Brandenberg. W Carlos's "Timesteps". Tubular Bells. Jean Michel Jarre, Brian Eno, Yes, John Zorn (starts to foam at the mouth)

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T Fitz @tphlair.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Well, not enough wacky humor especially compared to Fallout. (You still get the guy trying to sell you an extended warranty for your spaceship etc.) I'm not sure Skyrim had that much more wacky humor

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