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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 09/08/2026

Hegseth is basically Mac from It’s Always Sunny, but somehow even less charismatic.

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 04/08/2026

I’ve never even searched anything about Flock and I’m not even in the US haha

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 15/07/2026

lol the EU forced Twitter to show this to users.

Update on X's blue checkmark
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Premium accounts featuring the blue checkmark are not verified under identity or authenticity criteria (accounts verified based on an ID are labelled as "ID verified").
As you know, on 1 April 2023 we began winding down Twitter's legacy verification program:
Previously, to receive the blue checkmark, accounts had to be authentic, active, and deemed notable by Twitter staff (for more information on the legacy policy, please click here).
Now, following the changes implemented to democratize the platform, the blue checkmark has a different meaning and identifies accounts that have an active subscription to X Premium/X Premium+ (including services such as reply prioritization) and are complete, active, secure and non-deceptive, regardless of perceived notability.
X supports freedom of speech and does not endorse or validate the views expressed on accounts featuring checkmarks.

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 08/04/2026

I’ll resubscribe when they stop being shitheads.

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 08/04/2026

3 years of support. Just canceled.

Cancellation email showing 36 months of successful donations to ProPublica.

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 07/04/2026

Just now from a friend whose parents are in Iran

Screenshot of Signal message with the following text:

Just got this from [redacted]:

"My mom just called me and said they are safe. But attacks on civilian infrastructure has already started. Lots of bridges and oil refineries and so on and so forth been destroyed"

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 23/03/2026

"No description provided" #vibecoding (no this is not my code thank god)

A screenshot from a Github commit showing 1,583 files changed with 312,128 additions and 122 removals with NO COMMIT COMMENTS

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 11/02/2026

Effects of a ground detonation, all other things remaining the same. The fallout covers a sparsely populated area and Nukemap estimates 0 fatalities and injuries in the following 24 hours but yikes nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt...

Estimated fallout radiation intensity contours for a 1.2 megaton surface burst (50% fission) with a 11 km/hr wind at one hour after detonation:
Fallout contour for 1 rads per hr:
Maximum downwind fallout distance: 298 km
Maximum width: 105 km
Approximate area affected: 24,740 km²
Fallout contour for 10 rads per hr:
Maximum downwind fallout distance: 215 km
Maximum width: 71.7 km
Approximate area affected: 12,370 km²
Fallout contour for 100 rads per hr:
Maximum downwind fallout distance: 133 km
Maximum width: 38.7 km
Approximate area affected: 4,240 km²
Fallout contour for 1,000 rads per hr:
Maximum downwind fallout distance: 50.1 km
Maximum width: 5.65 km
Approximate area affected: 343 km²

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 11/02/2026

Effects of the largest nuke currently in the US arsenal detonated at 5000 feet in the middle of that TFR to the east of El Paso per NUKEMAP nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt...

Effect distances for a 1.2 megaton airburst*:
Fireball radius: 1.14 km (4.11 km²)
Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to damage on the ground depends on the height of detonation. If it touches the ground, the amount of radioactive fallout is significantly increased. Anything inside the fireball is effectively vaporized. Minimum burst height for negligible fallout: 0.94 km.
Radiation radius (500 rem): 2.06 km (13.3 km²)
500 rem ionizing radiation dose; likely fatal, in about 1 month; 15% of survivors will eventually die of cancer as a result of exposure.
Heavy blast damage radius (20 psi): 2.76 km (23.9 km²)
At 20 psi overpressure, heavily built concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished; fatalities approach 100%. Often used as a benchmark for heavy damage in cities. Optimal height of burst to maximize this effect is 1,930 m.
Moderate blast damage radius (5 psi): 6.33 km (126 km²)
At 5 psi overpressure, most residential buildings collapse, injuries are universal, fatalities are widespread. The chances of a fire starting in commercial and residential damage are high, and buildings so damaged are at high risk of spreading fire. Often used as a benchmark for moderate damage in cities. Optimal height of burst to maximize this effect is 3,320 m.
Thermal radiation radius (3rd degree burns): 13.5 km (574 km²)
Third degree burns extend throughout the layers of skin, and are often painless because they destroy the pain nerves. They can cause severe scarring or disablement, and can require amputation. 100% probability for 3rd degree burns at this yield is 11.4 cal/cm².
Light blast damage radius (1 psi): 16.7 km (881 km²)
At around 1 psi overpressure, glass windows can be expected to break. This can cause many injuries in a surrounding population who comes to a window after seeing the flash of a nuclear explosion (which travels faster than the pressure wave).=

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 22/11/2025

How about this take? www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

Members of Congress are eligible for a pension at the age of 62 if they have completed at least 5 years of service.

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 11/11/2025

I have not watched, played, viewed, or opened this video at all, on any device, yet Youtube shows some playback progress. Is this a dark pattern to make me think I had previously started watching it to get me to click it?

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 07/11/2025

Reminds me of this hilarious figure from Special Boy Sev Gorka’s “PhD”.

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 04/11/2025

How can I get away with claiming no issues while also reporting outages, too?

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 04/11/2025

Do NOT upload to Crackerz without Yammer approval

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 12/08/2025

I don’t interact with LLMs much through the public chat interfaces (ChatGPT, Claude, …Grok), but I use the APIs a lot in my own tools that I’ve built or in b2b products I use. When I see what appears to be the typical user interacting with these it really does concern me. See attached.

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 12/08/2025

Go to r/ChatGPT and search for “my ai” and weep for our future.

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 19/07/2025

His economic buffoonery is making the money nervous.

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 30/05/2025

Anyone watch that hilariously depressing "interview" Piers Morgan did with real, actual physicist @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and sentient Markov text generator @ericweinstein.bsky.social? It's worth watching to see what happens when Eric leaves the safe space of JRE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m7L...

Eric Weinstein, eyes closed, expressing what can best be described as "anguish".

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 25/05/2025

Clurking is really surging this quarter

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 25/05/2025

Just tried @Reddit Answers for the first time. This is why users need to be given control, or at least visibility into, the system prompt. This is some serious "many people are saying..." energy. YC's Peter Koomen recently wrote about this. Highly suggested reading: koomen.dev/essays/hors...

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 24/05/2025

It’s literally this meme. I don’t even need to add the text.

The two-panel “Why would they do this?” meme using the screens from the “who killed Hannibal” skit on The Eric Andre show. Meme text omitted because this shit is obvious to everyone who isn’t suffering from long-term spray tan poisoning.

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Keith Vertrees @vertrees.co · 30/04/2025

The problem is, people have been posting screenshots of it encouraging them to go off their medications, among other very dangerous behavior. www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...