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@wavdl.blog
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(he/him) Transplanted to NYC. Views are my own. This account is no longer active. Check up on me at wavdl.blog and sfba.social/@wavdl

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/10/2026
Thanks for reading!
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/10/2026
#DeleteYourInstagram wavdl.blog/2026/08/06/i...
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I Deleted My Instagram
It’s a bit of the “boy who cried wolf” situation since I’ve been saying I’d do this for over a year and a half. But it’s done, and you should consider it too.
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/10/2026
I don't need to know that the homeless person I see on the sidewalk is from Nebraska to know that we have failed, just as we have failed someone who was born here. It is good for someone to ask "why does that city have so many homeless?" It is senseless and a disgrace for us to allow it, regardless.
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/10/2026
This is just dangerously close to the "all the homeless came here for the amenities or the weather or whatever so we don't owe them anything" which drives so much anti-homeless sentiment and allows people to feel like it's not their responsibility to help their neighbors sleeping on their sidewalk
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/10/2026
I mean, yeah But If a city is doing it's job, anyone could move there and find an affordable place to live and not end up homeless. It's good to talk about how biggoted places fail their own children. but it doesn't absolve the cities of anything.
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 03/10/2026
I'm looking for a primary care provider today. Took me all of 30 seconds to pull up this map from my insurance provider of who is in network. I am awestruck at how stupid these AI boosters think we all are
Map on Anthems website showing a bunch of blue waypoints
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 03/10/2026
Ah thank you I didn't do enough digging through the threads of threads.
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 03/10/2026
Pardon my ignorance, but are there ways to isolate the LLM from the harness/wrapper openAI ships it with? I assume that would be necessary before one could make claims about what part an LLM itself is capable of, removed from any special handling of known "gotchas"
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 01/10/2026
All we have to do is remove these peoples license to drive and impound their cars Adding robot cars just means more total cars, they don't replace assholes who choose to be assholes
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 30/09/2026
The idea that you need an LLM to be able to make a website that shows you pharmacists who take your insurance is laughably absurd. All of these things are extremely straightforward to design, but building them in a reasonable way doesn't let you scam people or sell a SaaS so it doesn't get built.
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 30/09/2026
Jokes aside, my point is: 99.9999% of these problems are completely solvable with thoughtful system design or thoughtful deterministic software. The solution to all of society's pitfalls is not an LLM, and would not cost a trillion dollars to invent while destroying the world and frying your brain
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 30/09/2026
Heh heh, my new tool is completing so many tasks for me 😈
"Self operating napkin" I extremely complicated and stupid looking contraption afixed to somebody's head
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 30/09/2026
Okay so setting aside 18,000 problems, you've now in the best case scenario set up a shitty and expensive set of Rube Goldberg machines to handle parts of your daily life. Congrats?
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 29/09/2026
Predators in vans trying to entrap your kids by offering free treats
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026
Thanks, that's a helpful summary. I'm still amazed there's enough there to generate a Discourse
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026
I used to enjoy the Topic Of The Day but the less time I spend on social media the more I find it insufferable and exhausting to sift through
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026
I fear the result will always just be "some big account screenshotted a totally random and irrelevent article from rolling stone and everybody decided they have an opinion" over and over every day. I hate this site
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026
Why is everyone on here talking about some country song? I kind of want to create a bluesky client that allows me to tag a bunch of posts together and find the common denominator of posts those accounts have liked in the past 6 hours that lead to this hysteria.
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026
I don't usually want smut on my TL but I'll allow it #ScootersAreGood
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026
I guess I already said this. There really is no reason for me to be posting on this site anymore
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026
I take extra offense at the transplant nonsense because youre basically telling me I cannot pursue my career or experience any economic mobility and I should just go live in a corn field that's a 2-hour drive from any meaningful economic center. No, and also fuck you if you believe that
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026
This is why I say that *everyone* is a transplant. Unless you're still living in your parent's home, you're a transplant. You're an adult who wants to be housed separately from where you were born which is a very normal thing to want.
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026
Front page of the FT today: "Yes Billy you are correct" Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300bn of AI exposure off balance sheets - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300bn of AI exposure off balance sheets
Wall Street finds new way to turn tech giants’ credit strength into cheaper funding for AI build-out
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026
As far as I'm concerned, the Tigers play in Toledo now. I'm not gonna keep the names straight
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 17/09/2026
How is being homeless relevant to this analogy?
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 17/09/2026
Since the above events I have acquired a streaming service that is gaurunteed to have zero AI generated music
Orange IPod classic with orange word headphones
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 17/09/2026
I've been saying this and the streaming platforms don't give a fuck
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 16/09/2026
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Endorses Burning Your Trash
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 09/09/2026
#BlueskyCantRead
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 09/09/2026
"Please spend 10 seconds thinking about the thing you're replying to before hitting send" .... "Okay, first READ the thing you're replying to, THEN spend 10 seconds thinking about the thing you're replying to" The entire bluesky experience in one short thread
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 09/09/2026
I see, so you agree with the ideological implications of the old phrase and don't like some of the ideological implications of the new phrase. That's a reasonable position to take. The original post just made it sound like only something new could be "ideological", so I wanted to clarify.
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 09/09/2026
Wasn't whoever chose the "old" phrase expressing a specific ideological view? i.e. why should the status quo be considered neutral?
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 08/09/2026
In what ways is one more or less ideological than the other?
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 08/09/2026
Some players do open up their foot quite a bit but yeah that's not the "right" way
Red Sox player with front foot pointing almost straight out
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 08/09/2026
Exactly
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 07/09/2026
Me when it comes to light that the abuse machine I bought to be abused is being abused: oh no
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/09/2026
usa.streetsblog.org/2020/10/02/s...
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Study: We Can't Fix Transportation-Related Climate Emissions With EVs Alone — Streetsblog USA
A major shift to public transit and active modes is the only realistic answer
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/09/2026
Hey man how's the climate looking these days?
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 29/08/2026
Obviously I disagree with the confusion point but as for the signs, I volunteer to come visit Columbus again and put up the signs myself over a weekend (and I mean, you really just need a good sticker if cost of materials is the issue)
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026
My anger would be reduced by at least 50% if the signage on COTA actually consistently displayed to you which bus it is. This is really easy to do if your busses have unique numbers btw
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026
It's simple! You see, Line 1 was one line, but now it's two lines! Here, let me illustrate it with this helpful color coded graphic listing THREE different names for the lines
Line 1 after:
Line 1 Kenny
Line 1 Kenny Extension
Line 1 Livingston
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026
Breaking my posting hiatus just to say that this shit pisses me off to no end. You've already chosen to confuse people by changing service patterns. Okay, fine. Now you have a choice: pay one time for a bit of confusion to make a new name, or pay a constant confusion tax for all eternity
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026
5 days a week for a whole fucking year I would ride the #8 and hear 5 people a day ask "is this the Parsons 8 or the High 8" and then get off again and those 2 lines at least share a core part of their route, these #1 lines are completely separate! Rip off the bandaid and rename them!!
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026
Is this the stop for Line 1? Which one? Line 1 Right, which line? Just tell me where I would go to board the #1 Well that depends, which one of the Line 1 lines is the Line 1 line that one would want to ride?
The "who's on first?" Guys
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026
Thats not how numbers or lines work. Gonna have to learn 4-dimensional geometry just to ride the bus because they refuse to give separate routes separate names.
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026
"Your line 1 trip now runs as one of two lines" bro what
Jesse, what the hell are you talking about
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026
This is an abomination, you are right to question it
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/08/2026
I forget the exact turn of events but a few weeks ago I ended up screaming this almost verbatim in all caps into whatever stupid LLM customer support assistant they routed me to when I refused to download the app
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 12/08/2026
Me too wavdl.blog/2026/08/06/i...
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I Deleted My Instagram
It’s a bit of the “boy who cried wolf” situation since I’ve been saying I’d do this for over a year and a half. But it’s done, and you should consider it too.
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Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/07/2026
That makes sense, and thanks for the details! I will definitely check out Routes To Nature
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