Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/10/2026#DeleteYourInstagram wavdl.blog/2026/08/06/i...wavdl.blogI Deleted My InstagramIt’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. 2206
Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/10/2026I 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. 000
Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/10/2026This 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 100
Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/10/2026I 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. 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 03/10/2026I'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 000
Billy @wavdl.blog · 03/10/2026Ah thank you I didn't do enough digging through the threads of threads. 010
Billy @wavdl.blog · 03/10/2026Pardon 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" 200
Billy @wavdl.blog · 01/10/2026All 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 000
Billy @wavdl.blog · 30/09/2026The 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. 211
Billy @wavdl.blog · 30/09/2026Jokes 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 111
Billy @wavdl.blog · 30/09/2026Okay 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? 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 29/09/2026Predators in vans trying to entrap your kids by offering free treats 020
Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026Thanks, that's a helpful summary. I'm still amazed there's enough there to generate a Discourse 000
Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026I 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 010
Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026I 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 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026Why 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. 210
Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026I don't usually want smut on my TL but I'll allow it #ScootersAreGood 010
Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026I guess I already said this. There really is no reason for me to be posting on this site anymore 010
Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026I 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 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026This 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. 130
Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026Front 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/...giftarticle.ft.comBig Tech uses guarantees to keep $300bn of AI exposure off balance sheetsWall Street finds new way to turn tech giants’ credit strength into cheaper funding for AI build-out 010
Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026As far as I'm concerned, the Tigers play in Toledo now. I'm not gonna keep the names straight 040
Billy @wavdl.blog · 17/09/2026Since the above events I have acquired a streaming service that is gaurunteed to have zero AI generated music 010
Billy @wavdl.blog · 17/09/2026I've been saying this and the streaming platforms don't give a fuck 100
Billy @wavdl.blog · 16/09/2026U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Endorses Burning Your Trash 010
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 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 09/09/2026I 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. 111
Billy @wavdl.blog · 09/09/2026Wasn't whoever chose the "old" phrase expressing a specific ideological view? i.e. why should the status quo be considered neutral? 131
Billy @wavdl.blog · 08/09/2026Some players do open up their foot quite a bit but yeah that's not the "right" way 020
Billy @wavdl.blog · 07/09/2026Me when it comes to light that the abuse machine I bought to be abused is being abused: oh no 020
Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/09/2026usa.streetsblog.org/2020/10/02/s...usa.streetsblog.orgStudy: We Can't Fix Transportation-Related Climate Emissions With EVs Alone — Streetsblog USAA major shift to public transit and active modes is the only realistic answer 030
Billy @wavdl.blog · 29/08/2026Obviously 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) 010
Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026My 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 120
Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026It'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 130
Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026Breaking 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 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/20265 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!! 100
Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026Is 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? 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 28/08/2026Thats 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. 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/08/2026I 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 020
Billy @wavdl.blog · 12/08/2026Me too wavdl.blog/2026/08/06/i...wavdl.blogI Deleted My InstagramIt’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. 010
Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/07/2026That makes sense, and thanks for the details! I will definitely check out Routes To Nature 000