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Fox Mulder from X-Files, leaning back in a chair and looking cool

The same picture of Fox Mulder from X-Files

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 27/09/2026

i have no idea who is right about the placement of a lakeview substation and for all i know it might be comed but this is a hilariously condescending statement www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/26/l...

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 26/09/2026

got two of the best looking boots ever made: miusa gokey chukkas that i thrifted when i was selling them for the orvis catalog and wore for 20 years, and italian made vasque sundowners, which i’ve wanted since i was a kid; best silhouette of any boot

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

when aaron rodgers and deshaun watson are on thursday night football on amazon prime video

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 24/09/2026

happy birthday! here's some hometown brutalism (roanoke civic center)

sepia tone picture of a brutalist concert hall and convention center

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 22/09/2026

some good news. this bit makes me wonder if some covid interventions have succeeded in addressing pre-covid problems (like with crime) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/s...

“There were really incredible efforts to focus on mental health for young people, particularly in schools, and it looks to me like that’s working,” Dr. Ethier said. “Covid and the disconnection from school absolutely affected those numbers in 2021 and 2023. What we’re seeing now is a rebound, and that’s wonderful.”

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 21/09/2026

reminds me of one of my favorite passages in my favorite essay, lee sandlin's "losing the war"

But it seems somehow paltry and wrong to call what happened at Midway a "battle." It had nothing to do with battles the way they were pictured in the popular imagination. There were no last-gasp gestures of transcendent heroism, no brilliant counterstrategies that saved the day. It was more like an industrial accident. It was a clash not between armies, but between TNT and ignited petroleum and drop-forged steel. The thousands who died there weren't warriors but bystanders -- the workers at the factory who happened to draw the shift when the boiler exploded.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 19/09/2026

good piece. i have been thinking about this in particular

Some research has suggested that AI may have consensus-forming potential that bucks the polarising tendencies of social media, being very good at drawing people towards overlapping views and opinions. ChatGPT use is more likely to correlate to trust in climate science, but not because an LLM has access to the empirical world. Rather, the scientific consensus is the most normal position to repeat

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 17/09/2026

this is the only thing i tell claude code to do

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 16/09/2026

don't print lies in the paper

What, we ask, is in it for us? Where is the break on that egregious 35 cent “technology” fee added to the rates every time we park for under two full hours and use an app that now is virtually compulsory in practical terms. Where are the minor breaks for our street fairs or block parties? Where is the modest reduction in hours of paid parking?

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 13/09/2026

my neighborhood holding it down

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 12/09/2026

i’ve really dialed in my vessels

a toile owala bottle and a brass/gold zojirushi coffee mug

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 11/09/2026

the world after i am sufficiently verbally abusive to people who share my goals but use wording that i think is slightly off

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 10/09/2026

not trying to make fun of this guy because i think he's sincere and it's reasonable to float concerns about AI, but in this case the AI better have a survival strategy for not having people around to, like, fix the pipes in the data center www.wired.com/story/anthro...

"When we say human extinction, it’s because, for something that intelligent, it really will be quite straightforward for it to kill everyone. Imagine the AI decides it doesn't want to be turned off, which I think is quite a natural thing for an AI not to want, right? For whatever reason, it decides it doesn't want to end. And it realizes the human is gonna turn it off tomorrow. So how does it stop the human turning it off tomorrow? Maybe it's got some clever way, but if it's a sufficiently smart thing, it could just, you know, wipe out humanity so it doesn't get turned off."

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 10/09/2026

as a matter of law this might be correct but there's a big difference between "i will pursue this policy" and "i will only pursue this policy if my party wins"

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 08/09/2026

there is probably some selection bias here but the coders i follow seem pretty conservative about the capabilities of AI because they use it for their jobs and many of the real cuckoo bananas SV heads are non coders with fancy liberal arts educations

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 06/09/2026

i haven’t had that experience at all but i guess i’ll take no for an answer

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 05/09/2026

🎶lady / step into my hyundai🎶

gran turismo screen showing the ‘25 ioniq 6n

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 05/09/2026

the movement, such as it is, is very fragile and now is a good time to fracture it. the reporting suggests that she’s being pretty cautious www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 05/09/2026

mfw i see the box score

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 04/09/2026

as an aside, it seems like the mckinsey contract was probably fine? they paid them to do a block by block analysis of how much trash is created? (not that the regular coverage of mckinsey's role was great) www.fastcompany.com/91156083/how...