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YetAnotherSteve

@yaseppochi.bsky.social
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Aka yasegumi. Conservatively progressive devil’s advocate economist, Pythonista, wannabe mathematician. Favorite meme ¿Porque no los dos? but rarely happy with either side.

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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 1h
“Most importantly, I will continue to write.” Dunno what it is about that conclusion, but it hit me. Man. Can. Write. And I’m very glad he intends to continue writing.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 1h
I’m a (retired) teacher. So many times I wished I could produce cultural artifacts (manga and anime about economics) faster (say 20-50 frames per term) than I actually have managed (zero per lifetime). “AI slop” would work for me if it weren’t for how the diffusion models are generated.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 1h
Formally just gambling, yes, but properly regulated those derivative markets are socially valuable.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 2h
Oh that is a beautiful use of that video!
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 2h
Can’t believe people are trying to claim “tech bro” is like a racial slur in important ways.😩
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 8h
One difference: the Epstein Files are a case of “hey! We all IS taking notes on a criminal conspiracy”. It’s direct evidence against all conspirators. I doubt CSAM Man (if that’s what he is) kept such meticulous notes on the co-conspirators. But we’ll see.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 16h
It was a stupid joke, zeet. But it is not stupid to tell jokes about the jokes who work for Trump.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 17h
Please don’t use euphemisms like that. ICE is a terrorist organization working as designed. That’s bad, very very bad, but not out of control. This is what Republican officials want and what their voters voted for. It’s the GOP and specifically the Trump Administration that is running amok.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 19h
“Bot” doesn’t mean what you think it does. That’s why it’s not newsworthy. What it probably means is that one or more of those DCs hosted a lot of web spiders, likely because they had a shitton of bandwidth. Of course I’m just guessing, but we won’t have a better guess until the real wonks talk.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 19h
The only difference is length of sentence, and with 2TB of sentences running consecutively I think those are all life sentences. If that’s what’s going on, I hope he just outed himself to the cops.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 19h
If that doesn’t bother him visibly you got one of the greats right there.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 20h
Given that once a file is on any public site people start copying and sharing all over the place, there is only one reason I can think of why rare ass porn would stay rare ass for long.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think Tom Petty would approve. RIP, Tom.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You can’t win arguing with accelerationists like these. They’re only interested in making things so bad that their brand of authoritarian has a chance to grab power. I just block, there are other ways to deal, but arguing, I really really don’t think it helps.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I’m not normally one to be in favor of hurting people (even “just” feelings), but I think their whining deters their wannabes too. They feel entitled to a large reach, and being denied the organic ones they (like to think they) built on Twitter really hurts. So they easily give up trying it here.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Showing your self-interest there, Dan?😎 But it’s all of us too. And there’s evidence that it does its job—there are people who ignorantly but honestly ask “just asking questions” questions, but Michael Tracey and Jesse Singal are not them. Enough blocks and they got the message (and hurt feels😈).
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You made my day! I did not know this guy (by name of course, but not *him*). And now, I do (a little but sooo goood). Thank you!
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sooo … just finished listening to The Bulwark pod (Tim & Bill edition), and am pissed off to amplify Tim’s report that Tom Cotton seemingly hasn’t mentioned* Ukraine since 2023, when he criticized Biden for not sending the right weapons. Fsck all the chickenhawks! *Twitter search and press releases
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This isn’t a feud; Cook is only defending herself in court. Not trying to harm Trump. This is an assault by lawfare, and you should use words that reflect that it’s a one-sided attack by a pusillanimous bully. And he’s putting his personal gain over country, to boot.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Diff-in-diff, maybe no, you tell me. But I know a diss-in-diss when I see one!
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oof.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
LOL. He was a good teacher in 1979, though.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You should collect your best and offer them to the Joel Dongsteen account!
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“More annoying” is because you think they should know better than to disagree with on this issue (but you could be wrong!) On X or threads, no such presumption.😉
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh, I think there are a few in Washington. Want them to speak their piece loudly, even if the Backstabber in Chief won’t.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Now we know where all the brains went.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’ll need a crosstab on that 88%, seems a little too on the nose.😉
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They also slice n dice to fit the “4 character compound” format.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Why hire a hit when we could just put Lina Khan back in at the FTC? 😈
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Never had that experience in TeX. Interlinear space in Word, tho.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It’s remarkable how “Silicon Valley” all the names are!
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
By "lying", I was speaking colloquially. They may not (quite) have been lying about where Talarico was, but they were certainly lying about having evidence of it. Now about the law: You have to show "reckless disregard for the truth". If creating evidence of a falsity is not that, what is?
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The point is to tie them up in court ("the process is the punishment"), and to show you're fighting. You just need to clear TX's anti-SLAPP hurdle.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A software-generated phone call recording will do that. That's knowingly lying. It's this kind of thing that Ken White characterizes as "<sigh> Some day you'll graduate to a big boy federal felony, but this ain't it yet."
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
More importantly, keeps those wannabe Jokers tied up in court spending money on lawyers. Which they're probably getting from RWNJ billionaires, but that could spread the tar a bit.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A woman posting economics does (as Jake points out in a different subthread). Some of that stuff will get into her DMs if she hasn't closed them already.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Before you can do that you need to put Fear of Congress into a few SCOTUS justices, tho. Impeachment first.😁
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Should be HR 0.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I don't think @neorsd.org would sign on.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Surely there are taxpayer-financed Swinging Dick programmers who can automate combing through logs. I giess the problem is more acquiring the logs (annoying af paperwork)?
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'll take your word for that good news. But that's on the global scale for stocks of "generic oil". The local supply chains, per-product refinery capacity, etc are going to take months to years to retune. And as Tarrasch observed, "Before the endgame, the gods have placed the midterm elections."
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thanks! I don't give out my email addresses for "free access" (not even my spam sink address) at insomniac 2am, but the "more info" had everything I wanted to know and links to "then some".
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
LOL, bye
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Missing out"? @washingtonpost.com, this headline is a perfect example of why I'm a WaPo refusenik.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If he's still around in 2029, the Committee should put him on the short list "for being forced out of office".
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Indeed. I'm hoping sometime in the New Year Mayor Mamdani feels secure enough to take on the NYPD in important ways. Maybe even this one sooner!
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Formally, yes. I don't think people have a handle on just how powerful the NYPD plus their union is in NYC politics, though.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Same dunk, same answer. You're taking the particular example waaay too seriously.
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Conscious machines today exist only in fiction. Less than 100 tears ago nuclear weapons existed only in fiction. So what?
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YetAnotherSteve @yaseppochi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm not ruling out the possibility that a sufficiently complex piece of software could develop consciousness. But LLMs are complicated, not complex. We know how they get from "here" to "there". My models are "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" and "Hellspark". They have a theory of consciousness.
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