Christopher Neugebauer
Man about the world; Expatriated Tasmanian living in California; conference organiser: (@NorthBayPython.org) previously (PyCon AU) and linux.conf.au; #python fan; multiple @python.org hats; queer; 💜 @robin.riley.pub
see also: @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi
- if you're looking for an answer to what a rejection of the 2002-2003-era politics of division looks like, you can do worse than the joy, humanity, and actual inclusivity shown in this 30-second press conference clip
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerIf they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.
- Everyone in this household is now familiar with the phrase "Norwegian penis doping", and now you are too.
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerI’ve watched this about 20 times already
- "Claude will never deliberately include advertising" is not the same thing as "Claude will deliberately work to reduce advertising content that it outputs" which do you suppose they mean by "ad-free"?
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- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerHighlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerYour annual reminder that your monthly metrics will be 9% lower in February because February is 9% shorter than January.
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- Reposted by Christopher Neugebauerthe $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
- Why yes, I _am_ spending too much time attempting to reconcile my formal computational science education with the boom in an industry of tools that do a good enough job of making a lot of good enough code in a good enough number of contexts
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- COULDN'T AGREE MORE, O RANDOM NOTIFICATION
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- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerThere's a guy who used to be involved in Debian and got kicked out for being awful who has since then involved himself in a series of weird stuff like posting stuff under other people's names but anyway he's apparently filed a 386 page lawsuit in New York storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerMy broad view is there is as big, or bigger, issue with older adults and social media as with young people - and that social media bans are just a sticking plaster that allows us to ignore the wider issue. Ultimately we need proper regulation and enforcement, not bans which allow us to ostrich
- Reposted by Christopher Neugebauer*taps the sign* bsky.app/profile/that...
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerSpaceX owned Starlink. xAI owned X/Twitter. xAI and SpaceX are now the same company. That means that Starlink and X/Twitter are now part of the same company. Which is now being investigated by Paris authorities over child sexual exploitation and nonconsensual intimate abuse material.
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerTwo headlines today that should have every Starlink airline worried: 1) Elon Musk joins his rocket and AI businesses into a single company apnews.com/article/spac... 2) "Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of investigation into child abuse images and deepfakes" apnews.com/article/fran...
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerDem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerEvery day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
- Reposted by Christopher Neugebauer...horrifying message without context, thank you
- Reposted by Christopher Neugebauerthey should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
- Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. bit.ly/4rmRhrK
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerUSian trans people aren't telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom to cause you distress and despair. USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries. They are giving you actionable information.
- The joy of replacing one (1) faied seal in the steam wand plumbing in an espresso machine: when the pressure across the line increases due to the first seal being replaced, the second seal will immediately fail… and then the third. YAY.
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerMan Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life theonion.com/man-who-thought-fle…
- Well if we're going to make comparisons to 1984, I definitely prefer Reagan to Orwell
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- So I know that polling/forecasting agencies don't really do uniform swing projections in the US... But does anyone have uniform swing projections of the US house and senate vs 2024 based on elections that have happened in the last two weeks?
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerYou can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.
- Literally everything the fascists say about the people who oppose them is projection everything.
- so we *weren't* going senile when we said that gamergate was the rehearsal can I get a refund?
- Reposted by Christopher Neugebauerohhhhhh okay so what we've learned from the epstein mail drop is that the entirety of the fascistic culture war since the 2010s onward was basically wholesale consolidated through the anglosphere bourgeois old boys club network of pedophile rapists
- Reposted by Christopher Neugebauer“/pol/ was created after moot met with jeffrey epstein” is maybe the single most cursed true sentence I have ever had the displeasure of writing
- FETCH THE FUCKING POPCORN, FUCKERS
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- excited to see this not launch in the US
- I am now so far down the health billing rabbit hole that I have dedicated case managers with two (2) separate insurers "yay" --_
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerFucking QUEEN, fuck this noise
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- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerWhat I find so demoralizing is starting with an end goal of finding a way to keep government open rather than finding a way to use the threat of shutdown to end ICE; Possible? Perhaps not. But "abolish ICE" must be the starting position. Reforms are just putting a cup full of diarrhea on a doily.
- Reposted by Christopher Neugebauerwhen they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerRebranding LLMs as "Timecube as a service" which apparently is a phrase that search indexes have not previously indexed
- Reposted by Christopher Neugebaueri can confirm the chats I’m in which include renowned security specialists - people who actually advise on how to protect your comms from authoritarian dictators for a living - also think this outburst of paranoia about Signal is really weird and unwarranted
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- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerGood lord Putin doesnt even rig it this big
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- Reposted by Christopher Neugebaueri have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact
- Reposted by Christopher NeugebauerThe starving crocodiles that have been released onto this ship full of children need better training, proper monitoring, and also must cease any unnecessary eating NOW. No children on the lido deck or 1st class should EVER be consumed. That's why I'm voting an additional $44B for crocodiles.
- Reposted by Christopher Neugebauerbrass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
