Joshu
lover of botanical gardens and incorrigible tinkerer
- Reposted by JoshuYesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
- Reposted by JoshuCatherine O’Hara has died at the age of 71, TMZ reports. (www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...)
- Reposted by JoshuIt's not even an issue of framing. It definitionally the Entscheidungsproblem as stated by Hilbert. I feel I'm going somewhat insane as I watch people around me litigate whether a model that encodes first-order predicate logic can evere produce consistent results. Oh wait that's Gödel.
- The saying that keeps popping to mind with regards to LLMs is “one person can know nothing, but two people can know even less”. Till now, I was mostly applying it to trying to rubber-duck debug with an improv yes-man robot, but apparently it also applies when they work in teams?
- Reposted by JoshuI wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...
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- Reposted by JoshuThe latest move by Sticker Mule's owner. Please don't give these people your money (or honestly send them your artwork, you never know).
- I’ve maintained for a while that humans are really bad at making things that aren’t art, because we accidentally infuse our cultural context into everything that we do. And then, on the other hand, there’s GenAI, producing things that look like art but lack the soul in any plate of spaghetti.
- Using DuckDuckGo for just the privacy reasons (and the opt-out of AI!) would be enough, but search suggestions like this remind me of simpler times and keep me coming back
- Reposted by JoshuGreat question! It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider. The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.
- I’ll admit that software frameworks in the past have tended too far towards “configure it however you want, the behavior is up to you!”, but some of the recent frameworks of late are opinionated and hostile.
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- an important data type in Horskell
- thinking recently about how this applies to billionaires
- Reposted by JoshuSCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...
- Reposted by JoshuAround half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse. Do not let Waymo into your city.
- “Sphinx of black quartz …” is the Dvorak keyboard of pangrams
- Reposted by Joshutrying to decide if this would be a good or bad idea
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- Reposted by Joshu'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
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- Reposted by Joshugetting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
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- Reposted by JoshuNew: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
- I did not have “listening to hosts of a German learning podcast discuss gooning” on my bingo card for today, and yet
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- Reposted by JoshuOK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
- Reposted by JoshuTLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵
- Just saw somebody confidently claim that curved quotation marks (“”) are a way to identify LLM-generated text, and at this point I’m starting to wonder how to prove that I’m just a nerd with idiosyncrasies, not a computer program.
- Pro tip: in a pinch, an Arduino Uno board can also be used as an oversized voltage regulator!
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