These are basically illegal in most of the US and they shouldn't be.

I remember eating oatmeal with peanut butter in my twenties and calling it dinner.

Saw two drones in the neighborhood tonight. Flying low and slow.

This is a good idea.

In 1970 near the peak of his fame he put out an album that was a real stinker, before going on to make Blood on the Tracks five years later. For anyone making stuff, it's just really to remember: it's ok to swing and miss! To try things that don't work.

that's exciting, latest build includes internal tooling

super useful

Highly recommend the Zoosky feed, if you like cute exotic animals and snappy writing

I have good memories of square pizza slices as a teenager.

Going to watch videos of ducks in the hope that will help me sleep.

Any recommendations for a good backpack in leather?

I was laissez faire with grading when I taught a class on Entrepreneurship at Williams. But if I ever teach again, I think I'll be more strict. It's not great for the kids to learn that they can be irresponsible, because their manager at an entry level job won't be so easygoing.

Really excited about @modretro.bsky.social. I (mostly) love futuristic tech but get nostalgic for the time before tik tok and rising sea temperatures. It's nice for me that the cool kids are also into 80s retro. ModRetro just sold out of their first run but they say they'll ship other products.

A mom just came in SO EXCITED to find a map store bc her son would LOVE it. She tries to be coy. "My son is... Really into maps. Real special kid." I'm like, ma'am, this is a map store. Half my customers are on the spectrum. I have a trains and transit section. You're among friends.

this essay got me thinking much more deeply about Netflix, very well written

satisfying to see such a smart policy

This explains a lot. NJ is very pleasant, if you live in NJ. But driving there from Manhattan (where I imagine tv writers lived in the 90s) is something else.

It’s BACK! NMDOT’s Name a Snowplow Contest is live!!!!! Submission period — now through Friday, December 20, 2024, at noon. Submission link — www.dot.nm.gov/name-a-plow/.

I have known people who behaved like this.

New ep alert! A CEO is arrested for turning satellite receivers into DDoS attack weapons, and we journey into the world of bossware and "affective computing" and explore how AI is learning to read our emotions – is this the future of work, or a recipe for dystopia? open.spotify.com/episode/51Yj...

Happy to see Werewolf Bar Mitzvah making the rounds here on Bluesky

Section 31 is an excellent theme but canonically this should be more cloak and dagger and less blowing things up.

I have learned through experience that if they ask “are you open-minded?” it is best just to say “no.”

It is extremely stupid that the US telecom system is right there, unsecured, for all our foreign adversaries to read. Hope to see security upgrades soon.

Just take a moment to absorb what's contained in this single post, not even the thread beneath it. The President is barred from leaving the country and under investigation for Treason. Also still in charge of the military. Not great, Bob!

I miss the old style okcupid profiles for dating. Profiles were several paragraphs deep and quiz answers got very personal. You really knew what you were getting into before that first date.

I babysat an epileptic doggie and everything was fine, he was fine, but I was so intense about it until his owner-friend came home.

The problems of SAI are better than allowing the world to heat up. What all reporters fail to share is risk of doing SAI vs. risk of not doing it [1]. This has been modeled extensively and now we're taking the next step and increasing our deployments. [1] www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ8T...

Yes. inews.co.uk/news/science...

The CFP for the very first hacker con I submitted to and spoke at is open. I’m also on their CFP board! Submit to Thotcon’s CFP by January 1, 2025! If you make submitting to a con in 2025 your New Year’s resolution, you’ll accomplish it on day 1 if you submit on Jan 1. www.thotcon.org/cfp.html

We can solve climate change (at least the heating up part) by injecting sulfur into the upper upper atmosphere. See: @makesunsets.bsky.social I don't know why this isn't discussed more among the accelerationist / longevity crowd.

I am pleasantly surprised to discover that I am not attracted to people who do the street murder.

it's less by volume, which I do find comforting

So, maybe you saw this list but you’d like to understand these points a little better. I’ll explain a bit about each. I hope you find it helpful.

Large drones are flying over New Jersey at night and no one knows why https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/6/24314928/new-jersey-ufo-drones-spotted-fbi-investigation-social-media-speculation

There are unidentified aircraft flying over sensitive airspace in NJ. These are either an adversary like China, an experiment from the DoD with total disregard for civilians, or some kind of aliens. Is there another possibility? All of the above options are non-trivial.

Amazing that E. coli takes over two days to show symptoms. Salmonella can take 6 days!

Most people do not think street executions of those they dislike are good. That voices to the contrary are loudest on social media platforms is largely a reflection of how such platforms are divorced from popular sentiment and algorithmically incentivize extremism and outrage.

I just hope the lab where they’re doing this gain-of-function research has good security. Because it’s possible this mutation will happen on its own, but we don’t need to help it in any way.

Hopefully I'll attend this, I'd like to spend more time in the Israeli dev scene.

like someone's beating a traditional drum and doing a chant with what I think are demands and the protesters are doing bows (full ritual kowtows) in tandem while all wearing the same smocks identifying their protest

Health insurance companies are the worst and health insurance CEOs are people who voluntarily choose to be at the top of that pyramid of greed and paperwork and apathy. But I want to live in a society where we don't execute people in the street, even really bad people.

Today I learned that, in my current living place, all circuit breakers are unlabeled except for one marked "oven."

My favorite thing about Bluesky and social networks like it is that identities can be bound to externally controlled sources of truth, so scammers like this weirdo will never be able to convincingly impersonate people like @vitalik.ca, who has attached his personal domain. Go do that if you haven't.

Any recommendations for good gifts under $100 for nerds? Family member wants to buy me something for Chanukah, which is nice! Last year I asked for a pass to the zoo, which was just right.

Important Security PSA for iPhone

My neighbor's dog is missing, and we believe someone took him. He's come to the door a few times to review my camera footage, but I don't have much on the neighbors. Feels like a good excuse to put more cameras up around the house, to catch a bit more of what's going on.

Hello folks new to Bluesky! Please say hi, maybe a bit about your hobbies or pets or whatever, I want to meet you :)

@birdcpk.bsky.social very happy to see you in Bluesky. Really appreciated the latest video of Astoria & psa to help her find water.

I get my following the same way on every social network: by being a nepo baby of the actual hard drives that the posts are stored on. My grand-uncle was the Internet Protocol itself; all of this was deeded to me on an AOL CD-ROM.