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Professional nerd. Dog dad. Chicago-born, trying to find a decent hot dog in DC. Website: https://soulrobotic.com Mastodon: https://spacerslike.us/@matt Give me a cigar and some good music and I’m a happy boy.
I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.
A good primer on the history of computer ethics: www.cs.utexas.edu/~ear/cs349/B...
Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me
for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment
On leaving a job after 16 years at it: Stepping out, stepping in https://soulrobotic.com/2026/02/stepping-out-stepping-in/
iceout.org is a community-driven tracker of ICE activity across the country. You can sign up for alerts in your neighborhood, along with anywhere your community may be located. You can also report what you see. This is for keeping people safe now, but it also will act as helpful documentation
This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."
Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
That blows my mind.
people offended by $600 shoes are going to be in for a surprise when trump eventually reshores US manufacturing
First time going into the gym this year. Gonna be packed. God help me.
Need. Entirely impractical but… *makes grabby hands*
After over a decade of my ex wife treating time with your parents like an unwelcome burden, it's magical to spend Christmas with my mom and new wife and it feel like welcome family all around.
I've turned 40 apparently. Some minor reflections. https://soulrobotic.com/2025/12/at-40-a-life-in-review/
Or - *gasp* head all the way out to IAD or BWI for a flight.
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's another case of Democrats playing Charlie Brown to the GOP's Lucy with the football. As someone directly impacted by the shutdown, along with many close friends and colleagues, giving up now makes all the pain we've gone through pointless.
“This sets a dangerous precedent,” warned 83-year-old Susan Forbes, head of her HOA since the Reagan administration. “If she can retire, next thing you know someone under 70 will be allowed to chair a subcommittee.”
No polling - even by Republican outfits - even remotely suggests what former VA Del. Tim Anderson (R) is saying here. To the contrary, the latest poll by Republican pollster Echelon has Dems with an 11-point "generic" lead for HoD. But...sure, ok. LOL bluevirginia.us/2025/10/frid...
Friends, I would like to inform you that we have now entered shawl collar cardigan season. That is all.
Pritzker quoting Andor is based as hell
Extraordinary
It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.
New mumblings on the blog: DeFi Experiments https://soulrobotic.com/defi-experiments/
Just spoke with a Trump supporter who is scare shitless her mom and sister will be deported at their visa renewal this year.
She still supports Trump and said Harris have her nightmares, which she interprets as the Holy Spirit warning her.
Yall, you’re not gonna win these people over.
you’re so close
Sometimes the LLM does wizardly things.
Sometimes, you give the LLM a choice between 0 and 3, and tell it the result is going into an unsigned int, and it returns -47.
Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president?
Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
The problem I have with being in the cybersecurity industry is it’s less APTs and more WTFs.