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@yaseppochi.bsky.social

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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6 of 10 problems, anyway.

26.02.2026 11:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The SAVE America Act: This isn’t election security. It’s voter suppression. Half of Americans don’t have a passport, so Republicans want to charge you $130 just to exercise a constitutional right. Married women will be found ineligible if their documents do not match their new name.

25.02.2026 03:21 — 👍 50    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 0

With RFKjr at HHS, you might get your ssh for all of us.

26.02.2026 10:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

User support, code, design, project management, mentoring, and advocacy in a half-dozen open source software projects over 35 years, as well as teaching and researching the economics of ICT and sustainability for 40 years.
But that doesn’t really address the digital divide in the US, or “web abuse”.

26.02.2026 05:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OK, defending the 5-3 power play was valiant.
Partying with Ka$h … yeccch.

26.02.2026 04:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

America beat a visibly better Canadian team, and the winning goal was scored on a shot that probably wouldn’t have been available 5-on-5. I wouldn’t take the win away, the Canadians didn’t convert that shots on goal advantage. But it wasn’t a win to be proud of.
2/2

26.02.2026 01:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I didn’t take statistics, but it sure seemed like 3/4 of Canadian passes and 1/3 of US passes ended up stuck like ketchup on the White House wall to a Canadian stick, while American sticks did a lot of random deflection (admittedly one of those behind-the-back deflections saved a decisive goal).
1/

26.02.2026 01:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Well, no, I haven’t bothered to mention their role in addicting our kids, indenturing our youth to the gig economy, and perverting our politics. If you measure the economy by the disposable income of the median household, there’s been no growth at all since the election of Reagan. I’m just not sure…

25.02.2026 23:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You don’t read very well.
He did not know that the coprolalia was going to come out—until it did. He knew there was a risk—for him there always is. He cannot “manage” his condition; he has a binary choice—accept the risk, or not. This was important to him, he accepted the risk—he lost the bet.

25.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not much, a little Usenet (all my email was local). In 1981 I started using email and FTP to communicate with SAS (and once with the Social Security Administration) on my advisor’s consulting/sponsored research. Email and FTP started ramping up in about 1984 when I acquired an 8088 and got into OSS.

25.02.2026 17:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That’s not the way this works. The only way it can work for a Tourette’s sufferer is to not have contact with people at all—to live the rest of their life in solitary confinement.
Dude *involuntarily* punched *his mother* in the face *while she was driving*. It is not under his control *at all*.

25.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ve been using the Internet since 1979, and my core use cases haven’t really changed since then. Web adds a veneer of convenience to daily life, but the difference between next day delivery and next week, or maybe go to a store, is no more than a veneer.

25.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You’re no fun!
But “bakery” sounds interesting if I’m ever north of London.😋

25.02.2026 14:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s precisely my point.

25.02.2026 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good grief….

25.02.2026 13:45 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

But is it better than Wendy’s?

25.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
View of audio control panel of automobile proclaiming “AI Agents in the Risky Business”

View of audio control panel of automobile proclaiming “AI Agents in the Risky Business”

@patrick.risky.biz I thought you might be amused to know that my Daihatsu Thor has opinions about your show:

25.02.2026 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That really sucks. I know it took my sister like 5 years to find a practice where she trusted not only her doctor but both potential successors (and succession indeed came to pass). May you find someone reliable!🙏

25.02.2026 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The web (as defined by the early W3C standards) would have worked fine. It’s e-commerce that wouldn’t, and as valuable as the commercial Internet is, I’m not sure we got value for money.

25.02.2026 11:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Booby traps are violations of international humanitarian law, because they all too often kill civilians where it’s known that there are zero combatants.
You can disagree with that treaty, but Western governments are mostly going to respect it.

25.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Because as horrible as typical RF soldiers are, these are still mutilated and killed human beings.
I don’t have to hate them to know the world is net a better place for reducing their number by whatever means necessary. I did all my weeping for them 2022/02/24, but I still pay this much respect now.

25.02.2026 10:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why not? All the conservative parties are subsidiaries of the global broligarchy now. Reform is just wholly owned.😎

25.02.2026 10:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead
doesn’t do it for you?

25.02.2026 10:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

? Boris is still Tory, no? Surely there are plenty they can release!

25.02.2026 10:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was gonna use “thug”, but yeah, “rapist” is at least as accurate.

25.02.2026 08:46 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Wonder if he asked for volunteers, or just acted on National Command Authority.

25.02.2026 04:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Justin, Justin, Justin.
That’s not a contradiction, that’s socialism à la agriculture policy.

25.02.2026 04:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Where is St. Peter when we need a dude to spontaneously combust?

24.02.2026 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

FFS, this is not how probability works, not even in generative LLMs.😢

24.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OTD in 2022 Russian warship Moskva was told “go fuck yourself”. A short while later it fucked itself and sank. In a land war. By a country without a navy.

I remain a master strategist.

24.02.2026 11:26 — 👍 1738    🔁 344    💬 30    📌 12

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