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mvandewettering.bsky.social
Former Pixar senior technical director, current husband, father and grandfather. Licensed as K6HX, blogging at brainwagon.org, enthusiast for enthusiasm. Geek, telescope maker, cohabiting with cats.
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Sometimes it seems like we're putting more effort into figuring out how to get the best output from LLMs than we are into figuring out how to get the best output from humans.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Prove it. Bring every single prisoner trafficked to El Salvador back to the US. Have jury trials. Present actual evidence. Get legal judgement. You know, like what was done for 1600+ J6 insurrections.

submitted 64 days ago • 15 comments

“I would be lying if I said I don’t worry. I do. But as I wrote last month: “Despite that worry, I cannot stop standing up for what is right. I cannot turn a blind eye to injustice.” — @marcelias.bsky.social (4/5/25). Me too, Marc. In solidarity, LHT

submitted 79 days ago • 228 comments

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submitted 80 days ago • 802 comments

It seem insane for a US Senator to say we've all been subjected to "a relentless bombardment of Marxist propaganda." But what he means by this is 1) there was a Burger King ad with an interracial couple and 2) Star Wars Episodes VII-IX had a female lead.

submitted 94 days ago • 890 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 98 days ago • 1026 comments

#booksky #wordoftheday

submitted 97 days ago • 217 comments

These tariff things sound really snazzy. Wonder if I can get in on the action in my neighborhood. I hear it's paid for by the other guys, so I'm tariffing the grocery store 25%

submitted 112 days ago • 9 comments

“It’s like switching to a Mercedes so people won’t call you a Nazi” — Alanis Morissette

submitted 112 days ago • 98 comments

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

submitted 111 days ago • 1794 comments

I was trying not to doom scroll today but HOLY SHIT.

submitted 115 days ago • 608 comments

I wish.....

submitted 116 days ago • 3 comments

I'm not spending over the financial blackout tomorrow. So far I've done a pretty good job cutting back ~90% of my Amazon obsession. It was easy completely cutting out the big box stores that are on the wrong side of history.

submitted 116 days ago • 9 comments

Let’s face it. Getting rid of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is to make way for less qualified white men to take positions they don’t deserve.

submitted 117 days ago • 722 comments

Economic disaster is the point. They will survive and buy up all the things that you own in the aftermath.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 128 days ago • 2846 comments

People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

submitted 129 days ago • 992 comments

Dreading future Star Wars movies because it's going to turn out the stormtroopers were the goodies all along.

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

BRAVO!!!!!!

submitted 144 days ago • 2 comments

Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks. Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

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I think the sum total of life improvement advice I can offer people is (1) buy S&P 500 index funds, as much as you can afford, and (2) use an electric toothbrush. I learnt the second later than the first but I'm hoping the first will help cover what insurance doesn't for the second.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

Elect a clown, expect a circus. Elect a criminal, expect crimes.

submitted 153 days ago • 122 comments

I know it's sounds small, but my grandkid's pet hamster, who was left behind because they were evacuated when out of the house, turned up still alive today when my son-in-law was finally let back in to check. Saved by his fat. So very grateful for the little things.✨

submitted 156 days ago • 711 comments

2009 Obama 28°F 1977 Carter 28°F 1961 Kennedy 22°F It’s not about the cold… it’s about the small crowd size.

submitted 157 days ago • 1469 comments

As the new administration is likely to enact serious opposition to vaccines, and (I suspect) perhaps even greater against a vaccine which a certain part of the population is somehow encouraging young women to have sex, it's important to remember that vaccines like the HPV vaccine save lives.

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Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."

submitted 165 days ago • 56 comments

When emergencies happen, leaders find ways to help. Scoundrels seek to assign blame.

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

Now, a reminder from Banksy:

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments