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Anxious Minnesotan. Actuary turned basketball data analyst. Bike lane protector Opinions are mine and not representing my employer
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Too much is happening

Deck life

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Reading about science

a better world is possible

The chicken skin crunched like a potato chip, can’t tell me nothing tonight

Selling a Bear Vs Shark / Snowing ticket for D.C. tonight, face value

One of life’s simple pleasures: deleting huge blocks of code because you finally got around to some of those “todo” comments and cleaned up past you’s bad design decisions

Things may seem really bleak but at least here in Minneapolis we’re getting Frey the fuck out of here in November

I have solved the mystery of RCV ballots for the mayoral election for anti-Frey voters. You have three rankings. Rank Fateh, Davis, and Koski in the order you want. The end.

King

I used to be avid golfer, not much time these days. It would be cooler if you weren’t expected to dress like your dad owns a jet ski dealership and you’re in the most rapey frat at UGA

“Hank, why are you spending so much time defending the freaking /minecraft movie?/“ Actually, I’m not defending anything, I am attacking the practice of dumping buckets of jaded misery on moments of goofy joy and I will absolutely die on that hill.

New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Every year I gleefully read those articles from normie journalists who go to the Gathering of the Juggalos expecting to look down their nose and realizing it’s a welcoming, inclusive community, but also with lots of drugs and naked people, and a body of water they call Lake Hepatitis