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pearl clutching about the WaPo opinion stuff is really getting to me. Personal liberties and free speech are two things that the current administration is demonstrably against? and now you look like losers for being against freedom and commerce, two things that most normal people think are good

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do I know anyone at Northwestern University? I’m gonna be up there in a few weeks for a work thing and I enjoy a friendly beer

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hehe I set up a custom domain @mikedecr.computer

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petty gripe about a headline / article title trend that I do not like “Everything is <X> but nobody is <thing that should be correlated with X>”

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I am going to run an old script without refactoring it. It’s gonna hurt me but I can do it

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Just sealed some idiot within my crystal

submitted 26 days ago • 127 comments

it’s February 0, dry January is over

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

politics computer 🤝 cannot resolve lib requirements

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

i let myself get nerd-sniped by this and I looked up the marginal rates and computed the weighted avg tax rate for some income blah blah

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

bro i ain’t gleaned knowledge from the runes in a minute

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

folks I can’t do 4 years of posting and consuming undiluted political anxiety. I have friends in politics and journalism and such. If you need to be doing that online, I get it. But I gotta make my own choices about where I spend my attention and what I choose to emit into the world

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I want a way to search / interact with my archive of tweet data so I began a little project for parsing & presenting the data. extremely WIP, no designs are finalized, just kinda goofing around for starters github.com/mikedecr/twe...

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I have goofy “American vs National football conference synesthesia”. American teams have no sharp corners, like a rounded square. National teams are pointier… an upside down triangle or a pentagon. I know, without knowing, that the Ravens/Rams are American/National because they feel round/pointy

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I have been writing a lot of command line interfaces in my work-work and in my play-work. Like a CLI entrypoint to build my website, or compile data, or generate a report. It helps me separate config data from config parsing code from implementation code yada yada. helps each step do its job only

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it’s Saturday

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American teens are flocking to a new video app

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Against the backdrop of anger at Meta/Zuckerberg I do have some reflections about Instagram. I more-or-less had a 2025 resolution to delete Instagram already. The TikTokificiation of it... I despise the content universe where everything is fake and engineered to get views. But, socially (...)

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

found this website where you can browse certain AT Protocol data views: atproto-browser.vercel.app Enter a handle (yours, anybody's) and see: everything is basically just records and refs to other records. BlueSky is one app built atop this data, one way of presenting the data on the web

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

there’s a whole art to, like, making sure the configuration files are at the right level of abstraction, that the entry points between config data and library code are in the right place in the graph.. when you get this right you can move a ton of code around in very little time and it just works

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Any time you get your axis of political conflict extended by animus into something new, you should be embarrassed. I am not a fan of Trump; I instinctively don’t like institutions changing to please him personally, but I won’t trick myself into thinking I know how to do social media disinfo policy

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

It’s not that obvious what the best thing to do about misinformation on social media is

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

the delivery food nonsense is a nice object lesson for my current feelings about social media. I am on BlueSky because I want familiarity with AT Protocol / federation broadly. But BSky, the product built on the protocol, seems at long-term risk bc of the pattern of self-selection away from X

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Website reconstruction continues...I've re-published a blog post where do some web scraping with R and use memoization to get big speedups. mikedecr.netlify.app/blog/scrape-...

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i hate to be a monocausal guy but i really think this discussion of masculinity, trade school, the gendering of education etc is beating around the bush. male democrats have seen no sizable drop in their desire to attend college. female republicans have. it’s about politics.

submitted 56 days ago • 127 comments

How does it feel to be the worst kind of animal

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

in 2025 I will probably go on the computer

submitted 58 days ago • 12 comments

I hate when people say "apropos of nothing." There's always some propos it's a of

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

i'm gonna be farming all of my stats in 2025

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