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vikrambath.bsky.social
Former business school professor, current software engineer. Writes at ordinary-times.com
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This is a vibes-based analysis, but learning requires experimentation. If AI is actually going to get dramatically better, it needs to be able to try things and succeed or fail. With coding, agents can do this. There are some other domains where this could work too, but 1/2

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

This from @ducksfortheduckgod.bsky.social is the worst instinct on the planet, and I don’t know how we break free from it. I would love to only just share smart people saying smart things, but it’s so much more tempting to dunk on and thus propagate bad things

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Dropped my kids off at a learn-to-skate hockey camp and all the other parents have bought all the hockey pads and gear and spent 20 minutes putting it on for their kids who—I kid you not—do not know how to skate

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

My whole life people have been mad about Juneteenth arguing that Black people should celebrate July 4th instead. But then Hamilton came out and those same people were mad about that too! It was one of several pennies that had to drop in my head to realize what actually animated my political allies

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

“I was just doing what God told me,” Haith said. “I have somewhat of a marketing background, and I thought Juneteenth, what it represented, needed to have a symbol.” capitalbnews.org/juneteenth-f...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

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idk how to say this without sounding mean, but I do not trust this or any other administration’s claim that there is one “last nuclear weapon site” that needs to be taken out. That is from a movie script 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

My wife will approve the purchase of a Nintendo Switch 2

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

1/ This is the suburb I lived in when I was in high school. It's overwhelmingly white and has long had a reputation for being deeply steeped in a kind of highly privileged racism. (That is to say, now a "they're taking our jobs" racism so much as a www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

1. The NYT gave sufficient information for a reader to assess Trump’s fitness. There’s no real way someone can say the Times tricked them into voting for Trump. 2. NYT continues to engage in both-sides positioning in a failed attempt at feigned independence

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

“A real-life police officer is going to be more than willing to take that extra step,” we got to stop lying to the people dog.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

*bravely* “You guys haven’t even read the article.” - Me, guy who has also not read the article

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Flipping one in twenty people would flip a number of solid red states into blue ones. State populations are highly heterogeneous. Not everyone in Texas wears a cowboy hat

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

People are using “Ezra Klein’s wife” to refer to Annie Lowry like it’s a slur

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I’m sympathetic to “it’s not sustainable to have to keep winning every election because the consequences of losing are fascism,” but the Republican Party did not ask me who to nominate. If fascism makes it to the ballot, you still should vote against it even if it’s not a long-term strategy 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I saw Lilo and Stitch. We had not seen any prior iterations of it but enjoyed the movie

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It’s almost like he understands that ICE’s deportations are generally destructive rather than helpful to the rest of the population

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I love how when right wingers talk about the tenets of “the far left,” they almost always just mean anything like your average suburban Democrat believes

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I am kind of in awe how by this website’s standards apparently the pussyhat people are cringe normies instead of activists. 100% of women who have those hats in their wardrobes are leftist activists

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The Importance of Being Earnest:

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If your first Nazi salute falls a flat, you could always try another one

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Incredible work

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

You have to hand it to them. 100% of the health care cost savings ideas right now are coming from the right:

submitted 5 days ago • 65 comments