NorCal native. Lifelong technologist. 30 years software development.

Joined December 2018
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28 Sep 2025
For posterity, possibly the most important statement in modern history.
Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump. In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione. The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response. This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb. foxnews.com/us/new-bombshell…
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Hey @TeamYouTube My Nerdrotic Live channel just had a stream taken down for a firearm guideline violation over a parody AI video. I am unable to stream on the channel, but it doesn't say how long and I wasn't given a strike. Unfortunately I cannot show you the stream now that it is gone. Please let me know any more information on this, mainly length of suspension of live streams. Feel free to DM me. Thank you. youtube.com/@nerdroticlive

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🚨 Day 54 of fighting for my archive This isn’t a glitch. YouTube’s AI has wiped out 13 years of WWII tank archive footage and veteran stories. My entire channel is gone, and my account has been disabled 155,000 subscribers erased overnight. People are now calling me a PDF file, because in their minds the channel “wasn’t deleted” even though you can clearly see that it was. youtube.com/channel/UCjejQoj… That's the internet for you! First, the channel was removed. Then, my entire account was disabled. YouTube support bots claiming it was a Google product trigger, doesn't make a lick of sense when the channel was deleted first! The content that got flagged? Historical WWII footage. No nudity. No inappropriate intent. Just real history yet it was labeled as “child abuse material.” And I’m not the only one this has happened to. youtube.com/shorts/8uT0C9_xp… This isn’t just about one channel. It raises serious concerns about how automated systems are handling and potentially erasing historical archives. We can’t let real history be misclassified or disappear like this. #RestorePanzerPicture #YouTubeCensorship #WWIIHistory #SaveHistory @TeamYouTube Support the effort to restore the archive: patreon.com/Panzerpicture
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I’m so absolutely freaking tired of waking up to a freshly rebooted machine because Windows, not me, decided installing updates I absolutely do not care about was more important than preserving my debugging state. Whoever is in charge of this at MS should be fired.
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Please someone tell @Jason this, anyone! Maybe @DavidSacks or another @theallinpod bestie!
This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take. No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare. The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral. Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year. Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes. Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment. The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.” America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be. Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities. Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis. It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.
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Wait until you see how fast a car can do it.
China's done it: A humanoid robot now holds the half-marathon world record.
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Great book, great movie, and great interview here by @TheCriticalDri2
Passing on Politics: The Success of Project Hail Mary
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Actually, you insinuated that @nickshirleyy was ridiculous—and maybe a pedophile—for looking into fraud in your state. But that fraud, as you're now starting to admit, is massive: at least $180 billion on your watch.
The Governor never denied fraud was happening, he repeatedly said if there is fraud he would partner to fight it. Last month: x.com/GovPressOffice/status/… Two months ago: x.com/GovPressOffice/status/… And three months ago: x.com/GovPressOffice/status/… Fighting fraud has been something the Governor has taken seriously for years, people can see the results here: StopFraud.CA.Gov What the Governor won’t entertain is people making baseless claims with no data or evidence and misleading people for the sole purpose of pushing a political agenda. Is lying and pushing made up numbers a form of fraud?
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You tried to paint me as a pervert for exposing fraud, and as a result radical leftists started trying to dox me and send death threats, wanting to kill me. Now you are taking credit for “leading the charge” on the fraud. Are you serious? You are the fraud.
California is again leading the charge against large-scale identity theft and hospice fraud. Today, we're taking decisive action against 14 providers who tried using stolen identities to bill Medi-Cal for nonexistent hospice services.
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Nah, they've done this before. Duncan v. Bonta has a takings argument because California bans possession of previously-grandfathered magazines. Thanks to our timid Supreme Court, they've eviscerated many parts of the constitution for years with these laws.
The “Takings Clause” of the 5th Amendment has been the last line gun-grabbers have refused to cross. They ban sales, they ban transfers, they regulate how you can use your arms, but they were never bold enough to enact outright confiscation. This bill is important, not just in Rhode Island but nationwide, because they’ve finally decided to throw the 5th Amendment in the trash along with the 2nd. They are coming for your guns. Call, numbers below.
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I see Battle Beyond the Stars
"I see a sail boat" "I see a dog" "I see Bryon Noem"
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Amazing how the parts that resonated most were the characters. The math was a fun backdrop.
Driving me slightly insane that everyone has to pretend that Andy Weir is a real novelist and not a guy whose books are like 70% math equations
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Aside from the AI slop it's frustrating how wrong this is about taxes. If your taxable income is say $500m and your tax bill is $80m, then a $80m write-off reduces your taxable income to $420m and your tax bill may go down to something like $64m. This is just bait.
Now you know…cus I just learned too! 😊
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This AI text detector says Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was written by AI.
I ran some of my writing through an AI checker. 29.7% robot-generated! Thing is, it obviously wasn't. Ethical and creative reasons aside, the book in question is nearly a decade old - well before technology could do this. 1/3
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^Commodore64^Atari800xl
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It has arrived! Assembly begins! Sold by @West3DPrinting, recommended by @ZombieHedgehog_ !
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Just say neigh.
HorsegiirL serves at @Spotify’s 2026 Best New Artist party in Los Angeles.
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The bunnies must have been all hopped up on something.
What was going on with rabbits in the Middle Ages?
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