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@tweinstein.bsky.social

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created August 27, 2023

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Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn't the agreement generated by the bank, while the application was filled out by the applicant? So if the agreement says it was for a primary residence, that could just mean that a bank employee entered it that way.

31/8/2025, 4:15:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Not to be the thief of joy, but it's probably just wishful thinking.

30/8/2025, 5:24:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

SCOTUS already signaled that the Fed is their red line. There's some chance that they'll actually stand by that.

28/8/2025, 6:10:06 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Followed

28/8/2025, 4:16:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Metaphors are hard

28/8/2025, 10:33:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

When did they acknowledge that the order was valid?

25/8/2025, 9:27:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Can you point me to an instance where they have directly disobeyed a court order, after acknowledging that the order was valid?

25/8/2025, 9:22:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

If they violate it, that will be a line they haven't crossed yet. There's value in pulling their masks off, so everyone can see what we're dealing with.

25/8/2025, 7:33:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

The judge ordered that he not be moved. And got the DoJ attorney to say that was sufficient. So if they do move him, it will be a clear violation of the order.

25/8/2025, 6:52:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

A Connecticut Yachtsman in King Louis's Harbor

24/8/2025, 9:59:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Beggars can't be choosers

21/8/2025, 2:18:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Cowardice is the new Republican brand

14/8/2025, 5:24:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe you should consider cancelling your subscription

13/8/2025, 12:14:46 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Cowardice is the new brand

12/8/2025, 4:55:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Schrodinger's pierogi experiment: If you lock a dog in a box with an entangled pair of pierogi, when you open the box there will be zero pierogi, but the dog will assure you he's starving.

10/8/2025, 1:33:28 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Pierogi chromodynamics?

10/8/2025, 1:28:50 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

There's no singular. Pierogi only exist in pairs, like electrons in a superconductor.

9/8/2025, 9:52:02 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not bad to have one you don't really need, so you can give it away to spread the virus.

9/8/2025, 9:15:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Try cleaning your skin with rubbing alcohol first, before you apply the tape

7/8/2025, 12:54:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

I'll see your rocket engine and raise you a nuclear ramjet airplane.

4/8/2025, 11:54:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

A+ for mining and digging canals!

4/8/2025, 11:52:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

You have obviously never used a knitting machine.

2/8/2025, 11:46:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

🌮🌮🌮

1/8/2025, 1:35:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

🌮

1/8/2025, 1:32:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Day trip to Chillon Castle

31/7/2025, 8:52:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Rich people and corporations are seeing that ROI on political spending has gone way up under MAGA.

30/7/2025, 1:27:17 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

How long until there's one that was talked into it by a chatbot?

17/7/2025, 12:09:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

For me, it's infuriating, not fascinating.

16/7/2025, 9:45:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Is anybody asking the Jewish community if they're going to bomb New York neighborhoods to root out Hamas?

15/7/2025, 7:35:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

When you ask your employees to die for your convenience and they have the audacity to say no

12/7/2025, 6:36:50 PM | 26 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you suppose this could be why his rockets keep blowing up?

11/7/2025, 4:51:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

I imagine they would argue that not all bankers are unscrupulous, so this just identifies the category of bankers who won't give Trump money on favorable terms.

4/7/2025, 6:24:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

If they're arguing in good faith, they are colossally bad at it. You don't equate online social stigma to a Holocaust tattoo if you're arguing in good faith.

4/7/2025, 4:32:59 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a difference between outrageous and shocking. Talking about how it's not shocking without acknowledging that it's outrageous is just gaslighting.

4/7/2025, 4:26:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Kelly's Heroes

30/6/2025, 12:58:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump will pay any amount of money if Iran will just hold off on a nuclear weapon test until he's out of office

26/6/2025, 8:01:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a good thing nobody has ever had outside help to break out of prison.

24/6/2025, 1:31:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Because the Senate is a different body than the House.

23/6/2025, 1:57:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Bibi couldn't afford to allow the negotiations to succeed.

22/6/2025, 12:48:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Mission accomplished

22/6/2025, 12:53:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Why would they want to have talks with someone who constantly breaks agreements?

21/6/2025, 6:17:30 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

If a law contains words you don't like, you can just ignore them.

20/6/2025, 3:08:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

What are the odds that "nuclear deal with the US" is what the Israeli attack was meant to preempt?

14/6/2025, 4:34:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

They keep saying stuff, and each time it makes it harder for me to not believe that this is a real cop.

14/6/2025, 4:29:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

How do we know it wasn't an actual police officer?

14/6/2025, 1:54:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

I see you failed high school civics class

13/6/2025, 12:22:50 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Was the AI that wrote this trained exclusively on @nytpitchbot.bsky.social ?

11/6/2025, 1:27:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Where "the border" also includes coastline, which is why you see this bullshit all over California, Oregon, and Washington.

8/6/2025, 9:48:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

That's not the border. That's an "immigration checkpoint" inside the US, where ICE thugs harass people, usually because they don't look white enough.

8/6/2025, 9:25:49 PM | 36 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm sure he thinks Confederate flags are perfectly fine, though.

8/6/2025, 3:21:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social)

Hey @khanna.house.gov maybe you should try saying something like this, if you want my vote next year.

8/6/2025, 1:00:26 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

It's existential for Elon, so his only hope is to grovel and make up. Even if he manages it, he's going to get Deripaska'ed.

5/6/2025, 11:01:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

If you assume that 3 non-Trump judges are unavailable in each month, that leaves 12 judges, 3 of which are Trump appointees. The odds of pulling at least 2 Trump judges at random, 4 months in a row, is 0.026%.

3/6/2025, 1:59:53 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

It drives me insane that your basis assumption is that Musk actually believes the things he says. He's not an idiot who thinks there's really $2T of waste. He just knows that it's a useful lie.

3/6/2025, 1:13:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

So by that same principle, you'd be okay with Pam Bondi trying to get judges removed for ruling against DoJ?

2/6/2025, 5:30:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe so. To be fair, my "journalistic process" took about 5 seconds, and didn't involve any actual research. Good thing I'm not a professional.

30/5/2025, 7:51:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

When your book should have been an article in The Atlantic.

30/5/2025, 7:00:08 PM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Spread them out into a rectangle. Measure the sides, multiply to get area. Count how many are in a 1-inch square. Multiply again.

25/5/2025, 8:26:04 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe they could try: 1) Communicating about what their principles are, and how adherence to those principles is good for everyone. 2) Behave as if they actually believe their stated principles.

25/5/2025, 2:46:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Fardon (@robfardon.bsky.social) reposted

Once again, I'm grateful to everyone bringing us live threads from courtrooms all over the country. These courtrooms are a front line of the administration's attack on our republic, and these threads are our first draft of the history of this time

16/5/2025, 9:08:24 PM | 210 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn't that an MS-13 patch?

15/5/2025, 7:12:16 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Apply the same principle to sewing machines, and sewists will crucify you.

14/5/2025, 1:56:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

It's malpractice that they didn't ask anyone outside of the regime about the emoluments clause.

11/5/2025, 1:21:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Trafficking them into slavery isn't deportation. Best not to normalize it.

10/5/2025, 10:52:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Is someone shooting at a nuclear weapons facility? Isn't there supposed to be a ceasefire?

10/5/2025, 10:43:01 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Compromise becomes the goal rather than the unfortunate result

10/5/2025, 6:44:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

That's a good thought, but I don't think it would have made a difference if they were married.

9/5/2025, 8:00:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Is the mistake she thinks she made voting for Trump? Or is it having a child with an immigrant? Is she upset because bad things are happening to her? Or because bad things are being done in her name?

9/5/2025, 6:37:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

There is no crime alleged

9/5/2025, 2:39:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Say what you will, but this is a step up from Ed Martin.

8/5/2025, 11:30:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

bsky.app/profile/paul...

8/5/2025, 4:52:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Ethics are a liberal conspiracy against the conservative right to act unethically.

5/5/2025, 7:04:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

He swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. Maybe it would be good to ask a follow-up question about that?

4/5/2025, 5:29:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

As someone with almost four decades of experience building software systems, "building a brand new system" is almost always doomed to failure. The way to update a system is by carefully analyzing it and slowly refactoring it piece by piece.

30/4/2025, 6:22:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Embeddings model contextual similarity, which is also a flawed proxy for meaning. How good it is depends on how comprehensive your training data is in containing the meaning you're trying to capture

27/4/2025, 1:49:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

LLMs encode context, which is only a very weak proxy for meaning. This is why they hallucinate so easily.

27/4/2025, 1:05:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep. Just in China and Japan, so far as I'm aware.

26/4/2025, 4:50:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

It's good to be a monopsony.

26/4/2025, 4:38:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not nearly as popular as it was, but it hasn't died out entirely. Definitely a niche hobby.

26/4/2025, 4:29:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

What was the answer when the interviewer asked the obvious follow-up question "what other promises that you've made are also exaggerations?" He did ask the obvious follow-up, right?... Right?

26/4/2025, 12:34:50 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

This is where the database of autistic people is leading us, isn't it?

23/4/2025, 3:53:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you don't. I'm just saying it's a broad category of processes. How frivolous it is depends on what you're doing with it. And you're completely right, there's a lot of frivolous stuff. A lot of serious stuff, too.

23/4/2025, 3:34:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

3D printing is just additive manufacturing, where you start with nothing and add material until you build up the part you want. As opposed to subtractive manufacturing where you start with a block of material and remove stuff.

23/4/2025, 3:21:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Sarcasm isn't a luxury, it's a necessity.

20/4/2025, 11:48:41 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

He never said that. He couldn't find out about any plans, but he wouldn't guarantee there weren't any.

20/4/2025, 11:31:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

I had to look up the bowling ball thing. He said it in 2018, and his handlers claimed he was "obviously joking" www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/p...

20/4/2025, 11:27:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

"allocate rights"? Whatever happened to "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"?

19/4/2025, 5:52:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

You think that when Trump inevitably gives up, China is going to return to the status quo? They're going to grind our faces into the dirt while we flail around trying to tap out, thanks to him.

18/4/2025, 11:02:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not just you. I'm white and my family has been here for over a century, and I'm worried about being designated a terrorist and sent to a Salvadoran concentration camp.

17/4/2025, 6:01:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

In his defense, maybe he thought the position was USSR attorney

17/4/2025, 4:32:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Vibes

16/4/2025, 9:45:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

"woman millionaires are just as capable of lighting money on fire as their male peers"

16/4/2025, 12:04:03 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

These are the same guys who whine about personal responsibility anytime someone they don't like receives mercy.

15/4/2025, 7:18:24 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Nowhere near as unpleasant as 10 minutes in CECOT.

15/4/2025, 3:15:23 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Demand that the general counsel for DHS appear in person

14/4/2025, 10:33:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Greenland gets UBI, but America gets to pound sand?

12/4/2025, 12:45:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social)

@elienyc.bsky.social Hey, given how tariffs are destroying the global economy, don't they seem kind of like a Major Question, that can't be delegated to the administrative branch?

11/4/2025, 3:07:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

And they haven't been checked for microphones.

10/4/2025, 4:14:44 PM | 28 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

This is not a great take. He's still holding the torch, dude.

9/4/2025, 7:04:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent

Finance bros still believe that Trump isn't serious about keeping tariffs in place to "bring manufacturing back to America". Which is why they shouldn't be trusted to manage anyone's money.

9/4/2025, 3:43:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view