Tom Weinstein
@tweinstein.bsky.social
Maker, coder, sailor, spry
created August 27, 2023
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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.
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Not to be the thief of joy, but it's probably just wishful thinking.
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SCOTUS already signaled that the Fed is their red line. There's some chance that they'll actually stand by that.
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Followed
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Metaphors are hard
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When did they acknowledge that the order was valid?
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?
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.
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.
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A Connecticut Yachtsman in King Louis's Harbor
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Beggars can't be choosers
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Cowardice is the new Republican brand
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe you should consider cancelling your subscription
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Cowardice is the new brand
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.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Pierogi chromodynamics?
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
There's no singular. Pierogi only exist in pairs, like electrons in a superconductor.
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It's not bad to have one you don't really need, so you can give it away to spread the virus.
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Try cleaning your skin with rubbing alcohol first, before you apply the tape
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I'll see your rocket engine and raise you a nuclear ramjet airplane.
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A+ for mining and digging canals!
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You have obviously never used a knitting machine.
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🌮🌮🌮
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Day trip to Chillon Castle
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Rich people and corporations are seeing that ROI on political spending has gone way up under MAGA.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
How long until there's one that was talked into it by a chatbot?
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For me, it's infuriating, not fascinating.
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Is anybody asking the Jewish community if they're going to bomb New York neighborhoods to root out Hamas?
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When you ask your employees to die for your convenience and they have the audacity to say no
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you suppose this could be why his rockets keep blowing up?
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.
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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.
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There's a difference between outrageous and shocking. Talking about how it's not shocking without acknowledging that it's outrageous is just gaslighting.
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Kelly's Heroes
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Trump will pay any amount of money if Iran will just hold off on a nuclear weapon test until he's out of office
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a good thing nobody has ever had outside help to break out of prison.
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Because the Senate is a different body than the House.
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Bibi couldn't afford to allow the negotiations to succeed.
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Mission accomplished
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Why would they want to have talks with someone who constantly breaks agreements?
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
If a law contains words you don't like, you can just ignore them.
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?
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They keep saying stuff, and each time it makes it harder for me to not believe that this is a real cop.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
How do we know it wasn't an actual police officer?
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
I see you failed high school civics class
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Was the AI that wrote this trained exclusively on @nytpitchbot.bsky.social ?
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.
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.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sure he thinks Confederate flags are perfectly fine, though.
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Hey @khanna.house.gov maybe you should try saying something like this, if you want my vote next year.
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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.
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%.
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.
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?
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.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
When your book should have been an article in The Atlantic.
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.
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.
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
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Isn't that an MS-13 patch?
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Apply the same principle to sewing machines, and sewists will crucify you.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
It's malpractice that they didn't ask anyone outside of the regime about the emoluments clause.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Trafficking them into slavery isn't deportation. Best not to normalize it.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Is someone shooting at a nuclear weapons facility? Isn't there supposed to be a ceasefire?
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Compromise becomes the goal rather than the unfortunate result
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.
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?
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There is no crime alleged
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Say what you will, but this is a step up from Ed Martin.
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Ethics are a liberal conspiracy against the conservative right to act unethically.
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?
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.
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
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.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep. Just in China and Japan, so far as I'm aware.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
It's good to be a monopsony.
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.
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?
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
This is where the database of autistic people is leading us, isn't it?
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.
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.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Sarcasm isn't a luxury, it's a necessity.
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.
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...
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"allocate rights"? Whatever happened to "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"?
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.
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.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
In his defense, maybe he thought the position was USSR attorney
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Vibes
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"woman millionaires are just as capable of lighting money on fire as their male peers"
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These are the same guys who whine about personal responsibility anytime someone they don't like receives mercy.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Nowhere near as unpleasant as 10 minutes in CECOT.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
Demand that the general counsel for DHS appear in person
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Greenland gets UBI, but America gets to pound sand?
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?
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And they haven't been checked for microphones.
Tom Weinstein (@tweinstein.bsky.social) reply parent
This is not a great take. He's still holding the torch, dude.
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.