Alex Wood

I used to do door to door campaigning so it’s 2, via multiple intermediaries.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net

To flip some discourse script for a bit: what’s y’all’s Obama number (ie degrees of separation with the former president)? Mine is 3

As an aside this reminds me of the “degrees of handshake” thought exercise of how many degrees of separation you are from someone by transitive handshakes. I postulate most people are no more than a 4 from basically anybody you can think of.

So apparently a typo in Japan’s early warning system turned a 6.9 Kuril Islands earthquake into a 9.9 disaster movie warning. Quite a sequence!

Alt text explains it but the second notification is the “oops our bad” cancellation. Which also gave the earthquake warning tone!

youtu.beJonathan Frakes Asks You ThingsYouTube video by Zane Golia

20 Sept

Me trying to quietly put my 1 year old daughter down for a nap: My 3 year old son: youtu.be/9S1EzkRpelY?...

16 Sept

The Barkley Marathons should invite Charles Barkley each year. This is what the world needs.

10 Sept

Drake Maye should come fill in for Darnold, he’s excellent at finding open Seahawks all over the field.

10 Sept

Look I hate Sam Darnold getting hurt as much as the next Hawks fan. But beating the Patriots with Drew Lock would be *hilarious*. Optimal comedic outcome.

5 Sept

How that pole result happened without it being a weird weather thing, I’ll never know, but… Que vient-il de se passer!?!?

5 Sept

@sickoscommittee.org F1 edition

5 Sept

Piastri: “Ohh nooo I can’t control it through the corner.” Russell: “Hey, I found a few extra fractions of a second.” Gasly: “Regardez ça.”

4 Sept

Illinois Football Focus@illinifb.bsky.social

The patience by Ca'Lil Valentine to let the hole open up for this 51-yard touchdown run UAB 3 Illinois 14

4 Sept

Much like Illinois is taking a tune-up week, so is my college football meme game.

11 Aug

Office has a golf simulator, which pairs really nicely with waiting for agent jobs to finish. Speed training gains have been real!

31 July

We get @fallofcivilizations.com and a new @dancarlin.bsky.social Hardcore History on the same day? We’re feasting on podcast quality this month!

19 July

Enzo Fernandez World Cup final highlights already posted:

18 July

Before I ever got into the AWS side of things, I worked in large scale logistics/inventory automation and planning. Research scientists and careerists in this area put respect on Taco Bell’s name.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

8 July

I appreciate that #CFBPayDontPlay got visibility while I still had time to cancel my College Football 27 pre-order.

Well reading the dissents in the birthright citizenship ruling was a fucking journey, wasn’t it. How the hell was this not 9-0 or 8-1 because Alito was destined to be a tool?

Alito: Literally the TexAgs politics board made into flesh and given extreme political power.

30 June

You almost have to respect that Alito drops the pretense and just says “I am making this ruling because of my personal preferences”

30 June

Well reading the dissents in the birthright citizenship ruling was a fucking journey, wasn’t it. How the hell was this not 9-0 or 8-1 because Alito was destined to be a tool?

30 June

5 justices: “Here is the only possible ruling because the 14th amendment was extremely well written with a clear known intent on what the exceptions are and are not” Kavanaugh: “Congress could override the constitution here” Thomas/Gorsuch: “We don’t know what jurisdiction means”

27 June

Had my first “full sprint from passport control to the gate as the agent maybe does maybe doesn’t hold the gate past closing time” experience and friends, I don’t recommend it. Especially from one end of Frankfurt to the other. I made the flight though.

27 June

👍🏻🙌🏻: The @lufthansagroup.bsky.social gate crew working LH490 for giving us enough time to run an 800m dash to the gate. 👎🏻😐: Frankfurt passport exit control and Lufthansa schedulers for thinking an 80 minute layover is enough.

I’m too jet lagged to think of a funny one but the one my brain keeps coming back to (preface - everyone is fine): Kept my cool in the delivery room so my daughter’s first moments on earth would be happy while my wife was fighting for her life in the other room.

Ryan Nanni@celebrityhottub.bsky.social

It is time once again to discuss the Most Dad Things we have done in the past year. A couple of reminders: - gender is a social construct, anyone can do Dad Things - you need not be a parent to do a Dad Thing - the definition of a Dad Thing is entirely subjective and maybe made up I’ll go first:

The full story is not for the public internet, but friends, please choose to have your children *in a hospital* if circumstances allow any choice in the matter.

Frankfurt Airport stories: In a long wait to even get in to the immigration area. Basically anybody non-EU with a connection in a longer line, standard stuff, but people melting down seeing some people getting to skip the line. And then…

Some lady just repeatedly shouts “America! American! US!” to all questions about her gates, citizenship, and destination and walks right past, up the escalator. The final boss Karen, have to respect it.

Me, with 7 hours until my connecting flight leaves:

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL

16 June

4 hours at the emergency vet for such a small thing…IYKYK

Alex Wood reposted

@edsbs.bsky.social

16 June

LeBron James 2016 NBA finals game six Vince Young 2006 Rose Bowl Tiger Woods 1997 Masters Greg Davies Taskmaster 2015–present

nytimes.comEveryone Wants to Tax A.I. The Big Disagreement: How?

15 June

Just feels like the proposals mostly try to make it too complicated. - Make capital gains taxes progressive by income. - Add a wealth tax that is also progressive by total wealth. - Add some teeth to corporate taxes and add new exemptions to incentivize having employees.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

If AI displaces jobs, how does the government replace lost income tax ? This is now a mainstream question. Proposals include token taxes, robot taxes, higher capital gains, and government getting equity in AI firms (a Bernie favorite). Job displacement has gone from tech hype to fiscal reality

15 June

Of course, none of this can happen on our current political direction and structure, or at least it’s an uphill battle, but I don’t see what a narrow token tax really does.

10 June

Watched the highlights of the match and friends, note the time in the match and the time in the video. This match did not have extra time or a penalty shootout.

SickosFC@sickosfc.bsky.social

This undersells it so much

4 June

Okay this is fun. And this isn’t 17-0 but this team would be electric!

Mitch Goldich@mitchgoldich.bsky.social

FOLKS: There’s an NFL game 👀 www.firstdown.studio/build-a-17-0...

FINALLY

Most Seattle sentence I’ve heard in a minute from my wife: “There’s an entire shrink-wrapped salmon filet on the ground on [street we live on].”

13 May

Vancouver BC, Lyon, New York

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13 May

Make me pick one and it’s probably Lyon. Probably one of the most underrated places I’ve been, would absolutely enjoy living there.

1 May

Shoreline / Everett / Bellevue

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24 Apr

Upside of my employer using direct API provider inference: Don’t have to stop for 3 hours after blowing a token limit. Downside of my employer using direct API provider inference: Entire workdays disappear in an AI focus dome without stopping and it’s draining!

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)@lizthegrey.com

we live in such a strange world now. I think the 4.5 hour workday could be real. wake up, work with Claude for an hour or so, talk with colleagues on slack for half an hour, log off for 3.5 hours, come back when the 5h window is up, do another hour of work, log off for 4 hours, third window at EOD

24 Apr

At least I’m being reminded that mental exhaustion from extended focus is not the same as burnout, which is more about feeling like your efforts don’t mean anything.