Elf M. Sternberg
@elfsternberg.bsky.social
Husband to a gorgeous wife, father to two great kids, greying leatherfairy, infamous furry, and world-class software engineer. If you can read this, you're running code I wrote.
*Sigh*. Incel thinking at it's finest. I've seen guys like Fettermen get laid at orgies. It's not the look, dude, it's the attitude. Either you evidently give a shit about your looks and your health or you don't.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoFetterman: "I own mirrors. I know I'm an ugly guy."
"We love our troops don't we folks support the troops our brave men and women in uniform stand for them stand for the troops their sacrifice inspires us" it was all bullshit this entire time. A joke to all of them
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3h agoTRUMP IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN DETAINS 50+ FAMILY MEMBERS OF U.S. TROOPS: AP
The most ironic thing about the AI coding boom is that just at the moment when we said, "This is an Attention Economy," we invented a machine that ruins our ability to pay attention.
If they haven't figured out why I'm always lying to my mom than clearly I haven't been trauma dumping enough and it's time to pretend we are going to play Catan again
That weird feeling when you are doing a code review for a peer, you find six or seven major flaws in the implementation, then you hand back your review and realize you didn't even look at the AI "reviewers" output.
Yes, you kind of have to wonder how Leonid Kantorovich, who discovered linear programming and the algorithms that underlie AI, manage to do it without AI. Maybe it's because he didn't outsource his brain to the primitive computers he worked on.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 18h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Aaaaaaaand AP just called the Kansas U.S. Senate Democratic primary for Rev. Adam Hamilton, so now there is, indeed, six. Not surprising (he was breaking fundraising records), but notable all the same. (And possibly one more pastor nominee by night’s end — we’ll see.)
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 20h ago"Pastors in Name Only" "Wicked Witch of Woke" “I've never seen anyone commit so much blasphemy against the word of God." As pastors become Democratic nominees — at least 5 so far, and likely one more tonight — their Republican opponents are attacking their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
This is a great metric: "The Judgement Reservoir." There is only so much capacity to understand, consider, and appreciate changes happening. AI accelerates change, but doesn't increase the collective capacity to judge and understand what the changes mean.
The Judgment Reservoir | Shannph Wong
Your teams are shipping faster than ever and learning less than they have in years. That is not a training problem. It is a structural one.
shannph.com
WTF This is a blue state
Kat Hartness@kathartness.bsky.social · 2d agoNot a word about verifying the gender of boys... this is little girl specific. Child sexual abuse on a state level 'Surefire method' for destroying girls' sports seen in bill targeting kindergartners www.rawstory.com/project-2025...
You know that they'll say, right? "The most addictive substances known have a physical addiction rate of 67.5% after one year. If 97.1% of people who start sex-change hormones refuse to get off of them, then sex-change drugs are more addictive (and therefore dangerous) than nicotine or heroin."
TACC@tacc.org.uk · 2d ago"The majority (97.1%) of adolescents continued to identify with a gender not typically aligned with their birth sex. Only 2.9% reverted...None who initially identified as non-binary returned to binary gender aligned with birth sex. Discontinuation of gender-affirming hormones was rare."
I thought electing Mamdani was going to turn NYC into a communist hellhole?
Incredible nonsense from John Cornyn. True, the harm to Epstein’s victims can’t be remedied by a “no” vote. But why should Blanche’s corrupt cover-up of the Epstein files—in violation of a Congressional mandate(!)—be rewarded by “yes”? Can’t get any more craven than this.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn justifies his support for Blanche: "That's one of those things that can't be remedied by a 'no' vote"
ICE is watching you. Constantly. Always. And actively. If you criticize them or act to impede them, they'll do their damnedest to find a way to prosecute you. ICE's social media surveillance budget is over $200 million. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its Online Critics
ICE’s Round-the-Clock Digital Dragnet About a month ago, it emerged from upstate...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Since when has "self-hosted" come to mean, "I keep most of my stuff on my laptop, rather than on the cloud?"
Grief, people, do you have no memory? www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat... The "I reject your reality and substitute my own" isn't new. It's banal evil quoting banal evil. The quote is from 2004!
I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own
A Danger To My Daughter 'Debanked' For Money Laundering The GOP's Groyper Problem
peoplefor.org
The Department of Justice says that private citizens have no right or power to sue polluters under the Clear Air Act, Clean Water Act, or Safe Drinking Water Act; instead, they must petition the Department of Justice to bring the lawsuit for them. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters
Trump's DOJ says citizens should no longer be able to enforce environmental laws.
arstechnica.com
"Forcing others to pay for the healthcare of those not blessed by God with excellent health, wealth, and the fortune to live someplace relatively uncontaminated by industry would destroy the concept of 'human right' and disrupt the balance between rights and attendant duties." This is un-Christian.
Elf M. Sternberg@elfsternberg.bsky.social · 22h agoThe Family Research Council says, "Healthcare is not a human right." The United States is a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), which states, "Healthcare is a human right." www.joemygod.com/2026/08/frc-...
The Family Research Council says, "Healthcare is not a human right." The United States is a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), which states, "Healthcare is a human right." www.joemygod.com/2026/08/frc-...
FRC Attacks Talarico: Healthcare Is Not A Human Right - Joe.My.God.
From the Family Research Council’s website: Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D) continues to display a Trumpian knack for stirring media coverage through controversy. But, unlike Trump, his part...
joemygod.com
Elon Musk's Starlink, alone, at planned full deployment, would have 29 TONS of debris re-entering the atmosphere every day. That's one car hitting the Earth somewhere every hour. Add in Amazon's Kuiper and Eutelsat's OneWeb projects and that's just a huge disaster waiting. pirg.org/edfund/resou...
Environmental harms of satellite internet mega-constellations
Fueled by satellite internet companies, the number of satellites in orbit is skyrocketing. The environmental risks may be massive.
pirg.org
Uh... this (ascii.today) is LITERALLY just the Figlet program first written in 1991. I'm not sure why my newsfeed thinks it's a big deal; I have a script, "autofig", that prefixes the output with 'comment' syntax based on the nearest codebase and pushes the result into the clipboard, for 25 years.
ASCII Today - A super-fast title generator.
A super-fast ASCII title generator. Spruce up your code comments and readmes.
ascii.today
Head Start has served 30+ million kids, including tens of thousands in Maine. It’s had bipartisan support. The Admin wants to kill it. After failing to freeze funding, their new plan is to lower standards for curricula, medical screenings, and more—so fewer kids get the care + education they need.
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
nytimes.com
Morton Salt Girl is a merry fellow; Bright blue her label is and her shoes are yellow
Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d agoBet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
This is the same playbook cop shops were running in 2009 when I wrote about how they were dropping GPS trackers on cars without warrants: don’t admit it, pretend you got the info other ways It was only when defense attorneys started asking that they started being honest
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterdayNew: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
