Nathan J. Williams
@nathanjw.bsky.social
Boston-area nerd, computer professional, parent, cook, brewer, award-winning cidermaker. Xoogler. He/him. Also @nathanw@metasocial.com (fediverse), nathanw.62 (Signal)
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
Just in time for the weekend now that I’ve finished Control: Resonant. minesweeper.mikelacher.com
Triple-A Minesweeper
Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.
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please repost this to help raise breakfast sandwich awareness
I was at this show! It was a great time. There was a collective gasp and cheer when they announced that Ms. Schorr was there.
R.E.M. on this Day@remonthisday.bsky.social · last wk.On this day in 2003, R.E.M. played the Tweeter Centre in Mansfield, Massachusetts, supported by Pete Yorn. Ingrid Schorr, about whom @millsish.bsky.social wrote ‘(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville’, was in attendance. Michael was given a Boston Red Sox jersey during the final song which he put on.
Niche grievance: Restaurants referring to “proteins” is anti-life and reduces food in its infinite variety to a macronutrient delivery vehicle and the person eating it to a macronutrient conversion mechanism
new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"
Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices
A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...
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My mom (RIP, I'm on my way home from the memorial service) had had this on her fridge for years.
Chronic Illness Humor@chronicillness.bsky.social · last wk.Artist: Roz Chast from The New Yorker
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
I need datadog to support this theme
WEATHER IS HAPPENING@weatherishappening.com · last wk.& THE 403 PAGE
My BEARD (Botched Executions Above Replacement Device) model ranks lethal injection slightly below the electric chair. And I tell you the best place in Bonne Terre to get a chicken-fried steak. All that and more in the next Silver Bulletin.
Hello, Franklin W. Dixon and Victor Appleton.
hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 2w agore the JCO tweet I don't think LLMs can replace romance novels that's insanely rude however her larger point is correct. Not all books are created equal, for example I do think LLMs can replace Dungeon Crawler Carl and those books where they rewrite a public domain novel to also have zombies
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
the US Chemical Safety Board’s new safety video narrator is *Darth Maul*. youtu.be/HmiQFYGc6C4
Alarming Mistakes, Deadly Decisions: Fatal Fire at BP-Husky
YouTube video by USCSB
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"Similarly, seldom-driven gasoline vehicles—driven annually less than 4,383 miles for cars, 4,248 mi for SUVs, or 6,707 mi for trucks—were not worth replacing, from a carbon emissions standpoint." Whew, dodged that obligation for another few years.
Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 2w agoElectric car emissions benefits are far greater than first thought Their results showed that the climate benefits were generally greatest when gasoline vehicles were retired at year one, resulting in a 58% reduction in carbon emissions over a 16-year period. www.futurity.org/carbon-emiss...
my personal fantasy is that Hegseth is put on a transport jet in handcuffs and we give him a choice between the flight plan to The Hague or the one to Tehran
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
Lupus Londonwolf@lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 2w agoI was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.
To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?
I just got done assigning genders to each of my body parts, and boy are my arms
I'm mad about this because it's a great name, but cryptocurrency is a scam.
The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com · 2w ago“Let’s show people what this fight is all about about data centers. It’s a fight about the freedom of the future of America to develop.” On Saturday, PubKey, the cryptocurrency-themed bar in downtown D.C., hosted hundreds for a celebration of data centers.
“Let’s show people what this fight is all about about data centers. It’s a fight about the freedom of the future of America to develop.” On Saturday, PubKey, the cryptocurrency-themed bar in downtown D.C., hosted hundreds for a celebration of data centers.
The AI Bros Are Partying
Hundreds gathered at a bitcoin-themed bar in D.C. to counterprogram the national backlash against data centers and AI.
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I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW
They also told us we could put pickles up ourselves.
rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2w agoyou guys broke watergate
COVID vaccine time. The question: how should I pick which one to get? - I've already had Pfizer, both Moderna variants, and Novavax. - No strong external reactions to any of them. - The pharmacy has all four. What should I consider? My best theory so far is Moderna, as the hometown champion.