Dark Rober (shandrew)
@shandrew.bsky.social
Andrew Shieh, curious optimistic pessimist, operations are forever. :this-is-fine: :success-kid: :1000-RPCs-in-a-trenchcoat:
Learned about this guy because I grabbed one of his CC photos from Flickr. Hate meeting lovely people when they're already passed, but better than not at all. He made sure Y2K wasn't a disaster. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...
Edward Yourdon - Wikipedia
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Need help bsky, what to do when you find this on your child's chat history?
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CA’s social media ban weaponizes legitimate parental concerns, using them to hand over more censorship and surveillance power to the government. Beneath shiny “protect the children” rhetoric, AB 1709 is misguided, unconstitutional, and deeply harmful to users of all ages. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Act Now to Stop California’s Paternalistic and Privacy-Destroying
California lawmakers are fast-tracking A.B. 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before
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Friends, some personal news! I'm starting a newsletter called Porch Party. My proposition: the Trump admin is really NOT business as usual, and the effects on people's lives that I hear about daily are mostly not making it to the public. Let's change that. Sign up here: www.porchpartynews.com
I just remembered that a decade ago, a former coworker interviewed Reid Wiseman, now the commander of Artemis II! #nasa #moon #artemis #smugmug photofocus.com/photography/...
Interview from Above. Meet Astronaut Photographer: Reid Wiseman
In this two-part series we’ll explore photographs taken from space. First, I had a chance to sit down with Astronaut Reid Wiseman. In this interview we learn how Photography is used on the Internation...
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The fact that NASA still drops absolute bangers on Flickr while everyone's fighting about algorithms is somehow both nostalgic and profound. There's something beautifully analog about curated space photography that makes you wonder what we lose when everything's optimized for engagement.
Project page: ai-project-website.github.io/AI-assistanc... Arxiv page: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721 w @graceliu78.bsky.social, @brianchristian.bsky.social , Mira Dumbalska, and @mbakker.bsky.social
AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
Causal evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and impairs unassisted performance across math reasoning and reading comprehension tasks.
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On the cover of The Lancet: Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure” Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W
What happens to bicycle maintenance deferred? Does it dry up like a rubber rim strip Baking thirty years Against an aluminum wall? Does it sit there Brittle and forgotten? Until some Velox cotton Puts it to rest
If you try to print with PCL filament (low-temp plastic that works in low-temp/kid-safe 3d pens like the ones from 3d doodler) that has been sitting around for five years, you're asking for a bad time. (Luckily the solution is easy! But it was odd that "buy new filament" wasn't in any of the docs)
If you use cmd-2/3/4 to select browser tabs and have found that Google Sheets has started to steal those keyboard commands to apply formatting changes to cells, here’s how to fix it: Turn off this setting: Help->Keyboard Shortcuts->“Enable compatible spreadsheet shortcuts”
You are living in a "dual state." Acting morally begins with understanding that. My latest for @vox.com: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do?
All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.
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just what we need in maine: one less nurse. to the ”they’re just deporting criminals” people: go fuck yourselves. you’re every bit the monster that ICE is. to my friends helping to protect the targeted populations: i am so very proud of you. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/s...
‘We’re not safe right now’: Woman’s dramatic ICE arrest ignites fear in Maine’s immigrant communities - The Boston Globe
When ICE arrested Fátima Lucas Henrique, the video of her screaming as agents pulled her from her vehicle resonated across the state.
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Christmas just dropped early for me Time to figure out how to maximize packing those ornaments into a box!
6 trains within a 20 minute window to make the 113 mile journey from Osaka to Nagoya in about 50 minutes (avg 130 mph). This is normal. On a holiday.
Over this Thanksgiving one of my friends discussed this with me and said, "how can you handle the fact that it costs nothing to regurgitate misinformation and costs you endless hours to review and refute it?" But to me it's not new, with AI, it's the same problems
"We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis"" 🔥
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 9mo agothis is excellent maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
