Nathan J. Williams

@nathanjw.bsky.social

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Boston-area nerd, computer professional, parent, cook, brewer, award-winning cidermaker. He/him.
Also @[email protected] (fediverse), nathanw.62 (Signal)

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions

I want this feature here, and everywhere. Why did I follow this person? What was I thinking about when I put this book on hold? Who told me I should go get this movie?

Even the Mastodon "account notes" feature, so you can remember if something was a temporary block or serious infraction, would be helpful.

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Even the Mastodon "account notes" feature, so you can remember if something was a temporary block or serious infraction, would be helpful.

Neurosis of the day: feeling embarrassed about ordering the same thing as the person in front of me in line, and frantically scanning the menu for something else just to avoid that.

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We should really introduce congestion pricing in Boston if only so Bostonians can do their favorite thing, which is to stick it to New Yorkers.

It is REMARKABLE how hard it is to go literally anywhere in Boston these days. It feels like the congestion in Jakarta sometimes, in a city that's vastly smaller.

Traffic in the Boston area got worse in 2023, study shows - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com The average Boston driver spent 88 hours stuck in traffic in 2023, 10 more than the year before, putting the Hub in the top five most congested cities in the United States, according to a study.

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If Biden loses in Nov, well, that’s a disaster for everybody, but not especially for Joe Biden, he’ll be okay (unless revenge indictments start flying) but if Trump loses, that’s 100% absolutely a massive catastrophic personal tragedy for him, and I really hope you all join me in making that happen

An underrated possible future is that in a few months time Donald Trump loses the election and then spends the rest of his life in court and in jail for his many crimes. Like, this could definitely be how things go

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Which kind of former coder are you: baking bread, too many synthesizers, or woodworking?

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Popehat

My fellow Americans, Democrats want an America where you cannot defend yourself from the strippers, teen runaways, male prostitutes, or people from Craigslist you have invited into your home for Bible study.”

Very confused by the nascent Blair Witch discourse. That was an utterly forgettable and forgotten movie.

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Pwnallthethings

That foreigners want to come to America, and that some of those foreigners are the best in the world at the things they do, and then because of that, America gets to be the best in the world at the things those immigrants do on behalf of everyone, is literally the super power part of the super power

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Mourning Becomes Olestra #makeabookgreasy

Moby Slick #makeabookgreasy

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Me: AI assistant, decline meetings AI: meetingae, meetingās, meetingārum, meetingīs

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a clown doing handkerchief code where you just keep pulling and pulling and find out this clown is down bad for absolutely everything

Let's be clear, Bluesky is guilty of this.

Tech UI pet peeve: Displaying timestamps as "3 days ago" or other relative measures. - From when? What if I'm looking at a screenshot or bug report or a stale tab? - Too coarse. Displaying April 25th as "last month" on May 1 is bad. - Actual time in mouseover: a weak half-fix.

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loading the washing machine and thinking "WET THE DRYS", loading the dryer an hour later and thinking "DRY THE WETS"

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Happy Pride Month! 😁🫂💜💙💚💛🧡❤️ 🌈

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Today is the day Donald Trump became precedent

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I just want to say, I am very concerned about what this conviction will do to the health of our country, so put 2 Tylenol and a big glass of water next to your bed immediately. Tomorrow's a work day and they won't buy it if we all call in sick due to hangovers.

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Kieran Healy

Convicting Donald Trump for 34 felonies is a slippery slope to convicting regular rich white men for as little as one felony

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we can be as irony-poisoned as we like but the simple fact is the orange man is bad, and it's good and funny when bad things happen to him.

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"average president has been convicted of .75 felonies" factoid actualy just statistical error. average president has been convicted of 0 felonies. Felonies Donald, who lives in Florida & commits 34 felonies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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how it looks visually, on the NYT: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Jim Meyer

every new dense development is simultaneously going to be full of on welfare crackheads and unaffordable luxury units for yuppies that will make traffic worse and also just sit there empty.

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Lots of confusion between “every great new technology was initially resisted” and “every technology that is initially resisted will be great.”

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The War on Cars

There is a war on cars. Cars drew first blood.

#ThingThursday: A circa 1965 J-W Instruments Model G combustible gas detector, with a handsome wooden case. My great-grandfather Phil Williams was the W in J-W.