When the LAPD thanks the protest organizers. We need to get ICE the fuck out of California.
Entry: 2025-06-13 00:12:22.224842+02 Padilla on the invasion of California by Dan Lyke comments 0
Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
(With video)
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Entry: 2025-06-12 22:07:58.744916+02 Civil War news OTD by Dan Lyke comments 0
The clusterfuck invasion of California as of right now:
Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet. (Via
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs contradicts Trump’s takes on Putin, LA protests (Via)
Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
(With video)
Video of the assault on Padilla.
holy shit -- GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that
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Entry: 2025-06-11 20:47:55.685201+02 Episcopal Bishops weigh in on ICE invasion by Dan Lyke comments 0
Because I'm going to want to find this later: A Letter from the Episcopal Bishops in the State of California
Like all Californians, we are watching with great concern the events unfolding around immigration protests in Los Angeles. We are deeply concerned about the ICE raids and about the potential for violence arising from the deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to the Los Angeles area. We are concerned that military deployments will escalate the confrontations unnecessarily, and worry that all of our regions in California may be subject to future deployments that heighten tensions rather than resolving them.
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Entry: 2025-06-11 00:53:43.212671+02 Marines had to park in Orange County by Dan Lyke comments 0
Hmm, parking in downtown LA *is* really bad, the Marines had to park in Seal Beach (Orange County). If they want a better route to the Civic Center, I'd hop on Amtrak and hop off at LA Union Station. (it's a lot better).
Marines ordered by Trump to serve in Los Angeles arrive in ... Orange County?
Thomas Sturm @tsturm@famichiki.jp
@ai6yr "LA cant be occupied by armed forces as there is no parking." is the most California take possible.
😂
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Entry: 2025-06-08 06:55:02.885976+02 When the LAPD thanks the protest by Dan Lyke comments 0
When the LAPD thanks the protest organizers. We need to get ICE the fuck out of California.
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Entry: 2025-06-08 06:26:28.119563+02 From FinTech to Fin Tech by Dan Lyke comments 0
Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io
If you missed my ‘From FinTech to Fin Tech’ talk at North Bay Python, here’s a blog post with the video
The slide everyone was talking about is at 06:27
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Entry: 2025-06-01 23:38:48.473857+02 The Italian Job, Blues Brothers, and eternal vigilance by Dan Lyke comments 0
This is marvelous: The West Australian — Andrew Miller: Classic car chases educate a child’s mind in ways the classroom just can’t
I was supposed to be helping the six-year-old with reading practice, but we got distracted and ended up watching classic car chases on YouTube.
Specifically, comparing and contrasting wanton automotive carnage in the movies The Italian Job and The Blues Brothers.
This naturally led to explaining the historical relevance of the Illinois Nazis — who met their demise by driving off an incomplete flyover while pursuing Jake and Elwood Blues — and why popular culture so often circles back to the dark risks of fascism.
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Entry: 2025-05-27 21:20:03.275182+02 So wait two crypto by Dan Lyke comments 2
So wait, two crypto "investors" kidnapped and duct taped a third crypto "investor" and dangled him off a balcony to try to get the password to a wallet, and I hate that their culture and neighborhoods give rise to this kind of violent behavior, but I really don't have an opinion about crypto-on-crypto violence.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/...-sick-soho-torture-case-sources/
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Entry: 2025-05-27 16:42:22.486468+02 the state of voice recognition by Dan Lyke comments 0
“I’ve been typing this way for about two years,” I say.
I’ve been typing this way for about tears, the computer writes.
“About two years,” I repeat, raising my voice and enunciating each word clearly.
A button here, it types.
Anyway, we're using this thing as a Mad Libs generator when there's so much more to be gotten in actually augmenting human interaction...
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Entry: 2025-05-27 02:05:03.398909+02 Lot of work to depistil the flower by Dan Lyke comments 0
Lot of work to de-pistil the flower shoots, and the plating with coconut milk needs more color; maybe Fresno chiles, and some plantain? But interesting texture, I'd do banana flowers again.
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Entry: 2025-05-21 05:45:02.95358+02 I'm having trouble finding a recent by Dan Lyke comments 0
I'm having trouble finding a recent story about a Bay Area building that got nearly to completion and then got disassembled and reassembled for some reason. Household discussion about modular building, and I wanted to find details to talk about.
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Entry: 2025-05-19 22:56:12.192281+02 Shasta geology by Dan Lyke comments 0
It is amazing how young the science of geology is. But, yeah, the landscape around Mt Shasta is fascinating: One of Earth's largest natural disasters hides in plain sight in California, on how the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980 showed how the valley along I5 formed.
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Entry: 2025-05-19 17:30:17.584825+02 If nothing is curated, how do we find things? by Dan Lyke comments 0
I've always been out-of-step with the world. It was part of my upbringing, elementary school was in a Waldorf community 18 miles from home. By the time I got to high school I didn't really know how to relate to my peers, and my home culture was so far away from what the other kids around me were experiencing that I didn't really know how they found their content. I remember saying "who the hell is Michael Jackson?" when music was passed out in band (probably some marching band arrangement of Billie Jean).
By the time I had disposable income and CDs were in fashion, I kinda felt like I was playing catch-up to the culture I'd seen in passing earlier. I ordered music from record stores, but never really got into the record store as curation.
And as I dive deeper into popular music for my voice practice, I become more and more aware of how "curation" is largely a commercial endeavor any way, that the bands which rise are politically and economically savvy as much as they are technically/musically competent, and the fact that they become pervasive around us is about coordinated marketing campaigns.
And I'm also aware that the ways that properties become breakouts shift based on the technology of the time and the marketing campaigns that support them. It's not at all lost on me that two, two and a half, decades ago record companies were attempting to ruin the lives of kids for pretty much exactly what generative AI companies are doing now; pirating and remixing culture.
And that that framing excuses GenAI companies in ways that I didn't necessarily intend to.
Anyway, interesting to see the kids these days struggling with discovery: If nothing is curated, how do we find things?
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Entry: 2025-05-18 18:08:40.40702+02 kill the entire institution by Dan Lyke comments 0
we are hearing reports that consumers are buying albums & listening to them dozens, even hundreds of times, without paying a streaming platform or publisher any additional money or even viewing advertisements. this is going to kill the entire institution of music in our culture
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Entry: 2025-05-18 03:44:20.236902+02 Lost Colony found by Dan Lyke comments 0
Well this is fascinating: That first colony on Roanoke Island? ‘Smoking gun’ evidence of Lost Colony’s relocation to Hatteras Island makes international news.
Turns out that, unshackled from the oppression of English society, the settlers were happy to assimilate into the local culture.
See also Thomas Morton...
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Entry: 2025-05-15 18:40:35.54742+02 more "bogus AI-generated research" in the legal field by Dan Lyke comments 0
Judge slams lawyers for ‘bogus AI-generated research’
A California judge slammed a pair of law firms for the undisclosed use of AI after he received a supplemental brief with “numerous false, inaccurate, and misleading legal citations and quotations.” In a ruling submitted last week, Judge Michael Wilner imposed $31,000 in sanctions against the law firms involved, saying “no reasonably competent attorney should out-source research and writing” to AI, as pointed out by law professors Eric Goldman and Blake Reid on Bluesky.
I mean, we've been seeing lawyers use made up citations and precedent for a while now, but it's twenty fucking twenty five, so clearly the punitive measures for lying and blaming it on computer haven't been harsh enough.
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Entry: 2025-05-07 18:33:49.679073+02 CA vs TX housing by Dan Lyke comments 0
RAND: The High Cost of Producing Multifamily Housing in California
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Entry: 2025-05-01 17:09:37.143967+02 Telling on themselves by Dan Lyke comments 0
In Adrianna Tan's "From Fintech to Fin Tech" talk at North Bay Python, she put up a slide which said:
DO NOT WANT
- Work on ads
- Work on weapons
- Abet genocides
- Make the world worse
- Use Microsoft Teams
making particular reference to Meta's involvement in the Myanmar genocides, but, of course the awful people said "this is anti-semitic", because any complaint about genocide is clearly about Palestine and "hey warfare is not genocide".
I've seen this locally too, where mentions of unhinged people harassing city staff and threatening people has been met with complaints of "the Petaluma Historic Advocates aren't unhinged".
So, yeah. People telling on themselves.
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Entry: 2025-05-01 16:59:35.829681+02 Border Patrol says they can't be arsed to document their harassment by Dan Lyke comments 0
Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: ‘You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin’
The court also ordered the Border Patrol to document every stop and provide reports within 60 days. During oral arguments on Monday, the government attorney said doing so would be burdensome to Border Patrol agents. Judge Thurston rebuked the government, saying: “They have to make a report for every arrest, not sure what the burden is.”
According to sworn declarations filed in court by those detained, Border Patrol agents slashed tires, yanked people out of trucks, threw people to the ground, and called farmworkers “Mexican bitches.”
Let's repeat that for emphasis: "During oral arguments on Monday, the government attorney said doing so would be burdensome to Border Patrol agents."
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Entry: 2025-05-01 00:12:13.722507+02 I'm sorry, Dave by Dan Lyke comments 0
Wow, the meme is in the air: Æ. @aesthr@wandering.shop
It is the year 2025 and “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” would actually be a pretty certain indicator that you’re talking to a human because an LLM would instead tell you that a bay is a body of water and therefore doesn’t have doors, although sometimes a pod of dolphins could be in it.
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Entry: 2025-04-28 20:24:19.197434+02 Aldrich Ames by Dan Lyke comments 0
BBC: How Aldrich Ames became the US's most damaging double agent.
So far. I have suspicions about the history that'll be written about this era.
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Entry: 2025-04-27 20:30:01.828205+02 North Bay Python enjoying by Dan Lyke comments 0
North Bay Python, enjoying @glyph@mastodon.social's comparison of Python to excavators, and making Python smaller and simplar, and running over a good half of the reason why I've felt like every time I started a project in Python I've regretted not using C++ (the other half involves compile-time type checking).
#NBPy
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Entry: 2025-04-27 18:10:02.066971+02 "Glandweed" by Dan Lyke comments 0
"Glandweed", huh? Pretty among the lupines, though, along the road over the hill at Ries Ranch, where North Bay Python is held. #NBPy
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Entry: 2025-04-26 23:35:02.759803+02 North Bay Python by Dan Lyke comments 0
North Bay Python: Maddy Muscari talking about ethics washing in AI, "real ethics is praxis, it's loud, it's messy, it's people first". So far this feels in-line with my belief that we need to be framing AI primarily in adversarial terms. #NBPy
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Entry: 2025-04-26 20:15:02.641458+02 North Bay Python by Dan Lyke comments 0
North Bay Python: Watching @amethyst@n7.gg shoehorn Perl idioms into Python with decorators is making me wish we had more fun languages that thought better about performance while balancing what with safety. #NBPy
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Entry: 2025-04-26 19:55:02.99415+02 I care about what happens to people by Dan Lyke comments 0
"I care about what happens to people when computers happen to them." —Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io at North Bay Python #NBPy
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Entry: 2025-04-26 19:55:02.724888+02 At North Bay Python listening to by Dan Lyke comments 0
At North Bay Python listening to @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io talk about Fintech to fin tech, and the comparison of the current Silicon Valley environment to the the sardine over-fishing of the Monterey Bay gives me hope. #NBPy
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Entry: 2025-04-26 18:55:02.846192+02 Ended up driving the 3 miles to North by Dan Lyke comments 0
Ended up driving the 3 miles to North Bay Python this morning because of logistics, but wasn't sure where to park so walking over the hill, and glad to get the morning with lupine. #NBPy
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Entry: 2025-04-15 22:30:02.782887+02 While I'm noting things for posterity by Dan Lyke comments 0
While I'm noting things for posterity, Charlene and I had coffee this morning with Dan Zack, talking about Fresno's transformation and urban planning generally. https://zackurban.com/
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Entry: 2025-04-15 22:20:02.750896+02 High speed rail is coming to the by Dan Lyke comments 2
High speed rail is coming to the Central Valley...
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Entry: 2025-04-15 21:10:03.64693+02 My earlier whine about how California by Dan Lyke comments 0
My earlier whine about how California needs an order of magnitude more charging stations didn't take into account municipal vehicles blocking chargers.
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Entry: 2025-04-14 21:25:03.325561+02 Hanging out in Fresno with Charlene's by Dan Lyke comments 0
Hanging out in Fresno with Charlene's developmentally disabled brother, and the ways that he says things that we're never sure if it's perceptive or nonsense, and the way when we ask for clarifying information he says "yeah" and then comes out with a non sequitur reminds me of LLM output.
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Entry: 2025-04-13 23:25:02.779896+02 Three weeks ago by Dan Lyke comments 0
Three weeks ago, California announced that it has more electric charging stations than gas station nozzles. So if one in three of those work, half of those are compatible with your car, and you can work out payment for 2/3 of the remainder, we've only got an order of magnitude left to go.
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Entry: 2025-04-10 17:40:06.905423+02 Perception vs Reality on AI by Dan Lyke comments 0
AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink
Almost half of C-suite executives said in a recent survey that AI adoption is “tearing their company apart” as a rift emerges between leadership and the employees adopting such tools.
While 75% of company leaders thought their AI rollout over the past 12 months has been successful, only 45% of employees said the same.
Via @jaredwhite@indieweb.social.
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Entry: 2025-04-10 01:23:25.18819+02 Pushing back on Shen Yun by Dan Lyke comments 0
Good for her: Boston City Council was all set to honor a controversial Chinese dance troupe; then one councilor objected
Councilor Sharon Durkan (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill) brought the process to a halt today when she objected to a motion by Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) to have the council issue a proclamation honoring Shen Yun Performing Arts, a troupe that is not based here but which does perform here.
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Entry: 2025-04-09 20:51:12.76523+02 fake drug tests by Dan Lyke comments 0
A data analysis by UnCommon Law suggests there could have been more than 5,000 false positives, which could include multiple tests for the same person. The figure is a rough estimate based on the total number of tests from April through July and assuming the positivity rate would’ve stayed consistent if the reagent hadn’t changed.
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Entry: 2025-04-09 17:20:46.389017+02 India's recycled laptops by Dan Lyke comments 0
“We literally make them out of scrap! We also take in second-hand laptops and e-waste from countries like Dubai and China, fix them up, and sell them at half the price of a new one,” he explains.
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Entry: 2025-04-06 20:45:03.441891+02 Had someone talking with me about by Dan Lyke comments 0
Had someone talking with me about calling a dance down in the South Bay in June ask for video of me square dance calling, so I propped up my phone behind me on Thursday Night at the Circle 'n Squares. Ain't much, but it's there. https://www.youtube.com/playli...tMVX2ASLE4owB26dBqyZqAe9vpdWjqEY
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Entry: 2025-03-28 00:25:13.087102+01 CA Penal Code Part 4 Title 5 by Dan Lyke comments 1
Jess Huang: How a well-intended California domestic violence law results in victims being arrested
Under the California Penal Code, officers must make an arrest in domestic violence cases when they determine probable cause. Enacted in 1986, this specific provision was meant to protect victims.
The problem? The law assumes officers are trained to identify the dominant aggressor, but research shows that training gaps and the code’s mandatory arrest provision often pressures them into rushed, surface-level decisions. Experts say this creates too much room for error.
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Entry: 2025-03-26 21:30:02.19225+01 Guerilla bus stop bench by Dan Lyke comments 0
Guerilla bus stop bench deployments...
https://www.sfgate.com/local/a...us-benches-bay-area-20234113.php
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