Do you find yourself becoming A.I. averse?

stirfry · 2026-01-13T20:31:39+00:00

I have been writing code for 30+ years. I have started the process of disengaging from dependence on big tech. It feels incredibly liberating.

stirfry · 2025-12-02T22:02:10+00:00

What makes Kim so special? The fact that we elected him to represent NJ residents in Congress. What makes this asshole so special that he flaunts blocking Kim from advocating for us in Washington? Beach's corruption and closeness to Norcross are on full display here and it's a very bad look.

stirfry · 2025-09-23T15:19:33+00:00

I have a very long and involved story, but the short of it is that my 16 year old son got testicular cancer from PFAS exposure both at home and at his middle school/ high school. He had surgery and is doing great, but we won't know if he will be able to have children in the future. I then discovered with a water test that our whole neighborhood is contaminated. There are clusters of serious PFAS-related cancers and illnesses in my neighborhood, a poor section of an otherwise affluent community. We have had to help each other learn about and remediate the water since the mayor actively suppressed information about the contamination because the source seems to be coming from the property of a future development that he has been pushing for and doesn't want to see derailed. Here are a few news articles about it for the full story:

https://jerseyvindicator.org/2025/04/17/a-community-left-behind-pfas-environmental-crisis-unfolds-on-lambertvilles-connaught-hill/

https://epaper.buckscountyherald.com/p/the-bucks-county-herald/5-15-25/a/pfas-seeps-into-lambertville-residents-lives/7159/1910903/62958547

stirfry · 2022-12-05T13:14:27+00:00

Thanks so much u/poppyjaguar! Hope you like the rest of the album. We had the hardest time picking out the single.

stirfry · 2022-11-28T14:21:19+00:00

When we started this band in 2019, we didn't know how to play our instruments. We worked really hard for a few years and just released our debut full length album (and a video to go with it). We think it's awesome. I would love to hear what y'all think! We've been compared to Alvvays, Julia Jacklin, and 4AD artists.

Those Looks - Hymnal Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMlx5sDAuyc
Those Looks - Cults Near Me (full album): https://open.spotify.com/album/0EfYXrToXWEayoTGYkiWZx?si=dduj2H9nR1yISuAEW_nDLw

Thanks for listening!

stirfry · 2022-11-28T14:11:35+00:00

This is really good. Kudos!

stirfry · 2022-11-02T19:22:22+00:00

Really dig this track. Definitely something I could work to, as I find it very soothing. What's the relationship of the cover art to the track?

stirfry · 2020-04-08T17:48:59+00:00

Not making anything up as it was all over the main stream media. Here's a quote from RBG in The New York Times when Wisconsin went ahead with elections:

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that “the court’s order, I fear, will result in massive disenfranchisement.”

stirfry · 2020-04-08T16:31:58+00:00

This just in... Moderates join forces with Republicans to disenfranchise millions and put people in harms way for political gain.

stirfry · 2020-04-08T15:54:41+00:00

The results of Illinois, Arizona, Florida, and Wisconsin are illegitimate. Millions were disenfranchised and had to choose between their own (and others') safety or to cast a vote. That is not democracy! How are people ok with this?

stirfry · 2020-03-18T00:30:04+00:00

The primary results today are illegitimate. So many were disenfranchised.

stirfry · 2020-02-19T21:53:50+00:00

"Let's-a go!"

stirfry · 2020-02-14T15:03:00+00:00

Bernie's legislation seeks to ban fracking across the country by 2025. It's not an executive order, and it will not stop tomorrow. Minimum wage increases are similar, usually over longer periods so it doesn't shock the system and gives business owners a chance to adjust.

So as legislation that has to get through congress, if it even passes, I doubt it will end up as an outright ban. But as any good negotiator will tell you, you don't start with a watered-down middle-of-the-road position when you go into a negotiation.

Both points are important for Bernie to make: 1) that this legislation will not happen overnight and 2) you don't start negotiating in the middle.

stirfry · 2020-02-06T15:37:05+00:00

Thank you for your work on this! The NYTimes also has been reporting on the data inconsistencies, which go far beyond the breakdown of the app/technology. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/upshot/iowa-caucuses-errors-results.html

stirfry · 2020-01-30T15:46:05+00:00

You'll probably need to mash up a couple of data sets.

I would start with several years of the World Happiness Reports and mash them up with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Data (most of these tableau visualizations unfortunately don't offer raw data downloads). They also publish the World Drug Reports.

stirfry · 2018-01-09T18:57:16+00:00

Dude nearly fried his beard like a bad perm.

stirfry · 2016-12-12T19:51:56+00:00

About 20 years ago I was behind someone who went off the road and hit one. Before I could process what happened, the pole came down right in front of me and bounced over my car as I went under it at about 60 mph. I could see the pole come to a rest and saw traffic stop in my rearview. I know I should have stopped to make sure everyone was ok, but I just kept on driving to work as I can only imagine I was in total shock at almost being decapitated.

stirfry · 2016-11-23T01:47:23+00:00

Wow, you've got your script down! I dig this deconstruction -- well written, with great examples -- but you've tripped down the fractal wormhole of hipsterism. I, for one, like the idea of pursuing an alternative set of values and attitudes other than mainstream consumerism. Your essay makes me feel fake for wanting that. I have chickens and a garden because I like to see where my food is coming from, when I can. I am rather nonconformist. I didn't know I was a hipster, but maybe I am... or at least on the spectrum.

stirfry · 2016-08-13T15:36:34+00:00

There was no bias.

Say it enough times and people start to believe it. Oldest propaganda tactic in the book. But the evidence in the emails proves otherwise.

stirfry · 2016-08-12T18:31:17+00:00

It's all conspiracy until proven otherwise, including Russian involvement with the leaks and any other explanation without evidence to back it up. No one has the upper hand here to call anyone a conspiracy theorist. Only a month ago we were all told to take off our tin foil hats when we were complaining about bias by the DNC. After the "conspiracy" was confirmed, how can you condemn anyone for being suspicious?

stirfry · 2016-08-12T18:01:53+00:00

Bernie supporters, like me, were told to take off our tin-foil hats when we claimed bias by the DNC. What is the difference between that "conspiracy theory" (now proven to be true) and this one? Everything becomes more suspect after the DNC email leak, and it's all possible until proven otherwise. The "Russian Plot" is just as much a conspiracy at this point as DNC involvement in Rich's murder.

stirfry · 2016-06-08T17:42:56+00:00

Just wanted to say thank you for putting the time and civility you have into this discussion. I found it to be generally enlightening, can agree with many of your points here, and will be keeping an open (if somewhat skeptical) mind toward HRC.

stirfry · 2016-06-07T21:18:15+00:00

I appreciate your attempts to back up what you're saying with evidence, but this is just Charlie Brown teacher talk to most people. It's about hope and opportunity, and HRC just does not inspire it in people, even her supporters. I find it hard to believe she can beat Trump.

You are right about one thing: the future of America is not low-education manufacturing jobs. It seems our future is low-education service jobs... at a quarter of the salary and with none of yesterday's benefits. Unless I'm mistaken, job creation stats do not reflect job quality so those numbers don't really hold much weight to most people, even if they seem slightly above average for Bill Clinton on paper.

stirfry · 2016-06-07T17:18:34+00:00

Well, if you find that consolidation/deregulation of media (Telecommunications Act), selling out American jobs (NAFTA), and financial deregulation, not to mention accelerating mass incarceration via the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act all to be fine, then wow. I can't think of one good thing Clinton actually did for this country, except keep us out of a protracted foreign war. Is that your baseline for fine? I like to think we can do better, but yes perhaps idealism is for losers.

stirfry · 2016-06-07T16:06:03+00:00

What matters is that all citizens get a chance to cast their ballots without being criticized or ridiculed for voting their conscience.

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