@flipperpa
Open-source maintainer, objective "A.I." skeptic, speaker, and organizer in tech (mainly Python). 🖖 Guitar and serenity geek 🖖 Principal Engineer, WRDS @ Wharton @ Penn 🖖 he/him 🖖 https://github.com/flipperpa 🖖 https://youtube.com/flipperpa
News: As you might have heard, our Judge and Scorekeeper, with a voice on loan to God, Bill Kurtis, is stepping down from “Wait Wait” at the end of May.
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Wow, it’s the real life version of the main dog from Flow!
What a shock, Trump and Netanyahu were totally lying.
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
I once witnessed a senior lady with a walker smack a phone out of the hand of a teen on the SEPTA 47 bus when the teen and her friend refused to make way in the aisle. They were blaring shitty pop on the speaker.
It was the best Wednesday ever.
Just to clarify, after writing half of the first and second seasons, I wrote all of seasons three and four and all but one of season five for a total of 92 episodes out of 110, single credit, no writers room, while also showrunning the series. It's not the entirety, but 92 eps equals 10 seasons now.
The US military was likely responsible for the strike on an elementary school in southern Iran that killed scores of children, the deadliest incident of civilian casualties in the US and Israel’s almost week-long war with Iran, according to CNN and expert analysis of evidence. https://cnn.it/4rjSsbc
Claude deleted a production database and all automated snapshots, immediately adopting a passive voice to avoid responsibility. It truly learned from humans!
"When I asked Claude where the database was, the answer was straightforward: it had been deleted."
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SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Thanks for fighting the good fight, old friend.
My team and I developed and drafted these bills. Never gets old seeing something you’ve spent months working on show up in the paper—even if it’s usually someone else giving the quotes.
(Gift Article, no Paywall)
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Burrito.
Eggroll.
Hoagie.
Lobster roll.
They’re all delicious… and suspiciously cylindrical. 😄
Today’s MatchGame: Identify the Cylindrical Cuisine. (Yesterday's vote winner by a nose).
Can you match the picture to the food?
Yesterday: 31.6% perfect, fastest in 15 seconds!
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The Justice Department released *some* of the missing files, namely FBI interview notes from the woman alleging Epstein trafficked her as a young teen to Trump, Trump sexually assaulted her, and then she later endured a series of threats not to talk. Very dark reading www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...
ICE Barbie fired, replaced with dude actually named Markwayne who isn’t a country singer.
Substack glitch! We're live here: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
In under an hour at 12:30pm ET, I'll be chatting with Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary about why "AI" skepticism is a linchpin in building good tech for humanity. Join us if you can! open.substack.com/live-stream/...
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
I had medical appointments on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday last week. I have them on Monday and Wednesday this week. Not how I want to spend so much of my time, but hey - #KidneyFailure and waiting for a transplant. Can you help me find a living donor?
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Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary and I will chat about "A.I." skepticism Thursday @ 9:30am ET. We'll look back and forward, discussing how a big dose of skepticism and healthy objectivity will allow these new technologies to improve all our lives.
We hope to see you there! open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Not that CNN has had any backbone for years, but prepare for them to become Squealer from Animal Farm now that they’ve been acquired by Ellison… just like CBS News has.
Wait, you mean putting six screens in a drivers view port and 50 flashing lights isn’t a good UI for a several ton vehicle?
Modern vehicles have more distractions than a casino slot machine alley.
"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating."
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As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular.
So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!
This is by design.
X users consider this a feature, not a bug.
Here's an excerpt -- please take a moment to read the whole column and tell me what you think
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
This didn’t age well.
No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep
This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil
My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Never forget who you’re fighting for.