Kyle Niemeyer, PhD

I remember the dialup modem handshake, and playing games on an MS-DOS machine. The glitter of unwanted AOL CD-ROMs, shining in the dark. The glory of a *perfect* AIM away message. First accessing Facebook when I got my .edu email, then friending/poking other freshman I hadn’t yet met.

Strong “do not cite the deep magic to me witch, I was there when it was written” energy (in the most complimentary way)

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it

anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

Marys Peak, Alsea Falls Targeted by Trump Administration Clearcutting Plan - The Corvallis Advocate The Bureau of Land Management is seeking to eliminate old-growth and wildlife protections across nearly 2 million acres of public lands. Clearcutting is part of that plan, the idea being to facilitate...

Marys Peak, Alsea Falls Targeted by Trump Administration Clearcutting Plan - The Corvallis Advocate share.google/ZPeanLpdehuL.... There is a link to the BLM comment form at the end of the article.

Not the point, but getting on a train does *not* require showing ID… just a ticket.

Dang, you beat me to this joke!

"I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me," she said.

Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

The Purged Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.

The Government Workers Donald Trump Discarded www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I feel simultaneously comforted and attacked?

So... spells.

We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.

And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.

The old ways are new again.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

May not work, but an analogy I find useful is “incorporating AI in the classroom is like bringing a forklift to the gym. It’s gets the work done, but you have bypassed the whole point of being there.”

read, but don’t understand

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There are more of us than there are of them.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Protesters in frog costumes

Protesters in front of courthouse

Corvallis Oregon says NO KINGS. @wyden.senate.gov

lmfao keep sharing this stuff. such a balm.

“Ship” sounds too fancy. “Sloop” would be more appropriate.

Folks clapping in front of the chamber door

Here outside the House chamber with folks chanting “LET HER OUT!”

What I’m seeing here is someone used to and expecting interactions with the media as press release - simply printing what they say. (Perhaps from being used to this with conservative media?)

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“I left academia in 2020 because I realized that no publication, no study, no breakthrough—nothing I could contribute—would open the doors that should have opened.”

perhaps it was because he was an asshole nobody wanted to work with? Just spitballing, here.

My primary response to people like this is “what a fucking *loser*”

I’m really struggling with the article, which is primarily about Elon Musk (indeed, the print title is apparently “The Man Who Ate NASA”… not sure why they didn’t use that title online).

At *best*, it downplays his publicly demonstrated extremism.

How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.

sure thing, here is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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