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Cake day: February 2nd, 2026

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  • Have you ever had a major medical event? If so, did your insurance company require your doctor to go through their “approved” methods for treatment before they could do what they actually thought would most quickly and effectively treat your condition? Have you ever been brought by ambulance to an emergency room that is “out of network?” Have you ever been billed for something you thought insurance was going to cover because the medical coder input a different code than the insurance company will approve? If you’ve never had any of these things happen to you, you have no concept of whether or not your insurance is “good.” Or you’re in a union and your insurance IS actually good. Lucky you in that case.






  • Train Underwater - Bright Eyes New Virginia Creeper - Old Crow Medicine Show Let the Train Blow the Whistle - Johnny Cash

    Am undiagnosed but definitely autistic. My opinion on trains is they used to scare the shit out of me when I was a child. Coal trains are all over the place where I live, and I was right up next to them while they were making terrifying loud noises. I think that ruined any interest I might have had from a distance. Now as an adult, I am very interested in the engineering and workings of trains, but not much more than the engineering and workings of all other complex engineered systems. But I’m more interested in buildings and architecture than mechanical engineering.











  • Eh, there is so much other stuff around this particular book store that I doubt you’d be disappointed if you went down there and it was closed. Also, this is not a typical book store. It has ancient, rare books, vintage books in all sorts of languages, and just all sorts of neat stuff you would probably never think to actually “search” for. It’s not like a books-a-million or a library even. It’s a totally unique experience you really can’t get online.



  • Oooh buddy, is isn’t even young engineers using these to destroy their designs. I was at a building construction conference recently where one of the presentations was about how AI is going to “give us so much time back” as designers. He then told us about how the AIs hallucinate math still, and that the AI companies are not liable for their output. After the presentation, I and another person asked him a question about who exactly the liability will lie with and how someone could protect themselves from the liability without spending all the time we “save” meticulously checking the outputs. His response was to generate thousands of outputs for the same task and then only check “the best versions.” Okay, so how will we know which are the “best” without meticulously checking thousands of them?

    Anyway, afterwards, I asked my colleagues from all around the country who were at the conference for their opinion on AI and the presentation, and most of these 50-60 year old men told me they regularly use it in their work already. So be prepare for things constructed in the past few years to be incredibly dangerous facilities to be in or near.