Lowell Vaughn Profile
Lowell Vaughn

@lvaughn

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Nerd and dad living in Washington, late of Austin, Grinnell, and Indy. Also at https://t.co/4uE1p1R2SO and @lowellvaughn.com on Bluesky

Bellevue, WA
Joined July 2007
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@olofj
Olof Johansson
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Emacs IS an age verification scheme. Nobody under 40 uses it.
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'(Robert Smith)
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since emacs is an operating system does it need age-verification.el in california?
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@mattyglesias
Matthew Yglesias
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Trump warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d have higher prices and a government-run economy at home and new wars abroad, and I voted for Harris and that’s exactly what we got.
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@lvaughn
Lowell Vaughn
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One down. God knows how many to go
@MalcontentmentT
Malcontent News
28 days
Epstein files claims its first politician Slovak National Security Advisor Miroslav Lajčák resigned after Epstein files revealed a Russian government connection and requests for girls. https://t.co/A1X9LLrvJo
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@JDVance
JD Vance
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Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.
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@waDNR
Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources
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Ya know, I thought a sunset past 5pm would fix everything...yet here we are...
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@The_Kyle_Mann
Kyle Mann
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Tried a new board game this week and was not impressed. Lots of flaws. 1. Only one scenario - Most games these days have dozens of scenarios you can play. This game starts the same every time. Very low replayability. Will probably get old fast. 2. No campaign mode - Every game
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@MCCCANM
KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler
1 month
Patience, people. Patience. It’s going to be a long weekend.
@petemuntean
Pete Muntean
1 month
DEVELOPING: U.S. airlines have already canceled 2,500+ flights for Saturday, making it the worst day for air travel in the past year. Nearly 4,500 cancellations are now posted from Friday through Sunday.
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@QuinnyPig
Corey Quinn
2 months
Your longest-running EC2 instance was launched in 2017. It's called "temp-test-delete-me." It processes payroll.
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@lvaughn
Lowell Vaughn
3 months
It’s deeply disturbing to hear from a researcher who is more worried about his and his colleagues feelings of satisfaction than my life.
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@lvaughn
Lowell Vaughn
3 months
My kids are in middle school. My best hope living long enough to see them into adulthood is that the science moves faster than my cancer. Every treatment decision I’ve made has been driven by the goal of living that long.
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@lvaughn
Lowell Vaughn
3 months
For context: I have stage 4 prostate cancer (Gleason score 5+5 that has spread to my bones). For now, it’s in remission thanks to a mix of chemotherapy, radiation, and a couple of other drugs. This is a temporary condition, given time it *will* come back.
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@lvaughn
Lowell Vaughn
3 months
As a cancer patient, this is so unsettling. The difference of AI driven research curing cancer or a human “eventually” doing it later is the difference in me living long enough to finish raising my kids and not living that long. And all of that so they feel better?
@togelius
Julian Togelius
3 months
I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil. Look around you, I said. The room is
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@emollick
Ethan Mollick
6 months
It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that, with 57M miles of data, Waymo’s autonomous vehicles experience 85% less serious injuries & 79% less injuries overall than cars with human drivers. 2.4 million are injured & 40k killed in US accidents a year
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@lvaughn
Lowell Vaughn
8 months
So like, the 10 countries with the largest populations. No very informative
@Rainmaker1973
Massimo
8 months
Top 10 countries with the highest death rates. [🎞️ metaballstudios_official] https://t.co/knkt2XnmI5
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@nickgillespie
Nick Gillespie
10 months
This is a great act of transparency, not unlike showing sales tax on a bill, another arbitrary assessment imposed by the state.
@meridithmcgraw
Meridith McGraw
10 months
WH @PressSec on Amazon's decision to display how much of an item's cost comes from tariffs: "This is a hostile and political act by Amazon."
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@Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci
1 year
And on the 11th day Trump gave everyone a tax increase.
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@levie
Aaron Levie
1 year
@Jason The biggest tell on the other side of this debate is when they say “if X talent is so great why can’t they be great in X country”. When you say that as a gotcha it means you don’t actually know why America is exceptional.
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@lvaughn
Lowell Vaughn
1 year
She says this like “they just taste of chemicals” and are “actually nice” are mutually exclusive.
@CharlotteKaye
Charlotte ☾♓️Ⓥ
1 year
Americans, are these actually nice? They look like they’d just taste of chemicals
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@paulg
Paul Graham
1 year
If you haven't decided yet who to vote for, here's why I think you should vote for Harris.
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