Kasey Kagawa
@punkey.org
He/Him. Tech and Privacy Attorney. Former 25A. Expect baseball nonsense, hockey nonsense, tech/games nonsense, military nonsense, politics nonsense. https://kaseykagawa.smugmug.com
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Kasey Kagawa
@punkey.org
· Apr 11
Fucking spare me. None of us, even the people that fucking voted for the creep, deserved this. This shit fucking blows and we should be pissed off about it, none of this "well America had it coming you know" nonsense. Fuck that noise.
I am so fucking over this "well we had it coming because of weakness or whatever" navel-gazing pity party bullshit. Not even the people that voted for the fucker deserve what's happening because we all - ALL OF US - deserve better than what the fuck is going on. I'm here to work to save ALL of us.
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Durbin is no longer going to be in the Senate come 2027.
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin on Wednesday discouraged Democrats from engaging in the same political gamesmanship over Supreme Court nominees as their Republican colleagues if the party wins the majority in November. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/durbin-pours...
Durbin pours cold water on Democratic hopes for SCOTUS hardball
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said that any future Supreme Court nominees should get a vote, regardless of which party controls Congress.
www.courthousenews.com
September 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Durbin is no longer going to be in the Senate come 2027.
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How to make me no longer want to buy your game in one sentence.
Wardogs lead says the studio won't hire people who decry crunch on social media
Wardogs lead says the studio won't hire people who decry crunch on social media
'If you care about the work you’re making and the result of what you make here, you’ll feel really valued. If you don’t, you will feel slave-driven.'
www.gamedeveloper.com
September 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM
How to make me no longer want to buy your game in one sentence.
Every single "military boot camp workout" ever does shit we would have instantly been written up for, yelled at for, and possibly brought up for disciplinary review for doing in actual Army BCT, water denial and heat index monitoring in particular
We have allegations that:
1) athletes were denied water
2) heat exposure polices were not followed
3) training staff didn’t follow emergency heat procedures when Mayich collapsed
4) guest “trainer” wasn’t vetted or under contract
Powers and ASU failed Mayich.
ktar.com/arizona-news...
1) athletes were denied water
2) heat exposure polices were not followed
3) training staff didn’t follow emergency heat procedures when Mayich collapsed
4) guest “trainer” wasn’t vetted or under contract
Powers and ASU failed Mayich.
ktar.com/arizona-news...
Ex-Green beret who led ASU hockey workout reportedly had no contract - KTAR.com
The ex-Green Beret who led an outdoor workout that left an ASU hockey player hospitalized was reportedly not under contract with the university.
ktar.com
September 16, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Every single "military boot camp workout" ever does shit we would have instantly been written up for, yelled at for, and possibly brought up for disciplinary review for doing in actual Army BCT, water denial and heat index monitoring in particular
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Big Walk's magic is delivering on the quiet comfort of being around your friends. Being able to distill the kind of friendship intimacy that normally requires close physical proximity so perfectly into an engaging virtual space (and capped off by the *perfect* ending) is pure magic.
September 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Big Walk's magic is delivering on the quiet comfort of being around your friends. Being able to distill the kind of friendship intimacy that normally requires close physical proximity so perfectly into an engaging virtual space (and capped off by the *perfect* ending) is pure magic.
This is the best video I've found so far on the unique and ingenious way Big Walk delivers on "game about talking to your friends" - that silence and isolation are key to intimacy, that that's the difference between "game you play with your friends" and "game about being with your friends".
The secret to Big Walk is the thing it takes away
YouTube video by HarpingHarp
youtu.be
September 15, 2026 at 5:24 PM
This is the best video I've found so far on the unique and ingenious way Big Walk delivers on "game about talking to your friends" - that silence and isolation are key to intimacy, that that's the difference between "game you play with your friends" and "game about being with your friends".
For pity's sake the plans have been on display in Alpha Centauri for the last 50 of your Earth years, you've had plenty of time to lodge a formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now. Apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all.
look man i'm sorry about depriving your world of all light and warmth but surrounding your sun with a dyson sphere was the only way to get more power so that we could continue to surround suns with dyson spheres. also fr dude, how are you *still* not able to leave your solar system? like c'mon
September 15, 2026 at 3:49 AM
For pity's sake the plans have been on display in Alpha Centauri for the last 50 of your Earth years, you've had plenty of time to lodge a formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now. Apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all.
As someone in absolute favor of "take the time to do it right" for game dev, I am absolutely in favor of this change. The new additions sound great, and better to launch a banger than have to fix it in real time.
(also this lets me play Control Resonant in peace)
(also this lets me play Control Resonant in peace)
We’re making changes to Marathon’s update plans and how we deliver new content.
We’re moving away from a strict seasonal schedule to give the team more flexibility to build, test, and improve features before release.
(1/2)
We’re moving away from a strict seasonal schedule to give the team more flexibility to build, test, and improve features before release.
(1/2)
Bungie.net
bung.ie
September 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
As someone in absolute favor of "take the time to do it right" for game dev, I am absolutely in favor of this change. The new additions sound great, and better to launch a banger than have to fix it in real time.
(also this lets me play Control Resonant in peace)
(also this lets me play Control Resonant in peace)
Jess is a friend and very very smart, listen to her
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview.
IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing.
Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing.
Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
September 14, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Jess is a friend and very very smart, listen to her
Okay, I've held my tongue because he's clearly just trying to shill for himself but this is the smoking gun that he's either a blithering idiot (unlikely) or is just making shit up for headlines. Anyone with even a passing familiarity of LLMs knows it can't just "copy itself over to other computers"
Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."
September 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Okay, I've held my tongue because he's clearly just trying to shill for himself but this is the smoking gun that he's either a blithering idiot (unlikely) or is just making shit up for headlines. Anyone with even a passing familiarity of LLMs knows it can't just "copy itself over to other computers"
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100% yes. Kershaw threw 51 breaking balls in game 5 and didn’t generate a single swing and miss because they had the signs. Only time that happened in his career
I was sitting 8 rows behind home plate & tweeted “I don’t know what I’m watching but it’s not baseball”
www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s...
I was sitting 8 rows behind home plate & tweeted “I don’t know what I’m watching but it’s not baseball”
www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s...
September 12, 2026 at 6:01 PM
100% yes. Kershaw threw 51 breaking balls in game 5 and didn’t generate a single swing and miss because they had the signs. Only time that happened in his career
I was sitting 8 rows behind home plate & tweeted “I don’t know what I’m watching but it’s not baseball”
www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s...
I was sitting 8 rows behind home plate & tweeted “I don’t know what I’m watching but it’s not baseball”
www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s...
The best possible use for the 12 foot tall Home Depot lawn skeleton has appeared
Just received an ad on Instagram from a factory selling inflatable T-60/70 tanks in China lol
September 10, 2026 at 8:41 PM
The best possible use for the 12 foot tall Home Depot lawn skeleton has appeared
Engineer's Disease is almost always the answer when someone technical claims they have figured something out the actual experts in the field haven't.
In general a lot of the predictions around AI are based on tech and coding people extrapolating to areas outside their expertise.
For every AI doomsday scenario guy I just want to ask: How? Like what is the mechanism here? Because it is all very unspecific (and in the end it is probably some scifi grey goo bs they thought up)
September 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Engineer's Disease is almost always the answer when someone technical claims they have figured something out the actual experts in the field haven't.
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I had everyone's favorite main character on here yell at me that inflation was going down, so people should not have been pissed off by inflation in 2024 , but no normal person thinks in these YoY categories
Six Charts That Explain How Americans Really Feel About the Economy
Official data shows steady growth and low unemployment, but misses how rising costs have left many Americans behind.
www.wsj.com
September 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I had everyone's favorite main character on here yell at me that inflation was going down, so people should not have been pissed off by inflation in 2024 , but no normal person thinks in these YoY categories
Bellevue, based on the angle he hit it to Bellevue
September 9, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Bellevue, based on the angle he hit it to Bellevue
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Half of it, eh? Gosh, it's figured out the portion with a few soluble conditions, where most terms are just zero, that make it possible for undergrads to to do something when first presented with it?
Well done, li'l buddy. You're all the way to partial credit on the quiz and your TA laughing.
Well done, li'l buddy. You're all the way to partial credit on the quiz and your TA laughing.
September 9, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Half of it, eh? Gosh, it's figured out the portion with a few soluble conditions, where most terms are just zero, that make it possible for undergrads to to do something when first presented with it?
Well done, li'l buddy. You're all the way to partial credit on the quiz and your TA laughing.
Well done, li'l buddy. You're all the way to partial credit on the quiz and your TA laughing.
It's important to design your experiments to take into account if the target is a pull hitter or sprays the ball all over the field. Pull targets would be better for high energy work, but if volume of interactions is what you need, get someone that doesn't hit the bosons hard but makes good contact.
![Comic. [Two people considering diagrams on whiteboard] PERSON 1 with ponytail: The W bosons produced by the collider beam will mostly be left-handed. PERSON 2: So we should send in a *right*-handed batter.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiclaz76nd4vfvtlhm7bncogauon6wkv4dh6fm7llbx3u4igqfovu4)
September 8, 2026 at 6:46 PM
It's important to design your experiments to take into account if the target is a pull hitter or sprays the ball all over the field. Pull targets would be better for high energy work, but if volume of interactions is what you need, get someone that doesn't hit the bosons hard but makes good contact.
not too shabby at all
I think I got Flush Five up to level 18 or so from blue seals, and had my deck trimmed well enough I was guaranteed 5 Lucky Card King of Hearts. Lucky Cat must have been 10-12x by the end, and I did wonder if putting Blueprint on that would have been better by the end.
I think I got Flush Five up to level 18 or so from blue seals, and had my deck trimmed well enough I was guaranteed 5 Lucky Card King of Hearts. Lucky Cat must have been 10-12x by the end, and I did wonder if putting Blueprint on that would have been better by the end.
September 7, 2026 at 9:29 AM
not too shabby at all
I think I got Flush Five up to level 18 or so from blue seals, and had my deck trimmed well enough I was guaranteed 5 Lucky Card King of Hearts. Lucky Cat must have been 10-12x by the end, and I did wonder if putting Blueprint on that would have been better by the end.
I think I got Flush Five up to level 18 or so from blue seals, and had my deck trimmed well enough I was guaranteed 5 Lucky Card King of Hearts. Lucky Cat must have been 10-12x by the end, and I did wonder if putting Blueprint on that would have been better by the end.
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dodgers week in review preview: mookie betts
September 7, 2026 at 4:53 AM
dodgers week in review preview: mookie betts
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"Donald Trump believes he is god-king and the American people are his servants so he will attempt to take us to the afterlife with him" is something more important people probably need to grapple with when it comes to what powers his office has and indulging his requests
i think right now he is genuinely fixated on adding new american territory as the brass ring, the thing they'll never be able to take away from his memory
i also think he can't make it happen
so as 2029 approaches we are going to more and more see a family annihilator presidency
i also think he can't make it happen
so as 2029 approaches we are going to more and more see a family annihilator presidency
September 7, 2026 at 1:16 AM
"Donald Trump believes he is god-king and the American people are his servants so he will attempt to take us to the afterlife with him" is something more important people probably need to grapple with when it comes to what powers his office has and indulging his requests
I want to use CachyOS so bad on my new laptop when I get it but the AUR alone is probably gonna keep me off it and on Fedora, having a core Arch software tool be randomly a malware vector is a no go
September 6, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I want to use CachyOS so bad on my new laptop when I get it but the AUR alone is probably gonna keep me off it and on Fedora, having a core Arch software tool be randomly a malware vector is a no go
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Anyway I've now seen it on a huge IMAX screen and projected on a bedsheet in a tiny Tokyo dive bar, which are really the two best ways to see Akira, highly recommend doing both
September 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Anyway I've now seen it on a huge IMAX screen and projected on a bedsheet in a tiny Tokyo dive bar, which are really the two best ways to see Akira, highly recommend doing both
The thing that I think makes Akira a true cyberpunk classic isn't just the world, the design and visuals, or the animation, it's that there is no protagonist or antagonist, it's all people doing what people do. The events of the movie are as dictated by the characters as a tidal wave or hurricane.
September 6, 2026 at 12:43 AM
The thing that I think makes Akira a true cyberpunk classic isn't just the world, the design and visuals, or the animation, it's that there is no protagonist or antagonist, it's all people doing what people do. The events of the movie are as dictated by the characters as a tidal wave or hurricane.
haven't heard of this movie is it any good
September 5, 2026 at 10:32 PM
haven't heard of this movie is it any good
Now that he has committed to selling the Angels, it's worth enumerating exactly how much Arte Moreno sucks, and Bailey doesn't even get into the organizational rot and corruption that killed Tyler Skaggs.
Arte Moreno Hate Video
YouTube video by Foolish Bailey
youtu.be
September 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Now that he has committed to selling the Angels, it's worth enumerating exactly how much Arte Moreno sucks, and Bailey doesn't even get into the organizational rot and corruption that killed Tyler Skaggs.
*Finally* got my 100m Balatro hand score on the desktop. The Idol, Cavendish, The Duo, The Trio, and Brainstorm, with the Idol triggering on all 5 cards of a Lvl.3 Flush Five hand and three Steel cards (one with a Red Seal). 830 million points in one shot (I immediately lost because Idol cycled)
September 5, 2026 at 10:30 AM
*Finally* got my 100m Balatro hand score on the desktop. The Idol, Cavendish, The Duo, The Trio, and Brainstorm, with the Idol triggering on all 5 cards of a Lvl.3 Flush Five hand and three Steel cards (one with a Red Seal). 830 million points in one shot (I immediately lost because Idol cycled)