Chicago-area writer, software developer, runner, and nerd wrangler. Very interested in online community and reducing the harm of tech. Creator of The Flip […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://sfba.social/@williampietri, follow @ap.brid.gy to interacthttps://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gyhttps://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mwm57gcxdf62RE: https://sfba.social/@jeridansky/117345388587552790 So shines a good deed in a weary world! https://sfba.social/users/jeridansky/statuses/11734538858755279028 Sep 2026 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwm57gcxdf62https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mwlrk75pu3t2I was just reading about the concept of "truth pain", a strong discomfort experienced with falseness, something apparently associated with autism. Does that mean neurotypicals don't experience that? It would explain so much.28 Sep 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlrk75pu3t2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mwba5nncdh52The thing that's slowly making me crazy is that so many things could be better for everybody at much lower cost, but both in business and politics the people we've put in charge refuse to think systemically. Some are greedy, some are not the sharpest and can't admit it, many need feelings of […] https://sfba.social/@williampietri/11732595574351942624 Sep 2026 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwba5nncdh52https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvfy6j6m4xt2I really hope "may not realize" is one of them.13 Sep 2026 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfy6j6m4xt2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muk4vdg447h2I liked the Turing Test better when it was an interesting conceptual exercise, not something I needed to perform on every bit of electronic communication from a stranger.02 Sep 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3muk4vdg447h2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mt3pkrcav5h2Anybody else find it really satisfying to quickly make a useful thing? I have a key box outside, mainly for when I forget my keys. But it's not quite made for how I use it, so water gets in sometimes. That's a little bad in the summer. But it's very bad in the […] [Original post on sfba.social]15 Aug 2026 03:17 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt3pkrcav5h2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mt2irf4c7f52Anybody have tricks for talking to an effective person at Lenovo? Their website glitched and I ended up with an order that is wrong. I have spoken to like 8 people in post-sales and sales; they just transfer me back and forth when they get tired of dealing with me. All I want them to do is to […] https://sfba.social/@williampietri/11709462622967782714 Aug 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2irf4c7f52https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3msxuesaz3yv2I've been thinking about this one for days. Shout out to my fellow Jaynes fans!13 Aug 2026 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxuesaz3yv2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3msxmoxkyi2t2I often see people surprised that the Republican base votes against their own economic interest and for obviously shitty people. How's this for a short explanation: Systems train people to maintain them (or they don't last as systems). White supremacy and patriarchy are systems built on […] https://sfba.social/@williampietri/11708814742640801713 Aug 2026 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxmoxkyi2t2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3msq4qxkmowc2Jeffrey Epstein supported a music school, Interlochen, using his access to abuse kids. An investigation turns up accusations against nearly 50 adults over the decades. That's horrifying enough, but the real question for me: If we applied the same level of investigation to 10 random schools, how […] https://sfba.social/@williampietri/11707126297226901110 Aug 2026 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3msq4qxkmowc2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3msine4pupi42Marketplace did a piece on how economic uncertainty makes it hard for American businesses to plan "when it feels like at any minute something major could happen". But that's exactly the emotional state abusers create to maximize their power.07 Aug 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3msine4pupi42https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mqq7llth4dd2One reason we see the same thing in different time periods is replication. E.g., cats, or Catholicism. There's a line of descent. Another reason is that similar situations allow the same thing to arise separately at different times. Like raindrops or canyons or stars. It seems to me that the […] https://sfba.social/@williampietri/11692734745802136416 Jul 2026 02:42 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqq7llth4dd2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mqhedqkvvqu2Every time I go to my bank's website, I enjoy the photo, which I believe to be titled "Noble Heroes Also Sometimes Get Distracted". But I always feel like the woman with the phone looks familiar. I finally figured it out.12 Jul 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqhedqkvvqu2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnmojg72lqf2Wait, the political candidate with the Nazi tattoo turns out to have also been awful to women? How very expected.06 Jun 2026 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnmojg72lqf2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnwpfj5cex62With the upcoming goofus IPOs, the risk to index funds concerns me. Has anybody seen good articles about how to shift money away from that?10 Jun 2026 12:25 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwpfj5cex62https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnmojg72lqf2Wait, the political candidate with the Nazi tattoo turns out to have also been awful to women? How very expected.06 Jun 2026 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnmojg72lqf2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mnf5wklyq5x2I think I've figured out why the incidence (and centrality) of assholes is so much higher on the right. What conservatives have proven to be most concerned with conserving is systems that run on trauma. Patriarchy. White supremacy. Oligarchy. None of these work without abuse. Without people […] https://sfba.social/@williampietri/11668628824577544203 Jun 2026 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnf5wklyq5x2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mndmd6ala23202 Jun 2026 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mndmd6ala232https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmyjbxzx3ic2One of the things I liked about UPS was that when you had a delivery problem you could call and speak to somebody who a) understood that it was a problem, and b) could fix it. That seems over. Their slow, clunky, and unreliable website now has a low-grade chatbot, and all the support people […] https://sfba.social/@williampietri/11665781376218954929 May 2026 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmyjbxzx3ic2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmyiro66qui2We need a name for the phenomenon when a person, out loud or written, seems so inauthentic that you're pretty sure they're just spouting LLM-generated slop. Reverse Turing? Meat Bot? Borged? Chipped? (As in have you been...) What are your ideas?29 May 2026 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmyiro66qui2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmunnmpam7u2I'm considering making a shirt: "I don't get it. Is that a neurotypical thing?"27 May 2026 23:23 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmunnmpam7u2https://bsky.app/profile/williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmbxrqm6trs2Wilhoit's law: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.20 May 2026 13:04 +0000at://did:plc:2cxuata4ik5aba2xgnervivs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmbxrqm6trs2