Kieran Hervold

@hervold.bsky.social

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Bioinformatics, distributed computing, and shaky opinions

Bryan Johnson’s transformation from man to Lieutenant Commander Data, 2018-2024
A big bowl of pho, with daikon, meatballs, green onions, and rare thin slices of beef
Although in other ways you couldn’t imagine two more dissimilar men, Wiener’s ferociously active spirit resembles the Bolshevik antsiness of Donald Trump. The current president is attractive to some voters who might not agree with his values, or his language, or even his policies, but who like that the president is, well, *presidenting*. Last year, Trump bulldozed the East Wing of the White House, one of the most recognizable historic sites in the United States. In Democratic cities, people demand 38 meetings and three dozen environmental assessments before tearing down a crack den to build a nursery for sad orphans. Voters, Wiener argues, want politicians who are “willing to break glass to get those things done.”
Shiny gold MC Hammer parachute pants
Bar chart showing wage growth under Trump’s first term at 15%, well over 8% cumulative inflation, while the two are nearly identical during Biden’s term (~20%)
Panel from the “Prophet” comic where the protagonist asks a man with a receding hairline, “Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? You! Where the fuck is your chin?”
The Icarus II spacecraft from Sunshine (2007)
Alien vs Predator movie poster. Tagline: Whoever wins … we lose
iPhone dock with little red numbers, including 102,013 unread emails