Philip Nelson 💻🧙

@blu3r4d0n

public servant data scientist 🚈🚝🚊🚌 this account does not represent the views of my employer Current hyperfixation: the Muppets big Tolkien and Le Guin fan, hockey lover, and coffee addict South Carolina is my home

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Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· 6d

ya know, I don't think that's how you're supposed to disassemble a firearm.... www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

CHARLESTON — A security guard accidentally fired his handgun within the Charleston County courthouse complex on Aug. 5, officials said.

The firearm went off around 10 a.m., inside the county offices portion of the building at the entrance adjacent to Meeting Street.

A Walden Security officer contracted by the county to provide protection within the building accidentally fired the gun near a security entry point, according to county spokesperson Chloe Field.

The entrance provides access to the Charleston County Auditor office at 101 Meeting St.

The officer had removed his duty-issued handgun from his hip holster and was showing a coworker how to disassemble it when the weapon fired. A bullet struck a standing metal detector at the security checkpoint, Field told The Post and Courier.

The officer reportedly cut his finger during the incident. No one else was injured.

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· 7d

good morning I guess

a youtube chat message that says I have no faith in AIPAC, but I’m also old enough to remember the Left’s obsession with litmus tests (breaking up the banks, Green New Deal, trans rights…

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· 11d

Who could have imagined that the rush to complete the reflecting pool work before the America 250 celebration would have caused a flawed installation by the contractor????

The Associated Press page for the article about the Justice Department dropping the criminal case against the Olympian charged with damaging the reflecting pool.

The Justice Department moved Friday to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Government lawyers said in a 20-page court filing the information provided since the indictment of David Hearn shows that the damage was the result of a flawed installation by the contractor as well as the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the week surrounding Independence Day, 2026.

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· 20d

I'm not really excited for the possession remake but margaret qualley looks so much like isabelle adjani, it's spooky!!

margaret qualley in a black dress, running along a sidewalk

isabelle adjani in a blue dress, sitting at a table

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· 23d

I finally got to visit Iris Coffee Lab in Raleigh today!

A glass of espresso next to sparkling water

Someone pouring coffee in a glass carafe into a glass cup

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· 29d

A text conversion about one of the participants moving. Both participants are excited to be near each other

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jul 7

CW: SA DO NOT BE LIKE THIS PERSON. having a take like this and posting it should get you immediately ostracized from anywhere left of center

a post that says How do you repeatedly have sex with a man who removes his condom against your will and continue to fuck him? Please, explain it to me as I can't fathom what a shithead she was/is.

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jul 7

also losing it because the police department's facebook post got community noted

a facebook community note that says Turning off the comments is illegal. You are denying people the right to Free Speech. 42 U.S. Section 1983

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jul 4

videodrome (1983)

a youtube comment that syas and then my satellite dish started leaking hyper realistic blood

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jul 4

Eugene V Debs on Independence Day

It has been regarded as a patriotic duty for Americans, on the 4th of July, to apostrophize Liberty and to select from the vocabularies of all languages eulogistic words to describe its value and its glory, and when words failed to express those essential attributes of liberty which made life itself an inferior blessing, bonfires have blazed, cannons have belched their thunder, banners have waved, drums have throbbed, and bugle blasts have called the people to assemble and rejoice together over God’s inscrutable decree in bestowing upon Americans blessings denied to all other peoples, kindreds, and tongues since time began. Nor do I doubt that on this anniversary such exhibitions will be repeated, but it will be a hollow mockery. The stage will be gorgeous with scenery for the play of liberty, but liberty will be absent—only its ghost will appear, only its “canonized bones” will be present.

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jul 4

standing outside of a venue where a billionaire is having their wedding to offer them moral support is just weird idk

Mamie Borres didn’t look much worse for wear after the storm blew through. The 30-year-old teacher from Alexandria, Va., said she had been standing outside the Garden since noon to offer “moral support for Swift.” She took shelter in a cafe when the rain started, but was back outside the arena as the precipitation dwindled. “I hope she’ll be happy forever,” she said of Swift.

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 30

Went over to the airport after work and I found it, could've been worse I guess!

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 30

I feel like this tracks for me bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

An AI compass result. The archetype is the skeptic. Sitting squarely on the median between transformative and overhyped. on the good to bad axis, the archetype is closer to bad. the patron saint is Ed Zitron

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 26

nevermind, answered my own question within minutes of asking :) projects.propublica.org/527-explorer...

the propublica 527 explorer showing a contribution on an end of year report. it indicates the contribution is from an out of date report

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 26

I've been playing around with the 527 explorer, great tool! I'm curious, I downloaded the IRS data myself and have been working through creating my own pipeline. I noticed some schedule a ids are missing from the explorer. Is this intentional? Here's an example, schedule A ID: 36418064

a record from the IRS 527 schedule A table

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 26

If journalism is supposed to hold power accountable, it has to be able to look honestly at the power structures forming inside its own rescue. www.amphibian.media/when-saving-...

A chart showing the % of the budget that compensation makes up for selected officers and employees of various nonprofit reporting outlets

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 26

lucky to be part of a vibrant little food scene in Greenville! Tonight, two of my friends that I met through coffee got to do a restaurant takeover for the first time. so excited for them, and I think they have big things ahead of them! If you're in Greenville, South Carolina, please look up Banh!

Spring rolls with shrimp and a peanut sauce

A Vietnamese noode salad with carrots and other vegetables. The meat is marinated beef.

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 25

How do we feel about this?

A reddit comment that says "engineers using Claude isn't 'vibe coding', that refers to people who aren't engineers and and don't understand the code being produced

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 24

going to pelzer today to visit this cute little shop for the first time I've been meaning to visit and just by chance I met one of the owners the other day. I'm super excited because the building looks *gorgeous*. it was built in 1920!

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 19

Extended service to Greenlink (Greenville SC's transit system) starts soon! www.greenvillesc.gov/1223/Bus-Rou...

A summary of route changes to the Greenlink bus system.

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 18

the houses from sentimental value (2025) and days of heaven (1978) look similar to me

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 15

hey @theathletic.com fix your cms lol this is on the front page

a link on the front page of the athletic and the headline has a misspelling of wrong in it

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 15

get this loser out of trending! let's go canes

bluesky trending showing the stanley cup, jordan staal, canes, joe rogan, and hurricanes vs golden knights

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 12

Disclosure Day (2026), Possession (1981), War of the Worlds (2005), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

My letterboxd last four with posters for Disclosure Day, Possession, War of the Worlds, and The Little Shop of Horrors

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 6

For a browser, I completely understand making this change. but the point about AI assisted pull requests goes way beyond just browsers. This is such a common refrain in OSS these days ladybird.org/posts/changi...

AI tools have changed the economics of this very quickly. We use them ourselves every day, but a pull request no longer tells us as much as it used to about the person submitting it. A substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds.

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 5

tryin my best to romanticize life a bit lately. Still incredibly depressed though!

Someone holding a book in front of coffee.

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· Jun 3

why are we terrorizing elmo

a youtube video link with a thumbnail of elmo next to scientific equipment. below the thumbnail is text that says Will Elmo survive the particle accelerator

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· May 29

then again I'm not a fan of projects like what I've linked that are actively misrepresenting a lot of serious discussion about usage of LLMs in open source they've got curl listed here because daniel said this codeberg.org/small-hack/o...

I don't know what a "strict non-ai policy" would mean, but ignoring AI powered tooling in modern software security I would claim would ignore the state of the art tools. Unwise.

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· May 26

Thought I might go sse obsession again tonight but I guess not lol

A seat chart for a regal theater.

There are very few seats available

Philip Nelson 💻🧙@blu3r4d0n· May 26

hwat I opened this article thinking it was going to be a run of the mill affair but