What if we rearranged the deck chairs on the titanic so beautifully and with such subtle grace that everyone loved and believed in us forever

"The past was the main time, and this is whatever's left" - Taylor Ortega

What else is like this

This book hits me right in the childhood. I found this at a local bookstore. I was on my way out the door and just happened to catch a glimpse of it in the corner of my eye. Everyone should read this book immediately.

This is called a double double! aaronson.org/blog/square-...

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

Wealthsimple is going to use Kalshi instead of their own prediction market platform :/ www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Really disappointed that Canada is joining the crowd in banning social media for under-16s. The *best-case* scenario is that it entrenches Apple and Google's control over our online identities, and will do very little to improve things for kids, let alone the rest of us.

Proud to finally share what I've been working on. I'm excited for a future where privacy is normal. encryptedspaces.org

Better technology starts with democratic organizations. That's why we co-founded Tech Co-ops Canada, a new coalition promoting worker ownership in the tech industry. Join us!

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/s... @norvid-studies.bsky.social

No one talks about it, but one of the biggest ways AI makes art worse is by giving artists free therapy

This could be really big!

nintendo announced they are remaking the last christmas you had before the divorce

"You can *feel* that load curve through the crank: when LLM inference and speech synthesis run together, the crank gets a lot harder to turn."

Big news! Transit is clearly the best app at this point.

Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.

More abstract geometric art in urban areas plz

"We don’t need to fully understand the nature of consciousness to definitively say that certain things are not conscious" My goat is washed 🥀

Reminder anyone could do this to you at any time

speaking of that thing I just said, imagine when you can get into an internet argument and then "@" a 3300 Elo psychoanalysis bot on someone to read everything they've written on the internet under every identity and truesight their whole psychic matrix and basically bsky.app/profile/norv...

Many of us should try this for a day. It's fun and not too hard. cf. this post

My dulcet tones are now available

i made a strudel tutorial youtu.be/SsUbCq7yoxo?...

"When I say protocol art, what we’re talking about is that the site of art making is moving upstream of the media generation or the object creation, to a kind of logic or rule set or protocol that then allows the other things to come to fruition."

NOAA has some truly great PowerPoint aesthetics rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/pdf/Alexande...

We finally built the whispering earring, from the famous story Don't Build The Whispering Earring

Working on making StatCan more accessible

you think you got bars but you will never produce a bar like the old lady next door who just turned to her 40 something yr old son who was trying to interrupt and in Punjabi said " son, when I want your opinion I will tell you what to say"

If anyone in Toronto wants a PVC pipe instrument, uh, hit me up because I’m getting this one set up to give away!

So it turns out I could do this if I'm not afraid to get banned: github.com/ReedGraff/Hi...

I am basically a rat but my path there had almost nothing to do with yud/lesswrong.

Claude's failure mode is often not being lazy enough

- New Canadian AI data centre: probably good! - In downtown Vancouver: bad! Plz build housing instead 😭 - Powered by renewable energy: good! - Closed loop cooling: good! - Returning waste heat to Van: amazing! - Mark Carney not linking to the article with more info: bad! betakit.com/steel-concre...

Signal to leave Canada if Bill C-22 becomes law archive.today/hIwgK

@ratlimit.bsky.social personally I found being 90% vegetarian was harder, because it meant I had to debate myself each time, instead of just having the choice made for me already. It also was *way* easier for friends to understand. I think this is called a "Schelling point"?

Been walking to pick up my own Uber Eats orders recently #trad

dating app that uses embeddings

What about an ATproto service where you provide the CID and it redirects you to a PDS that's hosting it

Does anyone in Toronto do algorave / live coding

I know this describes a lot of people on here.

@norvid-studies.bsky.social have you seen this linch.substack.com/p/fine-tunin...

More UIs should create ambient knowledge through background sound! I wrote a bit about this: www.makeworld.space/garden/Compu...

Okay, I'm at my wits' end. Anyone who has actually backfilled all of the network, how did you do it?

@ptr.pet what kind of memory usage do you usually see when using Hydrant for full network backfill? Having some issues: tangled.org/ptr.pet/hydr...

Combat LLM spam by building a web of trust. Vouching is live on Tangled! 🎭 blog.tangled.org/vouching/

Where economic classes live relative to the city centre has changed over time

Fun fact: I took this photo of Jay at Dweb Camp and put it on Wikipedia

the smoking gun