idk man I think someone’s gotta do it

genuine q have people who believe "things used to be made higher quality" (an opinion i am inclined towards myself) thought about this

Waymo is not the solution to the US traffic safety crisis Per-capita fatalities are a function of per-mile fatality rates by mode AND number of miles traveled on that mode Improving sa fety requires both increasing safety per-mile AND shifting trips to safer modes First some stats:

in case anyone here is an android tablet user & musician, my lil bro just released a sheet music library app! lecternmusic.com

you can just do things, but what will you do? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

It is really frustrating that this will be viewed as a win for liberals when it is honestly a win for conservatives (and a national embarrassment) that the Court granted cert to begin with.

bleak

I don’t love how every antisocial aspect of Twitter that gets replicated over here is then treated as a unique facet of Bluesky’s culture. Dogpiling is a Twitter thing and it’s still happening exponentially more on X than here

A student once emailed me to say they weren't sure they could justify staying in academia unless they knew they were providing a meaningful service. That email led to a workshop, a community and this post about why so many of us feel a malaise they can't name open.substack.com/pub/senykama...

this is not what therapy is btw www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

DIRECT ACTION GETS THE GOODS: Turns out there WAS room for more safety improvements at 4th and Channel St, as the community-installed curb extension has been officially replaced with a separated bike lane. This is a start, but we need MORE here and across the city.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

i somewhat recently realized that my childhood harry potter obsession was like 60-70% fascination with british culture, which i found exotic, and didn't realize was not fictional

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

excellent article www.thecut.com/article/brav...

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i can't wait for the day i get to delete my linkedin. i've gotten pretty good at those games tho

great

We’re back. Two weeks ago, a driver killed a 2 year-old child at 4th and Channel—the third pedestrian fatality of 2026. Since then, all SFMTA has done was repaint the existing crosswalks for a photo op. So the community took matters into our own hands.

my brain is for some reason predisposed to misread "genome" as "gnome"

the point of doing this as a phd student is not just to summarize stuff and make a knowledge map. it is actually primarily to identify your allies, foes, rivals, and to decide who you want to start beef with

we told everyone this but some people named "jesse singal" and other idiots were like "we're going to pretend to be shocked when it happens later thanks" i hope they eat glass and live

i really haven't played much with chatbots but every time i do i am soooooo skeeved out by the unprompted praise it peppers in - stuff like "wow, it's not every day I get to to talk to someone who understands X!" - used car salesman, networking VC bro vibes, it's disturbing that people tolerate this

this brings me joy www.teenvogue.com/story/alysa-...

Have you noticed that people who spend too long chatting with chatbots, stop making any fucking kind of sense? The reason why is that the bot will never, ever, go "what the fuck are you talking about? What are you even trying to communicate here?"

i just logged back in to the other site and gotta hand it to them the quality of reality tv commentary is still way higher than here

not sure who needs to hear this, but keep going, even if you're a hater. it's nearly Spring

san francisco *is* actually a dangerous place to live but it's because people drive like maniacs with their gigantic cars thru dense neighborhoods, not the Other Stuff

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feel like i'm gonna be getting a lot of mileage out of this one

I have to give guys who are really into geese a pass because i’m Like That about joanna newsom

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something. www.ign.com/articles/tun...

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i don't think any of the papers i just reviewed were AI slop i think they were just regular bad. heartening, in a way!

Do YOU have an aging friend/relative who should stop driving? Tell them this story from San Francisco. Ask how they will feel if they kill an entire family. But don't tell them that even then, they'll be forgiven and be able to drive again. This verdict is obscene. www.ktvu.com/news/woman-a...

look if you want to freak out about people not voting newsom if he's the nominee a week before the 2028 general election, I kinda get it (but don't say you weren't warned). doing it now though is just a weird attempt to strong arm people into supporting him in the primary.

Beyond the sheer absurdity of the situation. This is harmful and deeply antisocial behavior by the person who created this agent, set it loose and continues to direct its behavior. Bad enough to spam open source maintainers, but hijacking the language and plight of actually marginalized humans.

this is ridiculous

"Bring ye news from the river?" the stoat asked holding his cane and hat. "Still babbling" I responded. This caused immediate unease and panic in the tavern, all creatures large and small started mumbling and making plans. I realised I was thinking of the brook, but didn't want to seem a fool.

this is my most controversial strongly held opinion

Teaching Friedler et al today "The (Im)possibility of Fairness: Different Value Systems Require Different Mechanisms For Fair Decision Making." It's the final word on this question (how can you make a machine fair?) but I still find something new in it every time.

Most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as: “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”

ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race

i have no reason to be shady about this rn- I’ll be on the job market soon and will have to make some tough choices- but it’s so bleak that so many of the bright young minds in CS who worked so passionately on fairness or what have you over the last decade have sold out to the evil empire

"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo." www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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