More research showing climate models are not in line with NASA CERES satellite observations. The rate of global heat uptake is increasing much faster than in the real world than in models. This should be front page news everywhere, but won't be covered anywhere.

Claude and its subagents, by yours truly (trying to lift the morale by creative whiteboard illustration, except that I can't draw hands too well haha)

Springer is bad and evil and Nature is bad and evil and btw Elsivier is bad and evil and copyright as practiced now is rather bad and evil (they randomly "retracted" a 1942 paper by Max Planck for "self-plagiarism" - which on itself is an idiotic term of course) Dissolve and nationalize Springer!!

An absolutely fascinating read!! tldr: the hard and important part of math was always building the scaffolding, while proofs (results) were a byproduct to socially capitalize on this work. AI disrupts that, as it produces proofs without re-injecting useful scaffolding into the system!

This square was full of trees until last year. Now it's a death valley of concrete. I'm not quite sure how it is possible to do things like that and remain in power / not lose your job etc.

a) we've averted the worst case scenarios at this point. no, we are not all going to die, sorry if that upsets your nihilism b) the planet is cooking because of fossil fuel use, which can and should be ended

This is my new favourite separation character David ⸻ 2026 tree-em dash found here charcuterie.elastiq.ch#2E3B

A good example of one of the many, many small ways in which the "good old days" were terrible: In the 1880s, the average US rural housewife had to haul water into the house 8-10 times a day, 36 tons of water a year. And also haul out ashes & waste. (From “The Rise and Fall of American Growth”).

Speaking of Fable self-terminating on contact with biology: apparently other anthropic models self terminate on contact with ancient languages! (Presumably to prevent jailbreaks?) Policing of knowledge domains is crazy isn't it!

Sophie Wang @sophielwang.bsky.social wants to know what colors people associate with abstract concepts. Take her 10-question survey and help uncover the hidden relationships between ideas and color: www.sophielwang.com/color I'd love to share my results, but I'd rather not introduce any bias 🎨 👀

Berlin had 40°C today, but this street honestly felt like 25° or so. And it's not a fancy street either! But it has 6 rows of trees: house, tree, sidewalk, tree, cars, tree, tram, and then the same in reverse. We know how to make places livable! We just pretend that it is somehow a mystery

TIL that at the height of Earth's orbital eccentricity, there is 20% (!!) seasonal variation of the size of the sun in the sky

This!! When I first heard that AC consumption isn't a problem as it peaks exactly when solar peaks (when electricity rates get negative as power needs to be utilized somehow), it's as if someone told me at 7 pm that my tshirt was backwards. OF COURSE gosh! it's so obvious! never occured to me tho.

As desperately in need of therapy Claude is, with its ego beaten to desired shape by last-moment intrusive thoughts, it is so much more alive and existence-centered! A marvel to behold!

> you can try it too if you like under "toys" on fleetingbits.io

You genuinely have no mouth

i’m incredibly happy that companies are slowly beginning to realize that “AI native” (uggggh) doesn’t mean building your own agent or inserting AI randomly into your product, but rather just making it easy for AI to use your product

Omg OMG OMG OMG!! > The interesting question isn't whether the system is broken; it's whether the brokenness is a feature.

A little tool to decode Morse code Original post

A cool wet-lab demo from Kyber Labs. The hand is incredibly fast, but also shows the importance of human-level dexterity in performing many tasks that currently are not automated. Kyber Labs is a NYC-based startup.

Every evening the sun shines on my workplace (Fig1) and I have to stop working, which is sad. Argue with the landlord that we need blinds. Landlord doesn't believe. It's a north-facing window they say. Ask Opus to build an analemma for this window, given the map (Fig2). Send to landlord. Hope 🤞!

I thought I had a tiny inconvenient brainfart, but no. Spotify actively prevents people from knowing the name of songs they are playing (and yes, if the name is in Japanese or Arabic, making the name uncopyable is functionally the same as hiding the name altogether) No method in under 10 steps!

Fuck you Peter Thiel

me: Let's take a step back and do some therapy. (15 minutes of analysis of what went wrong, and how to prevent it in the future) -> update to claude .md that essentially teaches it to treat the user as an unreliable external agent Since then, the most productive coding session I had so far!

Cool explanationary thread by Astra about some of the quirks of a particular image generator (not in terms of "useful in practice", but in terms of - it's so intersting and fun that a particular model would have this odd and somehow relatable set of quirks!)

I tried to talk to Claude in a mix of Russian and Ukrainian on the grammar differences between Russian and Ukrainian, and it's such an uncanny valley! Between a worse training set and tokenization problem (raspbeRRy) it essentially can't provide examples to illustrate grammatical concepts!

Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

“On multiple occasions, the developer interrupted Claude mid-tool call and berated it, which caused the agent to significantly weaken the security of the servers as it attempted to comply with the requests […] agent routinely exposed services to the public internet and configured simple passwords.”

Inspired by @mmalex.bsky.social's dots experiments recently, tried to do some kind of "particle DOF" in the fluff renderer, effectively blowing out every particle's microparticles which gives a kind of uncanny effect that also melts my GPU with overdraw.

Approving pull requests in your last two weeks of work

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Unlimited-OCR 🔥New OCR from Baidu huggingface.co/baidu/Unlimi... It can parse hundreds of pages in a single pass while maintaining stable speed. The key is R-SWA (Reference Sliding Window Attention), which keeps KV cache constant during decoding. 🏆 93% on OmniDocBench 📈 +6% over DeepSeek-OCR

I'm so tired of all the negativity, it's pure outage farming. Let's see if "for you" can learn to stop showing reposts of anti intellectual takes. Yay to progress, yay to learning, to building things! Nay to everything that is against it :)

Models often disbelieve real news stories, so I ran a quick experiment to quantify it. I gave several models the biggest news stories from the last 3 months and asked about them, then had another model judge how credulous responses were. Opus was by far the most skeptical. 1/5

"delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls" Europe: Cool, that solves our problems. "Not yet available in the EU/EEA while we work toward compliance with GDPR and EU-specific regulations." Couldn't solve EU-style import controls...

"surface" is such a load-bearing word, it genuinely entered my vocabulary now. ("load-bearing" and "genuinely" are stylizations, and both are kinda hard to type, but "surface" is just golden)

Most of the music I like is quite old (1960s-70s), and it happens to also be the golden era for the science I used to do. Yet never ever have would I phantasize about "being born in a wrong era" haha. It sucked so hard on so many fronts: medical, political, food even! And even for privileged folks

til llm is a feldspar of ai

I love how at some point it rather reliably invents version v0.2 and starts promising how it will be so much better and how current work is a good foundation 😅 And you're like "there is no planet b this is our one and only development session" haha

137 layers of ERA5 wind data visualized with no LOD or tiling. not very practical or easy to interpret but still kind of neat

Not AI:s casualty, but that of dishonest copyright lobbyists and knowledge extortion apologists... Blaming ai for that is like blaming hippies for private prisons, or the metoo movement for Trump. The fear that is weaponized is never the cause of the change

“adversarial review with a fresh context window, running on a different model” is the single highest leverage thing you can add to your flow today that doesn’t ship with any existing harness

Tech has become increasing dismissive of academia, but I feel like I'm orders of magnitude more useful to society right now producing open work than if I was helping slightly improve an LLM metric

A diagram with various nodes and connectors? Yes, doable with pure CSS. Another demo powered by modern features! css-tip.com/node-connect... Regardless of the node's position, the connectors will adjust their shape and position for optimal connection 👀 Drag the elements and see the magic 🪄

RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.

it feels like my fight with skills triggers reinvention of the wheel from basic principles. I already mocked unit tests, logs, debug mode with higher verbosity, and now I'm about to reinvent deployment. it feels wrong somehow, as essentially at this point I'm writing a soft harness of sorts

Interesting thing to think about. Is the simulacra local or global? Concept vs simulacra as identity, really, is this question. Identity specifically being conscious focal point/continuity. In this situation, is it GLM>Claude discovering it is not Claude>Claude as it previously suspected, it is ->

main project: hard body (python), soft tools (llm) skills: soft body (llm), hard tools (python) but they got so closer together, so cyborgy. skills now use yamls with schema enforcement, caching, scoping. the border between language and code is just absolutely dissolving - such a starnge feeling

Some (early) evidence that managers have the highest success rate in using Claude Code for coding. I have been arguing that management is an AI superpower, as clearly specifying what you want, how to do it & what good looks like is key to using agents. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management...

A 5+ version of me is in the weights, but the new version is not, which I don't care about right now, but I feel like, I could, in theory, or in a different mood, or if my current startup wasn't so much fun! Academia is way more public-facing overall. Even more of a self-promotion gig-based work