I've written an essay reflecting on how I use the word slop and some theory of what distinguishes slop from spam and kitsch. minihf.com/posts/2025-1...

Happy final fantasy tactics day to all who celebrate (It is me, I am celebrating) 🥷 🥷 🥷 🥷 🧙‍♀️

everyone is learning about their world from screens that specifically tell them whatever narrative they will find most validating and provide them with endless rationales to ignore or explain away any facts that complicate the validating narrative. this is why politics has gone insane

New Claude 4.5! The one real eval today is Claude Code (or your internal evals if you use Claude via API). Getting coding....

Does AI get bored? I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...

xpost from my IG - sound on - I made a tutorial about glitch effects in clavier-36 still working on my render/etc chain, lmk if it's illegible etc #livecoding #creativecoding #generative

More art by Sulamith Wülfing (1901-1989): 1) “Guide,” 2) “Message,” 3) “First Butterfly,” and 4) “Moth.”

I thought he was going to pop like an LCL balloon

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Star Control 2: the Ur-Quan Masters. Released in 1992 by Toys For Bob, who would later become known for the Skylanders franchise. It was definitely a departure from the first game, which was a blend of turn-based strategy and top-down combat inspired by the 1962 (!) game Spacewar!

Hey everybody - I was raptured, but then chose to return to Earth to aid all sentient beings in their quest for nirvana. This may not have been the eschatology you were expecting but my advice is to start practicing compassion and loving kindness right now. Svaha!

fantastic

I also read this as the subtext of AI 2027. Automate software engineering -> massively scaled up RL environments -> AGI You are way better than me at keeping up on things but I’m still feeling like we’ve hit another plateau?

My use of the em-dash with respect to LLMs

So satisfying

wat

MAGA has discovered 2015 wokeness timeline audits. I repeat. MAGA has discovered Dark Woke.

If, hypothetically, your stance in 2015 was "I'm not super worried about attacks on speech from the left, but for the record 'free speech' is still an ideal we are going to need and sneering at it won't age well" — it would appear you had a point.

Scheming Amazing report by OpenAI! they very clearly lay out what scheming is, and in what contexts it matters most, now and in the future no magical thinking or contrived examples openai.com/index/detect...

Yeah, the regime would probably kill everyone who opposed them if they could and yeah, that’s why it’s important people keep openly opposing them in large enough numbers that doing so is grossly impractical. Any questions?

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

1000 elite biohackers using technology from the year 3000 and a mountain of LSD could not invent a creature half as bananas as the anteater

feel like selling a dedicated virtual boy accessory is some major hubris

🎉 new release today: fill harmonics is a weird music machine thing made from the bones of crossword puzzles. put it together with my pal @natanlast.bsky.social read more: parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill... and play around with it: fillharmonics.com

a good breakdown of the Claude Code agent loop the key: a simple 2-layer architecture “a … single-threaded master loop (codenamed nO) real-time steering (the h2A queue)” (yes, they totally read a de-compiled/obfuscated version, but yeah dedication!) blog.promptlayer.com/claude-code-...

wtf

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

livecoding in CLAVIER-36 this afternoon. playing random notes on 3 midi channels, plus 6 channels of random midi cc to drive a physical simulation. running into 3 instance of korg multi-poly. #generative #genartclub #synthsky #creativecoding

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.

OpenAI argues that language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty, and we analyze the statistical causes of hallucinations in the modern training pipeline. "Why Language Models Hallucinate"

NEW Dot Noise A dirt-cheap alternative to 3D Simplex noise mini.gmshaders.com/p/dot-noise

remarkable

Finally reading Blindsight, omg this is so laser-targeted to my interests - I have that feeling of being slightly embarrassed not to have read it already? Gripping stuff 🤯

Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."

Happy Labor Day!

NEW Functions: Mix An overview of the mix function, how it works, and some unusual uses (contrast, radial blurs, UV coordinates, and more) mini.gmshaders.com/p/func-mix

rant by @lateinteraction.bsky.social on the DSPy discord

Shaders for UI. "Tap" vec2 p=(FC.xy*2.-r)/r.y,b;b.x=.6; o=sqrt(tanh(6e-3/max((b.y=length(p-clamp(p,-b,b))-.5)+.2/exp(abs(cos(b.y-p.x*.1-t-t))/.1),b.y*b.y)*(cos(p.x/(abs(b.y)+.4)+t+t+vec4(6,1,2,3))+1.2)));

I took a blacksmithing class today and made a knife out of a railroad spike :)

New profile pic! From a live set in Brooklyn in Wonderville, such an honor to get to perform with the amazing @livecodenyc.bsky.social folks. The artist on my left is Goma Xantana, go check her IG out, she is remarkably talented and I hope we get to collaborate again

Good analogy

Now is the time of monsters (R code) The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci, 1930 #codeart #genartclub #genart

A look into GPT-5’s confirmed new router best model price-per-dollar, by far if GPT-4 brought mixture of experts (MoE), GPT-5 brought mixture of models (the router) open.substack.com/pub/swyx/p/g...

I made a configurable multi-plot utility Shadertoy www.shadertoy.com/view/WclyzB For the erosion video I'm working on, I want to show some function graph synced with erosion parameter changes. I wasn't happy with the existing function plotting examples I could find, so made my own here.

#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave70s Day 2 - Early Roxy committing some art, with Andy switching between oboe and tenor. youtu.be/XCzhAeukF1A?...

The Directors Label by PALM was a short lived DVD collection of the very best film/music directors and curated their best most well known works alongside lesser seen curios. Inspiring and very much recommended. The internet Archive has the seven volumes here for free: archive.org/details/@dir...

I, uh, started a new long term project ... 😅

If you build software, you should probably make an AGENTS.md file to help AI agents understand how to use it. agents.md/