not a huge fan of unthinking crank-turners

in one terminal: working on a testing protocol to evaluate efficacy of a relatively sophisticated system. in another terminal: working on super weird styling and effects for a game interface.

this morning's status: 404am SLEEP NOT FOUND

working on large rust and zig projects with frequent re-builds has shown me just how inadequate my old laptop is becoming

somehow it's monday. again.

The drug lenacapavir will be distributed to Eswatini and Zambia — the first step toward providing at least 2 million doses to the countries with the highest HIV burden, largely in Africa, by 2028.

catastrophe copilot

distressed. disregulated. in my lane. listening to vaporwave synthrock. building constrained generation ai systems. writing really weird rpg games.

caturday afternoon

Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.

gonna go be an adversarial poet

Those who followed Deep Arrdem Lore may recognize what I'm talking about here, but my slow burn yak shave is getting somewhere flowmetal.io

This is a great video essay both on the specific vulnerabilities in Flock license plate cameras used by cops in many places, but how Flock lied about efficacy and prevent camera removal, and also a compromise policy position of how we could deploy camera systems at all youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?...

what if you didn't have to hope that "valid seeming" AI generated code was actually going to work for your system?

constrained decoding is awesome. it lets you constrain eg code generation to a set of constraints. what if those constraints could be provided just in time, encompassing all of the project/ecosystem context, as well as the situation/session specific constraints?

One thing that's abundantly clear: passing the SAFE Research Act would permanently end the United States' ability to be competitive in any area of advanced technology. Just straight up suicidal policy-making.

so much absolutely amazing music has just dropped. amazing.

i'm not burning bridges or boats, but i am burning. and maybe if i burn brightly enough, i can find my way forward.

So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍 Berthoud Pass, CO last night

Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is NYT: but her emails

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

NARRATOR: they did not understand

This post has been living rent-free in my head for eight months

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

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That’ll be a no from me dawg. Call your local asshole and explain that this ain’t it

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

some of my experiments right now: 1. rune: a config/policy engine for use with agents, with the accessibility of TOML/YAML, but the rule evaluation of prolog

temporarily paused work on Lift to work on Mnemosyne, Pedantic Raven, and RUNE. with a detour on Aesop. :ohno: but factoring these things out into independent and composable elements is good, actually?

an M1 Pro with 16GB of RAM and an aging battery is quickly becoming insufficient for my workloads. hmm.

too many 14hr+ workdays (and work weekends) lately. feeling these honk shoos.

did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb

four winning words: friday morning breakfast burrito

some belated thoughts in the wake of GitHub Universe redmonk.com/sogrady/2025...

The Offal Ovice

If you live in a society, you should make backup plans

note to lots of tech companies: it's possible to build an awesome and sustainable business by focusing on giving your users superpowers (hat tip Kathy Sierra). you don't have to make extractive surveillance plays, go for weird lock in, or focus on contract stuffing! give it a shot!

Mask off moment.

i'm so glad it's friday

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

proud of us for this one

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Disqualifying, shameful, immoral, and fascist-enabling. Schumer has disgraced himself. Gillibrand, too.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

launching something is the starting line, not the finish line

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"