"We are going to have to live here with each other" is one of the most revealing things he could have said, because it ignores the fact that many people in America have had to live in the same streets and towns as those who dehumanise them - and to accept that grim reality - for their entire lives.

My Spanish teacher and I talk about AI and ChatGPT a lot and it’s so hard for me in casual conversation in English not to pronounce ChatGPT in the Spanish way now. “Chat-heh-peh-tay.” It just sounds so nice off the tongue

the fake news media won’t tell you this but “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” has deeply Satanic origins, as the rhyme is actually about Lucifer the Morningstar being cast out of heaven after experiencing Twink Death. In this essay I will

Yeah, the thing is, once it becomes completely obvious that this is the game, Democrats no longer need to act like we care. Turnabout is fair play.

"Our next mayor" chants broke out as results posted. Harrell has the advantage of incumbency and corporate support, but Wilson's progressive challenge has caught fire.

the roll out age verification in the UK has clearly been devastating (clear examples of censorship & discrimination, & they’re scanning young people’s faces) but if platforms are also now blocking VPN workarounds that’s the end of the ability to “freely travel” online

Shout-out to @jesseplusplus.bsky.social for repping @anew.social's People, Not Platforms merch at #Fedicon!

Maybe it’s because I’ve been holding a newborn for two weeks but it has occurred to me a lot that nihilism is not actually tenable long term - eventually someone will come along and try to rebuild a lot of things because that’s just what people do

Harrell really is just awful. Looking at you, folks who endorse this behavior.

born too late to get in with a firm handshake born too soon for universal UBI born right in time for Leetcode

Embracing my divine masculine by communicating exclusively through memes, grunts and interesting facts I learnt on Wikipedia

Probably not enough said about how much grok is just constantly pouring fuel on the X tire fire. Like, on top of all the ways X has turned poisonous, you have an LLM wrapped around it that is constantly being tweaked to suit the owners idea of what a ‘based robot’ ought to sound like

We’re approaching the show trial stage of authoritarian takeover

Man despite it all…I love technology. My barber has a high degree of hearing loss, and just recently got hearing aids after dealing with it for several years. Hearing a grown man express with wonderment in his voice “I can hear birds sing! I haven’t heard birds in years!”…man, that was awesome.

Canvassed for our future mayor @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social in U District!

I'm attending Wilson for Seattle's event, “U District Farmers Market Table for Katie Wilson for Mayor” - sign up now to join me! # www.mobilize.us/wilsonforsea...

🇸🇴Katie had a blast celebrating Somali Independence Day on Sunday. 🇸🇴 Great music, great people, and even getting the chance to meet a camel! No matter where you come from, whether you were born in Seattle or you’ve just arrived as an immigrant or refugee, this is YOUR city.

The Link and the Seattle bus system used to share the tunnel. This pic is real but it don’t look right lol

Get yourself a mayor who has used our transit system with a toddler in tow

“Every light rail station should absolutely have bathrooms.” - @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

"Our current mayor doesn't want to disappoint the people he meets at cocktail parties. I don't want to disappoint the people I ride the bus with every day." - @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

sorry about your infrastructure, healthcare, education and safety net. We have to give the president’s secret police $175 billion

The racism and Islamophobia on Threads is pretty awful today. What are we talking about here fam?

Kirsten Gillibrand on WNYC won’t endorse Mamdani. Said she doesn’t endorse NYC mayoral races (she endorsed Adams in 2021), and is waiting to see who runs on what line. What a fucking disgrace.

TIL this app has chat requests 💀

I’m so grateful I didn’t pull out of the stock market like a lot of irresponsible people online were screaming you should a few months ago when it first crashed. Time in the market > timing the market. Always, always, always.

the fundamental difference between Cuomo and Zohran was not on policy. it was simply clear that Zohran loves New York and Cuomo hates it

From a key Mamdani adviser ❤️

politics is messy and difficult, please do not disavow zohran the second he does something as mayor that doesn’t match your exact set of litmus tests give him a runway

Tonight I'm texting Nancy Pelosi and asking HER for $5

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

A bad day for corrupt sexual assailants who resigned in disgrace four years ago is a good day for me! 😊

He tried to push back on me a little with a “well, no, but” and then explain how Cuomo was good on his pet issue. “I mean, if that’s more important to you than the women who he assaulted, the seniors he killed, or the corruption or mismanagement, okay. Good to know your values! Anyway.”

Met someone today who told me he ranked Cuomo and was taken aback that my immediate response was “oh so you could forgive the sexual assault then?” If you’re gonna cast the vote, own up to it!

LLMs *are* a major step-change for software engineering. Take it from people who have been in the field for decades, and have seen what it was like to go from Assembly to high-level languages. Read the longer version from @martinfowler.com

Earlier today I was talking to friends about childhood dreams. I used to dream of being a journalist, anthropologist, Daily Show host—or fiction writer (I even minored in writing). Lately, I’ve been trying to write again and it's made me happy. Here's my most recent story. I'm very proud of it.

it's always been a fact about bluesky that if you have >100 followers you're gonna get exposed to some of the most unhinged, cartoon main character syndrome scolding you've ever seen in your life the part i want to pay attention to is how it all seems to be coming from the same type of account lmao

I wasn't planning on a three-parter, but as I was writing this morn, I realized how it's a closing statement on the piece below and my "Bridges & The Last Network Effect" piece. I think the upcoming one is what I hoped I'd relay with the first two, but these were necessary to set the stage.

This is also what I said that training is likely fair use but pirating isn't. I expect that all these companies will start borrowing books, licensing them, or starting their own Google Books-like project. Inb4 Zuck starting Meta books immediately

We told you it’s transformative and fair use but you put your fingers in your ears and screamed like babies

The people saying the federal judge doesn’t understand copyright law should instead realize that they are the ones who didn’t understand copyright law

This morning has started with a BANG. I haven’t even had my coffee yet.

Court rules Anthropic training an LLM on books is fair use… if they bought the books. But Anthropic also pirated a lot of books, and now faces a second, potentially major, damages trial for stealing them

It’s wild being a C# dev learning Python, because apparently “private” means “please don’t,” and that’s the whole security model.

No bullshit, the safest thing to do in the eventuality that some armed masked man in ill-fitting body armor attacks you or someone else is assume they are a criminal. This is unsustainable. People are going to get hurt or killed with all this cosplay going on.

Jesus Christ, Bill de Blasio is cooking here. nymag.com/intelligence...

Just dropped a new piece: Your Context, Your Data, Your Rules. Tired of repeating yourself to ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and more? It’s not you, and it’s not just bad UX. Fundamentally, it’s broken infrastructure. Here’s my fix: a user-owned, portable AI memory - like Fediverse for your brain.