Deliver unto the bag the things that are bagged and unto the slow cooker the things that cook slow.

Ran into Spike Lee in manhattan when I lived there. At least I’m pretty sure it was him. Somebody hunt Spike down and ask him if Spike was in New York any time between 2015-2018.

all at once a queer accident happened

FWIW, fits my experiences exactly. Granted, me and my friends weren’t in the 80s.

Talked to my son's best friend's mom who, I would guess, speaks better Chinese than English. I took two weeks of Chinese in 2005. Translation apps open up worlds that were not open a handful of years ago. Translating works of art, is a work of art. Let's leave that to the artists.

Genuinely worried that writing books is going to be like the Olympics (if you test for doping you are automatically disqualified even if it was cold medicine). I don't think art should work like that. Art is like sports in some ways but not quite in that way.

Lol

another way would be showing all the thousands of really good artists that spend days on a picture and get fuck all likes

Nice try. I've been trying all year to develop this art style.

This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙‍♀️🎄

I'd go a step further. There's nothing inherently unethical about language models (ie LMs vs LLMs). You can do so much just by mapping the relationships between words on data in the public domain. You don't need to steal and replace artists. You also don't need a little robot to talk to.

Until we reach some kind of actual immortality, we've got to be okay letting people die.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

People taking YOUR JACKET and putting it on THEIR BED in THEIR BEDROOM is a HOSTAGE SITUATION and should be ILLEGAL!!!!

Speaking of which, anyone want to test out my new site? I'm trying to fix all the bugs so I can make the switch official. If the link still takes you to substack, lmk. jordanhiatt.com

New Post! A little world building on this one. substack.com/home/post/p-...

That cancelled show I'll never stop thinking about. What a charming bunch of idiots.

Follow @swilua.bsky.social for the pee stories and for when she casually drops one of the most profound things I've ever heard.

New post. Take a look. Featuring a surprise guest artist! substack.com/@jordanhiatt...

New post! It’s a who-done-it solved in 300 words... open.substack.com/pub/jordanhi...

New post! Short and sweet! jordanhiatt.substack.com/p/i-wrote-a-...

I really don't get the whole "robot maid" thing. *If* AI takes off (enough to make humanoid robots work) there will be plenty of unemployed people willing to clean your house for much less than the price of metal and lithium batteries. I guess tech overlords might prefer robots to poor people

I have a feeling it's going to be a heartwarming Halloween this year. We need it.

New short story. My challenge today was to pack in 2 character arcs in about half a page. jordanhiatt.substack.com/p/my-dad-hat...

Nothing fancy today but still fun. Take three minutes to check it out! jordanhiatt.substack.com/p/wanted-wit...

These CEOs and tech reporters in their bubble sound like people who watched Star Trek as a kid and assume we are minutes away from getting transporters because we invented a cool new microwave.

I get so frustrated hearing from "real" tech experts about the risk of creating sentient AI. It's like being so worried that you are going to cheat on your wife with Taylor Swift. It's not going to happen man. That's not on the table!

This is how I want to go out, testing out a theory I had for a device 1,000 years before the first commercially successful models.

I’d like to thank my wife. I’d like to NOT thank my fourth grade english teacher who NEVER believed in me, then there’s the barista who misspelled my name and ruined a whole day of writing when I didn’t have my coffee. Of course then there’s my dumb kids who ALWAYS need to eat...

Hi, Bluesky. I’ve started a newsletter to build an audience for when I eventually release my book (finishing up soon!). Please take a look and if you like it, do a free subscribe! These will be SHORT and hopefully weekly with little illustrations. #booksky jordanhiatt.substack.com/p/we-killed-...

No Kings next week! Get ready! Be safe!

You guys. I'm on cloud 9 right now. My book is "done" (with beta readers right now, needs a lot more work) and it's good! Good enough to be published? Who knows. Better than I thought it would be! On to start planning the next one!

I wrote a thing. It's short (under 200 words). If you are interested in science fiction or illustrated explainers on data science topics, consider giving me a follow. substack.com/@jordanhiatt...

Sweet reader, prepare yourself: there is every chance the girl will not take time to consider.

This is amazing really

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

Man it's tough to lose childhood vaccines and freedom of speech in the same week.

Holy shit "To put it in abstract economic terms: The opportunity cost of retaining Musk as CEO is selling more cars. But the returns to the company’s stock price for being near Musk’s money pile swamp the returns that would accrue from selling more cars."

She soon learns that the house collects libraries.

There is a record of a pantry beneath which is a trove of uninvited guests.

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

phones: make you sad, anxious books: you can put your head down. It’s a treat 🙂

Shit. Every day we check, shit. More poo and pee. Not one time has the guy who shits gold come through.

WTF, the people who own Hyatt hotels have the last name Pritzker??

As a data scientist, everything I make is AI. I just AI'd the hell out of this AI peanut butter and jelly.

every time someone says “I asked ChatGPT” I hear “I asked the hallucinating machine of confident lies” and idk it just doesn’t engender a sense of trust you know

If fireworks on the fourth of July are at all patriotic, LA is the new king of America right now.

This was so interesting. Silver lining of whateverTF that nyt story was.

Change this to cobwebs and it's about a girl pursued by the relentless press of time.