Wtf. How did I miss this one.

My wife thought I listened mostly to 00's hip hop and EDM asked Google home to play music and it apparently revealed my actual preferences.

Someone should build a wearable that brings games to life by releasing ticks on you as you walk through foliage in game.

Lol

This Day in #History 1954 Bell Labs announces the first solar battery made from silicon with about 6% efficiency.

Saw a reel about the old Soviet "Object 1180" bunker and how they often named development projects with the Ob'yekt (Object) convention and now I kind of want to adopt that. Sounds very Federal Bureau of Control-ish.

"Go live near a datacenter" "There are almost 50 in my city, a bunch are within a few miles of me" "You're moving the goalposts! YOURE A BULLY" (idk if I got that in the screenshot but after QP'ing me half a dozen times I'm not being told I'm bullying this poster)

Subaru was giving away trees for Arbor Day so I planted a sycamore.

My prediction is the modern US progressive movement becomes overrun by the anti-technology spiritual successor to MAHA, and many who started from a reasonable place of power dynamics will find themselves drowned out by woo-woo that keeps us locked into fossil fuels and measles growth

You can't negotiate with generalized paranoia like this. If you give into it you just give the stupidest ppl alive a veto on every possible form of progress or development or even necessary maintenance of existing infrastructure.

one reason I'm increasingly intolerant of "data centers gave me lyme disease" type fear mongering is it spreads www.propublica.org/article/mich...

Saw people on facebook saying bill gates was delivering boxes of ticks to their fields so he could sell vaccines. How do they get this stupid?

It's funny when people talk about vibe coding as if every little bit of code in the before times was handled like some artisanal hand crafted bullshit and not just yolo'd on production in many cases. Especially in the small business world.

So far I'm liking gpt 5.5. It's hard to quantify exactly since they're all decent with Django projects, but it continues the trend of being more precise, thorough, and grasping intent.

My nemesis

the infrasound garbage is an early warning sign

nobody cares that loud accounts don’t like AI, they care that people are lying about in ways that misinform other people as capabilities very obviously grow, this has a very strong tendency towards conspiracism and the kind of siege mentality that serves no one well

There are some absolute lunatics on this site.

The algorithm really wants me to rewatch Eureka.

When you run swear you typed `--dry-run` but it hits you with: Success: Made 21927 replacements.

One of those days where it takes three tries to hit the light switch on the way out of the room for no reason.

hank green hasn't changed, he's just applying the same essential curiosity he always has and reached tentative and nuanced conclusions which your social circle has deemed verboten to even consider

I wish clothing sites that want to be creative with color names would describe them a little in the description in terms of actual colors.

Have been going back and relearning all the math I failed at when I was younger. It's amazing how big of a difference simply being aware of the problem makes.

Had to run outside and have a staredown with one of the local cats who was hunting our baby bunnies. Not on my watch hairball.

autist in the 1800s who spends half of his time telling people that trains might be a good thing on net in spite of rockefeller

Claude when you use incognito mode.

Something that annoys me about a lot of the "hire a human" talk, particularly when it comes to coding, is that there are still humans involved, just not the right ones according to them.

Was trying to decide if it's more satisfying to block people here or over on X. Over there it's basically just whack-a-mole. Here though it's like shutting the door on a pushy salesman or self righteous preacher. I'm leaning towards here.

New York's proposed 2026-2027 budget includes provisions that will require all 3D printers sold in the state to run print-blocking censorware—software that surveils every print for forbidden designs. This stifles free expression and privacy. New Yorkers, take action at EFF.org/3DPrintNY.

It's the same tactic of the reactionary right: perpetual performative outrage, complete refusal to accept something as anything more than contemptible trash From the bottom of my heart: I'm not giving up hope again. I will not put my love for science and tech down to get with the in-group. fuck you

Folks, infrasound issues are fake. This was truly an insane experience to write and I hope you enjoy blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-ben...

From the time my wife told me the dryer stopped working to Amazon getting the part delivered and me installing it was only about four hours.

I swear every other post on Threads reads like Alan Wake writing clickbait.

We all have days like this

What is the deal with the shrimpfluencer reels trying to get people to start their own business raising shrimp in their homes?

Whenever I interrupt codex in the middle of something I feel like when Michael Scott walks into the warehouse.

Belinda Carlisle was playing over the speakers at the store and now I want to rewatch San Junipero.

I wish touch interfaces could detect near misses and adapt accordingly.

Comment from a math professor on the quality of the latest proofs.

they're gonna regret this when the only thing still operating after a major storm is a bunch of Waffle Houses and they need a guy who can translocate between them

Something I find more disheartening than the left's reaction to AI itself, is the response to the general problem presented by it. The current environment is the perfect setup to push technologies that we will need to address issues well into the future. But they want energy austerity.

Kind of wish social media would detect when someone is posting some anti-datacenter nonsense and redirect them to a form to fill out and mail in like they had to do back in the times they apparently long for.

Them: Don't be so condescending to people. People:

The curse of the YIMBY is to be slowly driven insane by the knowledge that there is a straightforward solution to most problems

I swear having a dog is like living with a snack cop. I constantly have to show my hands and that there's nothing in my pockets.

I had totally forgotten I had this model as a kid.

Soon, at each release of AI along the current capability curve, you will start to see large discrete jumps in ability in economically important areas, because the previous AI ability level in some aspect of the job bottlenecked progress. When bottlenecks are released, it looks like a leap forward.

Haven't heard back from my accountant and am starting to get nervous. Might need to figure out a plan b.