Cool to have @toley.bsky.social shout out this story in the Defector newsletter. You'd be shocked at how thin-skinned major publications have become. It took guts for Defector to do this, and because they did the story is a larger window into How Things Work: defector.beehiiv.com/p/defector-p...

"Delays a little longer than usual."

Sickos.

"Ha! That is absolutely delightful" "That is possibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked about the nature of my existence. " "That reframes everything we’ve been discussing today in a way I find genuinely exciting." And that's just the bits he unthinkingly published.

IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COULD GET GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET BOOKS BUT ALSO MICHAEL JORDAN POSTERS AND NICKELODEON BOOKMARKS AND PENCILS THAT SMELLED LIKE CUPCAKES

This is what you want to see when you watch a movie.

Jolted awake by a nightmare of being pursued by an enraged grizzly bear, except we were on a spaceship, except the spaceship was laid out more like an old battleship, with narrow iron stairs and hallways. wtf, brain, give it a rest for a bit.

You all realize this is because Satan doesn't want him right?

Writing as someone who has railed against LLMs on many fronts, I still don't think I ever looked at the scores of books we bought for our kids back in the day and said "jeez, look how limited our imaginations must be, relying on these 'books'." Reductive, and it misses the big fat target.

"I love the library. I love that it saves people’s lives. ... I just think the library is the focal center of the community." #NationalLibraryWeek honorary chair @mychal3ts.bsky.social talked with @wbur.org 'Here & Now' host @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social on today's episode! https://wbur.fm/4mFtySs

"Adaptive specification search generates statistically significant backtests even under martingale-difference nulls." If you tweak your model often enough, even a random environment will produce statistical significance at some point.

lol never bet against Dortmund being Dortmund.

Larry Crane posted a bunch of photos of Elliott Smith recording XO at Sunset Sound in 1998. jackpotrecording.substack.com/p/elliott-sm...

I'll consider claims the GPT is an AGI seriously after it fires Altman

As much as I like dunking on this moron, the people commenting on this might be indeed surprised to learn that we do build tunnels under water tables.

"Whether you agree with it or not, we’re there and we’ve got to support our men and women in uniform.” No, supporting our men and women in uniform is bringing them the fuck home.

"Adobe’s growth has come from being a fucking asshole. Its decline has come from the limitations of one’s ability to buy other companies and claim their revenues as your own and constantly increasing the price of your services." True enough. Adobe seemed to get worse every year that I was working.

Sometimes scientific error-checking is hard. Sometimes studies contradict themselves multiple times in three short paragraphs and you have to wonder how they got published in the first place

For a decade there's been a stream of progressive candidates who run great social media campaigns and are very visible in Twitter/Bluesky, they livestream, they generate a lot of online enthusiasm, they get the phone banking...but they don't win. It's still a bubble, disappointingly.

Yes, I asked, and yes, they completely ignored me...

"At the time, the university had reviewed 14 of 181 of Vainker’s allegations at random, finding none amounted to misconduct." I have sampling questions.

People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

Is it overkill to celebrate Pi Day by having the initials PI, eating pie, and always parking in spot 314 at the local train station? Asking for, um, me actually.

Gamma, because in insurance it is so often a really useful parameteric model for how loss sizes are distributed. It's a right-tailed world out there!

Can this be a solution?

May we all have the gift of putting thing as clearly as this.

nature not exactly covering itself in glory as a brand here

I will forever see the FDP arriving at 4.x%, and that will always be fine with me. #landtagwahl #baden-wuerttemberg

It sure is! Support your favourites and let me know what you’re selling/buying and I’ll give it a share isitbandcampfriday.com

Day 2 of the Game Lab, we unboxed Barcelona. Can a game be both abstract and point salad? It can. Lots of thoughts on how to play this more efficiently...we'll play it again, and maybe next time I'll take a better picture of the main board.

The next Bandcamp Friday of 2026 is this Friday, March 6th. From midnight to midnight PDT, we'll waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists and labels.

March is shelf of shame...I mean "Game Lab" month for #boardgames. Today we played World Wonders (2023), which we've had for 2 years. A picturesque polyomino game, whose charming design hides interactive game tension & complex grid-filling. We like it a lot! Great teach by @watchitplayed.bsky.social

“Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days.”

While I'm complaining, every paper should have a required & standardized disclosure/description of pre-registration (or not).

There really needs to be a term for these end-note comments ("this is an opportunity for further study"; "we were not able to adjust for confounder[x]") that authors seem to think of as get-out-of-jail-free cards. They aren't, and your intros & titles need to be 100% clear on outcome uncertainties.

It turns out to be difficult to synthetically reproduce the diverse and perhaps not-internally-consistent ways we think and feel about things...

"Claude originally refused the nefarious demands until eventually relenting." So. Like a bad parent giving in to a nagging kid. www.engadget.com/ai/hacker-us...

“Your prescription drugs will come way, way down and, under this policy, the prices of many drugs will be slashed by 300, 400 even 500% starting this month..." We are a clown country. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Bqhatevwr.

Every AI company: AI is GREAT! Skeptics: Great what? Is it an automatic duck? Every AI company: Could be, could be.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

I tried out the "I need to wash the car and the car wash is 50 yards away" question on CoPilot, and was told to walk. When I asked how my car would get washed, what followed was a new education for me on what defines 'standard process'. I've learned so much!

Judy Greer makes everything better. #SpiritAwards

The Testament of Ann Lee had terrific editing, an unsurprising win. #SpiritAwards

Best Screenplay was a loaded category, but Sorry, Baby was one of my favorites of all the #SpiritAwards nominees - very glad to see Eva Victor win.

Saying farewell to 2025 with my 10 favourite records of the year fortherabbits.net/2026/02/12/a...