That's not what "Analysis" means.

So you realized you could spare 4000 people, and you didn't believe you or any of them could come up with new ideas 2/3rds as good as what you're already doing?

Pondering some advice I received when I was younger, and I admit I now think it is reasonable of the ferryman to ask you to at least fix a price before he gets you to the other side.

Cartography is not a subbranch of calligraphy.

Sad to not have rec.music.gaffa or ecto around to talk about the new Emily Bezar album.

Points to BoA fraud dept for calling me minutes after I attempted to buy something from a fake Aeropress site (with a third "s", I notice only in retrospect). Demerits to Google for allowing and promoting sponsored results from this fishing site.

It's OK if software waits for the human to hit Enter.

If you're in Zurich on March 20th, you could come see me talk about algorithms and music discovery and human creativity and machines and power. How many of the Swiss metal bands I personally like will I find excuses to mention? www.m4music.ch/events/en/20...

Restored streaming, via a 30th-anniversary Aikawa Nanase compilation, is a great excuse to play this again: open.spotify.com/track/21TM6m...

If you "vibe coded" a pile of web pages by writing a couple of sentences, I would be happy to look at them. And by "them" I mean the sentences.

Co-working space update. The guy who, when he gets a call in the call room, stands up, and talking loudly with one hand holding his phone to his head, walks through the no-call room into the bathroom and then 30s later back out and through the room again: still doing that.

You can't speed up the process of living with the solution you think you've found until you see how it forces the problem to evolve.

Systems are aways malleable, but to change them meaningfully, we have to understand how they work, how they affect us, and most importantly, how we actually want to be.

Number of AI-coded React components I have shipped: holding strong at 0.

I do not want all the things in my life to have been made for me by an inattentive commuter on their phone.

I have designed a fire alarm that can play an alarm audible for 1.3 miles, and automatically notify fire departments within 12 miles. It is sometimes, however, wrong about fires. Actually, it has no real ability to detect fires, but it can guess times of day when fires have historically happened.

The modern twist on the tragedy of the commons is that a billionaire can buy and ruin the commons.

Tall guy wearing a hat with a red pompom, standing right in front of the stage: you are ruining the metal vibe of every picture and video of this show except your own.

While parts of my body will understandably miss my head and arms and friends, these steps are necessary to secure our future.

You never really appreciate the swamp you had until after the billionaires come and drink it.

Honestly one of the worst 5-album stripe images I've ever seen.

Spotify and the majors suing Anna's Archive was predictable, but I'm a little surprised nobody got an indie-artist class-action suit against Spotify for technical negligence going first. $150k/work is a strong motivator even if that amount will never conceivably change hands between anybody.

Teleporting to where you thought you wanted to go is not exploring.

Here's an example of the difference between knowing how to do math and understanding why. NME reporting on the major-label+Spotify lawsuit against Anna's Archive says the $13 trillion damages sought are "roughly the equivalent to $151,000 per file". 1/2

Making cream of wheat with oat milk.

Just checking in on Bluesky word-frequencies today.

You can tell you're bad at building and running an organization if the people you hire show up and immediately begin cosplaying the job they're supposed to be doing.

What we need is not de-escalation, it's re-moralization.

@nba.com This is your chance to do something a lot bigger than rescheduling one game.

Also, now we find out if the NRA has been full of shit their entire existence. (I have a bet...)

The NBA could stop playing. Not one game, all the games. NFL, too. A small number of people with a huge amount of visibility and a disproportionate amount of individual economic flexibility.

Abolish, prosecute. Everybody, all the way up, including every member of Congress who voted to fund it.

- Muderers on our streets. + I don't see any. - How about now?

If an AI won't (or can't) explain its maker's interests, you can't trust that it's acting in yours.

I finally thought of one thing that AI image-generation is actually good for. Self-sabotage.

If you're in charge of a prompted-AI feature, and you're going to do an AMA, you should probably come with a better example of what it's good for than one that just involves returning the first items in the database, in order.

"Bet on your personality. It’s your only real moat." I feel like there's probably a better way to think about your own uniqueness than a trench full of sewage you dig around yourself.

Fell and dropped my playlist.

Letting you write a prompt is not you "controlling the algorithm".

There is literally no situation in the world that can be improved by sending JD Vance to it.

AI coding definitely helps me. When I have a problem that needs code, but I don't quite feel like writing it, I ask AI to write it for me. And like magic, now I am annoyed enough that I will write it just to show how easy it should have been.

An attempt at an essay that starts with playlist ordering, makes its way to fascism, and along the way kind of tries to explain why it makes sense to start with playlists even if you know fascism is waiting for you. Maker Ecology furia.com/log/520

I'm not saying Noem is a robot, because it's hard to believe a robot would be that lumpy. But it does behave much more like a robot in which all internal guidance components have ruptured than it does like a human.

If you shoot people and *then* try to investigate whether they had ever done something you wouldn't have liked, you are not doing law enforcement, you are doing fascism.

Voldemort eyes.

Bad people get up at official podiums and lie. Evil people take the time to print Nazi slogans in official fonts and stick them on the front of the podium first.

OMFG I just tried to listen to Kristi Noem being interviewed on CNN and I didn't make it 2 minutes before I would have shot her puppy myself if that's what it took to stop listening. That is not just a person lying, that is evil in a somewhat-human disguise.

Threatening to attack a country that is killing its protesters while killing your own protesters.

Just planning ahead a little: Atlanta is a sister city to Nuremberg, so there's one idea.

Administration vs Regime.