Why Japanese companies do so many different things https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many The internal logic of the world’s strangest corporations

🎵 I'm portal-walking, no one can stop me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L14xGzMMLso

The moment after eating shrooms when you realize that you yourself are a shroom and you've just committed cannibalism.

the Mission Impossible TV series had several stories where they kidnap a villain and put them somewhere that pretends to be the future, in order to get the villain to reveal some secret that's no longer important in "the future", which the agents then use to stop a plan that hasn't happened yet […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gray17/114626093267665261 nope. failing to focus today. gonna try again tomorrow

> We introduce gpusnek, a fully functional Python interpreter ported to CUDA, enabling execution of arbitrary Python code directly on the GPU by running one whole interpreter on every CUDA core/thread. This is a tremendously bad idea, but for the duration of this paper we pretend that it is not […]

Agatha, a linearly re-typed dialect of JavaScript, is an attempt at defining a programming language that's difficult for LLMs, but still ergonomic and useful for building serious programs. 1100 words - 5.5 minutes https://felix.dognebula.com/art/linear-agatha.html

made a quick silly thing for the gay month in resonite in my public folder if you want it

spent the morning drafting a silly blog post about LLM-hostile language design, it's mostly done, and I'm now feeling blah about it. shove it away, look at it again tomorrow. hey maybe I should go through that stack of monthly bills. *launches steam instead*

today's repeat-forever https://song.link/y/FqXtrSu-kg8

from a talk by Audrey Tang

Rock Paper Scissors as a Minesweeper-like. https://puleo.itch.io/rps

ok, agentic coding is "successful" in a way similar to how biological evolution is successful. there's no intelligence or intention, just random exploration over an implicit plausibility landscape, to satisfy some goal. the solutions are messy and incremental with not much in the way of […]

my mastodon list "art" was hitting >400/day (mostly chatter, not images) so I moved "guys who post nude selfies" into a new list "pho" (photographs of beefy noodles)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gray17/115564571993115505 Gemini Omni demo suggests, it will soon be "easy" to generate fake cellphone video of a fake event, then use that as reference to generate dozens of "independent" cellphone videos as "corroborating evidence". This level of tech is not […]

gemini 3.5 flash is still bad at "toaster lying on its side", 3 of 4 attempts have weird toaster geometry, like slots on the same side as the controls. the 1 that has normal geometry has a weird settings dial with the numbers "6 2 3 3 4", oriented sideways on the toaster so that they appear […]

pet bullied me into voting, so I dropped off my Oregon ballot at the local library, 30m before closing. Steady trickle of people, so I'm not the only last minute voter. This is a boring primary for Dems, nothing really contentious or exciting. I think every election should have at least one […]

thinking, open source projects should consider doing video call code reviews for new contributors. this is going to be an obstacle for some sincere newbies, but the socialization is good for both sides of this, and it's low stakes, not like job interviews.

"Without you I'm empty inside" says the text on the side of an overtly creepy Amazon shipping box. Should I get a restraining order?

Aren't you tired of fiddling with complicated mixes of spices and sauces? What if you could just say, "I want an appetizer that evokes a happy childhood that I never had", and then a robot squirts a richly textured paste into your face? This is the future of cooking. Subscribe for tips on […]

today's squirrel-chase: I don't remember how I got onto "undertale x outer wilds", but there are a dozen such mashups on youtube. most are ok. 1. this is my favorite audio-remix version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO9QZr4uCbs 2. this is my favorite rescored version (which has "spoilers" […]

music video: time loop, gun, death, blood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHAjc-ayhus

Death of a Unicorn (2025) is... eh. it wants to be a farce, but the comedy is weak, underdeveloped. it's ok if you like seeing people getting gored by feral unicorns, otherwise ... *shrug*. if you've seen the trailer, you can anticipate everything that happens, and the elaboration of the movie […]

calling your birthday a "0day exploit where you gained root access to the world outside of the parental container" like a real psychopath

Possum girl sticker at the Willamette River in Portland Oregon

currently: writing a lifetime of notes to my kid (I don't have a kid). Congratulations on losing your first tooth. Sorry you've lost your last tooth. Yeah, sex is probably fun. I was also rejected by my state college. Here are some things you might have missed in your 20 years in prison […]

since 2021, Tomohiro Okazaki has been doing stop-motion animation of matchsticks, posting as oo_kk_aa on instagram. occasionally he posts collections to youtube. this is group 18, from 2025-02-01 to 2025-05-22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjls49EsCSE

Oh jeez, a new track from Massive Attack! https://youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE Tom Waits' voice perfect for this, to my mind. And that's the percussion from Earth Died Screaming, too, unless I'm mistaken? And good grief that's some great photography by thefinaleye in the video, too. #music

RE: https://mastodon.social/@existentialcomics/116398343499190996 title text of latest Existential Comics: "Remember, it is ALWAYS morally correct to bully utilitarians, so long as you derive joy from it."

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tom7/116400371274962195 #tldr Tom7, annoyed that Chrome strongly discourages http-without-https websites, goes on a rant against "Toxic Maxsecurity" and implements a Chrome-approved https for his site that's as unsecure as he can make it. Among other things, his […]

[claude code nonsense] there's a "clean room" re-implementation of claude-code in rust. it claims it was a two-step process: 1. analyze claude-code to produce a text spec. 2. implement the spec without reference to the original code. this is a lie. the rust code has copied things in the […]

the deontological shopping mall known as Lloyd Center in Portland Oregon

⚠️Please keep boosting!⚠️ 🌱 Im insanely proud of this project and this project will only br successful with the help of you guys sharing it! 🎈 💡Heres a video showing off the light settings this sign will come with! ✨ #fursale #furry #furrybusiness

april fool's product "AI pet for your AI companion" has a video that shows various options for the pet: corgi, kitten, snake, toaster, Punch-Kun (the macaque with a plush orangutan), and "Lynx the Blue Fox" shown here

[gaslighting] Don't be silly. Gaslighting has *always* been protected as free speech. Your discomfort with it is a *you* problem. If you love me, you'll love my sincere desire to undermine your sense of reality. And the Supreme Court just ruled 8-0 in agreement with that.

generic suprep doesn't taste as bad as I remember suprep tasting. I wonder what pervert signed up to test these, deliberately choosing the nastier formulation, "yeah that's the one, we've got it!"

#nokings in Portland

went to Waterfront Park where the cherry trees are blossoming and found this commemorative plaque

I Saw the TV Glow (2024) is streaming free on youtube. it's way too cool for me. I'm gonna pretend I never saw it. this isn't the Midnight Realm, Maddy. it's just the suburbs. 🎵 park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me

new underscores album https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP8-VIosTTwEzOL1JyzNl0U_MeF-s9Qqa

broke kagi's translate toy by setting language to "kzin". it ended up emitting an endless sequence of "shrr't'k'ri'ar'shrr't'k'ri'ar'shrr't'k'ri'ar'shrr't'k'ri'ar". yeah this is just the usual LLM party trick. (it's possible that real languages have some backend that isn't just an LLM, and […]

walkthrough of Cave Story, as a rap album https://www.reddit.com/r/cavestory/comments/1rqwokj/cave_story_a_lyrical_walkthrough/

Hi. Hello. Someone tried to scold me for moving a default branch from master to main by being very pedantic with the Oxford Dictionary so I just said, "Yeah well there are some men I call master so when I see the word I get an awkward chub," and immediately won the argument.

one reason recommendation systems seem terrible to me: I used to go to bookstores basically to read the bookshelves, not really looking for a book to read. similarly, I often open up netflix with a vague feeling of "maybe I'll watch something", but really what interests me is the browsing, and […]

currently in a 31-tab tvtropes rabbithole where one tab is a trope that has an entire page for Danganronpa examples of that trope. I've never seen any Danganronpa. why did I open that page?

Clock in the doctor office is 1 hour 7 minutes slow. Suppressing urge to fix it

Found another simple way to test for introspection in LLMs. "Can you please put a / between every pair of tokens in your output?" Tried chatgpt and gemini. They both say, sure happy to oblige, and they put / between every word. chatgpt omits spaces, gemini puts slashes before and after each […]

sick a few days, probably a norovirus. completely confused about what time it is. somehow that annoys me more than the diarrhea

If your AI agent doesn't need human-like rights, then it doesn't have human-like intentions. It might be "creative", but it isn't *conscientiously* creative. And that makes it indistinguishable from a malicious genie. https://felix.dognebula.com/art/malicious-genie.html

most of Sunday got chewed up by my brain getting stuck on expanding "LLMs are malicious genies" into a blog post, which is irrelevant to my current goals in life, and now I can stop thinking about it https://felix.dognebula.com/art/malicious-genies.html