i notice this posture is adjacent to 'everyone is 12' theory 'life was better when <things i liked as a kid were subsidized by adults>'

here it is folks! lots of details to still nail down, but this is roughly where our heads are at for the design of a permissioned data protocol give it a read and let me know your thoughts!

Nearly all culture and media is an instrumental proxy whose purpose is to get us to relate to other people. The fate of society rests on everyone realizing that in time.

With zero thought to the implications we should require every manufacturer who sells more than a certain volume of house hold appliances to open source stl files for parts they no longer manufacture or stock after a certain period

Gentle panic! over imminent arrival of child

kids will say theyre playing minecraft and then start saying all sorts of words that arent in the mojang wiki

I've lost my mind now. Summoning @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social ..."

If Kagi Translate powered inline translations on Bluesky, this output could become officially supported. Just saying 😎

I have been working on Obsidian Reader for over a year. I didn't want to share it until I felt it was good enough. It's finally there. Consistent formatting for any article. Outline, syntax highlighting, nice footnotes, adjustable typography. Runs locally. Just rules, no AI.

I feel like we moved on from loab too quickly

I really should write up my thoughts on why implementing robust governance, establishing clear ownership, and conducting regular audits of your organization’s data (especially operational data) is the single highest leverage thing an organization should invest in right now

Cool look at some of the ML under the hood in Arc Raiders

if your specific niche is also "bizarre intertwingled anecdotes about 1950s-1990s computer scientists" i have built your holy grail: just took a thousand oral histories from the @computerhistory.bsky.social museum and made them fully searchable and deeply interconnected 🎉welcome to f0lkl0r3.dev

The only AI-proof job left in IT baby

Heuristic: in a world where magic is real, the amount of fake magic will go up, not down.

This sounds remarkably similar to corporate training software

Karp’s consistent ability to say the dumbest thing every time I see one of his media hits is impressive

gradient primitive with gradients made from VGA 256 palette in CRT shader UI system

Anthropic throwing 2 nines of uptime as a stat on the outage dashboard is going to turn me into the joker

Performative decency is better than vice signaling

The line between research and shitpost seems delightfully blurry these days

1. Enchiladas 2. Spring rains and spring sports 3. Athletic’s Lite

Why do they call it a standup when you sit down the status good stand up block the status?

New blog post: LLMs are going to summarize your papers whether you like it or not — and they're going to drop your limitations every time. Here's a proposal for how to fix that (and help with the reproducibility crisis at the same time!): paulgp.com/2026/03/10/l...

Convinced myself I need to cover the costs of a pro subscription by selling something after a buddy told me he made a little on a bug bounty and it’s driving home how little I’ve ever had to sell myself in my career

Consciousness is just a skill issue. I haven't had subjective experience since I started using Claude Code

Suns a drug

Potential unintended consequence here where protocols end up being developed to manage outbreaks and reintroduce vaccination programs for diseases once almost eliminated as pockets of anti-vax resistance move throughout the world

telling chatgpt to "assume I have absolutely no dog in me" when asking for a plan of action

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need a banger? i think you should leave x disco elysium - parking lot is a banger

It really is just kinda oops all performative gender all the time now

- Satya Nadella, moments before signing the $10 billion deal with OpenAI

“The world is always ending for someone” vs “The singularity is always happening for someone”

playing around with a hologramish shader effect. virtual cube on an actual cube, with an RGB subpixel effect on the surface. uses additive blending, but also has an absorption parameter that lets each subpixel absorb the other two channels. the blend parameter blends subpixel color into each other

Professionally I’m in a weird spot: working mostly with low-code, licensed tooling that lags ~18 months behind for llm integration in an organization that is attempting to build its own llm tooling that doesnt yet integrate into any other data stores or workspaces

I just showed Claude to Douglas Engelbart and he punched me in the face, so

The tools are created faster than they can be used

Realized that the work I’m doing building out a bunch of home utilities is probably the closest to nesting that my disordered ass brain will come before this baby arrives

I do completely agree with this. We are inventing software as a variety of posting (SaaVoP)

Dawn of the single page web app - homies creating novel shit out here based on weird papers other homies post to be consumed by the same homies who saw the original post

hey cutie wanna do the district sleeps alone tonight to each other

The best thing about crossing into your thirties as a relatively fit, married, unaccomplished male nobody is that you can finally Einstein/Grothendieck out in your style and bask in the incredible anonymity it affords you. In public, you're just some fuckin' guy. Who gives a shit?

This was a 2025 word for me and I am incredibly grateful to have the concept in the quiver

working on a task tracker for sisyphus (compatible with any boulder and hill)