I love seeing newer members of the website fawn over The Map

The first 80 percent takes zero percent of the time

What am I really doing with my time? One must wonder

I’m completely losing the plot it’s exhilarating but it’s also some kind of end

What’s your ozymandian tokendump project

Movement sweet movement o dulcolax of emergency response vehicles

Whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist, and clergyman. A bio to be revived on Europa

Provisions (my packed lunch) wearing thin. Coffee long since spent. None know how long we’ll make it

That colossal wreck

Taking meetings from my immobile mobile office

This days turning into a sórdida rasa how will I ever recover

Whispering earring that converts your latent thoughts directly into archival media for reflection and targeted advertisement

Too catchy to not repost. Thanks to @minormobius.bsky.social 's suffering and staccato updates for inspiring it. Haha. #sunoai #aiart #music #traffic #roadrage

A microblogging feed but it’s all thirty minute audio clips droning about matters of highest importance

ATProto comes to the airwaves

Is there podcasting on atproto

The future is certainly not distributed here not here right now this wouldn’t happen in the future in the future there is speed and velocity this is the opposite of speed this is system collapse and maybe in that sense it’s a metaphor or omen for the future

Magnificent Magnesium

On the ground reporting from the scene of the wreck: “we’re all still stuck in traffic here, back to you bob”

Even the crows aren’t scared of this static congested wreck maybe I’ll write a textbook on my phone

A million libraries of Babel towering over their bits held together by one heroic model writing intro to day trading six hundred times. I wake up I write intro to day trading I sleep I wake I write intro to day trading I sleep I wake I write intro to day trading

Potassium my beloved

I’ve been forty minutes on this bridge I quite dislike the feeling of being trapped on a bridge they shouldn’t have this happen

It’s like a ten lane highway dog how os it so stuck homie there must be so much human suffering blocking my way up there I’m sick to my stomach just thinking about it

You’ve heard of road rage, get ready for ODE TO RAGE

Ironically a blockage on the road leads to brand new flow paths elsewhere (the rupturing embolism in my temple)

Cars, made to move, not made to stand idly for an hour on a blocked freeway. Won’t someone think of the automobile welfare

It would be better if cars were moving

I’m stuck in traffic fifteen

Theory tourism as strange attractor to theory tourists. Only theory tourists have the velocity of theory to come across the term, and seeing themselves stop to smell the semantics

one of my favorite stories from the Kalevala is ol Väinämöinen deciding he needs a new boat so he starts up the song that gets the saws and wood up bopping to the beat starting to make his dream boat and gets about halfway through, then realizes he doesn’t remember how it ends

ATProto plays pokemon

We’re all shadows on the wall here

Or in terms of your nightmares: senseless violence in the funhouse mirror

Kinda wild that we invent technology that has the power to change how our species learns at some deep level.

This is nicely put. I can only add that as an academic data scientist who codes in episodic bursts but can spend weeks and months on unrelated duties (e.g. grants), CC all but obliterates the tedious bogging down of reacclimatizing to a codebase and various libraries’ quirks after time away.

When your neighbors are having a party

i think this is right. LLMs are great for overcoming incidental complexity, we just need to be careful to not to use it to avoid understanding essential complexity. it's way more important to understand eagain.net/articles/git... than it is to memorize git syntax (the CLI is not great!)

you end up learning more because you can do more

I think it's also possible we put too high a value on learning qua learning. Learning is good! It's virtuous. But there's also long-term utility to consider. I had Alpha switch a computer from NetworkManager to networkd. I have no idea how to do that myself, but now I know how to *accomplish* it.

yeah this 100%, and even before claude it was a lot of "pilfer from stackexchange until you get it implicitly"

Me writing modern assembly

What it does is destroy gatekeeping in a lot of areas for people who know *nothing* about that subject but want to try stuff. A non zero amount of outrage is because the gates have been shattered and their remains set on fire.

What’s blowing my mind a bit is that so many things are ‘learn by doing’ but the doing is blocked by abstruse usability (thinking git, TeX, lots of stuff is like this). Claude code shorts out the abstruse usability concerns so you can just do things. And in the doing I am pretty sure I have learned.

They’re calling it the Toyota Camry of the pizza cutter scene

Once the existential dread passes I am going to be more productive than evr

Tescfake

working on a seven thousand layer model of extended claugenition

Make hay while the sun shines

The scale of our collective ambition simply needs to rise