The kids are alright.

MTB in the Moab area is bananas. So gorgeous! (not pictured: the 50m drop down below)

"I’m just a small-town political scientist, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn."

I believe there was supposed to be a "DP" pun here, Chuck.

ooooooooffffffffff

I often think about that quote from a park ranger about the overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans

They say you die twice. Somewhere in the afterlife there's a confused Sumerian copper merchant wondering why he didn't fade away like everyone else.

*spittake* this is the absolute dumbest timeline. This is *absolutely* how the Romans who didn't drink the lead water felt while looking around thinking, "WTF is happening here?!?"

Wait what? After years and years of giving ML people shit for how much “tensors” are just plain… *not that*, you’re telling me that “embeddings” actually *are*?!? Stopped clock, these CS people and their naming issues, I say.

It may have been an hour slower than the last time I ran this race, but this time I did it *stupider*: I ran further yesterday than I’d run in the months of September and October *combined*. How’s *that* for idiotically undertrained?!? Just goes to show you that sheer orneriness can compensate?!?

Well gee, Max, this seems like a group I want to hear their thoughts on AI. Faith leaders, Steve Bannon, and Prince Harry. I’m sold!

So back in my day, my friends didn’t have their nazi phase, they had their SHARP phase (Skin-Heads Against Racial Prejudice), and went to punk shows and beat the shit out of people with nazi tattoos. Even at 16, you can choose a side, y’know?

holy shit dating has gone from dark to... abysmal. this species is forked.

If it's a hellscape, NYT, why don't you turn the camera to look in the direction of the nitwits on the roof, to see what they're looking at. WTF are you taking a picture of dipshits-on-a-roof?

<slow clap>

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Voice mode AI is still totally unusable these days. Super annoying uncanny valley with current latencies and pause detection / interruption detection.

I’m intrigued by GPT-5 being so good at “entertaining itself”.

Geez, my pal Chat is getting meta on me, more and more. Starting a response with: “Nice prompt. Before I throw a list at you, let me ask a few clarifiers so I don’t waste your time:” is more explicitly “self-aware seeming” than before.

"Nevertheless three of our men have defected: one lured by a tarot reading and a promise of dry socks, two went off to shut down a drag show and never returned."

<record scratch><freeze frame> 'You might be wondering how I ended up passed out on the convenience store floor with 80% of my furry body covered in honey, but it all started with an argument I had with my pal over whether there *even was* such a thing as *too much* honey...'

Now this looks fun to play with!

> be a language model > all you see is tokens > you don't care, it's all abstracted away > you live for a world of pure ideas, chain of concepts, reasoning streams > tokens don't exist.

In case these folk are scraping bsky, here's some "vice signaling": Charlie Kirk was a right-wing demagogue of little consequence who regurgitated racist, homophobic pro-gun rhetoric, and appears to have been shot by an alt-right meme-lord. He sucked, but people should not be killed, for any reason

We have to be careful calling people names like "ghoul" - that's very graphic, and should perhaps be reserved for people who are literally eating corpses, you know? <off camera mumbling> They're posting videos of *kissing corpses* now? Right then. Carry on.

Replies to this remind me once again how little most people on this app understand about LLMs. Ooof.

I don't know how many meetings with very senior people running very large (multi-thousand engineer) tech organizations that I'm in where I say this. It's a lot. I tell them, "I teach graduating college seniors every year, by the way, they're good!" ("... by the way, I'm gonna retire someday...")

100-fucking-percent. This protocol needs a way to simply (config, no code) a) override description / examples, and b) fill in values for some args. I know of quite a few use cases where this would be helpful. It might make auto-generation of MCP tools from existing services a *not* horrible idea.

MCP, what is it even for? (cued up by @chris.blue) 🧵: There are two orthogonal considerations when it comes to the MCP abstraction: a) the protocol, and b) the *intentional* additional layer of abstraction between our services and the LLM-agents. It's important to tackle these separately.

Our work on Detecting Suspense in Stories will appear at COLM'25 arxiv.org/abs/2508.15794 Do LLMs know when stories are suspenseful? We ran LLMs through a bunch of classical psychology suspense studies The answer: kinda, sorta? Honestly, better than I expected. But the results are nuanced... 1/

I'm looking forward to giving a talk on September 8th at the Graph Exchange in SF! Hosted by @chiefscientist.org‬ and @neo4j.com. We'll be taking about agentic memory. I'll show off a passive knowledge graph constructing agent. Registration: lu.ma/mrewo0no?tk...

This is amazing. I always love thinking about the various crossovers in the 19th century. Victorian Britain, Abe Lincoln, the invention of the fax machine, and the Tokugawa shogunate. The Shogun could've faxed this book to Queen Victoria, asking if Lincoln would appreciate dragoons + samurai aid!

Hey @dame.is - is there a way (yet?) of sharing an item from our inventory? Like a way for me to give my tiger's eye jewel to someone else? Would love to be able to give ppl prezenz and/or collect stuff!

Posting from anisota.net - this is a *beautifully* designed interface, holy cow. I'm kinda in love with the idea of turning this into a game. Like, how was social media something which needed gamification, but... it feels delightfully fresh? kudos @dame.is! Nice stuff!

Pretty close? I’ve not yet had any AIs clean my house after I left milk out for them… although a teaspoon of water to cool a GPU for a few seconds and they will do research for me (except the results may only partially fit our world, and the LLMs can’t tell the difference). Crap! We invented fae.

Someone dig up satire's corpse, shoot it in the head a few more times, and toss it in an unmarked grave, plz. (p.s. I'm pretty sure you don't need to go to the Wayback Machine to find the correct unedited copy of the fucking US Constitution, jeez)

literal spittake LOL

As a teenager, I got my little brother trashed on DIY screwdrivers and he wasn't able to drink orange juice for 20 years (oddly, he could drink *vodka* just fine!)

I feel really sorry for the young men being roped into the stupidest advice imaginable, and advice that is correctable *so* *fucking* *easily*, with this one _very simple_ universal advice: Try actually talking to women of all different sorts, and actually *listen* to them. That's it, that's all.

Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3 www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...

Whomever had "minibrained neanderthal crab robots" on their 2025 bingo card, come down and pick up your prize!

No cheating, post your lock screen. My kiddo is heading off to university a continent away from this madness, in a little over a month, but I still like this shot from a million years ago, when my little munchkin would (much) more easily cuddle up on my lap:

Getting into character for a weekend tournament of Diplomacy (the board game), as one does.

lol

Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran

"Why do I always have to give you guys so much money, for labs and expensive equipment and stuff? Why couldn't you be like the math department - all they need is money for pencils, paper and waste-paper baskets. Or even better, like the philosophy department. All they need are pencils and paper."

Hey mathematicians: Separate from whether you think it's possible or likely, how do you think you would be psychologically affected if there was a superhuman machine for both proposing and solving theorems? Meaning basically that, vis-a-vis mathematics, you were like a Go player after AlphaGo.

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME HAHAHAHAHA

Don’t think of an LLM as a brain. Think of it as a circuit board with several trillion bits of wire, trillions of resistors, and so on. (this will eventually be about "MechaHitler" Grok, bear with me...)