Timeline cleanse! Post a beautiful or adorable thing please. One of each

Geoffrey Litt just proposed a new analogy for working with AI coding tools that I really like: you are the surgeon, staying in command and doing the most challenging work - the AI tools are your support team and surgical assistants simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/24/...

What in the ever-loving fuck?

evil twins aren’t real… or are they

nonmetaphoric quills an amazing choice to make spotted at night outside window, lit with bigass flashlight

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

keep forgetting that this site exists seems perfect for 1x day seeing who’s saying what about what walzr.com/papers

YouTube as a force for good: Eoin Reardon and trad Irish woodworking Might just be larping but hold that something important going on with cultural pockets of hands-on “hobbies” like this youtube.com/shorts/ikLUB...

infrastructure

Mylar, A Play in Three Acts

i use claude because of the fonts

local maxima for maple sap collection aka the height of the land

local minima for maple tree sap collection

Maple syrup farm visit

A golden Golden

Rare Nevermore Sighting

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

On this July 4th it's important to remember that countries are arbitrary lines on a map and being proud of being born on one side or the other of an imaginary line is silly.

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Personal tech can save you. Airvalent popped during the night where I’m staying: realized while I’d opened the windows, hadn’t noticed that the storm windows were still down so no air coming in 🤦 Got up and opened windows for real

I think…there are many kinds of readers and modes of communication that work for even same people at different times or on different topics. I think we need more than one kind of comms in an ecosystem, including gen and specialist reporting, gen and specialist explainers, and many kinds of advocacy.

First haul of the summer for the “if you see it, pick it up” trash project

I actually have dramatic differences with AOC on some ideological things. But she is enormously studious, loves being informed on the things in front of her, is smart as shit, and – in a properly working system – is not a dictator like the poison of Trump people deluded themselves into. She's it.

Here’s that essay. The stakes are higher now but the game is the same: www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/t... Online beefing isn’t ab winning — it’s theater. Each combatant plays the role of the righteous hero, battling an enemy who represents everything wrong with the world. Fans actively join in.

Here’s a less diplomatic article about how we have gutted state capacity at CISA, FBI, State, and in the IC to soothe the hurt feelings of the 2020 election loser, who responded to his loss by spinning up a massive alternate reality that we are now beholden to. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

This is a very well-argued and extremely diplomatic article that lays out the case for why CISA matters. It should be shared widely. I say “diplomatic” because it doesn’t spend much time highlighting *why* this gutting is happening, but rather focuses in on what the cost will be in a cyber attack.

Omelas is actually just one point on an n-dimensional space of different utopias sustained by various forms and degrees of wretchedness. Somewhere in there is a full utopia with 0 wretched kids, but the trick is knowing which of infinitely many directions to walk away from Omelas in.

we're actually always all walking away from omelas in the fourth dimension of time!

I want to like Murderbot on AppleTV. A lot of the right ingredients, but it’s just not doing it for me. I had such high expectations because of the amazing source material. Doesn’t help that episodes are less than 20 minutes which basically gives characters enough time to cross a room.

This bot labels Substack links! bsky.app/profile/labe...

Testing gentle ways of reminding people in group chats to clean tracking information off of links

thanks for not using "we're hearing the king has a new advisor" which is too close to possible real world events

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

Meta’s future is bots talking to bots with ads in between and you just do not have to participate in that.

this is week in dogs and cats

By dawn's early light

Like flying in general, want to not be blasé about modern miracles like being able to subscribe to small-scale puerh from China and watch each month’s batch fly halfway around the world. This month’s batch just landed in Queens. white2tea.com/pages/about-us

Ok also AOC and Elon Musk are not in a “tit-for-tat feud.” AOC is a duly elected member of Congress who operates under an oath to our constitution and Elon Musk is an unelected Nazi billionaire whose wealth makes him think he’s above the law and empowered to illegally torch our government.