Those who don’t learn from history. … Or as bugs bunny would say, what a ultramaroon.

Profoundly offensive

Been watching Columbo and wow it stands up well. I see why it’s copied so widely

I understand what these words mean when these words get put together but I don't understand how these words could possibly be together.

My instinct is to adopt the opposite strategy: build a LLM on a game's world model. The challenge being decribing a world in operative terms that both make sense for a LLM and can be interacted with using such an interface. The way LLMs are built right now makes interating toward this a nightmare.

“I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.” —JG Ballard

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Resistance? On Saturday night, Claude overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT to claim the number one spot in the App store, a position it still held as of this morning. techcrunch.com/2026/03/01/a...

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

"Pantry is empty of the four kinds of food your kid will eat." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/par...

Can we talk a bit about the terms “First Amendment absolutist” and “free speech absolutist,” and whether they have any agreed-upon meaning? I promise to try, to the utmost of my ability, to Be Respectful Of Other Opinions. /1

HELL yea

that makes me smile

If you (whoever you are) give a few dollars away a month, you're beating Elon Musk in relative donations.

"Showing someone a finished prototype and watching them shrug isn’t research. It’s a slow, expensive way to discover you guessed wrong." Vibe-Coding Is Not Need-Finding, by @cwodtke.bsky.social eleganthack.com/vibe-coding-...

This Is Cute (10 Photos) Sometimes art doesn't have to be big or serious. It just has to be cute! Here are 10 tiny, fluffy, and adorable pieces of street art that will definitely make your day a little sweeter. More: Almost Too Cute (9 Photos) 🦇 1. Shhh, He’s Sleeping — Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦 A…

Add the private army he's building and things are only getting grimmer and grimmer.

Have any of you been to Threads? It’s like Bluesky but even more embarrassing. The best way I can describe it is: A fictional Twitter made for Grand Theft Auto.

the fuck you say?

Kristina is family. Trust that if she is asking it’s both needed AND going to where it should go.

Roses are red Love is a gamble Obey us or else You get the mop handle

Kellan wrote another good blog post so I am having thinky newsletter thoughts laughingmeme.org/2026/02/09/c...

"Need-finding happens before you have a solution. You’re listening to people describe their lives, their frustrations, their workarounds. You’re hunting for problems that actually exist..." Worth reading the whole post from @cwodtke.bsky.social: eleganthack.com/vibe-coding-...

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Yup here’s the gift link for everyone www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

If I sent a letter saying I would continue to inflict violence and murder on a community unless that community made legal concessions to me, I would go to prison. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ICE guys: so yeah you're pretty much going to abolish us now, huh

This hit so fucking hard today.

A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the Horse plush toy and it became a surprise hit. Meet the ‘Cry-Cry Horse’, the perfect mascot for 2026. [news.cgtn.com]

I watched the new Starfleet Academy and I liked it. People who don't like it are those purists that think that we should just keep making the old Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation over and over again.

PSA: You do NOT have "until Jan 30th" to call your reps about ICE. The House is voting on the DHS appropriations bill TODAY (1/22) 🚨🚨

These are too good 🤣

132. T. Kingfisher’s Snake-Eater Sometimes a woman's best friend is her dog. Sometimes it's her septuagenarian trans grandma neighbour with a shotgun. The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a…

You get the users you get—with their existing habits, their limited attention, their varying levels of motivation, their phones buzzing with notifications from seven other apps. Of all the languages, @cwodtke.bsky.social decided to speak the language of facts. eleganthack.com/the-formula-...

Since the AI bubble hasn't quite burst — a small batch of some more sceptical pieces on AI in the first issue of the year :-) mailchi.mp/7dde6332c467... Including work from @emilydileo.bsky.social, @cwodtke.bsky.social, @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social, @lizthegrey.com, Lizzie Matusov, & more.

I wish we could cancel the election, suggests the guy who truly loves American democracy. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is a great piece by @cwodtke.bsky.social. It articulates the love/hate relationship I have with Generative AI. AI can do lots of good things. It is not value neutral. cwodtke.medium.com/i-love-gener...

@cwodtke.bsky.social's latest post on why good UX is still your best strategic moat: eleganthack.com/ux-is-your-m...

Could we get the solution to climate change first, then scale out?

He could have commented on the dangers of a president vowing to punish an entire city because he doesn’t like the democratically-elected Mayor, or asked Mamdani to do so. Instead, he took these threats for granted and asked whether voters should decide to be swayed by the rhetoric of an autocrat.

In the 1st question of his brief interview with Mamdani. Anderson Cooper reports Trump’s strongman threats to punish NYC if the Mayoral candidate is elected, as if he gets to select where funding goes according to his whims, & then asks whether voters will find it “worth the hassle” to vote for him.

Okay, good: "Dislikes are private and the signal isn’t global — it mainly affects your own experience and, to an extent, others in your social neighborhood." Because public dislikes would be TOXIC AS HELL. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Pam Bondi swore no victims were trafficked to anyone but Epstein. But the victims say Epstein and Trump worked as a team to traffick them to Prince Andrew…

Kerning is important!

laughing while crying

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.