it's SO good. perfect guest. deeply informed by both the wide range of aims and sophistication levels students bring to the tools as well as the evolution of that over time

wow

I like this but it's better to think of it as characterizing the space of things that could happen rather than what will happen. conclusions about what will happen to workers are downstream of many factors that are necessarily unknown right now, e.g., trends in model quality, price, adoption, etc

now we're talkin. time to put the know your enemy boys to the gell-mann amnesia test patreon-only, but free teaser here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

This video (despite hokey voiceover and embedded recruiting ad) has some of the best visualizations of the process of chip manufacture I’ve ever seen. It absolutely miraculous. m.youtube.com/watch?v=B248...

issuing a correction on my previous post describing Vichy Twitter as "the Nazi App," it is now also "the Nazi And CSAM App"

DACUS: No more the drudge and idler ten that toil where one EVERY BEASTIE BOY: REPOSES D: But a sharing of life's glories Bread & roses bread & EBB: ROSES D: Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life EBB: CLOSES D: Hearts starve as well as bodies bread & roses, bread & EBB: ROSES

in 2026 we are bringing back 90s web utopianism

Part 5 of my posts reviewing my new Mercatus paper. Rent inflation has reduced real income growth in the lowest income quintile by 15% vs the highest quintile since 2015. Our extra real estate wealth is the capitalized value of that regressive transfer. kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

wow

Zohran is singlehandedly killing left-NIMBYism we love to see it

extremely cool and a good intro to wtf computer chips are

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

my take has always been that — contrary to the fear people have of getting more and more behind — the better the tools get, the easier they are get started with. it *used* to be hard to use them well. now you literally run one command in the terminal, type "how does X work?" and you are benefiting

good interview. wild youtube comments. always funny to see a bunch of (presumably) humans attempting to interpret a study and doing far worse than an LLM

ashamed to say I understand every single ad quoted in this piece. I even understand why company websites have Solutions sections now, something that baffled me for 10 years. I like the linked-to piece by Wendy Liu

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very interested. Inventing the Future was a big influence on me!

WHOA it really does sound fake. I'd bet on this team

Picture of the staff who operate my account:

Very cool that you have to understand at least three extremely specific Esoteric Nazism memes to understand the modal DHS social media post now

Chicago ushers in 2026 with a BANG! Last night at midnight along the Chicago River.

I’m at the monument (what) I’m at the pizza hut

love this manifesto on taste manifestos, and also, the taste manifesto contained therein

when my 4yo is really tired she invents very specific demands that are impossible to satisfy (like wearing two hats together in a way that isn't physically possible) in order to keep being really mad. makes you think!

. 🥺 👉👈 half a cup in the morning

missed this: "these days ... more and more tech employees see themselves as rank-and-file workers stuck in a conventional conflict with management" let's go! (but would like more rigorous evidence of this because it's something I want to believe)

not sure I agree with every detail, but this is the way to think about it. to me the short-term effect of LLMs is: assume the cost of whatever it is office bureaucracies do (not just software, but it's all software-enabled) just fell by anywhere between 50 and 99%. what are the implications?

using LLMs to do it for you obviously defeats the purpose of Advent of Code, but after I’ve written my terrible Racket solution, “show me where this could be more idiomatic” is great for learning gist.github.com/david-crespo...

gondry's video for come into my world by kylie minogue is a technical masterpiece: www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vq...

There's only one right answer to the question of what the best music video of the MTV Era was, and it's this Michel Gondry-helmed masterwork:

1. Cool to see that the Indy boulder is just a big balloon 2. Horrifying to see how little resistance one person can offer against one big balloon

A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

25 Favorite Moments from this past year. One of the best times of the year to walk thru Chicago's Lincoln Park. Autumn was alive on this October morning. 16 of 25.

I'm not religious by any means but there is enormous value in having recourse to a point of view that stands outside contemporary thinking

lol sad this post isn't about me. I also found 3 real ghostty bugs using LLMs despite being a complete ignoramus github.com/ghostty-org/... github.com/ghostty-org/... github.com/ghostty-org/... x.com/mitchellh/st...

whoa, missed this entirely. was just thinking about mr. gibson

tests, types, and generated OpenAPI clients, oh my

Legends will never be forgotten

truly one of the geniuses of posting

One of the best to ever do it

dangerous to encourage me to keep posting

I’m the Lictor of Thrax

“The answer for humanists, as for the rest of the academy and the rest of civil society, is to organize.” I have been kind of amazed at the powerlessness of faculty senates to stop administrators from doing anything

it has single-handedly shifted me from "🥺 hmm if you think the bubble is about to pop remember the future is undecided and we don't know what is going to happen" to "this is what is going to happen in the next 6 months"

One example of something I couldn't believe Claude Opus 4.5 could generate until it did: a full-on MIDI mixer as a terminal app, written in Rust.

was blown away reading Turing last night

very cool essay I had never heard of. Latour, "Why Has Critique Run out of Steam?"

100% correct. making arguments about the poor quality or usefulness of the output while you're sitting in the middle of an exponential curve amounts to laying down under the bus

crawled a DAG of some of my posts (red lines are QTs pointing to earlier threads), experimenting with visualizations. forced-directed graphs are never as useful as you hope they're going to be lol