I’ve had negotiations with my kid about getting dressed that lasted longer than these “marathon” talks.

Rubio's exactly where you'd expect a Sec. of State during an international crisis. UFC in Miami with Trump.

Necco wafers are also the best candy. I thought this my whole childhood before I even knew I had some hometown affinity for them. If I saw some Necco wafers in a store now, I would plotz.

Is Rubio just not leaking at all? Amateur hour, letting Vance control the narrative like this.

I recently learned someone is posing as me, trying to work people for info. So I did some reporting of my own on what appears to be the latest evolution of online deception... www.propublica.org/article/impe...

Good scam, came closer to getting me than most of these text scams.

I think in hindsight it’s going to turn out to have been a very bad decision for these companies to have these basically nonfunctional models out in public, especially when coupled with their messianic rhetoric.

free intro to LLMs right here. note the 10x difference in cost and 20x difference in output token count

Is the most wife guy thing to refuse to pay to find out the worst insult imaginable for a wife or pay to find out the worst insult imaginable for a wife so you never say it?

Look, Bush's Sixteen Stone is a pretty seminal album for me (for life reasons, not musical reasons) but... I don't really need a big Bush comeback moment. Bush are not Comeback Tour level. I do not need another chance to hear Machinehead live. I do not need a Bush Tiny Desk Concert.

I wrote about Anthropic’s Mythos model, and why its arrival is yet another reason to stop framing AI in terms of a race toward AGI, or superintelligence, or whatever you’d like to call it. www.fastcompany.com/91524611/ant...

Race communism is the way everyone gets a medal after the marathon regardless of their finishing time.

Grok marketing pretty on the nose

Was just reading a substack post that I had no reason to believe was written by AI and then I hit this and didn’t finish reading. You simply cannot use this construction anymore if you’re a human writer.

A bold musical take I like to trot out sometimes if I'm feeling saucy is that Pablo Honey is the best Radiohead album and A.M. is the best Wilco album. Each album gets progressively worse as they stray further from the light.

A new comedy series poses the question: What if Silicon Valley was perhaps lacking in ethics? It might've been timely if it came out a decade ago... when HBO's Silicon Valley was in its third season. I wrote about how recent events have made it utterly redundant. www.fastcompany.com/91523224/the...

Where have you gone GRRM, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

There’s an Utah Phillips line: “the long memory is the most radical idea in America.” I feel this way also about popular internet moments.

Just saw one of the PS22 kids choir singing pop songs videos presented as like, historical footage. Bring me death.

would you like to read about the time the cypherpunks made a porno? no, you absolutely would not. it's so fucking embarrassing. but if you have a wired subscription, you can! www.wired.com/1999/02/when...

Because he's in the news today, just want to say that whenever my kid says "carry me" in a whiny voice, I say "One, Two, Carreyou" to the rhythm of "Fuck you, Carreyou" (the chant Elizabeth Holmes led Theranos employees in during his investigations).

Behaviour

There’s some sort Stepbrothers-esque Will Ferrell/John C. Rielly movie here about feuding, interchangeable drummers.

I wonder how much things would change if every article and podcast you encountered had view counts the way YouTube videos do.

Wow, I JUST clocked that Kristi Noem's husband is named Brian (spelled Bryon) and not Byron, like my brain kept reading.

MAGA anti-pope by 2028, where's the Polymarket?

As I understand it, software bugs did not occur prior to the advent of AI, so Mythos finding 27 year-old bugs in OpenBSD leads me to believe that there is another, malevolent, time traveling AI out there that has introduced these bugs. An Angra Mainyu to Mythos' Ahuru Mazda.

Just to be talking about something else other than everything that's going on: there should be weight classes in running.

It's interesting that this is one of the first big Haberman/Swan leaky White House stories of Trump II. We used to get two or three of these a week but they mostly tightened up this time. Will be interesting to see if it's just about Iran or its the start of a new phase.

Again, I listened to this show. In this very program Tucker says he'd vote for Trump right now.

REBUKED

A few years ago, a driver in SF was mad at me about something and at a red light intentionally drove over my bike and then drove off (I somehow jumped away and was fine). It was so insane that other DRIVERS followed him and boxed him in and called the cops. Cops refused to charge him with anything.

The way to increase the birth rate is to get people who already decided to have kids to have ANOTHER kid, which does have some more obvious policy solutions, but everyone instead fixates on getting people on the fence to have their first kid, which is a much bigger lift.

As newsrooms have shrunk, the amount of admin and production work journalists have to do has come to occupy a not insignificant percentage of their daily tasks. But what if instead of spending a chunk of their day, say, copying and pasting stuff from Airtable to Wordpress they could... write more?

More impossible missions > more special operators > more YouTube shows interviewing retired special operators. Soon all content will just be retired special operators talking about their insane EDC to go to Walmart.

In Trump 1, you could game out pretty easily who the core of a 25th Ammendment secret planning group would be. A lot harder this time around.

Reasons to be skeptical about the military reporting their operations accurately are certainly more acute now under Trump but aren’t limited to concern about the Trump admin. Ask Pat Tillman’s family!

Doing Easter egg hunt at a friends house today. But as my kid was falling asleep she whispered “and first the Easter bunny will come to my house and hide eggs here.” So I had a fun 10 hours.

Interesting apotheosis of copaganda that we’re just supposed to believe this story from the military. Might be true! But I think we’re sort of past the presumption of regularity here.

Well, the third tantrum into a 7-hour plane flight has finally broken my 4-year-long ban on Paw Patrol. The one thing I had left to be superior about as a parent, gone in an instant. Weeping silently in the blue glow of the touch screen.

Thought I was on the wrong mailing list for a second.

To save Bluesky you must like my posts

Exactly correct. If you’ve been in media for the last 20 years, you see how AI writing will slot into capitalist enterprise of “word production” in a different (maybe clearer?) way than the outlines of the conversation usually take.

Only vaguely related to this but a few elections ago one of the Cambridge City Council candidates had "Turkeys" as one of the headers on his Issues page and I think about it at all the time.

Got to admit it's sort of funny to be having deep existential arguments about the struggle of the writing process and what machines may do to the meaning of the written word when this is the average reader.

Guy at the gym barbell squatting but in a weight vest. Truly what understanding of physics are people walking around with.

Delta Force comes full circle moment.

Just cannot say this enough: if I click on an Instagram ad that features an item of clothing, and i am taken to a generic part of your website and not the page for the specific item I saw in the photo, someone at your company should be put on a PIP.

Is anyone making this tendentious argument really pretending that someone who is planning on sending their kid to a New York City private school is going to do a few years in free preschool first? Why would you care if something is free for someone who won’t use it anyways.