Sticking with car dependence is a failure of imagination, particularly when the wide range of benefits of ending car dependence is so clear.

I know neurodivergent people are supposed to be the awkward ones, but has the rest of the world considered they are Simply Unaware of how EXTREMELY AWKWARD they are

1. Find mountain 2. Walk up mountain 3. Walk back down mountain

To quote Marx, AI teaching aids are "an instrument of torture, since the machine does not free the worker from work, but rather deprives the work itself of all content." Interacting with the students is the content of teaching. I prefer that nothing take that away from me.

"The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer." —Zadie Smith

OH: You are my favorite disorganized treasure 🥰

About half the time I think the most important bit of wisdom I’ve acquired over my adult life is ‘don’t confuse annoying people with being good at arguing’

Dear United do you have any idea how your passengers are reacting to your pilots saying “Thank You Elon Musk” over the intercom?

“I can’t tell the difference between AI slop and PhD level research”, isn’t a great flex?

In a world where success means gaining time, thinking has a single but irredeemable fault; it’s a waste of time. —Lyotard

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Trans youth are loved and valued.

I guess we're just a crazy bunch We think kids in school should get free lunch I guess just give us all lobotomies We don't think dropping bombs will make us free HEY HEY HEY

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

no reason not to primary chuck schumer now

The actual agency of design is vested in both the designer and the designed (whatever is designed goes on designing). --Fry

Hope you have time today to do what you love.

Dear NYC youngsters... as an elder... I am here to tell you... not listening to a word Bill Clinton says is a good rule of thumb. Don't listen to sexual predators (and don't rank them either). Thank you for your attention to this matter.

“Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.” — Walter Benjamin, “Berlin Chronicle” #philosophy #philsky

Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.

Oh, here's another one: there's no such thing as version 2 or priority 2. By the time that version 1 is shipped, there's already a new set of priority 1 work. Things either get built, or don't. Any priority category besides the top one is "don't."

how long until Democratic politicians need to have security details that are willing to prevent them from being illegally assualted?

OH: “I will use any excuse to play brain-alpha in your face.”

The sense of omnipotence which expanding technology generated has proved a misleading one, and it has now become clear that technology itself has no tendency to make people behave better, only to distract them more effectively from what they are up to. -- Wickedness, Mary Midgley

Can’t bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. -James Joyce, Ulysses [Nabokov’s map and reading notes of the paths Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom took through Dublin, on June 16, 1904] #Bloomsday

"It is ironic that engineered safety devices sometimes contribute to accidents themselves, mostly by increasing the complexity of the system and the attendant potential for unexpected interactions." – Perry, Wears, Cook. (2005) journals.lww.com/journalpatie...

i know i wittgenstein post too much but i would love to see his reaction to the wholesale capitulation of critical thinking facilities to machines whose entire model of the world begins and ends in language, a medium he regarded as intrinsically impoverished

Minnesota noice

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton

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"Who is your father?" Plato: "Socrates" Aristotle: "Plato" Descartes: "Aristotle" Hume: "Descartes" Kant: "Hume" Hegel: "Kant" Marx: "Hegel" Nietzsche: "He's dead."

In a world of foxes and hedgehogs... be the turtle.

First they came for... ...and I'm Speaking Up. #nokings #pittsburgh

Steel don't kneel, Jagoff. #nokings #pittsburgh

Pittsburgh showed up for #nokings

This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree

We drill into military officers that Members of Congress have Constitutional oversight rights, Members outrank four-stars in protocol, and even Congressional staffers are treated like generals/admirals. To see sworn federal officers manhandle and handcuff a U.S. Senator... I'm still shook up.

I just saw someone use the expression "LLM hallucination propagation" to describe the compounding and self-reinforcing hallucinations when you let an LLM access your codebase, as analogous to NaN propagation in graphics 10/10 no notes lol

“A community of semantic illiterates, of persons unable to perceive the meaning of what they read and hear, is one of perilous equilibrium. Advertisers, as well as demagogues, thrive on this illiteracy.” – Stuart Chase, 'Tyranny of Words'

When is the event horizon of the General Strike singularity?

Rand Paul's neighbor got prison time and a $580,000 fine for assaulting a senator!!