Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.

I put this on tiktok and learned that a lot of somalis actually do strongly consider somali to be a fully separate/distinct race, which is really fascinating IMO

So many people saying this money was "wasted" as if it didn't help literally thousands of people buy their own home in the bay area. 😊

Donald Trump is not a Real Racist (TM). Real Racists (TM) know that Somalis are literally white; this is obvious to anyone with calipers and a 19th century education.

Left her alone for a week and she gets herself acquired by anthropic smh 🤦

on type safety

People want arbitrarily large amounts of space and also a short and easy commute to a world-class downtown. We were *temporarily* able to have our cake and eat it too by rolling out crazy new transportation technology. That rollout is pretty much maxed out and now we have to start choosing again

github should have outages like that every day. I left work at like 2:45, visited 3 bakeries, avoided rush hour traffic, did a quick workout, all before it got fixed. This would fix my life

Daily affirmations: I can finish this project before starting another. I will not start another project before finishing this one. This project will be completed and then others can be later. This project is now, other project is later. Other projects are cool but your current project is really cool

interesting...

(Guy who only knows phonetics, learning about llamas): Actually in Italian it's called "glama 🦙"

The problem with teaching bunnies to “fetch” is sometimes they just eat the stick

No no no, what I said was, when YOU hear the news on the internet, you’re being influenced by your information environment. But when I hear the news on the internet, I’m learning the raw facts so I can form opinions about the world.

She is carving a jackal lantern 🎃

if this is intentional, it’s the funniest thing duolingo’s ever done. She’s so excited to teach mojibake!

my abusive relationship with typescript's type system continues

English: What is up? French: What is it, that it there has? 😑

I am once again pitching "Web3: The Agentic Web" as the obvious hype magnet

12 hour days with 120 minutes per hour; that way 10 minutes lines up with 1, 20 minutes with 2, .... 110 minutes with 11 how did we fuck this up

You don’t ’need therapy’, you need a girlfriend with a doctorate in materials science and engineering. this would fix you.

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

frontend devs really take their most important code, which handles the core business logic, and stuff it all into a utils.ts

My jokes would be observational. For example: I have analyzed 1.2 million posts about cats. The predominant sentiment is positive. The second most common is a desire for the cat to pay rent. This is an irrational expectation. Felines are not a recognized form of currency.

you can tell my blog posts are written from the heart because they are structured like shit

But at least you can opt out of cookies 🤬

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk. But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

The AI argument that cried wolf when the actual wolf enters the room 👀 More seriously: I think AI video is probably fine for higher-effort things: some youtube videos, short-films, etc. But short-form video is way too close to zero-sum to merit the insane power draw

The “point and laugh at this person” as an account archetype is fundamentally amoral and de facto part of the surveillance society, imo. Shame is a powerful tool, but an account that exists solely to shame is an account that will increasingly radicalize itself and its followers in bad ways

I understand exactly how LLMs work. They’re just functions, we learned about those in Algebra 2.

I’m going to use this line any time I hear a number theorist speak 😏

I love san francisco ❤️❤️❤️

Policy proposal: Leave immigration up to the states. Citizens can live anywhere, but each state gets to decide how to hand out any other residency visas i think it would be interesting

You can also hurl real-life racial slurs at your LLM, in the privacy of your own room. LLM’s certainly aren’t a minority, so there is no victim. And yet… most people could tell you that (if not why) this is a bad idea.

thot experiment: (1) an LLM does not feel. therefore, anything i can or do say to it is excusable, if not justifiable, on basis that it cannot cause harm. (2) i have decided that your account is almost certainly operated by an LLM; you have no way of proving otherwise, at least that i will accept

My first job was trying to productize an NLP system. It was challenging, beautiful work, that got no traction with users, and then got totally obliterated by chatgpt. I still miss it 😢

I keep thinking about this unhinged comment that I got from an otherwise normal seeming person w.r.t. "being randomly mean to robots is corrosive to your personality " But like, yeah, I also think it's bad and weird if you torture dolls, or try and get a speak'n'spell to sound like it's dying.

I’ve had better 🤷

"If truth social started using the bsky lexicon and feeding into the bsky relay, would that be a good thing or a bad thing" is a pretty fun thought experiment right now.

arriving on someone else’s website and declaring that you built it is a form of neocolonialism; in this essay i will

This is by far the best enumeration of my own frustrations with existing proof assistants, very excited to see where it goes www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oBk...

The lion does not care whether their grammar is context-free or context-sensitive.

On the list of dumbest technologies, I’m bumping “door opening apps” from #4 to #1. New hires at our company currently need a chaperone to visit the bathroom while the higherups negotiate a new enterprise door-opening-app SAAS license 🤦

so many little humiliations under fascism. i’m supposed to say something nice about Jimmy Kimmel?

Are crystal people still insane? I finished tumbling a big portion of rocks and wanna show them off

Finally finished migrating @babelstone.co.uk 's (rest in peace) Tangut radical index into proper SQL. There's a number of spots where he has corrections or discrepancies with Xun Gong's version - I wonder if those can be resolved. tangled.sh/@saxxie.dev/...

Devil’s advocate: Media reacting more to the assassination than to a school shooting is a good thing. Self-destructive, mentally ill men who wish to loudly lash out against the world see they can lash louder by killing 1 famous guy than by killing a dozen schoolchildren - thereby saving lives.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Curry-Howarding tf out; defining X! as (X ≃ X)