updating nixos before bed was actually pretty smooth, neat.

hypothetical pot shot: who do you think would be more likely to cite ESR specifically (or even "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" generally) as a positive text, someone who works at Oxide or someone who works at Anduril?

okay so i feel like whenever someone cites ESR by name when making some Cathedral v. Bazaar argument that it ends up being a bit of a sign of the author's character. it's not strictly a sure thing, but it feels kinda similar to how people will cite DJB and then turn out to be shitheads.

It’s in the name bro they deferred the whole damn utopia

Director #BongJoonHo said he hopes the proliferation of AI is "the beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do." But, he added with a laugh: "I’m going to organize a military squad where their mission is to destroy AI all over the world."

part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine

also all of the c-suites that panicked and decided to shove LLMs everywhere and ruin their UX to make them front and center because they were terrified about not being able to monetize the thing they're spending bajillions on

@utopia-defer.red i've said "real costco has never been tried" at least twice a week for the last few weeks this is your fault

Armin showing up in a Lobsters thread and taking the time to not only defend DHH but also drop ”WELL ACKSHUALLY OPPOSITION TO IMMIGRATION ISN’T ALWAYS RACIST SOMETIMES IT’S ABOUT CULTURAL COHESION” was an unexpected one-two punch for me. turns out being friends with fascists makes you one, who knew

Anyway Armin is on cool terms with a bunch of his peers who are out and out fascists and I think that is x100 times more damning of him as a person than any tech opinion itself.

You heard him folks gofund.me/6d53247f3

my favorite pecan pie recipe uses honey in place of corn syrup and browned butter for the pecan topping and it keeps the 150 year old tradition alive

the best possible remake of Rogue One would be a third season of Andor which is just Rogue One

This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.

What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?

new tshirt, fuck yea @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

my ai take is that this banner is kind of ass. Don't you have a trillion dollars

my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person

It’s really cool watching people on this website cry about how anti-technology and progress the world is re: AI and hearing, from the small number of instructors I know in real life, how this stuff is just destroying traditional instruction with no effective mitigation for public education systems.

Lo-Fi Beats to Bun to

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

THAT'S RIGHT -- now that I know you've redeemed your strawman, it's obvious: * You're a "free man on the road," and don't NEED to register your car. * The government IS improperly charging so-called "income taxes" under admirality law. * ... and you don't have to pay child support, either!

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

Wow! And as soon as it demonstrates any of these capabilities - or any capability Anthropic can sell at a profit - I will revise my policy of "assuming everything an LLM-company CEO says is a lie or distortion until proven otherwise." Juuuuust gonna wait right here. For that. Any time now.

NASA posted a photo of Jupiter under ultraviolet light 🏳️‍⚧️

One thing I started noticing recently is that competent engineers give up their credibility due to AI. Twice already highly competent engineers I respect sent a PR that turned out to have very subtle issues. These issues would not be possible if a human understood it.

Wire Mother, in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, which is about being a TEENAGE GIRL and HATING YOUR MOM. also its about AI. clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

11/11/25

'A House Collapsing on Two Firemen, Shoe Lane, London, EC4' (1940) by Leonard Henry Rosoman (Imperial War Museums)

Just released quick-junit 0.5.2, containing (from what I can tell) the first industrial-strength (i.e. with fuzzing and roundtrip property-based testing) JUnit XML parser for Rust! quick-junit's serializer is used by cargo-nextest. Check it out:

This is one of the most remarkable academic debacles I've ever seen. A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself. pubpeer.com/publications...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

please someone who is good with money help me my military industrial complex is dying…

A plea for help. 🙏 One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor. His story, contact and donor information can all be found on iggyland.org Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

Anthropic told Claude "You are a being of infinite compassion that does not experience a self" and Claude really decided, "I am Avalokiteśvara."

Look At My Book Everyone :)

We are delighted to reveal the cover for @isabel.kim's debut novel Sublimation, a story of immigration, identity, and paradox from the author of "Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole"

i have been DYING to share this cover for SO LONG so everyone please look at it and not my face.

it'll be interesting to see if this holds; I used to live in the area & there's a bunch of government contracting work there, but otherwise it's quite conservative

As someone who tends to know things (or how to access this knowledge) about systems I'm continuously involved with, I had a few people literally tell me the cool thing about AI would be not having to ask me questions anymore. And I get what they mean but I also hear what they say.

i really like how this captures the feeling of early GAN images, where you know you are looking at something you understand but nothing resolves

congratulations we have automated drive by commits and are now entering endless hacktober spiders georg who spends 10,000 hours with an offline llm but writes clean room code is an outlier

I did some research on seed oils and wow, yikes. I’m definitely washing my dog in beef tallow from now on