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Earlier this week, I had the honor of breaking fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody. It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time.   In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity. Eid Mubarak, New York.

complete sidenote but i was v surprised by just HOW MANY TIMES i would have to read my novel at a granular level during the tradpub process. its like. johns not exaggerating by saying a dozen, lol. probs the strongest argument for writing the book u wanna read is that They Will Make You Read It

Though with tooling companies these days I really don‘t know how else you’d make a good exit or sustain the product to be real. I just wouldn’t sell to Sam fucking Altman personally speaking

thanks to AI our slow and humiliating national suicide will be punctuated by visual media that is so good even a dog could jack off to it

my Incident? String-Cheesed

i’m literally just vibing

Every American is an American! Let Americans Work!

like, the absolute minimum you would need to do to make ai generated code sustainable would be to transition to local open models. "everyone should use llms" is just absolutely not an acceptable option when it means "everyone should pay a small number of increasingly powerful and evil companies"

the rest of this thread is an interesting read even if i disagree with the thesis, but this part just makes no sense as a supporting argument. i do kind of like HFT as a metaphor for LLMs + tool call loops though.

marge

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we are doing austinsystems.org TONIGHT in beautiful ATX, and it is being sponsored by my work @ersc.io. you can either be there or you can be square, it's your choice 🫵🏻

you shouldn’t be surprised that this is printed in the Post, because the Post is garbage and this is exactly what you should expect from them.

THEY HAVE RESURRECTED MY SON

arrakis runs on Duncan

Private schools are going to ban computers entirely and the kids who attend them are going to have a huge leg up.

It’s fine, I should just probably read like 1200-2000 pages of lit this month and start contacting academics to see if they would like being interviewed and start writing a script, something I have literally never done before

> Within 5 years, Al is projected to eliminate 75% of our jobs. The biggest change in human history is here. why does anyone take this guy seriously?!

Interesting Rust position for those looking for one! ferrous-systems.com/blog/ide-com...

I think if you asked me to mock these guys then "desperately need therapy: will never get therapy" and "refuse to introspect ever" are things I coulda come up with. But. "Obviously when you introspect you just feel guilt, so clearly this is a plot against Great Men" is too perfect. Beyond me.

been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype is this anything

this man is 9/10ths of the way to his own podcast & stack of patreon subscribers already, and i believe this website can bully him the last 1/10th of the way there.

@isabel.kim you could fix this

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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

It’s not just higher ed though. It’s <waves hands> everything. This *is* modernity. Abstract of an essay now on my desk in copy edits:

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.

quick break from dooming for lazy sunday dinner. salmon marinaded in soy sauce, garlic, gochujang, and sugar. vacuum sealed + sous vide at 125°F for 40-ish mins, then seared in butter.

this isn’t a take it’s straight-up a fact

get you an accountant who knows what no_mangle means i guess

holy fuck i’m dooming again

I think I can recall at least a dozen professors and engineers who I saw over the last two years openly concede that they no longer saw the need for a few of their grad students/interns because of LLM tooling. Once again, if that isn’t a form of pulling up the ladder, then I don’t know what is.

So to sum it up, real-world, safe AI coding usage is to have a conversation with the computer for every single intentional change you want to make to your codebase. This is fun enough that it makes you feel faster, and you're actually not. I would never pay for this if my job weren't paying for it.

I know this thing is only actually speeding up my work in like 10% of cases where the task I'm doing is one level of complexity above a find-and-replace. For writing actual code, it's way slower than if I just do it. But talking to my little computer buddy gives me dopamine hits so I waste my time.

fyi the Catholic church’s stance on AI is quite good

big fan of Atwood doing a Socratic dialogue with Claude and driving to this point at the close. there are many ways of saying "this technology is interesting and powerful and significant and not as-advertised" with less subtlety.

I fell in love with this Jenny Holzer piece at the @brooklynmuseum.org yesterday, in the exhibit celebrating 200 years of this wonderful museum.

NYT came up with this headline in a lab to drive me insane

Jackie Chan’s Official Home Page in 1995

can i say something without everyone getting mad at me. i still dont really know what autotools is

www.theregister.com/2026/03/12/i... RIP to the man behind the funniest bit of all time: the invention of the null pointer

Happy Pi Day, Sickos. Let's remember back to the year I made a Venn Pie-agram

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I like using chain link fences to frame subjects in my photos — it’s much nicer than cursing the fences in my way. This is the MBTA Red Line coach yard in Boston Massachusetts. April 1, 2025

As someone who gets paid a lot of money to provide contract engineers for scientific industry who use a whole lot of AI, I can't disagree more. The best way to understand LLMs is that if you're about to run headfirst into a brick wall, they take you there faster.

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

The radical anti-tax activists have driven up our national debt to make themselves richer. It's the same playbook private equity has used to get rich killing companies. It is time to build our future instead of looting it: bethfordemocracy.com

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if they don’t put utopia’s name on the diploma we should riot