You can't ignore politics.

Shut ICE down, remove the leadership, break DHS apart, and investigate their crimes.

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

I used to follow this Japanese guy that often went sailing for months and posted pics of his retro macintosh programming adventures. It was so 80s cyberpunk and I miss that. I wish I could be that cool.

The word debunk implies that the word bunk can mean putting out myths in the world.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Every American should be required to take a comprehensive literature class and given a ticket to visit 3 countries in Asia, Africa, and South America and forced to live like a local for two weeks. This would be my plan for the last year of high school if I was in charge.

What if instead of getting rid of plastics, because they're not going away, make plastic replacements that are just as good that are biodegradable. I'm seeing it more and more with utensils and other items. Plastic is a wonder material, but we can make good plastic replacements. What am I missing?

When the empire collapses, can quickly settle it with decent countries so that the world doesn't have to suffer again?

Five years ago, this great moment was captured on video:

鬱がある でも愛が心中にある

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Happy Three Kings Day!

Man, I just woke up! 🤦

良いお年を！

I feel like... there's a huge cave.... and it's echoing... iing.. iinng iiiin.. iii.

Regression to mean also means that all AI slop eventually starts to look the same. Those folks telling you can't tell AI from human output are gaslighting you. We can tell them apart. It's pretty obvious, if you put in a little mental effort.

Over a year of learning Japanese. Almost two years now. Though, I’ve mostly dropped Duolingo and do immersion, I still keep my streak. ほとんどニ年間日本語を勉強します。

It’s great that 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is coming right out swinging. Not having a second of this bullshit! I think coddled hacks like Bari Weiss have no idea what to do with righteous fury like this except, if anything, somehow play victim. Let’s see!

I don't see the benefit in letting people create fake images in mass quantities.

I'm home alone

Give the government an inch...

I’m outside walking my dogs and a small lizard 🦎 jumps on my phone and scares me 😂

How I'm trying to acquire Japanese: 1. Anki vocab deck in the morning or throughout the day. 2. Read 3 to 5 stories in Tadoku at my level (currently level 1) without looking up words.

So the apple podcast app sucks dkfanguage learning podcasts, as in the experience sucks for searching for specific content and I can't make playlists

Tech bros have very limited knowledge of the humanities and it shows.

Someone really ought to explain to kids going to college what the real difference between a BA and a BS is and that it doesn't make one degree more legit than another.

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

Web Apps are both underrated and overrated. Electron apps? Bad. Web apps served in the browser you can also install as chrome app? Good.

org charts should be flat lines

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

Fuck Tim Sweany

Context is everything.

Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.

Python is a compiled bytecode language that pretends to be interpreted.

The field of AI is also kind of boring, ngl.

Getting to a point in my Japanese vocab were I can decipher the meaning of a lot of written text.

日本は素晴らしかった

I don't code with AI, at all.

in my experience the application framework has never been the bottleneck in an application or software, it’s been the software architecture design and the infrastructure. the framework, languages, tools, are just implementation details that nobody cares about and make little difference.

The internet was better when distributed.

Call me insane, I probably am, but I'd go extreme on the other end with tariffs and eliminate almost all of them.

Leaving Japan, I don't want to! i want to stay!

I'm in Japan and while I'm here having fun, I've also noticed that they're implementing a lot facial recognition technology at stations and other places and it's kinda scary how quickly they're just accepting it.

日本に行きます。楽しみです。

Learning only happens when you're uncomfortable.