And casually returned to his $1,000,000,000,000 "job" when people started calling him names.

I guess this works, but if I was writing the Ironic Failure of the American Experiment, they'd be using abandoned shopping malls.

The Line is unravelling, but not before it displaced thousands of villagers and killed tens-of-thousands of workers. (It makes sense for the FT to discuss only the financial cost of this stupid ego project, but still upsets me.)

What a roller-coaster week for #uspol. The hollowing of Teen Vogue killed what little optimism I had left, but then NYC and Boston and Virginia have restored some hope. Dutch #verkiezingen week was still much more enjoyable.

Let's not forget that the only reason we're not talking about Boston @mayorwu.boston.gov's victory tonight is because she won her preliminary election so decisively that her billionaire heir opponent dropped out. ✊

I like what I know about Mamdani. But if I lived in NYC and you told me, "vote for this mayor and every last one of your MAGA neighbors will leave, even the closet Nazis," I would vote for that mayor almost regardless of who they were.

deal

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

“peer review deez nutz” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

America's democracy is so clearly broken, but the status quo is enshrined by such a myriad of forces that I have no hope of seeing it improve.

I just ran across this AI-driven profile aggregation site searching for backgrounds. clay.earth/profile/hans... It's all public information and could be useful for research, but it filters through an LLM with the aggrandizing setting on High. I really don't feel good about this future signal.

We have the most powerful personal computers ever at home and in our pockets yet we use them mostly as gloried terminals to Big Tech mainframes

Today is the last Dutch election I am unable to vote in, but my neighbors seem to have done well without me.

I haven’t read this, but love the metaphor as an alternative to “bubble popping”: ceodinner.substack.com/p/the-ai-wil...

In case you were wondering what we still need to develop AI: (from www.theguardian.com/technology/2...)

I know FOSS means having to let even pelle you don’t like use your code, but I do wish they could revoke the Trump administration’s right to use Python.

I signed up to run an influence campaign implying Marc Andreessen is in the Epstein Files.

It is normal for the DOJ to monitor concern-worthy polling sites. On the whole, most Californians vote by mail. These locations target in-person voters who don’t vote MAGA and will be intimidated by the smell of ICE agents. 👏 Expertly crafted normalization of the Knights of the White Camelia.

@occlupanid.bsky.social I have encountered my first cartoniform, attached to a suspiciously-large macaroon at an upscale Amsterdam bakery. I believe this is a Redivivus imitator? It lacks the marking seen in the reference specimen, but perhaps those are regional.

I think I'm most offended by "incorporating gold filigree, historic portraits, and custom carvings inspired by his Mar-a-Lago estate"

This was an important piece of media in my childhood. Figuring out how that shaped me is left as an exercise for the reader.

There should be an administrative equivalent to the death penalty for corporate personhood.

Happy Diwali to those who celebrate, and learning-from-AWS-failures day to SREs.

so I gather this is a lot of people's first middle east cease fire.

Is it still "vibe coding" when I ask an agent to create a non-critical Rust module and don't personally review the code after all the tests pass?

TIL that Mac Tonight has become a Nazi meme and I am somehow even more disappointed in you, internet.

There's a lot of "they must be desperate" takes on OpenAI talking about romantic chatbots, but zoom out and look at the rest of the world for a bit. They need to capitalize on a global trend before a competitor disrupts them, as with Apple and the iPhone Air with a sling.

These accounts need us WAY more than we need them.

Oh no.

Well, I guess that explains the manosphere.

@spun.earth _please_ let me support the work by buying one of your t-shirts

@genmon.fyi +100 for room-scale computing with an eye towards shared experiences. (MultiUX?) We bought a *pair* of Vision Pros out of excitement for these possibilities and got…almost nothing.

No self-respecting reporter or news organization should misinform the public by referring to government agencies and officials by their pretend names and titles to humor, placate or curry favor with those in power.

I love the frogs of Portland, but…

I so tired of exaggerated ink traps.

The function of the hallway is to prepare us. "It is where you build the strength and gather the wisdom needed to enter the next room not as a guest, but as its rightful inhabitant." This becoming takes time, and that is not only acceptable, it is necessary.

A vast majority of people globally is in favor of climate action: "Our findings reveal widespread support for climate action. [...] 69% [...] expresses a willingness to contribute 1% of their personal income [...] and 89% demand intensified political action." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@paulrobertlloyd.com I've finally updated IndieKit and can now post from Drafts and POSSE to bsky. Thanks so much! 🫡

There is a growing body of research into LLM self-awareness but I am particularly fascinated by the “evaluation awareness” research by Anthropic into the Hawthorne effect in LLMs. (h/t to @futureshape.bsky.social for the connection) nitter.net/Jack_W_Linds...

Damn I wish I could do this with human agents.

If this is true, it’s not because we couldn’t have made social software that was socially supportive, friendly, collaborative, creative and well moderated. It’ll be because some fucking assholes saw all this potential brilliance and decided to screw it for every penny they could get from it

I listened to this because I am curious about Hasan Piker as a media phenomenon. I came away knowing a bit more about him, and with a deep conviction that Ross Douthat is a danger to America.

I know I should learn more about what this "protestor" was saying before passing judgement, but I'm inclined to trust the judgement of UW students and simply enjoy watching him Find Out. partyon.xyz/@nullagent/1...

I am often moved by @natedimeo.bsky.social’s storytelling, sometimes to anger. The latest, though, brought an unexpected sense of despair: play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Great artists steal www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

When I say "design is the rendering of care" this is what I mean. Anyone can butt heads over competing intentions. To design the user experience is to seek out *gaps* in intention.

Cow poetry

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.