Giving my son a lesson on the power of the internet that ranting about school can reach a million people.

Game of life whose evolution rule instantiates cute eyes whenever it sees a non-cute eye, and births the universe.

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth" was a message delivered by dinosaur jesus, and the K-T extinction fulfilled the prophecy.

Do hobbits have hobbit sized cats, or is owning a cat for a hobbit like owning a bobcat?

This is so much more elegant.

Yep: we used to have two types of SWEs: wizards, going through CS programs; and sorcerers: math/sci-folk who taught themselves how to function in tech world as they went (+might not even know what a "red-black tree" is, if it didn't come up at work). Warlock SWEs have been a long time coming!

Someone asked how so many parents could let this happen, and there are a few explanations. One is that kids are just not very good at telling you what's going on in school. It is very difficult to get detailed information out unless you have the time to sit in class and observe as a parent aide.

It's frankly inappropriate.

How much was Borlaug motivated by Malthus specifically? I don't think we should hold failed doom predictions against their advocates if those predictions motivated people to act to prevent that doom.

Dunkirk for getting oil past the strait.

Man, if Indian holidays were just a month or two later in the year they could form perfect syncretic holidays, Diwali with Christmas, and Holi with Easter. They're just a little too early for that to work.

When I wrote this I really thought it was some minor thing that very few people would be interested in. I had no idea how many kids were affected and how much anger there was out there about it.

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I wonder how much of this persists because kids don't know it can be any other way.

Man, I wish I had written this earlier with how far it has taken off.

If qualia are physical then it would be cool if there are drugs that increase your qualia without changing them at all, just giving you a greater quantity of qualia for all the experiences you already have.

Hey 👋 CLAUDaddies 🤖😍 Did you know 📊 that Claude can take 😩 a FULL 💦 1️⃣ MILLION tokens DEEP 🍆 in its context window 🪟🍑?? That's EXTENDED 🫠 THINKING 🧠 baby and the OUTPUT 💦 just keeps 👏 COMING 👏 AND 👏 COMING 👏

Claude is pretty good at this (with steering), here's a horny copypasta addressed to Rorschach from Blindsight: > 😵‍💫🤯💫 SCRAMBLE 🍳🧠⚡ my somatosensory cortex 🤤😮‍💨🥴 like YES 😳👉👈 hijack 🔓 my Broca's 🗨️💀 area 🪦 make me 👅💋🫦 speak in TONGUES 🌀🎢🕳️ that mean NOTHING 🚫🫥☁️ the way YOU 🫵 mean NOTHING 💀✨🕸️

I challenge anyone mad at this to avoid attributing bad motives to the people involved. This sort of thing does not happen because anyone's intentions are bad.

For pi day, instead of a lattice we made a pile of pis.

Universal Basic Interestingtimes

I think this is an important pattern that will become more important. Our society is laden with well-intentioned rules and policies that do limited harm only because the humans don’t implement them faithfully.

I think he just doesn't know what the words mean.

Is it better or worse for x-risk if one AI company gets an insurmountable lead?

accidental political alignment chart

Seconded. It's great.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should wither the curiosity of one of these little ones with the UX from hell and the problem queue from lesson one extending into eternity.

The tallest weed gets the yank.

It used to be that the worst that could happen in a public school was you'd get a bad teacher, and the parents could complain and probably get you moved to a different teacher. But now the entire district has a multi-year contract with the Torment Nexus

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If I were to give my past self advice, I would have told him not to spend any time waiting to see if things get better. You wait a little bit, and before you know it the school year is over.

You are here

You've got to see it to bereave it

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

When you chose a school for your kids, you probably didn't realize you were choosing educational software, but that choice of software might be more consequential for your kid than the choice of school. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/o...

When you chose a school for your kids, you probably didn't realize you were choosing educational software, but that choice of software might be more consequential for your kid than the choice of school. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/o...

That's not an oil spill, that's a groundoil replenishment pool

Oil floats right? why do you even need the big boats? can't you just dump it in the water and skim it off on the other side?

The position "straight lines on log plots are straight" needs an avatar as compelling as the "nothing ever happens" guy.

Programmers often tried to claim that writing code was an act of communicating to other people, rather than to the compiler, and it was only ever in a very romanticized sense that this was true. The compiler was always still the primary audience, even if we didn't want to think so.

This seems true. You can only maintain that these things don't work if the most important quality of your work is not whether the work is completed but instead what it means to you.

Butterflies are the insect equivalent of flowers. They are the reproductive forms of the caterpillars that are otherwise invisible to us, and burst into color near the end of their life, like a sunflower.

I feel like "ground truth" should have its etymology based in electrical grounding, even though it doesn't.

Laminar flow

I've heard many people say that mining the strait would harm Iran in the long run, but why couldn't they have mines they can remotely disable? That seems like a simple technology on the scale of what militaries routinely do.

High perplexity tweet.

Somehow after turning 40 I developed an intense desire to wear novelty socks. I don't know how it happened. It was like a salmon swimming home.