The most disappointing thing I’ve found using AI agents is you can’t enforce guardrails via memory or CLAUDE .md files. To an LLM, your instructions are just more text to probabilistically reason about. “Don't do X” simply cannot work. You must enforce deterministic rules outside the system.

this whole thread 🫣

HAVE WE ALL FELT THE BREEZE

The right: actual demons are persecuting us, we need to impregnate as many teenage girls as we can about this demonic threat Normal people: what the fuck Centrist dems: give us between $5 and $50 to find the middle position between you and my esteemed colleague on the other side of the aisle.

Naomi Klein is always excellent.

I bought an AC because I worry about my cat's health in this heat. She's not able to do cool baths and hates the fan, and also she's not a genius problem solver. I love the AC but can I just say I resent needing to become an AC expert just to survive the summer? It should be easier than this.

Literally manifesting a united front against the will of their own constiuency with a swiftness and vigor they could not muster to even feign resistance to open fascism

But I know if I had tried to build my activity up slowly while still in active post exertional malaise—as ignorant doctors often advise—I almost certainly would have made myself much worse.

Read the full thread to understand what a lot of people living with ME and Long Covid are living with

Four-year-old just told his toddler sister “it’s time for the hunt” and they both left the room. Not my business

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

I am unreasonably interested in govt uses of social media and have long held the belief that whoever is running the DSIT linkedin page is highly invested in a very sophisticated comedy bit with a long-term pay off, because what else can be the reason for this?

the key to understanding the rich pricks fretting about the left destroying 'the democratic party' is that when they say 'the democratic party' they mean their gentleman's club. that's where they go to do insider trading & extort the elderly with scam texts. you're not allowed in there

Do people realise how dangerously stupid Ezra Klein is?

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Like other diseases, mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) patients often find one type of medication more helpful than another, even if the mechanism of action is the same 🧵

Having a cat is just having a creature by your side doing creature noises: grunting, trilling, chirping, asking non-stop questions and trying to explain something very important as you go about your day

I was worried about my cat's health in the heat but she's sleeping with her head resting on my laptop power bank

the children clamour for mini mamdanis

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

Six years since the start of COVID and this type of misinformation by omission is still rampant. The best protection against airborne pathogens is wearing a high quality mask.

Burnham’s new chief of staff was chief executive of lobbying firm Flint It’s like the British political elite is addicted to conflicts of interest www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The thing about "heteropessimism" is that it is a catchphrase almost exclusively used to shame women for objecting to their own oppression as if it is cringe.

MORE SLOP FOR THE SLOP GOD!

We had our share of Centrist Dads lecturing us on how Biden was actually the most progressive presidency since FDR, with absolutely no sense of shame. Every counterpoint is met with "That's a pet issue, we must look past your purity tests"

Reminder that David Graeber had Keir Starmer pegged from the start: "The Labour Party under Keir Starmer will abandon its core idealism and principles and won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it."

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

at some point it’s just adopting prime ministers and feeding them to the cat

completely forgot that last week I saw a completely nude person tending to their garden in the distant view from an overground train

Here's my actual true opinion. The only way to fix all of this nonsense is rent affordability and health care . If people can afford the rent and get healthcare, then they can start and go to work for normal businesses, and write and make art and music. And there can be third places, etc etc.

My heart really does go out to all their respective exes

We would all be better off if infrastructure was updated to provide cleaner indoor air in public places, using technology that is already well understood and known to be safe-- it's just not happening.

The whole thread is upsetting but I want to ask my friends and colleagues this question, directly: are you ok with supporting a company that steals knowledge from people? Not in a vague sense. Directly steals from people we can name. Is this a company you feel good giving money to? It's ok to you?

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

all this talk about DISCLOSURE DAY and no one's discussed the weird way he ties it into E.T. at the end?

I spent many years of my adult life and career thinking I was dumb and didn't know what I was doing. Turns out men were just talking to me like I was dumb and didn't know what I was doing.

Thank you also to Semmelweis, who figured out doctors should wash their hands between touching dead bodies & delivering babies, & who was thanked for his contribution by being mocked & ostracized, thrown in an asylum, beat by guards, & died of an infected wound But #MasksInHealthcare would be cRaZy

People with Long Covid and ME deserve excellent supportive mental health care. That is why we are reaching out to #RCPsychIC to include current patient expertise in future policy. What can be done to move forward? Why did 58 charities & orgs sign an open letter with concerns?👇️ #HearOurVoices 🔄

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people with lifelong conditions are being put through “pointless” benefit reassessments, contrary to official guidance. My exclusive in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The main reason I’ve become such a “air conditioning is an essential life saving technology” advocate is because I was horrified to find out how many people seem to think that letting millions die during heat waves without it is better “for the greater good” of slowing climate change.

Wow did something happen after 2019

Nah we aren't doing this kind of what-aboutism in 2026. The fact that bad things already exist does not mean we should just keep doing more bad things.

It's not an inconsistency to criticize the only platforms which are available to you to voice criticisms on

the next industrial revolution off to an amazing start

“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”

burning twelve dollars of shale gas (probably more given how heavily subsidised these things are right now) in a residential memphis neighbourhood for two lines of CSS is not something i would personally describe as “fascinating”

just spoke to a recent UX grad, they’re doing user testing with Claude. no no ,I mean. Claude is the user. they’re. making user tests The user. is Claude, Claude is the user.

Pokémon Go to the Hague

Mamdani was (baselessly!) grilled about antisemitism by the national media for months before his election and Platner had a fucking nazi tattoo and appeared on an antisemitic YouTuber's channel and the national media was like, hey, boys will be boys. GOSH WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM I WONDER.

I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings.