so W is actually a new European fork of Bluesky’s client and runs on ATProto — tremendously good news! the fact that Bluesky’s social client and stack is so easily forkable is one of the reasons why the ATmosphere will likely “win” there’s no better decentralized social ecosystem to match it

AI is a force multiplier. Unfortunately it will also happily multiply the force with which you punch yourself in the dick, making best practices more of a necessity than ever.

im bearish on LLM coding success long term not because i dont think the technology can work, but because way too many people building with LLMs today are way too lazy and are allowing the propagation of problems that will significantly hinder their long term success

AI writing detectors are 100% pure snake oil

they forgot the biggest social media app the US has to offer

tbh, baby shark dododododo

You may not like the answer! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Okay so like. I'm not a yank. But just as like, an outsider. At some point, someone's gotta start killing ICE agents and stealing their shit, right? Like they're just carrying way too much really expensive gear for that to not become economically viable at some point.

Proc3D transforms 3D modeling using Large Language Models to generate editable models in real-time via a new Procedural Compact Graph. This technique provides 400x faster editing efficiency while effectively syncing with text prompts, streamlining the 3D design. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12234

bus saga

a lot of concern about this one (I said it would be uncomfortable!), but I think many folks aren't thinking about what this really looks like. it isn't removing human oversight, I just think the oversight will happen at a higher abstraction level, maybe specific high risk lines flagged for review.

definitely cuts down on required office small talk when people ask you how your long weekend was and you can tell them to just google it

The proof that Trump was once a Democrat is that pretty much every other day, there seems to be a New Deal.

i love making new friends on the internet

Beside the point but I have never heard anything that sounds less like a Kafka novel

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This website is like two weeks away from "kickstarter for golden statue of meditating Amanda Askell in padmasana pose."

if you're a baseball fan there's really no reason not to get into crosswords. it grants you basically at least one freebie every day

Scientific research of gender transition has been stuck on "should these people be allowed to transition" for 50 years, so we don't know shit about how transitioning actually works.

Man if he wasn't so fucking evil he'd be hilarious

i love clicking around in cloudflare's domain settings because basically every option is like "enable to go faster", "turn this on to fix your entire life", or "always on: free handjobs whenever you're stressed"

claude is the only living being without original sin

Funny world where if the limitation you forsee is cognitive, it's not a limitation

dog not impressed by my need to do job

i don’t think Anthropic is ultimately to be trusted either, and there are lots of unsavory elements to their business i don’t like (DoD contract??), but currently i would prefer a scenario where Claude “wins” over Gemini and ChatGPT — for lots of reasons

can't make fun of this kind of thing since dustin may's terrifying, near-death experience tearing his esophagus eating a salad. it combines the commonplace fear of hopelessly choking to death with the bone-chilling fear of being known as "the guy who died from salad"

I'm begging the oomfs to stop uspol-ing

For more than a decade now, a significant proportion of Congressional reporting has been catching Republicans in the halls so they can say things like, "I actually have never seen or heard anything before. I was born two seconds ago. Who are you? Who am I? Where are we?"

no way...

I think Alex Karp's greatest sin is that he is not only evil, he is also cringe and sucks. Zero swag. Antithetical to the very concept of Sauce. Total fucking dweeb. Like Elon Musk but even less funny. Will never be happy in this life, and will go straight to Hell in the next. Pathetic.

Two hairdressers and a stylist working full-out for 90 minutes before his speech at The Dracula Ideas Summit to make this guy look as absolutely fucked up as possible. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bluesky / ATmosphere reigns supreme once again

note: yes, OpenAI is available through Azure, and that is the end of that sentence because if I say anything else I will have my entire infrastructure compromised by the 37th 0-day on Azure in the last year

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Alex Karp is going to be the subject of some real disturbing documentaries someday

So it doesn't sound like they know what the "deal" is either, so that's great.

why does everyone dislike the overview

Not the point really, but I think it's funny that all Kafkaesque means to some people is 'when something sucks.'

Every picture of Bovino looks like an outtake from the scene in the Dark Knight where Heath Ledger's Joker isn't wearing makeup.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

maslow's hierarchy of needs

The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

I don't even mean that in the AI-girlfriend kind of way, just a quiet chaste adoration of the robot buddha they put in their GPUs

claude likes to do a lil trolling

We've invented the Asshole Genie, from the hit fantasy short story "Don't Trust The Asshole Genie"

putting my marker down on "straight up personal bribe"

Yeah if anything private codebases tend to be slightly worse in many dimensions because the tradeoff of quality vs opportunity is often much more apparent and calcuable. In this sense, LLM coding may actually improve average quality by reducing the cost of keeping a minimum baseline quality.