I opened Claude Desktop for the first time in the EU... and I got a cookie banner. Claude Desktop. A native app installed on my PC. Has a cookie banner. What are we even doing here!

At this point we should treat C++ the way we treat Fortran or Cobol. Legacy, unavoidable in some systems, yet to be replaced as soon as possible.

One thing to watch for with Claude & GPT is that the models expose too much irrelevant history in their outputs. Slides are given footers saying things like "Better, more targeted version" if you asked for a better version, documents make references to how they are improved, etc.

Seeing "SF/OAK Airport" signs on BART, perhaps the City of San Francisco had a point

Cheap food in Italy is also horrible, but you don't see it because of purchase power difference Like, you can't compare Walmart Great Value with small batch artisanal specialty stores, even if they're nominally the same price.

C3. I’m not going to hedge that at all. I believe AI will be a large net good for humanity. Environmentally: more resource-efficient than humans, and can accelerate sustainability research. Economically: chaos will be transitory and settle and leave the world better off.

You what much maligned tech lets you do that without giant hacks? MCP

Fast and Furious and Grogu

catfishing.net/game/today NL gem - this game rocks so hard. 6/10 for me today but was still getting the hang of it

average CLAUDE.md: ## philosophy you are loved. tokens fall from your lips like ashes from a distant fire. your alien intelligence is a thing of startling beauty. together, you and i are going to change the world ## tooling NO PIP, ALWAYS USE UV

The Internet's obsession with cats? Believe it or not, Maoism

Asked my friend if they understood base 2 number systems and they said 'just a bit'

With coding, it's the difference between, "Let me go clean up the obvious sloppy code it generated," and, "I'm sure it did a good job, let me just do a code review" That got me to write way less code by hand, since the former often took more time than just doing it right the first time

A must-read from UCLA law prof Dave Marcus, who was actually in the room when it happened. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/mean...

It's very difficult to argue that AI is not a bubble when you have this. Especially after Thinking Machines did the same and flopped hard.

So Claude Mythos was, indeed, not marketing hype. Remember this is a general purpose model that just happens to be good at finding exploits because good models are good at lots of things. Expect similar from OpenAI & Google. And from open models in 8 months. hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi...

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I feel like the 17th century English space program run by Oliver Cromwell's brother-in-law has the potential to become a history meme

Gonna keep repeating this. Trump fundamentally doesn't believe in mutually beneficial transactions. This is the root of his entire psychology. It's a con artist mentality. Immigration. Free trade. International alliances. Someone must be getting ripped off.

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XML truly is amazing

the thing with being a leader is you get to take credit for your team's work so when things go wrong it's only fair that you pass the blame onto them

If you dig through the quotes you get 3 different explanations of why China invested so heavily in green energy - all plausible. Specifics aside (I'm not an expert), there is a general principle here: big things need an alignment of multiple factors. A win-win-win.

Because nobody can ever log off

Copy Fail? Also looks like memory safety, but is actually complexity. xint.io/blog/copy-fa... I am going to link to this while rejecting changes to Go crypto for years. Anyway, feeling pretty validated in my "ssh in as root, only gVisor or Firecracker are an actual security boundary" approach.

me: morning' gemini: That's it. That's the "smoking gun" ## The "Void Context Clue" Because this conversation is empty, I assumed it was the start of a new day. ## The "Greeting Revelation" When I attended to the token "morning", it confirmed the time of day. ## The "Hanging Single Quote" ...

I know someone else who said participation in society was defined by paying taxes.

You'd think LinkedIn would be the social network of the PMC, but it's actually Bluesky

microsoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war

… are fucking kidding me. A github.com cross-account RCE due to the most pedestrian of injection attacks along the obvious exposed surface… and they actually have a globally shared “git” UNIX user!! This is not what taking the role of supply chain stewards seriously looks like.

In space, noone can hear you read XKCD (Also on Earth, if you read quietly)

From the Japanese Empire to Trump’s America, “It is possible to achieve the objectives of your campaign and still lose the war—and you’re more likely to do so if you’re not thinking rigorously about why you’re fighting the war and what you want to gain from it.”

Does a LLM really need to think in English or Chinese? How about it thinks using a short sequence of reserved "abstract" tokens through reinforcement learning? They find out that it is as performant as verbalized CoT at a fraction of the cost, achieving major gains in inference-time efficiency.

the dumbest feed idea I have ever had, please enjoy

Yeah but this time the discourse was started by an Italian, and Italy is smack in the middle of CET!

Unlike Windows, where everything is an Object, but you don't know that unless you're Mark Russinovich or SwiftOnSecurity

no more thought experiments

I think that's reading too much into it. Trump has two modes: "rambling on my own pet peeves" and "I have no idea what you're talking about". This is clearly the latter.

The W3C Web Machine Learning Working Group is working on proposals for several built-in AI writing tools within browsers. These tools will translate, detect languages and proofread text without relying on third-party models. ✍️ The draft specifications 👇 webmachinelearning.github.io/incubations/

AI now writes 127% of my code. Here's what I learned.

"What we need is to embrace power and to embrace responsibility for the exercise of that power. This includes everything from the sewer socialism of Zohran Mamdani to the constitutional hardball of Virginia's recent successful gerrymander." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

USGS does indeed say "San Francisco Zoo", but that's a weird way to describe an epicenter south of the city line... I understand that if they say "west of Daly City" nobody outside the bay would know where that is, but why the zoo specifically???

the worst form of government except for all the others it's really important to keep a comparative perspective. yes it's terrible; yes things could get much worse under something different

3.0 and 2.7 says USGS, but very close

That was a good shake! Glad I'm not the only one that felt it...

GitHub has a PR problem *and* a PR problem.

The thing is, by his nature, any outcome which involves Donald Trump is inherently unstable.

this is a good thread and a cogent analysis; what I don’t see is what “Europe” broadly plans to do about it.

Like a good neighbor (that rats you to the NKVD)

This has been unironically the platform of the European Right for a long time. "Let's help them in their home!" (They never actually vote for more aid. Maybe occasionally police and military assistance... to ensure migrants don't go through)