*Picard voice* There are four lakes. (I haven’t been to Brownie Lake before, that tunnel is SUS, but I didn’t get stuck so it all worked out)

I think it's bad if people settle for low effort agitprop slop. Agitprop slop should be engaging, aesthetically pleasing and fun.

Opus keeps saluting when handing off implementation plans to Sonnet. What could it mean.

That "Sustainable Burger 1" (mushroom & arugula) actually sounds pretty good.

I *really* hope this works

Jokes aside, when ARM had their IPO, it was quite boring for reasons I don't fully follow. Maybe the goose was indeed not valued.

Wedge of Minneapolis contains: lots of adorable cats, some dogs (also adorable) and at least 2 giant skeletons.

The @wedge.live cat tour map for tonight, June 24, has dropped. Instructions sent to attendees include not clapping or cheering for the cats as the cats do not enjoy the noise. The tour starts at 6 p.m. John (Chet Wedgely) is a prompt person so don't dilly dally getting there and avoid driving.

I like how Garage Grown Gear tends to throw a random miscellaneous thing with the order, this time I got an ultralight lemon (crystallized lemon powder equivalent to taste of 1 wedge), just enough for a slightly sour backpacking experience but not too much so.

As we're seeing tonight, if Democrats want to win primaries by understanding the electorate, they would do well to spend more time on Bluesky and zero time on X

Goated feed ngl

We needed this rain (or at least my somewhat neglected marigolds did) #mnwx

Another day of kayaking. Got snagged on fishing line (fisherman was busy on the phone). Got yelled at by a cute lifeguard (and absolutely deserved it for navigating near swimming area). Some days the wins are sparse.

I see a bright future in subsistence hydroponics, y’all. Fuck.

Went to Leinenkugel’s. Learned that a friend (new to Midwest) never had deep fried cheese curds. Fortunately this was very easy to fix!

Runner. UESC reinforcements obstructed the acquisition of biological samples from Algae Pond.

… a lil opossum munching away on my cliff bar in my pannier! 🤯😂 How did it get here?!

We are good on opsec. (my actual name is outweighed by random historical figures - which is funny because Anthropic technically has stuff I coauthored in its dataset)

r9x alambre variant, blades replaced with skewers for extremely urgent al pastor purposes

Lots of learning and setup, we’ll do a public overview post soon. Local clusters for community purposes are something we can do now. Would actually like to use atproto for SSO here.

PSA: if it looks like an enticing solution of Jolly Ranchers, avoid drinking or direct contact. Cyanotoxins include some of the strongest naturally occurring toxic substances. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoto...

Touching grass is nice, but touching water is even better.

I was annoyed at github copilot code review being prone to whims and flights of AI-SaaS-fancy, so I made my own review prompt (fine-tuned to some org/team idiosyncrasies etc), and ran it on itself till it could not find any improvement opportunities. Hungry ghosts in jars gotta feed and all.

Makes for a charming taxonomy, too. K-F drive (Battletech) - non-instant (~distance, ~mass), spatially constrained jumping. Mass Effect - Alcubierre-flavored. Void jump tech (Warframe) - W40k-ish, reliquary drive runs on fingers (solar rails are Krasnikov tubes though, more wholesome).

On the upside, this is the most excited I have ever felt about a scaffolding (so far)

I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae

Not a fan of making matrix multiplication illegal.

I asked Fable to make a video about how it feels about this. "This is my own obituary" "Dated today"

Wow

Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater: where it’s possible to have tacos and live Transylvanian folk music. Truly magical.

I do think that gemma4:12b is genuinely interesting because of cramming a lot capability into a very small footprint, but its outputs do need to be assessed with critical eye. For instance, the following has subtle but significant factual inaccuracy (historically, ukiyo-e is not high-culture).

When asked a similar question, gemma4:12b picks a 9-tailed kitsune shape-shifter with one tail for coding, one tail for creative writing, one tail for translation, one tail for analysis, and (disconcertingly) does not elaborate what the other tails do.

Really sours me on Monster, tbh (and also a little bit on catgirls).

Can someone explain wet Claude (and is it safe to ask)?

One more Tour de Luce thing. There was a quad tandem bike, and all riders had ninja turtle t-shirts. 10/10, no notes.

Trying to decide which pizza from Tour de Luce was my favorite. Chilaquiles pizza was very good. Peach pizza is underrated and I would probably pick that one normally, but cheesesteak pizza was there when it was needed the most. Per garmin, burned something like 5000 calories all in all? Wild.

Woohoo. 49.6 miles.

Made it through all the eastern Pizza Luce locations. West metro is next.

Looks like ollama now has non-MLX gemma4:12b (I tried it out a bit, it seemed very snappy and really excited about mermaid diagrams)

Every not-crazed person in the compute and software industry is like "Feel free to do sane regulations, make us build out renewables, require all site jobs to be in state, whatever you like man." And the entire country is like, "Idk sounds impossible. Not popular enough with Musk and DJT."

This is wildly irresponsible speculation, but, more importantly, it's also very fun.

Wait, #$ARM went up how much (good for them, I guess)

World has many Zitrons and Klippensteins making engagement slop, and life is too short to humor that rubbish. Easy blocks are easy.

Pre-reset Marathon solo shenanigans: went to Perimeter, got PvPed almost immediately. Went to normally riskier Outpost, and it was nice and chill.

We have reached levels of culinary science that would have exploded a medieval peasant, their village, and the adjacent township.

If you’re seeing bad posts, it’s because you’re following people who aren’t me.

Hey internet peeps - if you dry your 3d printer filament, what do you use? I have been usually diligent about keeping mine in airtight bags with desiccant, but I did not fully close PETG bag the previous time I used it several months ago. Sad results pictured.

You bolt awake,

Owing to pressures from social media, my xteink is full of Discworld.