you thought we were making the Torment Nexus, from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus but actually we were making the Collective Unconscious, from classic Jungian work Please God Don't Unleash the Collective Unconscious it's SaaS

They say a person only truly dies when any macro they have written is executed for the last time.

In the pre-surveillance capitalism era, you just did not have to worry about if playing a Pokémon game on your GameBoy was actually supporting the development of deadly military tech psychologically, I don’t think it’s good you now absolutely do have to worry about this with most any tech device.

Beam Pipe xkcd.com/3257/

I’m so excited. Our secret (not so secret) observational experiment is about to begin. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for wastewater surveillance. FIFA World cup. 1/ @securebio.org www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

I just feel like this is a sketch in the making. "Did you turn it off and on again, John?" "No...you know I half expected you to ask if I prayed to God first, considering..." "John, I've been praying for you to figure this stuff out for years, God can only do so much for you."

This is probably the most traditional possible behavior for the family of a pope.

🔭 🧪 🎢 #EduSky I finally managed to color countries in my map for the refraction horizontal #sundial Round map with hour lines, to be placed under 5cm acrylic glass. The flower's shadow tells solar time and the place where the Sun is overhead. Here off the coast of west Africa, heading to Cuba. 1/2

I looked at the delivery driver, then at the ghost. The ghost looked at me. I cleared my throat. The ghost rolled his eyes. "So..." the delivery driver said, waving the translucent garment, "which one of you called for this ghost bustier?"

honestly i think a lot of the fascist turn in silicon valley can be explained by testosterone and speed

I'm pretty sure I believe in virtue ethics now and boy am I mad about it

very important to do this before you end up with dozens of little brick phones running around

Planetary Science xkcd.com/3255/

the dignity of the office is the duty of the President to maintain, not of the people to respect, regardless of anything else about the President or political circumstances

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

I am infamous in my social circle for yelling "I don't give a shit about your life story, just show me the damn recipe!"

The model definitely made "reasonable" data processing assumptions that it didn't think to tell you about and you didn't think to ask about.

If nothing else, it does seem like reading code will still be very valuable, because ultimately everything is a lie other than the code.

me, trying to appear a middle ground on data center regulation: "i think the ones are fine—it's the zeros that have got to go"

Forgot where I got this

This post centers clanker ways of being and knowing and structuring codebases in really problematic ways

We acknowledge that manual coders and engineers, including C, Haskell, and Java speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the compilers and datasets of what is now Claude Code. We honor and respect the enduring relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this LLM.

god this app is gonna be insufferable next week when G’hzarxl the Rancorous plunges Earth into the aeon of Endless Night

this is really it for me for decades of computing the “jaw” of the program was extremely narrow, and you had to feed it the extremely structured stuff we get paid to know the LLM suddenly unhinged the jaw of the machine altogether and I think that’s both a huge deal and poorly understood to be one

I think the interesting takeaway from this use of AI is the same takeaway from the coding case. The most interesting and transformative feature of AI is not that it can write. It is that it can read. It is not "the win" that the LLM can write something trivial. It's a win that you could tell it to.

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the automated business support agent of the gate.

If you can’t see the constraints imposed on the system, you won’t be able to make sense of the resulting behavior.

Correct! We have the data

“Malware burned my risotto” is not a zero probability event

the following are all probably true and not in the least contradictory: 1. There's a huge bubble in AI investment, the crash is going to be bad 2. A majority of the tasks we've been promised AI will "take over," it will not 3. AI will completely transform coding

I am increasingly baffled by people claiming that all human error is explicable, especially considering that inaction is a very common failure mode

It’s truly insane that any country in the world has tariffs on Chinese solar panels. These things are very durable goods, China doesn’t take them back if they go to war with Taiwan. Buying one creates no dependency. A solar panel bought today will literally outlive Xi Jinping, he is 72 years old!

New blog post: the demon of the gaps surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/06/06/t...

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

i am legitimately baffled by how good these are

the point of LLMs is not to be an oracle, it is to be a source of cheap _attention span_

rawcoding is like raw milk in that it probably has bugs in it

Pick a virtue (honesty, courage, civic engagement, generosity, compassion, etc) and find an opportunity, no matter how small, to enact it everyday. Character follows action.

Canada is super cool and occasionally I also think of it as a league of city states in a trench coat

A Westminster tradition I like is subjecting the PM to abuse, whether it's heckling during Question Period or making them live in a decrepit flat

Early reviews say it's: "Baffling", "Maybe fun if you have a terminal degree in Canadian history", and that "Making the loon sculpture Chretien's phylactery was an inspired deep cut".

Battling the ghosts of dead PMs in the dilapidated ruins of 24 Sussex may be the most abstruse high-concept DnD one-shot adventure conceivable.

it's obviously not like, the worst thing that they've done, but an underrated shitty thing that musk et al. have done is (understandably but incorrectly) negatively polarize people against a kind of amazing technological moment we're in with a lot of liberatory potential

"I would move out of the way. I'm built different." You are built like sentient strawberry preservatives and move at the speed of a software update. The fireball would consume you in seconds. Never pour fuel over an open flame.

Words use share brain. If they you brain, you they brain

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.