typography revealed

love that my TTS reader pronounces Xi (in Xi Jinping) as “roman eleven”. something very fitting about that

the question practically answers itself

America against America by Wang Huning, 1991

The most fruitful moments for contemplation are often the least conducive to capture. So I built a way to capture from anywhere - watch, phone, or e-paper - all flowing to plaintext. The pursuit of frictionless capture

how about instead, the government pays talented people to come to the US and contribute their amazing talent, grit, and creativity?

@nearestnabors.com great talk at cascadia—got a link to the slides?

please explain this gratuitously violent iconography

iPhone air: right direction, wrong dimension

this is it boys this is department of war

Just a reminder that I'm offering free #UX mentoring sessions for UX designers that want help with their teams (this is for personal growth, I don't do product consulting) jenson.org/go/mentor

i saw two shooting stars last night i wished on them but they were only satellites is it wrong to wish on space hardware? i wish i wish i wish you'd care

i would like to conduct research on the people that would like to drink this beverage

PSA: Apple II did not have a mouse

#UIST2025 Student Innovation Contest (SIC) is now accepting submissions on PCS! This year’s theme is “The Future of Feeling: Exploring the Frontiers of Multi-Modal Haptics.” 🔗 details: uist.acm.org/2025/sic/ 🗓️ deadline: July 18, 2025

magnum facere

FYI we peaked in magnificence in 1726

My notes on a mind bending book about how culture runs two flywheels that make humanity great: generational and genetic.

Sad this trend hasn’t yet (?) arrived in Seattle despite the easily accessible great outdoors being vastly superior

robotics to have its chatgpt moment in 2-3 years! meanwhile, robotics... www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSfb...

prediction: mercenaries will beat mercenaries

also good-weird neal.fun

tired: ui alignment wired: ai alignment inspired: human alignment

putting the ‘curse’ in cursor?

upgraded 2017 intel imac → m4 macmini, so far installed 100% of apps via `brew install --cask $app`

Hey babe, IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS

halp

uh oh i did a thing about.fb.com/news/2025/06...

AI experiments in numerically constrained poetry writing feat. Даниил Хармс chatgpt.com/share/68477c...

what is this amazingness diagram.website

accidentally profound

watch ikiru: great momento mori

moral ambition is important

American Popemobile

It's too easy to censor scientific data. We should decentralize scientific data somewhat. I'm building a simple tool for censorship-resistant data archiving. It uses the same tech as Bluesky. github.com/gordonbrande...

i do but think this is how luck works

CMV

We could summarize this as a “country of geniuses in a datacenter” But instead we will summarize this as “a country of perfectly identical clones of this one really annoying know-it-all in a datacenter”

goodbye, columbus genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

drop the ai. its cleaner. it is the policy of the United States to promote literacy among Americans by promoting education, providing comprehensive training for educators, and fostering early exposure to concepts and technology to develop the next generation of American innovators.

mastado or mastadont. there is no mastatry

o3 is very good

whenever i say 'next track' there is a 50% chance Siri will send a text message to Jack. i wonder if people named Jack get a lot of stray texts

the drumpf that stole christmas

lost the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the war on poverty won the war on showerheads

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