“Look around you. Read a newspaper. Watch TV. It’s chaos over here.” My guess is that sentence is more relevant to our economic future than a single GDP print. youtu.be/HdgUPqNumDs?...

I never had deep thought into #ItsAWonderfulLife but I thought this was an interesting perspective. He’s right about this movie getting better & better as you get older. I’ll b watching 2nite. It’s still worth it. #TCMParty open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

But I hope ONE LONG NIGHT clarifies just what is happening today. If we understand that what Congress has funded and the government is building are concentration camps, the stakes are obvious. The majority of Americans are, by and large, free to act and can undo this. It is more than possible. [2/2]

Did medieval people buy each other Christmas gifts? New Year's Day was the main gifting day, but little is known about everyday people's present giving. Our project on London's customs records has uncovered a wealth of affordable items imported around this time: gloves and hats to toys and rattles🧵

Not the flex he thinks it is

"Seems like linguistic prescriptivism is pre-optimization" - my stoner coder friend

Times person of the year should have been the black rectangles redacted from the Epstein files

Goosebumps, chills, and smiles to be had. Incredible talent from everyone in this

Anyone know what this error on Wikipedia is? It's in an article for the Kashmiri language and seems to be some kind of script to render ancient symbols. Each error is a linked popup of the same text.

In belittle, befuddle, bewilder, beguile, et al the be- means 'to infuse with (archaic)' or 'to make into'. so then why is it called beheading when it should rightly be unheading or de-heading? Or even offheading?

At what point does satellite debris starting cooling the earth by blotting out the sun?

A trepanned neolithic skull of a woman that had a prosthetic ear made from seashell attached, found at Roque d'Aille in France and dates around 3rd Millennium BC. #archaeohistories

While I applaud this, I wish it didn't happen because he wants to distract from the Epstein victims. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Doing research for my book on AI and human stupidity and came upon an interesting limitation in commercial AI. All AIs had similar results. tldr; none of them could figure out a basic data relationship between 2 Excel sheets. Spatial reasoning is very hard. LOOONG🧵1/18

Doctor watching medical drama: "That detail is wrong." Regular viewers: Interesting! Cop watching crime drama: "That detail is wrong." Regular viewers: Interesting! Historian watching history drama: "That detail is wrong." Regular viewers: It iS NoT A DoCuMeNtArY!

When I was a teenager I gripped an Etruscan staff, setting off a museum alarm. I was imbued with ancient knowledge, the transference of power was unreal

I dreamt last night I created a society underground in Montana somewhere. Everyone brought their own shipping container to connect to everyone else's. There was even a cafeteria where the food grown in each person's container was shared. I long to go back to sleep today lol

2nd book I'm reccing to friends about our govt. It focuses primarily on the mechanized process of human trafficking, its impact on how the American economy evolved and why many problems we have in our economy come from the earliest decisions on slaving. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Changes to iOS in Japan to comply with the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA). Developers can distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces, process app payments s outside of Apple In-App Purchase, use alternative web browser engines. developer.apple.com/support/app-...

Reader, no one saw this coming

The only thing I truly fear is other people's fear who have control and influence over my life.

It better not. php-tips.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ti...

Is there such a thing as a dead hostage?

Remember the Panama Papers and all the fallout from globally documented corruption and money laundering among banks and the elites? Oh, right, there was none. Hard to believe that anything will be different come Friday.

Every spy knows this, every influencer does not.

Getting very giddy for a new product I am designing right now. I met with some potential users last night; they were blown away by it. Within 15 minutes of that meeting, I had 8 texts from people I don't know asking me when I will launch it. Looks like my second solo startup is ramping up nicely.

It seems to me like LLMs are rapidly getting better at frontend work, but it's still on the developer to test that the UIs you generate are accessible w/ keyboard, screenreader, etc. There are so many ways a naive vibe coder can get in trouble by not knowing when to slow down and get things right.

A few friends asked me to put together a "curriculum" to understand why govt is the way it is. As I select books, I'll share them. The first is Democracy in Chains. A well researched and fantastically cited book about the backlash to Brown v. Board of Educ. 5/5 bookshop.org/p/books/demo...

"Known for their flash mob protests that suddenly spring out the backs of rental trucks, Patriot Front members wear white gaiters to hide their faces. They are also active in plastering communities across the country with their hate-filled flyers and graffiti." Since 2024, you say? Who else does it?

Feds Warn iPhone And Android Users: Update Now—Attacks Confirmed

Maybe they could just build a better browser? Just guessing how competition works.

I've set up a small monthly newsletter called Focus State. With accessibility support shrinking in a lot of orgs, I wanted to create something that divides that gap, builds community, and makes the internet a bit more fun. If you dig digital accessibility give it a look: annaecook.com/newsletter

ericdaigle.ca/posts/super-... lmao what 😭😭😭😭

Half the AI industry is trying to sell you a semi truck to deliver a letter. Don't let them. www.distributedthoughts.org/edge-ml-size...

"53% Can't Verify What Candidates Actually Know" At some point, employers are going to have to admit they have zero idea how to interview people or choose the best candidate. This was about 30% of my consulting practice until about 18 months ago. Hmm, wonder what happened then...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Sadly, VERY misleading on the science. 1/7 🧵 "In 2021, an analysis of data from clinical trials concluded that ivermectin could reduce deaths from COVID-19 and may produce other positive effects. [Jenna] McCarthy cited that analysis in her Substack response." www.propublica.org/article/ron-...

The state of EHR systems is notoriously the epitome of shitware, literally killing people and destroying lives.

This is gorgeously terrible and I love it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWgP...

Built an orbit simulation tool with only vanilla JS and the Canvas API Try it out: caidan.dev/portfolio/or...

I think the most amazing thing about Jack Bauer is that, in 3 international terrorist events, he never had to take an emergency stress dump. Not once. Hero material.

“Asian wife sharing,” Pentagon press policy, and me: Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I hope I never see a comedy where the actors look at the camera ever again.

Found it! youtu.be/kYUicaho5k8

Moral of the story: you really, really, REALLY shouldn't be using LLMs to answer factual questions.

Had an idea last week to make a tool that shows what answers a model can give for a given prompt. Used this downtime day to explore the idea and the results are fun. This isn't sampling, it deterministically enumerates the search space. Prompt was: "In what year was Barack Obama born?"

Oh, sure, let me and my friends all get sweaty and then pack into a metal tube with air circulation adequate enough to get that smell waaaaaaay back in the back...

I now know more about the UK train livery design than I do about the Epstein Files.