person writing 10000 line PRs every day for their productivity web app that integrates with obsidian: “am I working on the modern day manhattan project?”

yeah i mean the problem is that none of these kinds of comments are harmless, no matter whether it's kurt vonnegut or the vice president. but the totality of it is overwhelming, it becomes the water we swim in, informing the beliefs and behavior of everyone, whichever way they react to it.

i'm using some business planning software that has some "AI" component, and the biz dev folks loaded it with stuff i told them about my plans, so the AI gives me a summary of that, and then prompts me to write, and it's so much harder to write when that is sitting there in front of me

"As for change brought on by technology, this native optimism is exploited by entrepreneurs, who work hard to infuse the population with a unity of improbable hope, for they know that it is economically unwise to reveal the price to be paid for technological change." A UNITY OF IMPROBABLE HOPE

when you're losing rural montana...

afaict most software engineers themselves have a difficult time telling whether they are getting work done faster now, or whether it's just that they want to believe or are being told that they should believe. doesn't help that our whole economy is Wall Street Bets now, and wall street is all in.

another day, another attempt to control my rage while making a useless phone call to the utterly disastrous senators from montana

apparently the kids at our local high school are going to have a walkout in protest of ICE tomorrow, always gladdens the heart to see teens aware of civil rights

wait are we admitting that we did something to blue collar workers now?

oh this is an easy one "What Godzilla Said to God When His Name Wasn't Found in the Book of Life" (song by American Music Club)

Most software is just a database plus a finite set of access patterns written by professional programmers. What we find is that the set usually doesn't meet users' needs because the professional class either doesn't know what users want, doesn't have enough budget to do it, or is actively […]

sunday go to church come home and eat sourdough pancakes make menu plan make bread doughs for this week (baking the breads comes later) feed the starter and make sourdough discard crackers make bread crumbs from last week's bread take books and magazines to little library this is a nice routine

this year the CSA is offering two different beef shares. you can get 1/8 of a cow (with brisket) or 1/8 of a cow (without brisket). what kind of sicko is not wanting brisket!?!?

also, write letters to the editors. it's a pretty normie thing to do, and probably "cringe", but they need to know normies are turning against them. www.aclu.org/documents/ti...

i'm not saying you gotta hand it to the NRA or anything, but tbh i think it's going to be kind of difficult to keep up the fascism if you lose the support the gun groups www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Programmers are prone to high-context writing; for various reasons, they tend to expect a lot of prior knowledge from readers. When the reader is Claude and "the text contains enough information to act upon it" is a machine-testable claim, people seem to have started to notice all the details […]

i used to think i made slow food, but my food has been getting slower and slower over the past year. my bread takes like a week to make, with various gentle stages, letting the moisture and fermentation render fresh whole grains very digestible. i soak beans for two or three days before i cook them.

yeah we were revolting against those famously lawless brits who refused to send troops to bring order to our chaotic streets, seems legit

reading a book about Polish Solidarity in the early 80s and saw a Polish official refer to some definitely true news as "fake news" it's like we've been fighting the exact same guy since time began

Our heart goes out to everyone fighting the civil war; anyway, here's a marketing update

getting sort of mad that other places are apparently getting all the cold winter we aren't getting this year i am pretty sure it hasn't been below zero once this year, maybe one time in december? it sucks! i want it to be so cold that stepping outside to get wood is a near-death experience.

everything i read about previous resistance movements suggests they are much less about heroics than about logistics

I don't care about web standards anymore. I want my agent to behave adversarially on my behalf against the server and do its best to extract content and present it to me in a way that is helpful

> Luther had faith in the people to read the text, and, with help, understand it. this is a topic dear to my heart, in no small part because of the absurd backlash i got for having made the first chapter of the h-book about the lambda calculus

yeah this is a great essay: > It might look like a world where the most engaged and informed citizens are, paradoxically, the least capable of careful reasoning, because they've spent so much cognitive energy responding to controversies that they have none left for contemplation.

sometimes i recall that i took my kids to Philipsburg and made them stand on the street in the cold while i read to them Richard Hugo's "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" and i'm surprised by it still but they stood there and earnestly listened and have never forgotten it, such is my power as a mother

1. i've always wanted to make a yoyo quilt, and i found i could make one with crochet 2. sourdough discard crackers always taste like they have cheese in them 3. king arthur has an extremely easy and delicious sourdough discard cracker recipe freely available www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/easi...

imo this is a major problem with social media, and not fixable by any particular site: a constant stream of new things to consider, the need to react, gradually chipping away at your own will. hence the great age of the zombie, of a more mindless conformism than any dystopian author imagined.

stancil is managing to be both the hero we need (dedicated and courageous IRL) and also the hero we deserve (annoying as hell online)

People are getting weird because of the internet. They're losing their individual voices and interests, sinking into slothful cults and depressions. This needs to stop, the internet needs to either be destroyed or rebuilt into small distinct communities where people can reverse this creepy weird […]

i made my first challah today. it's sourdough, almost entirely whole wheat, and i think my braiding turned out reasonably well, considering it's my first time. also, and perhaps most importantly, it's delicious.

TYPED HOOOOOOOOOLES typeclasses.com/typed-holes

i do both! people make fun of me for the ways i arrange my books as aesthetic objects, but our house is so dominated by books that if i don't impose some aesthetic order on them, the house starts to feel unlivable

are you going to buy that magazine?

is neil diamond the most popular songwriter that no one seems to ever want to admit they like

it's good tho, very real maybe someone will care if it's happening to Us and not just to the unwashed Them. seems doubtful, but worth a try.

we humans historically credit ourselves for heroic feats such as harnessing fire and electricity, but rarely do we give ourselves credit for our most enduring and pervasive invention: garbage

season's greetings

wyoming wind is no joke. we used to live near here and people didn't believe me that we would see semis blown over by the wind. also love the way it manages to make both the heat and the cold more extreme, in a state already plenty hot and cold.

really hard to be in the position where the data support retweeting a matt bruenig article but here we are

It isn't smart to try to hire above average skilled people and then encourage them to communicate through any medium that munges what they wrote into what software guesses an average person would have been likely to write.

today is our annual big Soviet zakuski feast day pelmeni are made; pirog dough is resting; herring is about to put on its fur coat

what's a short story you find yourself repeatedly thinking about? for me: The Use of Force by Wm Carlos Williams Puppy by George Saunders Annie, the Loaves and the Fishes by Jane Webster (www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/216...)

i have read too many 500+ page books this year (at least one of which was 800 pages) and it's starting to induce some kind of book anxiety that i am unaccustomed to

fascinating

a lot of truth here. hard as a parent when the things you participate in aren't things you are interested in but rather things your kids are interested in, but you care about your kids so congratulations now you are becoming an expert on the requirements for junior archery competitions

we should never have deviated from the days when software programming was thought of as akin to knitting and women were recruited for the jobs on that basis i do think there are difficult aspects to working as a programmer, but mostly the basic job is not hard.

in january, we will have been in this house 7 years in my 51 years of life so far, that is the longest i have ever lived in a single place -- the longest i've lived in one town, let alone one house, i believe.

yes but you will be expected to eat