This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

At 0:12 you can see Hegseth confront the reality that no one in the room respects him. Hits him like a meteor.

Right now I'm very much "Fuck you, I'm gonna write some really cool shit just to spite you fascist motherfuckers" mode

I’m sure no trump voters use social security 😆 bsky.app/profile/jaco...

BREAKING A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment. His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

We've never had better, faster, potentially more accurate communication than right now. Yet, I spent the weekend in Boston perfectly safe with thousands of people having a great time and half the country thinks it's a warzone and sending in the military is probably the only way to fix it.

Claude Code v2 with Sonnet 4.5 with max'd out thinking is very good. Having to make very few adjustments.

Imagine dedicating your life in service of our country and having to listen to this bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Breaking News: President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the military should use U.S. cities as “training grounds” at an unusual meeting focused on culture wars. It was unclear why they needed to gather senior military leaders from overseas to tell them this face to face.

Stunning how far we’ve fallen already.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

That's at least a tiny tiny sliver of hope I guess bsky.app/profile/wash...

Very conservative! bsky.app/profile/atru...

"She was like, ‘So we’re doing an AI company with the best AI people, but we can’t answer any questions.’ Despite that vagueness, Murati raised $2 billion in funding—the largest seed round ever" I'm the wrong sort of person to capitalize fully on this moment. Bah! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

This week @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com recap Commit Your Code 2025, dive into the business of Aaron Francis, and wonder what we're all going to do with this AI slop.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 101: Infinite Feed of Content. Have a listen:

New in PN: Get ready for the next big bailout "What this means is that the farmers will be insulated at least somewhat from the damage Trump’s foolish trade war did to them; in other words, they’ll get a bailout. The rest of us will pay for it. And the economy will get no benefit at all."

Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.

They've made this a bit more obscure than I thin it should be, but in CC v2 you can turn on thinking mode (nice that this is more clear) and then in your project settings.json set "MAX_THINKING_TOKENS": 31999 to force 'ultrathink' level budget on every action.

More than 1.7 million streaming subscriptions were cancelled during Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension. The total includes subscriptions from Disney+, Hulu and ESPN. (Source: Marisa Kabas)

Today’s capitulation. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

DOGE didn't work out very well for them, letting them do DOGE times 100x will be both terrible, but maybe also useful to getting people to wake up. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Thinking about how the only dev work I got done today was because I was able to have the AI work at my direction while I did other things as I read the millionth article about how AI is just as useless as meme coins. Bizarre.

"Small Businesses Wither Under Trump’s Tariffs: ‘It’s Hard to Breathe’" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b... "It’s difficult to have to survive because of poor policy,”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

America’s most farming-dependent counties backed Trump by an average of 78%, up from both 2016 & 2020, despite him previously instigating a trade war that caused higher prices for supplies & decreased exports. Soy farmers are projected to lose 16M tons of exports to China in the next 3 months alone.

I used to have to argue with people that the worst impact of misinformation was not really felt through public consumption but through elite consumption but I think it's as clear as it can get now.

This is why I say patience is key when working with language models. If the output is directionally correct, or even just wrong in an interesting way, let it keep iterating and see where it goes! scottaaronson.blog?p=9183

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

We hit the Survivor popup cafe. It was hilariously bad. Cc @johnrudolphdrexler.com

Boston stuff

Czech Republic President reposted this on Instagram 👇🏽

NORTH CAROLINA… “someone on a boat coming up Cape Fear opened fire on the American Fish Company, an outdoor bar venue… The boat then proceeded up the Intracoastal Waterway…” Every damn day. 🇺🇸 abcnews.go.com/US/3-dead-8-...

Pretty solid theory. Huge spoilers obviously. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ttl...

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this? A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

Been a long time since I hung out in Boston. Even better than I remember. Fantastic city.

President Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm election by pressuring states to create more Republican congressional seats will face a major test in a federal courtroom in El Paso, Texas starting Wednesday, as a panel of judges considers whether to block the state’s new gerrymandered map.

Paul Revere’s house

Bookstore

Trump is now threatening to prosecute his first hand-picked FBI director, Chris Wray

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

The media have to start framing this accurately. The president is now functioning as a tyrant. The story is whether the other two branches of government will do anything to stop him.

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This is a pretty huge change for Google regarding SEO. Wonder what the end game is. ahrefs.com/blog/google-...

The main reason I am not on X is I know enough about this stuff to know however immune one thinks they are to information ops, propaganda, and algorithmic manipulation it has an impact on the way you see the world. Even when you think you're kicking against it, you're dancing to their tune.

Trump demands that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco. Anybody from the party of small government have an issue with this or nah?

The genius of Trump is that instead of getting caught telling the DOJ to jail people just because on secret tapes that would generate a lot of intrigue (see Epstein files), he just tweets it out and then everyone shrugs and moves on. Being very public about your evil is a superpower.

Great website by @justinjackson.ca laravelnew.com

SOYBEAN FARMER🧑‍🌾 : “It’s not good for anybody. Best case scenario is we never have to talk about tariffs again. Free trade is the answer.” China is now buying $0 from us — and soybeans are Tennessee’s #1 cash crop. Why don’t @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn etc. care? 😕