Nothing like emersion in cool, salty water to have invigorating research ideas

Rust is ideal for agentic programming because large compile times give you an opportunity to think and reflect

Now this is vibe coding with Mythos

This is where I post from

I’m so glad Mythos exists because now I can drink a Mythos and use a $20/mo Claude plan on Opus and rarely hit my token limit.

Culture is downstream of geography

There are major governments who think boys kissing creates significant social risk. Or playing DND, or being on birth control or touching your own genitals, or marrying a person a shade darker than you. When you propose authoritarian measures you will always always always get authoritarian results.

This is how you get id requirements to send bluesky DMs and having to take your shoes off for the airport scanner. Whether or not Sufficiently Advanced AI is harmful to society, there is no credible threat model and matching enforcement mechanism where the enforcement isn’t strictly worse

Me: Chunks? RecordBatches? Paritions? Claude: it’s a slab

Now I have everything I need I have everything I need now Everything I have I now need I need everything I now have I have now everything I need Need I everything I now have? Have I everything I need now? Everything now I have I need

A 🤯 realization I’ve just had on this beach: I think I can create a real general circulation model (a climate model) in SQL. mitgcm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ex...

the big hullabaloo in our predominantly SFH neighborhood is a developer knocking down an SFH, building 9 small homes on it, and lowballing the neighbors selling to get away from it and repeating

I’m presenting at the inaugural DataFusion showcase in a few weeks. I’m demoing the latest version of Xarray-SQL (released today), which now supports round trip transformations between tabular and array data. luma.com/3qu3o587

Ok, but when will I be able to talk to Twiggy?

Iris has been a killer platform for training models.

There are two types of award winning films: movies about the theater or movies about the movies.

I’m spending much less time on social/content apps because I have a Claude code subscription

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Did you know that heat waves like this one in Europe can be predicted about 10 months in advance by measuring the ocean? yzhang-aos.github.io/forecast/

Yo, do you guys remember VHS tape rewinders?

Oh no, my dark mode turned to light mode and I’m still awake

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People think AI is the solution to: “this statement is false” when actually, AI is the solution to “everything in moderation, including moderation.”

The NYT opinion section has been posting some real neomedievalism bangers the last few days (gift articles) - www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o... - www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/o...

How many improv artists practice lucid dreaming? What’s it like to “yes, and” your subconscious?

We live in a post-scarcity world today. For all intents and purposes, we have since the 1950s. Abundance is limited by the politics of distribution more than any measure of production. That “the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed” calls us to imagine a future where it is.

I’m happy to be working on open source science and language models because the biggest safety risks of AI, imo, stem from concentrations of power — in corporations, governments, and their intersection.

Finally got to try out Mythos

Banger paper alert: This uses the P=NP complexity theory to attempt to answer a question about gravity, using the difficulty of the NP-hard problem to argue that gravity must be quantum. What a cool proof by contradiction! arxiv.org/html/2606.14...

Exciting new paper from ECMWF: ML weather forecasts directly from observations arxiv.org/abs/2606.19093

Explain your @ I was born Alexander Sky Rosengarten, and went by “Alex”. My wife, when we were dating, started calling me “Al” and it stuck. When we got married, we combined last names (hers was “Merz”). In another universe, my @ would be al.merzengarten.

When I was in high school, I started a club that made suitcase solar kits. We stuck a photovoltaic on the side of a briefcase and filled the compartment with a battery and an inverter. One time, the power went out at my house, and we were able to finish a movie via projector with one.

Social media safety teams: same as it ever was

May Oliver's memory be a blessing. This is tragic. Our generation's Otis Redding. apnews.com/article/braz...

Was at a work offsite this week so I didn’t even get to try Fable

Add me to your group chat. You know who you are.

Why I think Anthropic's uneven safety policies with the release of Claude Fable 5 undermine the broader AI community's cohesion and accelerate us to more uncertainty and risk in AI's near-term evolution. www.interconnects.ai/p/claude-fab...

Did you know that if you stand between two mirrors and chant "bloody mary," Douglas Hofstadter will pop out and lecture you about strange loops?

The story about how media and taste is homogenized on the internet is itself homogenized.

My favorite thing about my colleague's post on the scaling science behind Marin has to be the part where an open source contributor noticed an opportunity for improvement, quickly made a patch, and that idea made it into a big training run.

Today marks 20 YEARS since Animator vs. Animation by Alan Becker was posted to @newgrounds.com.

I found out in Georgia, Khinkali represents the sun and the moon, depending on which side you look at the dumpling. A pagan tradition.

My writing somehow is not honestly honestly load bearing.

An excellent plaque

Here are the 2025 property tax bills for the famous Painted Ladies houses *and* the 36 unit apartment building next to them in San Francisco. If the numbers look crazy ass to you, welcome to wonderful world of California Prop 13 (1978)!

Today is a good day to watch Porco Rosso. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porco_R...

@cam.merose.com: “nyt is costar for boys”

Its funny because a lot of the left is allergic to AI and call it fascist when it was predicted by *checks notes* Karl Marx

The machines -- they have no bodies, and therefore, they cannot bathe -- and thus, we will always have an edge over them with creativity.