Concretely, we just updated the code of conduct at the Quarto GitHub repo to clarify that under our interpretation of "human must be responsible for PRs", OpenClaw and other such "autonomous" agent PRs are a prima facie CoC violation bannable on first offense.

… aaaand we just got our first openclaw message in the repo. *reaches for ban hammer*

do you think they were twirling their moustache while writing that memo?

I'm really please with how Thinkwell v0.5 has turned out. No excuses anymore: you can write your own agents. It's easy! dherman.dev/notes/introd...

i do not regret to inform you, etc etc

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

this is pretty interesting to me because it’s behavior that is a strong, costly signal from a human but is essentially free for an agent and we are going to need to learn to look out for that shape of thing

So all these modern coding LLMs are actually profession changing. With that said, this openclaw bullshit happening at the matplotlib repo is unacdwptable, and I’m very likely to blanket ban that kind of contribution on my repos if it starts showing up. Truly shameful shit to defend, Christ.

second-order correction opportunity: There's first-order bskyism, which is indeed bad. But let's be real, second-order bskyism is annoying too. Block and move on, no need to theorize and expand. We know it's irritating, and it irritates you too. We see it! If you must post, alf hog is still there

(My brain decided to not show up for work this afternoon, so you’ll get videogame updates instead) Hytale’s world gen is pretty good! The caves in it are disorienting, but in a fun way. You get that “one more room” exploration vibe.

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up. TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no. It's not that hard to just say no.

use-mention problems rule everything around me

You can write your @ieeevis.bsky.social papers in @typst.app (fast, modern, and accessible alternative to LaTeX)! To make it easier, here is a template I helped make typst.app/universe/pac....

good of example of the way that Gen Ai harms art is not through really replacing capital a Art but by replacing human slop with robo slop, and the dirty secret is that slop pays the bills and subsidizes actually good art.

Just put me on a flaming raft and push it out to sea.

Trying to get back into (some sort of) aerobic shape is undignifying af, send ibuprofen

This ain't it, chief.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Revising the dataviz book is an opportunity to remind enthusiastic beginners of the bitter realities that lie ahead of them.

Yeah ima rep the home team here, but Wagner Moura would bring the house down

Do you have to be a social scientist to know how funny this is?

bro it's your MP. it's your MP. i can see your gauge is flashing. i know you're feeling healthy and well rested but that's a different thing. it's your MP. that's why you're posting bad. try procrastinating an important work task

Even conditioned on living in Feb 2026, the vibes are just completely off today in here, huh?

I'll take the recommended med vacations and a week in I'll think "oh, maybe this is fine as is". Then I go back and jesus christ, y'all's brains work this well usually? Must be nice!

Watch this.

The new gelernter-Epstein disgusting stuff is going to cause some folks to lose their minds in a new way once they look into his past huh

past is prologue (which is fucking creepy, please tell ken white to find a new podcast good lord)

What’s frustrating is that the hardware is outstanding. This laptop is otherworldly fast. “What Andy giveth, bill takes away” doesn’t go nearly far enough to explain it though. macOS 25 was no 10.7, but it was passable! It didn’t lag for .5s to show icons on Finder with 48GB of ram. Wtf

You scroll down the finder window and it takes half a second for icons to load. Are you genuinely fucking kidding me right now?

Holy cow the new macOS truly is atrocious. I’m 20% through the *welcome* setup steps and I already ran into 3 separate ui issues

For more than a year I have been working on a brand new Jupyter Notebook editor for Positron. This is a ground-up build of a new Jupyter Notebook experience built to leverage all the knowledge and tools Posit/Positron brings to the data science table. 🧵#jupyter

Can anyone suggest a good guides for using lab notebooks? (Like the traditional pen and paper bench scientist ones, not computational). Like I want to know what you're expected to write down, how you capture and transform the really important stuff, how you refer back to them etc etc

a book recommendation!

Look. It's simple. To first order, you should not ever, *ever* think you can square up against game engine engineers spader.zone/engine/

This, from @dherman.dev, looks _extremely good_: dherman.dev/notes/script...

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/6 No, when society tells you to shun someone, be SKEPTICAL. Like Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky KNEW that it’s the dark forces of American imperialism that don’t want him to listen to a famous child rapist teach him about black people being inferior.

Man this is really something

the theater is screening DOS Boot

Imagine thinking “I have just the 8 skeet defense of Epstein associates on this January 31st of 2026” while running a lab at a big school, while presumably trying to recruit people to work in said lab. The combination of stupidity, bad judgment, and arrogance is so fucking funny

Ending January with three new automerge apps that I use on a regular basis - a habit tracker ("did I forget to give the dog her meds?") - a super basic shopping list - a music chart memorization app thing So, so good.

I wish I still had the photo that someone took of me with one of these that iirc eventually turned up on some Brooklyn art space, ca early 2010s or so? @rlukedubois.bsky.social did you have anything to do with that? I think it was some party affiliated with (at the time) nyu poly

This is not their first day.

Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!

Very keen to play with the newly merged Typst book support in @quarto.org! Thanks, Quarto team! prerelease.quarto.org/docs/books/

my increasingly curmudgeonly take is that we all, in fact, have responsibilities. politics isn't an arena for self-actualization. it's an arena for public service. this is as true of voters as it is of politicians.

YouTube just recommended this, and I can't in good conscience keep it to myself www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVpr...

What fresh hell is this title, and how is this not 100% on Dell? www.dell.com/support/kbdo... To fix the _external monitor issue_, I need to change the settings on my built-in display? What? Dell, you need to stop sniffing glue, jesus christ.

look how they massacred my boy

Shilling your substack in people’s replies? That’s a block, hope that helps!