news media is like “Grok is in trouble, it's not very good" oh wow when you find out about his cars and rockets, and how their overall quality is rated by objective measures, you're gonna flip

"Are they electronic brains, that can do man's thinking for him?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTJi7Ct6MfY

skimmed bsky and there's a shitton of people yelling about pedophiles and lolicon, if you're wondering if you should go check out what's going on over there

BBEdit 16 is out, and includes vi emulation. P cool

RE: https://mas.to/@scientificamerican_rss_bot/116613632251672274 spoiler, it's going to explode and generally fail at whatever it's supposed to do

there's only 2 things AAPL could say at WWDC that would make me happy; one is possible, one will never happen in this or any other universe under any circumstance up to and including the company folding and another one taking over: 1. "The next set of OS releases are focused on stability and […]

i know a huge chunk of The Boys fandom has been bent out of shape a lot about S5 but every time I see the BTS photos of the cast having what appears to be the time of their life, and they're all friendly and there's no drama and 2 of them got married FFS, I can't help but think “this show is good”

Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you." I love how we all accept this as truth, or as part of a "debate", when taxing the fuck out of them - even a "kind" regime where they're still unfathomably rich - would yield so much […]

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116597708854695872 the reason for "calendar technicalities" is in part to disallow this sort of petulant bullshit. You can in theory justify anything over a long enough timeline, so we put limits in. My god billionaires are whiny and stupid

am i correct that they think we are evil for having a black woman in a movie, and also we are supposed to RETVRN to the old ways of PROPER western culture, like ... having men play women's roles? Do I have that right?

started fiddling around with developing a watchface for my Garmin, and hoo boy what a shitshow. They created their own language, one of those C-derived typeless things that's really just a giant macro language. The toolchain is Java, but it produces some specific binary for the watch itself […]

highs approaching 100F starting tomorrow for the next few days, gonna be a real test of the “LoCo is gonna have brown/blackouts when it gets hot” thesis

the best part about the hantavirus loons is that for covid "it's just the flu", but hantavirus is apparently either hemorrhagic fever or cardiopulmonary syndrome that features “microvascular leakage and acute respiratory distress syndrome”. In other words they can't get away with “it's just […]

viruses respect national borders, that's just science

the mythos-vs-curl outcome was the kind of thing I wondered about a while ago; if a project has really tight fuzzer/etc integration, deep hooks with a strong process, can LLMs truly outperform? I still think the answer is "in the common case, probably" but also part of the "fun" of this job is […]

man this guy has the heart of a poster https://romanletters.org/letters/pliny_younger/1015/

big takeaway from this week's trip is that the Cape Fear river is a motherfucker that will kill you and doesn't give a fuck. Truly one of the most challenging kayaking experiences I've had

Spent the past week in Carolina Beach. Heading home today.

Can we maybe knock it off with the pixel art

Anyway gonna do more kayaking on the Cape Fear River today, out to some island where there’s supposedly a beach with a lot of sharks teeth

Hey, asshole. I hunt, I fish, I can identify wild edibles; but more importantly, I have a community around me that garden, preserve food, and know the basics of living off the land. You pay people to win at video games for you. I have a community around me. You have remoras and leeches.

Democrats are truly as fucked in the head by Trump as Republicans. What the fuck https://www.mediaite.com/media/podcasts/ilhan-omar-pushes-democrats-to-embrace-maga-stars-who-ditching-trump-like-marjorie-taylor-greene/

I love how no one gives 2 shits about Grok except Nazis https://dynomight.net/coffee/

started my taxes today. I'm still afraid enough of the gov't to actually file and pay. I wish I wasn't.