A beautiful and tragic article about all the wonderful old trees we are losing in Vancouver. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

I just published a deep-dive into the 250-hour build behind syntaqlite, a SQLite formatter and LSP I built using AI agents. AI agents were the only reason built this after 8 years of wanting but there's a psychological toll to AI-assisted engineering. The post-mortem: lalitm.com/post/buildin...

This has been on my reading list for a few days. It articulates extraordinarily well a lot of my concerns around the cognitive offloading that AI tools now allow. It also applies broadly in many more fields than just astrophysics.

Little did they know (or care; the villains!) that Schmidhuber, himself, actually came up with the first agentic system to do EXACTLY this decades ago. Where do these revisionists get off with this vicious libel?

how diffie hellman key exchange works (with as little math as possible)

Bahahahaha! 😆

It is bizarre how one hour of jetlag is affecting my ability to function. If they ever invent a time machine I call dibs on giving whoever thought up DST a wet willy or three!

A few weeks ago our founder announced Monty, a minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust, for running code written by AI agents. People got excited. @sa.muelcolvin.com just wrote up the full story on why he's excited about it and you should be too. pydantic.dev/articles/pyd...

Do you dream of revenge on billionaires? THEN WE HAVE THE GAME FOR YOU. Back our indie game made with rage + love on Kickstarter NOW and play our BRAND NEW DEMO on Steam www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

Just burn it all down and start again... futurism.com/artificial-i...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Holy shit! This looks stunning. 🤯

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This applies not just to academics.

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

I absolutely love this project! Such joy and whimsy. 😍

We updated the plots we use to measure the open model ecosystem at interconnects, to guide The ATOM Project, and to understand what's happening. We have ~8 plots to summarize what's happening. First, the high level picture showing China's growing adoption lead.

🤯

This is hilarious. 😂

New generalist game playing agent from the MineDojo folks. Super interesting data pipeline. nitrogen.minedojo.org

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

Thoughtful (as always) blog post from Nicholas Carlini. "Are large language models worth it?" A nice read giving his perspective on risks of ML models. Post: nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025... For people who prefer, this is the video of the talk from @colmweb.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=PngH...

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n

Pure evil stacked upon pure genocidal evil... www.bbc.com/news/article...

An Israeli strike targeted at least one journalist in Gaza, killing five total

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Don't threaten me with a good time, ad that keeps popping up. 🤣 Seriously though, having lived in two (2) countries where the government calculated and filed my taxes perfectly well, I don't understand the outrage. Stupid lobbyists astroturfing non-issues.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Aside from being furious about everything, *gestures wildly around* I love the framing here. You're white, you're Canadian, surely you don't belong in immigration detention. Everyone else obviously does, but you definitely shouldn't be. Cue sympathy and outrage.

when you tried so hard and got sofa but in the end, it doesn't even matter

When you hate smart people...

Your next great adventure awaits! Today we’re unveiling Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked (@battlemarked.bsky.social). To learn more, sign up for our newsletter here www.battlemarked.com youtu.be/cypwLhY8BP4

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia. Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)

This story is truly horrifying. Serious abuse of outsourced game creators from Indonesia. youtu.be/RR9HQ2C6h_4?... TW/CW: Descriptions and depictions of abuse of various kinds (physical, mental, financial)

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

ِA Daring article on polygon Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the 1948 Nakba, is the latest from a daring dev. www.polygon.com/gaming/50073...

Scientists at RAND warn that H5N1 bird flu poses increasing risks in the U.S., with human cases of unknown origin and widespread animal transmission. They stress the urgent need for nationwide measures to prevent a potential mutation enabling human-to-human transmission.

Hilarious!

Well, this (worldview) is stupid... www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...