This is actually better than most of the WDStF parodies since, like the original, it is both in strict chronological order and keeps a rhyme scheme. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBvo...

Zork I, II, and III are now open source. Microsoft has released the classic Infocom text adventures under the MIT license! opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

Wait, we can attack LLMs with poetry now? I really gotta get on my goal of learning alliterative verse and go all skaldic on things.

This morning, I joked that our testers are seeing things. And after testing, I'm right. The problem is that I'm seeing the same things.

Less than 120 hours until Kate is in surgery. I'm definitely feeling all the feels.

Tonight on Ken Burns's American Revolution, Rick Atkinson is going is going to tell you: "Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball." The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16

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the fae actually have the rights to take anyone into their realm who pressed "accept" on the GPL which is why you aren't supposed to put it in your installers. you have to do the whole transforming into a flaming sword and shit thing from tam lin to get out of it

If you're a dev, would you make tools for C++ or even C? Tools that work best on Windows instead of Linux or MacOS? And have you looked at the TIOBE index or C++ community survey results? Like, ever? Because that's where the need is, and it's not even close.

More people liked my opinions thread as I reposted further thoughts, so I need to come up with more (non-political) opinions.

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

"TERRIBLE THINGS ARE HAPPENING OUTSIDE. AT ANYTIME OF NIGHT AND DAY POOR HELPLESS PEOPLE ARE BEING DRAGGED OUT OF THEIR HOMES" - ANNE FRANK, 01/13/1943

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.

I don't just say this because I have family who own and operate a big spearmint farm in the PNW.

An AI-Psychosis benchmark is just what you'd expect, and the findings are not very surprising: "Across 1,536 simulated conversation turns, all LLMs demonstrated psychogenic potential, showing a strong tendency to perpetuate rather than challenge delusions" arxiv.org/abs/2509.109...

The morbidly funny part is that Epstein isn't even the worst person Chomsky has fanboyed for. Not in the *slightest*. Pol Pot killed multiple orders of magnitude more kids than Epstein raped.

It does feel like we're all going insane. We *know* he's implicated in Epstein's abuse. He's lashing out, in a misogynistic way, when questioned about it. We know. Why isn't every news stations 24hour coverage of the president being a child abuser? It should be wall-to-wall

Seriously - if any of your social media companies informs you that stuff from your accounts has been turned over in compliance with a federal grand jury subpoena, SHUT THE FUCK UP IMMEDIATELY and stay shut up until you consult an attorney. Who will also tell you to stfu, but professionally.

Please talk to epistemologists of science about claims like this

There's a horrid joke that goes something like "sex is like pizza. Even when it's bad you still had pizza." And yeah, it's obviously false, but after a visit to a local pieology I can confirm *from experience* that it doesn't hold up for pizza either.

Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.

I am continually surprised by how many people are willing to make unsafe maneuvers to avoid a wring turn they've already committed to. Like, it's not hard to turn around or circle the block or something.

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This analogy is wrong. These aren't rats fleeing a ship - this is the *crew* fleeing a ship taking on water. The crew continuing to flee it will hasten its demise and we should encourage this. If we force the crew to stay on board they will try to save it.

Good morning

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

I've heard the tech equivalent called the rule of Steve - there will be more people named Steve on a team than women. And, uh, that one makes me sad on several levels.

Quite by accident, most of the ones I do like are horror (I don't typically like horror). If you don't like horror, I recommend The Boar Knight and Vast Horizon by Fool and Scholar, Sidequesting by @starplanes.bsky.social, and The Far Meridian.

Some of you want life to go back to how it was in 2016. That's your version of The Good Time (tm), because it was before ICE raids, and DOGE, and before science funding cuts. But that's not what I want. I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc… 1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work 2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst

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Y’all need to learn how to 'yes AND'. There’s a lot of rejecting or dismissing facts because the framing is incorrect/immoral/trite, etc. but that’s doesn’t change the FACT. You can still use and share the FACT while altering or arguing against the framing in which said information was shared.

A former career DOJ guy told me a few weeks ago that prior to Trump, the FBI was the varsity team, DHI and ICE were junior varsity, and Border Patrol were like a drunken office softball team. And under Trump, the drunk softball guys are now in charge.

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.

One doesn't grow up in El Paso de Robles (oak pass) without developing this attitude. You wanna make people from there mad? Mess with oaks.

Gosh, why and how could that be? Such an enigma!

Do I happen to know any marketing savvy people willing to chat a little bit (pro bono)?

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I think my 'most woke opinion' is that all people are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It turns out the necessary conclusions are so woke we still aren't quite there 250 years later.

I'm pretty boring, my most extreme opinion is that wage theft and civil forfeiture should be criminal offenses.

So there’s a lawyer going around BlueSky right now responding to everyone talking about the Anthropic book settlement by (1) urging people to opt out and (2) saying that they are representing authors who are opting out.

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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

Isn’t it uncanny how, whenever Trump calls something a “hoax,” it turns out to be true?