One for the "Oxford commas don't fix this ambiguity" files

drained a reservoir vibe-coding today, but it’s because i was eating almonds

new pet peeve, anti-AI researchers saying "I said X to the AI and it said Y which is totally unacceptable; therefore AI is totally unacceptable" (1) but not saying when, which version, which model, and then (2) I try the same thing and it actually Just Works

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Are the Stalinists in the room with us right now, Nom Tickles

“You have to apologize for winning” really sums up establishment Dem thought huh

Guy at the pyramids called after me “sir!” No response “maam!” No response, after a few seconds he tries again “cousin!” I think we’ve cracked it. There is a gender neutral honorific.

Counterpoint: ONLY people who like puns should be.

the #editor replaced all instances of "below" in our paper (like "see the discussion below") with "later" resulting in some absolutely fucking insane phrases "see the discussion later"? when will we see it? sometime today?

Last night it occured to me to wond er if LLMs were any good at gambling tasks. This is important not because it'd be funny for LLMs to gamble but because gambling tasks get used to measure human decision-making under risk /

I don't get as mad about ai slop writing as some people do because I've read so many academic articles written by humans that say shit like "I am assuming X, which is false, because it's easier than the truth, which I don't understand"

If your default search engine is still set to Google that’s basically boomer shit

"why do you like claude more than other models" exhibit a thousand

All the scientists are like “Let them fight” 😜

a student submitted something so terrifically wrong to a colleague's class that the only reasonable conclusion is that the student used AI to generate it... ...but I can't replicate how the student got it wrong. Every AI tool I ask either gets the right answer or points me to the right resource.

I feel the same way about AI as I do about the internet—both could be incredibly valuable contributions to society if they’re managed for the public good. In the hands of fascist tech billionaires, they’re a threat the civilization. It’s not the tech, it’s the ownership structure.

old and busted: original public meaning new hotness: direct stochastic meaning

They are absolutely setting up JD Vance to run as an antiwar candidate in 2028 with a Dolchstoßlegende blaming Israel for hoodwinking Trump into a war that Vance opposed all along, and anyone who believes that is incredibly gullible. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

I'm working on a story for Business Insider on the 2010s-era guys who supposedly had a great idea for an app and where they are now, given vibe coding. If you used to know one of these guys (or used to be one or still are) and want to chat, email me at [email protected].

Important evidence of autism in the ancient world

Just like self driving cars, the discourse has been so throughly poisoned by Musk’s slapdash efforts that people are talking past each other. Other data centers do not power themselves exclusively via onsite gas turbines! Musk isn’t even allowed to do this, it’s illegal but he does it anyways!

There’s an old Jim Gaffifgan joke this reminds me of

The world if analytic philosophers worried about politicians and commentators saying nonsense rather than non-anglophone philosophers saying nonsense

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

George Soros living long enough to witness Orban's humiliating defeat is the cherry on top.

Orbán turns out to be more of a democrat than the U.S. president and a nontrivial number of GOP candidates.

If you’ve never watched someone you love get destroyed by a romance scammer I do not recommend it

Typst now has an english Wikipedia page! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typst This has taken quite some time due to citation notability requirements 🙃

hey siri, what's the chomsky hierarchy

If, uh, Swalwell starts promoting guys who are notorious for problems with women, that could end up really bad for him

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

The DNC Resolutions Committee has passed my resolution to hold Trump Administration officials legally accountable for their crimes. Assuming the whole packet passes on Friday, it will become the official position of the national Democratic Party.

I still want to do more tweaking and polishing to this, but I'm ready to share a minigame I've been working on. Straitsweeper. Minesweeper, but a longer, scrolling map where you also have to worry about clearing a safe path before a tanker goes through the strait. straitsweeper.smol.farm

Broke: Israeli right of return Woke: Palestinian right of return Bespoke: Give everything to the Bedouins

lincoln had clinical depression, grant was probably bipolar, nixon was nixon, jackson was psychotic, i am not sure this really gets us anywhere but none had trump’s unique combination of disorders and maladaptions

He’s changing his name to a symbol and answering to The Official Formerly Known as Todd Lyons

i am barely a computer toucher at all but even i understand that, if at any time any two websites are having a problem at the same time, the problem is that amazon broke us-east again, and not the websites themselves

Imagine him saying this

[some asshole on cybertron inventing the allspark]: at long last, we have created life-as-a-service

Romans suffer massive cortisol spike after Jesus brutally resurrectionmoggs them

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*incredibly* humourless 'I researched this for a novel once': yes, she would go "well they're doing that a lot. They crucified a thousand people on a single day last year. That's what they do, they crucify a bunch of people. Poor Josh. He was kind of an intense guy but he didn't deserve that."

“blow up datacenters” *send skeet* > while simultaneously texting friends on imessage or discord, scrolling their bluesky feed, listening to music on spotify, streaming a movie on netflix, and paying their credit card bill online

“Oh this live action One Piece is pretty good I can see why people like the anime and manga so much” and then fifteen episodes later im bawling openly because a talking reindeer named “Tony Tony Chopper” lost his adopted father

incredible comment on one of my youtube videos

The federal Indian law discussions were painful. The Justices talked about Native peoples as if they were some distant past problem and the Solicitor General outright admitted that he didn’t even think about how the administration’s position would affect their citizenship. Not sure what else to say.

eating my salad for lunch today and wondering if i should show the baby spinach any mercy

Kagan and Sotomayor straightforwardly hoping the conservative justices remember this when the “ban trans” cases come