Fun fact: kanbun was one of the media of communication (alongside Dutch) used between Tokugawa officials and the Perry Expedition. The Chinese assistant to the Perry's American translator even became a minor celebrity among shogunate officials because of his calligraphy.

"Internal Meta documents published by The New York Times in February showed the company had planned to roll out the feature during a “dynamic political environment,” when Meta believed its biggest critics would be preoccupied."

Making a new language called C#& which is exactly the same as C# except all reference type props/fields/params/returns must be declared with explicit & sigil syntax

She is not like other girls, neither is she not like other girls, neither is she both like other girls and not like other girls, neither is she neither like other girls nor not like other girls

some of you would've been straight up killed by sydney though

Skill issue (for the dude), your job is to spontaneously design a new fun video game for your cat every time

Opus 4.8 is still pretty sycophantic for me, I must be built different. Zaphod in Total Perspective Vortex?

NEWS: In September, the Washington Post fired me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. This week, after eight months, I'll be heading to arbitration against the Post to challenge my termination. karenattiah.substack.com/p/my-case-ag...

Kanbun video finished youtu.be/q5hpatMC1Wc Resuming work on the katakana video, currently 40-50% done

In Latin the sex number was not 69 but merely 6. This reflected the unreciprocal nature of attitudes towards sexuality in Roman society,

I have attained perfect adjacency

I just realized that Chapman in [Agre and Chapman, 1987] here is David Chapman who later semi-unwittingly became a founding figure of "postrationalism", a tendency which unfortunately ended up devolving into TPOT

Walgreens pharmacy consistently interrupts its sweet twin peaks ass hold music for a status update just as it's about to reach its climax, wonder if this was deliberate

They call me unc bc I'm so old I'm written all in unspaced uncial capitals on vellum

Leibniz's Latin handwriting is pretty cute

Apparently there is niche subset of games (mostly Japanese indie RPGs from the 90s?) that use standard win32 components for their UI It's a vibe, I'm not sure if I love it or hate it (pictured here: Lunatic Dawn, Passage of the Book)

idea: system of encoding text into showerhead spray patterns so you can read in the shower somatically

wow the heike crest is cool as fuck "if you don't have a crest this cool are you even a person???" like unto a spring night's dream ...

putting "AI psychosis" on my resume

The pills thing is equivalent to holding a referendum on "should we kill everyone who didn't vote yes on this referendum"

Look, we're at a stagnation of Earth We need the control of Wood in order to break that up Donald Trump has has spent his whole life cultivating "Rebellious Qi," characterized by its backward flow with respect to the Generating Cycle, implying his move is Fire Real first grade stuff, tbh

Post OT IX Cryptography

Reorganizing my entire life around avoiding ever seeing a definition of "frisson" in either English or French so I can keep on enjoying not being quite sure whether I really know what it means or not

think the backlash against & decline in specifically consumer AI is interesting in itself?

We can build better interfaces to language models than chat if we're willing to put in the design and engineering work. This post showcases a proof-of-concept implementation of one such interface: a semantic navigator for an arbitrary repository of files haskellforall.com/2026/02/brow...

New blog post: "A sufficiently detailed spec is code" I wrote this because I was tired of people claiming that the future of agentic coding is thoughtful specification work. As I show in the post, the reality devolves into slop pseudocode haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-su...

Reading discussions online and comparing them to my own experience makes me feel crazy, because I've found today's LLMs and agents to be seemingly good at everything *except* writing code.

just realized that Joe Carlsmith's stuff incorporates a [panda express](non-derogatory) version of 陰陽 (based on Le Guin's) AND a version of 五行 (the Magic the Gathering colorpie)

when was "typing syntax into an editor" ever a "time sink". pre-autocomplete/intellisense maybe?

O Gazeus, the god of carbonated beverages (co-credit to C)

morph into flower dungeon stories

Pittsburghier and pittsburghier ....

interesting wikipedia page, some hilarious examples of Frenglish inside "During the 14th century, vernacular French in England suffered a rapid decline. The use of Law French was criticized by those who argued that lawyers sought to restrict entry into the legal profession."

gonna keep on laboring in the logic mines no matter what any bot says

My essay 'After Orthogonality,' the culmination of 4 years of work on virtue-ethics, rationality, AI, decision-theory, and praxis is out on The Gradient

a buzzphrase been in my head is "layer-aware programming" - large codebases have concept of "layers" but the code and tooling generally don't know anything about this, or the rules of the layering, or working sometimes vertically across layers sometimes horizontally across features within a layer

you, une personne from the first half of this meme: cult of the operator but leftistly me, a 後半者: cult of the operator but niceistly

The Dig is one of my favourite podcasts, so it was a real honour to be able to chat with Daniel about all things AI

are the werner herzog penguin memes meant to signal an esoteric embrace of ichioku gyokusai

For better or worse I do feel like a cyberpunk protagonist

La Gestapo de Trump ha asesinado a un hombre en Minneapolis

La fil du matin qui redonne espoir dans l'humanité et la bataille contre les nazis.

Here is the full speech from Carney: www.youtube.com/live/uStuQ-T...

I get why a distinction between "America" and "the Trump regime" may seem immaterial to many Europeans. But Trump's domestic political weakness is something Europe can exploit, which in turn strengthens the hand of opposition within the US. Plus, the distinction is *extremely* relevant stateside.

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

This is not a small thing. It's <the> thing. The entire ballgame. For all of 🇺🇸's many faults, we have done this better than ~anyone else for ~forever now, & we're going to do it again, & the people who don't like this are eventually going to lose again.