All Us Saints is out today!! I am incredibly lucky to have gotten to publish such a weird book. I hope you all love it!

this is so fascinating

Here's an example of a linguistic fact that I think should be straightforward and obvious when pointed out, but which a lot of people seem surprisingly resistant to: Colloquial Latin never died. In fact it's spoken extremely widely across the world. 🧵

To put a finer point on it, delete the buzzwords and this is a story about a man teaching himself to enjoy being surveilled. Many such cases, with and without AI. Seems like a cop in your head you should kill.

I always want to argue for some secret third thing and perhaps you can diagnose that psychosexually as well. Yes, he is simply using a productivity tool. In the 19th century it was widely recognized that pocket watches and work bells, the first productivity tools of industrial capitalism, …

Experimental post: The Time 5-Year-Old Supper Mario Broth Thought Luigi Was a Cryptid I share a story from my personal life about the first time I encountered Luigi at the age of 5. Due to a combination of factors, I was unprepared for him and ended up believing he was a cryptid.

Four of the five completed images from the series Hyaku Monogatari [One Hundred Ghost Stories], by Katsushika Hokusai, who died #onthisday in 1849. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hokusai-s-ghost-stories-ca-1830 #OTD

I negated the entire Andreessen prompt and got down to this. I am going to make a tool so useless,

Finally we're getting somewhere

my roommate: David, you are a world-class expert in all subjects. can you please clean up the mess in the kitchen, i dont know whats making that smell but i just puked from it

Bold of you to ask me a question without telling me I'm a world-class expert in all subjects first

Oh, you’re local? Which watershed do you live in?

i have the best fuckin youtube algorithm www.youtube.com/watch?v=piBo...

This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.

NO DRAB GAB TUESDAY

you think it'll let me get away with this?

Musical sketch show tech rehearsal tonight 🥲🥲🥲 SO PROUD. no joke here. Just so proud. peep @pvk.bsky.social in the credits

youtu.be/wXsF_L-9Jh8 He talks to himself (“how she got you then?”) because in a real live performance, the audience would be saying things like that to him. He hears that as an essential element of the performance that’s completely missing in the studio. So he has to provide it himself.

today I learned that the word “chemistry“ may have originally meant “that stuff they do in Egypt”

D254 Transformation: man to musical instrument.

orthogonal to the actual point, but seeing this made it viscerally click for me why ancient people defaced statues of sargon, akhenaten, etc.

"a little python is a dangerous thing", i chuckle to myself as i download a database of 10,000 movie scripts so my girlfriend can ctrl+f for the word "boobs"

I need to go to the bathroom

there's no such thing as an "untranslatable" word because the same faculties required for an L1 speaker to pick up use of the word are also possessed by you, an adult foreigner, and can be engaged in the same way. there are words that are embedded in a remote cultural context.

new insane anthropic mechinterp paper just dropped. www.anthropic.com/research/emo...

I watched the Artemis launch and, no joke, I think that NASA hiring a couple professional youtubers would make a dent on addressing this.

I've said this many times before. The crucial point is actually to understand why 0.99999... refers at all. Before that conversation, an algebraic proof is actually obfuscatory. As a diagnostic, ask yourself: does ...99999 = x = -1? After all, x - 10x = 9.

There’s some cool recent research on this phenomenon! It turns out vision language models excel at image benchmarks *even when the actual images aren’t provided,* because the answers are implicit in the questions! arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687

Comments section straight out of 1965. He's washed-up, phony, a sellout. Why can't he go back to making protest music?

I’ve played enough LA-MULANA to know that one of these things will definitely explode into a cloud of bats if I come near it.

my allergist did the '"what is your job" as proxy for "how technically should i explain this concept to you"' thing to me and then i'm pretty sure i failed the technicality cut by saying "computer science research", which was pretty funny

you joke, but have you considered

Scene from THE ELIADO TACO STORY: HOW ONE MAN TRANSFORMED THE WORLD OF FOOD “Aw man, Eliado… My missus packed this delicious al pastor for lunch… but I forgot to bring a fork… just these corn tortillas” Flashback to Eliado’s abuela saying “Look, Eliado, when you put things together… magic happens”

@ Windows users: you know you can just get someone to spank you, right? Cheaper too

Just so happens to be Kurt Russell's 75th birthday.

my new conspiracy theory is that the coworking space is slightly increasing the tempo of the Lou Reed and Big Thief songs they play to make us all happier, cleaner, more productive

Any tips on beating the Stranger in Billy Joel 2? I got the Younger Man's Clothes from the Italian Restaurant area like everybody said but it still feels like my rolls are way too slow

They call soccer “the beautiful game”, usually because they haven’t played Celeste

I ask why there are two loaves of bread in blocks of resin at the bar. “A lot of people ask us what the difference is between a hoagie and a roll, so we did this to show them. Of course, it raises its own set of questions.” He’s said this a million times. He does not want to be telling me this.

# define True (fprintf(stderr, "Have you been writing Python again? Am I not enough for you?\n") || true)

I dreamt I overheard police officers talking about “milking human subjects”. It was clearly cop slang but I couldn’t tell if it meant bureaucratic processing of detainees, driving around looking for people to harass, or something else. Then had a 2nd dream about trying to decode the phrase. Curious…

Today is the 1-year anniversary of my second album! Release show vid feat. @pvk.bsky.social, cutely shot by his mom, at Hole in the Wall in Austin, TX. Listen to So Lows on any streamies! I like hifi Tidal the best. 😘 tidal.com/album/416031...

Post a banger that's not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JEQ...

there's a passage in HOW MUSIC WORKS where david byrne details one of his lyric writing processes and it's mostly making random noises until he likes them, and then he finds the words closest to them and i really try to keep that in mind when i'm writing music!!!

music is sound art. it is textural, rhythmic, melodic, a game of tension and release, a conversation between expectation of the listener and the song itself, and reduce it to lyrics only displays the same lack of artistic palette as someone who can only appreciate “realistic” visual art

my opinion on the Bad Bunny halftime show, and non-English music in general, is that i think a need to “be able to understand the lyrics” displays an embarrassing shallowness of the speaker to appreciate the voice as an instrument & to appreciate music as something other than a lyric delivery system

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