LLMs: Distrust, and verify, or don't use.

I wrote a little something about my hot-and-cold relationship with LLMs. Feedback appreciated! #AI andrewmarder.net/steroids/

Are we witnessing a time warp, a strange trip, or just a person who has stayed up way too late?

"I handed a US company my passport, my face, and the mathematical geometry of my skull. They cross-referenced me against credit agencies and government databases. They’ll use my documents to train their AI..."

Partial sums of geometric series. Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib inside a @marimo.io notebook.

@andrewmarder.net 🙌 regarding Fastmail! andrewmarder.net/fastmail/

Cutting down on subscription fees is the best! I'm a big fan of Actual Budget. Takes some effort getting the data in, but it's super helpful for highlighting places to save money. actualbudget.org

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Having more fun with this composition of quads filled with Ben Day dots which is slow to plot because there’s so much pen up and down motion. CMYK on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter. Available in my shop: shop.paulrickards.com/wildcards/ #PenPlotter #Art #ArtForSale

Quarto with Python seems very slow. Anyone have speed tips? quarto.org

Tech companies turning over personal data to this US administration before they are legally compelled to do so is collaboration techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

> Tech continues to be political > > And the politics aren’t looking great www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/t... Great post by @miriam.codes

⭐ Stop Generating, Start Thinking https://localghost.dev/blog/stop-generating-start-thinking/ ∞ https://rknight.me/links/stop-generating-start-thinking/

Turns out I'm loosely part of the French Tech Community! A little surprised I didn't end up in Progressive American Democrats. 🇫🇷

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Mayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system @gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

I scraped app defaults data via this directory: defaults.rknight.me To create a bird's-eye view of what apps are popular on the IndieWeb: andrewmarder.net/defaults/data/ #indieweb

Wow @lukemiani.bsky.social went for it. Huge risk for a tech channel to do this. Major respect. youtu.be/CzHaChKlYq4

This is why I love the Internet: gridranger.frama.io

I watched the entire video, so impressive. www.reddit.com/r/homelab/co...

I love the styling of cobb.land 😍

I wrote a blog post about using Meshtastic! 🤓

A thread of self-hostable software I enjoy using...

A thread of self-hostable software that looks cool. Inspired by: selfh.st/survey/2025-...

Who makes more than you and the jobs they have, depends on your annual salary of course flowingdata.com/2025/12/02/w...

Halp! I was planning to update this page with the latest batch of books NPR loves: andrewmarder.net/books/ Unfortunately Amazon has made it harder to access the product advertising API. If you have access to the API and are game to help me, please reach out. Happy reading! 📖

I'm moving from Google Photos to Immich. AMA. Here are some notes on how I'm hosting Immich: andrewmarder.net/immich/

Incredible sketchy plots by @jwolondon.bsky.social in @observablehq.com. 👏 observablehq.com/@jwolondon/m...

Fun with streets… from 2007, here's what a map of the United States* looks like made up of only roads. No other features have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population. * the “lower 48,” sorry AK & HI www.benfry.com/allstreets/

In an unassuming back room in the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco sits a 2,000-pound replica of the White House. Step closer, and you’ll notice the unmistakable cylindrical form of a bullet, and then of many, many bullets.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

There are some gems/rares that I cannot write about in more than a sentence. And yet these are the ones that make up the majority. These will be the Christmas gifts for readers. Here is a small sample of my favorites. This is about a tenth of them.

I'm a huge fan of @marimo.io. It just feels right. 👍👍

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

I like squares! ☑️☑️☑️

I’m howling.

Lexington MA school official schemed to overcharge for public records

For Python package management I use a mixture of pixi, uv and conda depending on the task I'm doing. I wrote up a long form post about the history of these tools, why each one exists, and why I settled on these choices in my workflow. jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2025/p...

I recently discovered Conventional Comments (conventionalcomments.org) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!

@umassamherst.bsky.social your campus would be perfect for some awesome murals like these. 🎨

I wrote some notes about how I'm moving my personal data away from Google's all-seeing eye: andrewmarder.net/degoogle/ #degoogle

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Frank Herbert, Dune

A skydiving man captured in front of solar activity - actually real! #linkoftheday www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/...

Hey Chicago! 'General Strike' is an exhibition of 70+ artist matchboxes opening this month at Joy Machine. A portion of proceeds will be donated to the ACLU, and the opening reception is November 21. See you there! www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/gene...