He had me at “the Playskool version of Twitter”and at many more illustrations of sociopathy reduced to declawed swipes by neutered menchildren. How @davidjroth.bsky.social writes lifts one from an assaulting depression of nationality & unbelonging

This is going to immediately and enormously fuck up the lives of people you know and love. There are about 730,000 H1B holders in the US. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/p...

I'm speaking at Medium Day 2025 in ... 10 minutes! My talk explores ways to reason about generative AI, and why everything is so dumb, and a few directions that I'm excited about anyway. medium.com/blog/all?top...

`ssh [email protected]` 🖤

New from me! We’ve got some fascinating data suggesting devs who *weren’t* worried about AI impacting quality are growing more concerned. Lots of nuance to dig into—grateful to folks like @mtrc.bsky.social, @hmason.bsky.social, and @brandon.insertcredit.com for weighing in!

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

Plot cards have a huge impact on your experience in our game - and now they have a whole new look to match!

I love this post showing the care and attention the @hiddendoor.co art team puts into every world. And now your avatar can wear these fantastic Regency outfits!

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Sep 11th.

We had a ton of fun at the Toronto International Film Festival! Highlights were the AI on the Lot popup on Saturday, meeting with partners, and folks making the films we love.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

I'm on my way to Toronto for this panel and a weekend of film and meetups -- let me know if you're in town and we should catch up!

Having minor regrets about my chosen company name 😅

Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

Live at 10am PT (in just 45 minutes!) ... and @hmason.bsky.social of Hidden Door will be joining us as this week's CHALLENGER for HAN TO HON COMBAT. Also Dan will be celebrating Skynet Sentience Day!

From behind a @hiddendoor.co a new challenger appears! We're very excited to have @hmason.bsky.social joining us tomorrow bsky.app/profile/hant...

TIL that you can be a Burger Scholar and open a burger restaurant and I may have another entry for the "careers I would have loved if only I had known that was a thing": www.hamburgeramerica.com

I'm one of the 37 targeted below by DNI Tulsi Gabbard. I haven't had a clearance nor worked in government since 2013. This is political theater & a dangerous example of government abusing its powers to punish private citizens for openly exercising their 1st Amendment rights. My full statement:

Just in: Anthropic has settled an AI copyright lawsuit brought by book authors. A judge had recently granted portions of the suit class-action status, raising the possibility of billions in statutory damages. I reached out to Anthropic, but they declined to comment or disclose the terms.

AI efficiency is important. The median Gemini Apps text prompt in May 2025 used 0.24 Wh of energy (<9 seconds of TV watching) & 0.26 mL (~5 drops) of water. Over 12 months, we reduced the energy footprint of a median text prompt 33x, while improving quality: cloud.google.com/blog/product...

How Comics Were Made is an amazing book and you, too, should get a copy.

Look at these wonderful people I get to work with! Sadly we missed some folks for the team meetup, so this isn't everyone, but it was nice to get together. (And yes, we are in a goth apartment with a neon Narrator.)

It is really funny (sad, infuriating) to watch companies start to slowlyyyyy back away from the AGI. www.wired.com/story/charac...

I'm so excited that Hidden Door is out in the world today! We're thrilled to launch our roleplay meets fanfic platform, where we are making the tech, game, and biz in sync to let us all share more of the worlds we love, while rewarding the brilliant writers we admire. Check it out at hiddendoor.co

Really proud what @hmason.bsky.social has built with hidden door along with her adamant support of protecting the creative work community of writers and illustrators. Hidden door pays authors to use their books in their games and pays illustrators for all the cute graphics.

This is the kind of clear-eyed description of organizational motivations and group dynamics and mechanisms of dysfunction that I wish I could have read as a young engineer.

Something exciting is coming Wednesday. Stay tuned!

We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.

With news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to Trump’s meddling, it’s worth watching Mr. Rogers testifying to the Senate about the real value of what we’ve all lost.

Women’s status is very rapidly eroding—in their civil rights protections, healthcare, access to the public sphere, and the cultural support for their independence and dignity. But there is no feminism: our public gender discourse is divided between transphobia and handwringing about man’s feelings.

Here's my unpopular opinion: The 996 schedule isn't actually about productive work output, it's about having work take the place of an active social life and family as a person's primary obligations and sources of emotional support.

Trump’s AI plan is a massive handout to gas and chemical companies

So much AI angst comes from the difference between thinking about an LLM as a compressed representation of the language in the training data vs thinking about ChatGPT as a product experience.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Why do people sign up for game waitlists with emails like "[email protected]". I'm not going to invite you, dude.

i wrote a doc explaining why it's important that you call Visa / Mastercard and how to make your complaint as effective as possible (script included) rentry.co/visa-masterc... for a campaign to succeed, it needs a high volume of legitimate Visa / MC users voicing their opposition to these policies.

No better time to celebrate than during the final hours of our 99 cent hat subscription sale!!! hellgatenyc.com/99-cent-hat-...

I saw a GameTank machine in person for the first time today and I am charmed (it was also hooked up to a small CRT and you could smell the 90s vibes): gametank.zone

It’s Doro! esports.gg/news/nikke/d...

Happy Saturday New York, I love you, I have some questions

I try not to amplify the awfulness, but this is just a straight up John Wick villain move

Okay, can anyone explain these fliers that someone mailed to my Brooklyn office from Dallas, TX? (Is it an ARG?)

Trying so hard to not write back and tell them how to fix their error

If you’ve been enjoying this summer’s magical New York City twilights full of breezes and fireflies, it’s because of heavy spring rains! www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Incredible. I never thought I would see a poster session as protest. 💪

Hey political science data folks: I've got a large (1-2 GB) dataset that I want to post someplace for public use. What are my best options?

... "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus November 2, 1883 www.nps.gov/stli/learn/h...

Whoa. That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today. With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.