I miss being able to Google my more interesting typos to see how many people also made them

Is opening a fire hydrant and playing in the street a specifically NYC thing? Or an American city thing? This is a genuine question, I am talking to a friend from the UK who has no context for it. :)

I love our team @hiddendoor.co and we're all big readers -- we had so much fun sharing our favorite queer book recommendations and I hope y'all love them, too!

It feels like no matter what I've accomplished in my career, my current most valuable talent is that if you locked me in a desert cave with a computer and some GPUs I could Iron Man the shit out of that and emerge with a functional LLM using just what's in my own head. And that's really funny.

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via study that still underestimates climate cost. This isn’t about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

Boss move.

As Archbishop Tutu said about apartheid with regards to the Truth and Reconciliation hearings: "Those who claimed they did not know cannot very well say so now. They know.” Except we have internet. We have social media. People know now. We know. We cannot claim otherwise.

I’m really having trouble imagining anyone at any point in history saying the word “knickerbocker” with a straight face, it just has such a funny mouthfeel

BREAKING: the Massachusetts House just passed one of the best data privacy bills in the country. It includes a total ban on the sale of precise location data and includes a private right of action allowing people to sue Big Tech over data abuses. HUGE WIN! But there’s more work to do 🧵

This is really cool. I've been super into strandbeests since I discovered the Gakken kit (which was many, many years ago): www.japantrendshop.com/theo-jansen-...

Good story on the Knicks' subway entrance, the city's current spirit animal. www.fastcompany.com/91553148/kni...

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

This is a _hilarious_ self-own.

Good morning, Brooklyn, it’s sidewalk chalk season and the kids are awesome.

A beautiful graduation speech. I hope the students took heart.

Using Altas, I've been working with @marylowd.bsky.social to turn her Otters In Space books into a playable RPG. Soon you will be able to visit an otter space station, join a lovable crew of otter space pirates, and find out where all the missing tuna has gone!

We launched Atlas, a new experience that lets anyone with an idea for a story world make it a playable narrative RPG in as little as 5-15 minutes. Are you a daydreamer, forever DM, writer, or just full of weird ideas? Atlas is for you! Check it out today at hiddendoor.co/create

This is so well-written.

The 2007 Shake Shack webcam, all grown up.

Hey Slack, what "AI abilities"? What are these features for? Why do I want them? How much are you going to try to charge me for these unnamed capabilities that I probably won't use? I am a customer and I have questions.

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

All of New York state, not just the city, and also applies to anyone with a kid under 6

Hey NYC! Please tell me we have already given this Bryant Park Lawnmower Roomba a cute & clever name. Patience & Lawnitude? Croton Clipper? Grassbuster? Help me out, New York. We need some (gender neutral) Dad Joke energy.

ICYMI, @hilarymason.com spoke at dev/ai/nyc! You can catch up on the @automattic.com YouTube channel to see our live demo (including a sneak preview of a brand-new platform for story creators) and hear Hilary's conversation with @jesse.blog. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5l1Pukl7Eo

@catehstn.bsky.social Raccoons!

If I have never quite liked rhubarb, what are some recipes or dishes I should try this season? I want to like it!

Pretty sure I'm officially an Old Man now, I had a pack of trail mix as a snack and actually liked it.

It's worth thinking about how "AI" is it exists today was never inevitable; there's a whole parallel reality in which LLMs/Transformers/Diffusion models remained an ML curiosity and were only put into products and infrastructure with great consideration and care.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

Hey NYers, come see me and my dear friend Jesse talk about this moment in AI! It's next week at the lovely @automattic office in NoHo. RSVP here: luma.com/jae3jufw

Startup advice: every company chat needs a #shouting channel

Asking New Yorkers if they’ve been personally victimized by Santacon is very funny actually www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-h...

One more ping for this? Why not. I wrote about DLSS 5 for RPS, what it means for us to live in a world without graphics rendering and how easy it might be for us to lose control of the games industry: www.rockpapershotgun.com/with-dlss-5-...

New paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: we apply linguistic tools to sperm whale vowels. The result: sperm whale vowels do not just look like human vowels. They also behave like them. We found several parallels. Like in Latin, whales have short and long vowels.

I love New Yorkers, entirely unperturbed by art that’s just some giant butts.

Who wants to see itty bitty printing presses?

I really can't believe how we don't talk about the incredible amount of bias baked into modern models nearly as much anymore, when egregious examples are _everywhere_.

Brutal.

Trump keeps ordering the DOJ to come to particular findings, so his administration can use those as a fig leaf to avoid future prosecution for those crimes. I’m not saying that courts won’t fall for this scam—I’m saying we have to overhaul our government so that they *can’t* fall for it.

If you'd like to hear @ftrain.bsky.social roleplay as Marion, a hunter struggling with internal demons, working to make friends at a fantasy tavern in Brooklyn...now's your chance. Thanks for having @hilarymason.com on the podcast, Aboard team!

The engineering management corollary of this is that token leaderboards are bad engineering management. (No exceptions)

MathCode MathCode is a terminal AI coding assistant with a built-in math formalization engine. Give it a math problem in plain language and it will automatically convert it into a Lean 4 theorem and attempt a formal proof. github.com/math-ai-org/...

CEOS SHOULD CODE, THEY SAID

This is how we did geo-based cell network selection at Google Fi: a convolutional neural net over a one-channel-per-(cheap)-telemetry-signal grid of S2 "pixels", used to predict (expensive) quality of service

S2Vec is a vector embedding for geospacial information! Very cool work, this makes a ton of sense conceptually but I imagine the data gathering/cleaning/validating effort puts it out of reach for most non-Google entities. research.google/blog/mapping...

This is a very cool debug

I really didn't foresee a discussion of the etiquette of approaching the flesh and how it differs between cannibals and vampires on my work agenda today.

Overheard a woman who I would guess was in her 70s explain to a friend that she “likes blue-skee it’s like twitter used to be” and her friend said “blue … what? Skis?” And why not, the whole thing was very sweet.