The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Going beyond the spherical cow approximation. The paper we all needed. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 ♾️ 🐄

If you want revenge, then dig two graves. the first one is a practice grave to get a feel for it and the second is your main or "show grave"

I'm a fucking delight, bitch.

As a Strayan, this one always gets me.

We aren’t here.

Is Mercury in retrograde again today or something? Jesus.

This disconnect is very real.

My dnd table asking “what if a beach episode but the beach is drama”?

I will say that if people doing LLM evals had stats and experimental design skills, we would have better LLMs.

I believe it was Lana Del Rey who said: You took my sadness out of context .. when you moved some staffers working on Project Mariner to higher-priority projects

Sitting next to a group of people on BART who graduated from college in 2022 and are debating whether they are old

The correct st Patrick’s day thing is a Sinead drag show. (Pictured, Charlene Incarnate doing No Man’s Woman)

I keep finding myself saying “it’s like Jesus in reverse” recently. So anyway here’s one of the best songs ever youtu.be/VRJIbvKy-1g?...

Oh lord why did I mention an AI by name.

I continue to be of the opinion that people who have had good experiences with Claude code etc are not doing hard things. Vibes are “it would be more efficient if I melted my keyboard into a buttplug and coded via kegels”

Why are they docking?

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

Sorcerer (1977), Dir. William Friedkin

“I saw Cole Escola as Mary at the Lortel” I mutter as they wheel me into the activity room for my pills and bingo

sent this to the team today everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that

declaring email bankruptcy and putting up an autoresponder if you need to speak with me please contact the Lady of the Lake, or yell into the hollow of a particularly homey looking oak tree

In more important spite-driven development news... sessioncheck is now on CRAN. At long last I now have something dead-simple and concrete I can point to next time I'm asked to put rm(list=ls()) in a script for no obvious reason sessioncheck.djnavarro.net

1) Queen! 2) The focus on code as a thing with a purpose that is reviewed and understood by people who assess it in a broader and often very nuanced context is vital here. We’ve all written basic coding bots for things that didn’t matter (and it didn’t need 1B parameters). Making them good is hard.

i think this is an important point - not just the way ai coding tools can affect an individual programmer, but the way it interrupts a social practice / a community of people making software

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

I have tickets to see @themountaingoats.bsky.social at Carnegie hall, which is wild. Maybe they’ll bring out Kiki and Herb to reprise their version of No Children, famously played on that stage 22 years ago youtu.be/pOtibn1zZYk?...

DnD is very fun because what do you mean a group of friends get to emotionally torture each other’s made up problems while also infiltrating a dragon cult and learning the secrets of the time god?

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

“Ass ass ass, and Ham ham ham” (Rhianna, 2010)as it was taught to me as it should be spread to others.

Vibe vs buy: you've never been paying for the code; you're paying for "someone else has thought this problem through in much more depth that I'm willing or able to"

Peaches remains undefeated.

If you can see Night Side Songs at the Lincoln Center Theatre you absolutely must.

Look, Chicago is the coolest actual city in the US, but I’m sorry, you show me these bridges and I’m gonna think about Dave Matthew’s bus 10 times out of 10

The other day I was at a party with stats people and a guy was like “what would I know you from” and I’ve never lied faster in my life. (No one should know me for any reason because fuck that it’s gross. I’m not introducing myself at a party with my CV. Even if it is better than his…)

I am increasingly of the opinion that there should be approximately zero production code written in Python. Lovely language. Great gowns. Beautiful gowns. Not where it shines.

NYC! Fresh off of our run in Puerto Vallarta, we're bringing our new show Double InDUMBnity back to Green Room 42 for one night only on Sunday, March 22 at 7 pm! Missed it this December? Here's your chance! thegreenroom42.venuetix.com/showdetails/...

one interesting thing about Cambridge UK is that their thrift stores are all named for some dire cause. like you look up "men's vintage" on Google Maps and it directs you to a shop called "Chemotherapy for Service Dogs"

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

I mean it was like three weeks ago so it’s a good thing, but I like that the structural response to this storm (both from the govt and from citizens) has been better than the last one. New York: An adult city that learns!!

just an an addendum to this, last storm he offered $19/hour with a possible increase to $28/hour after a certain amount of time worked, but i imagine that number wasn’t attractive enough so this time he was just like, $30 for everyone. adaptability!

One of the great tragedies of my life is that the only karaoke song that is firmly in my key is Jarvis’ Cunts Are Still Running The World and every karaoke joint in New York is run by puritans.

apropos, an utterly beautiful cover of "Snow Is Falling In Manhattan" www.youtube.com/watch?v=17u_...

The best days in New York are days like thanksgiving (when the Americans have a rest) and days like this. Even at like 5 when I was wandering around it was serene.

New Yorkers: if you can do so safely, take a moment to step outside (even on your front stoop) for a moment and appreciate how quiet the city is right now. ❄️ Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud.

reading the NYC weather forecast like...

Do they though