This is your brain on functional programming. Symbol names have been changed to protect the guilty.

how about Ananas Archive and it's just a facility storing a vast quantity of pineapples

Another expression of concern for former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Four of his papers have been retracted. retractiondatabase.org/RetractionSe...

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

In an age of LLMs this 122 year old Marxist still denounces the culture industry the old fashioned way

I wish he would miss for once

Lighting fireworks in the Berlin metro is only legal 3 days before and after New Year’s Eve, get it together smh

I mainly watch Go matches for the unearned sense of smugness after guessing the right move once and forgetting the 28 times I guessed wrong.

the Buddha released you from the obligation to have a take

A reminder for those interested in PLISS 2026: there are 10 days left to register your interest. pliss.org/2026/registr...

[guy who’s spent the past 72 hours watching videos on Gnosticism]: gonna be a huge year for Gnosticism I think

Genie in a Bottle (Aguilera et al., 1999)

My innovative code patters should be seen as part of a holistic art project intended to encourage new ways to think. Dismissing them as deranged or error-prone only unmasks the reviewer as a philistines lashing out against the avant-garde.

Oh wow, deepseek is starting to make serious progress on LLMs that offload memory to external storage: github.com/deepseek-ai/...

My opposition to Mastodon can be summarized as „I do not want to be beholden to the whims of a petty tyrant“

RUST REFLECTION MVP HAS LANDED github.com/rust-lang/ru... THIS IS NOT A DRILL

I do like that the LLM-isms push people to develop and write in their own weird voice to distinguish themselves. A bit like the invention of photography freeing the painter from naturalistic portraits.

chatgpt has YouTube thumbnail face. i don't know how it's possible for your writing style to have YouTube thumbnail face but it does

I can't believe the movies are not about pickling

Instead of an edit button, have you considered thinking before you post or living with the consequences?

making a note to myself

Highly suspicious to organize a seminar about e-GRAPHS at DAGstuhl.

I think some form of orchestrators will be common in the future, but I have a feeling a lot of this specific structure will be swallowed by the bitter lesson.

I got cheated out of a vegan meatball at IKEA 😭

I WANT ONE

The funniest outcome of the whole microplastics worry would be if they turn out to be fully inert and do nothing.

My mind keeps coming back to the Chinese 12 Angry Men remake where the heroic juror 8 turns out to be a prosecutor of the PRC in disguise.

I got Monster Hunter Tri when I was a small kid but I never managed to get beyond the tutorial because I couldn't bring myself to hurt the cute dinosaurs.

Horizontal fireworks are recognized as immaterial heritage of Berlin by the UNESCO

It might look cute but stairs only crumple themselves as a defense mechanism when they’re very distressed

latex vs drugs - makes users less productive ✅ - makes people feel good ✅ - net negative on society ✅

man, the way being able to talk to linear algebra is fucking us up is just a mind-boggling illustration of path dependence (tbc I think you should be polite to the sparkling autocorrect, for your own sake, but also cut your session rudely short when it veers off bc you're steering a context window)

I know ACM DL's move to open access has been financially challenging but this seems highly problematic as a new funding model :/

Just a gut feeling but there seems to be a lot of unsubstantiated priest class LARPing going on with LLM support tech like MCP or Claude plugins just so software engineers feel like they're doing something more 1337 or "technical" than typing into a chat interface.

A good metaphor for chat-LLMs is that they're like magnets that snap to ideas, including subtle ones, but from short distances

All my collabohaters become my collabowaiters when I commit to the git of success

>looking for a new job >ask the interviewer if the work challenges-forth or brings-forth nature >he doesnt understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is Ge-stell and what is Poiesis >he laughs and says "it's a good mode of revealing mam" >apply >its treating nature as standing reserve

I bet “Everything is a file“ hits really hard if you‘re afraid of types and love magic numbers.

I hope you're all in a festive mood fixing your families WiFi but remember to practice harm reduction by installing Claude and removing ChatGPT from their phones.

Baffling to me that some people think there’s a big wheel in game engines labeled “optimization“ that makes raytracing run at 120 fps on a 8 yo PCs that devs are just too lazy to turn.

honestly something i'm noticing is that whenever a midwit hack wants to make an empirical claim about "the way humanity is" without reading any social science they always just go to primatology

I do not spend nearly enough time thinking about pneumatic tube systems given how much joy they spark. My New Year’s resolution will be to rectify that.

I think the worst thing the AI industry has succeeded in is convincing everyone that any use of ML is a waste of time

where is your sense of joy? these diagrams fucking rule

imagine the world if we could convince ml people to use anything but python

Defreshed and dejuvenated

I know birthday parties are nice and all but I do not understand why SIGPLAN pays for the room/equipment/food for all those Festschrift events at conferences.