The way I look at it is — once you get to the general, one of the people on the ballot is going to win. Your vote lets you nudge the outcome, infinitesimally, towards the least-bad outcome. Today in the US, that’s almost always the Dem. 🤷‍♂️ Primaries are much higher leverage and thus more important.

I recognize this is more about me than about the fiction, but I have a lot of trouble getting into any story that is predominantly about teenagers in school. I often enjoy books about teenagers! But I cannot bring myself to care about fictional class schedules, grades, or school sports rivalries.

I simply am not interested in 99.9% of books about teenagers because I am, you know, a grown-up

This is a good listen, and includes some really excellent commentary on the state of Section 230 today from @jmiers230.bsky.social

Finally time to drop the thing I've been working on for weeks: Bluesky without Bluesky – I ran a full stack PDS/Relay/AppServer/Client stack using no bluesky code!

The trailer for ‘Pressure’ is here, the film which tells the story of the most important weather forecast; the D-Day forecast Andrew Scott stars as Group Captain James Stagg – the Met Office meteorologist tasked with delivering the weather forecast and helping shape D-Day's plans In cinemas 9 Sept

RIP Tracy Kidder, who inspired so many of us, and gave us permission to feel unapologetic passion for our chosen craft bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/02/10/r...

I would love to see NYC become an example to other Democratic-led cities.

This very cool Kickstarter is making an animated short film based in the SCP universe. They’ve already hit their goal for the full 20-minute short film, but they’ve got 3 days left to hit their stretch goal of making a full standalone soundtrack!

This is very good and quite readable. In particular it does a good job of discussing how, even if the US military is executing extremely well, the political/strategic picture is incoherent and poorly thought through.

Absolutely wild graph

Adding to my thread of clusters: Polyphe! A GB200 NVL576 cluster with optical cables connecting the NVL switches in each rack.

I have been more or less silent on the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter, and even though the algorithm will prevent anyone from seeing it, I felt this needed to be said...

This puppy has way too much energy

Pre-ordered! Looking forward to it

I feel like we could just attach this gif to all the foreign policy news these days

This is a fascinating thread

People being incredibly ardently pro or anti data centers as like a general concept is one of the dumbest polarizations in a while. It’s actually ok to say ‘ehh it depends on the place’ like you don’t have to have a categorical take on every single abstract platonic ideal.

She got a sock

I definitely feel this frustration… but a lot of the old Web is still out there! I follow a ton of personal blogs and niche podcasts, and while a few of them are monetized they’re generally not heavily sponsored and almost all fully free.

On the plus side, even though Apple likes to release episodes on a weekly basis, I often don’t realize a new season is out until it’s easily binge-able.

Puppy passed out in the big dog’s bed. (She does have her own!)

I think it’s notable that a whole lot of Jewish (and non-Jewish!) folks are saying that the antisemitism here is as bad as it’s ever been and getting worse maybe worth paying attention to the voices of people who live this stuff

Once again just enjoying how helpful Tailscale is for personal use. Why yes, I would like to fiddle around with my powerful home workstation while I’m sitting in the sun at a brewery, that’s just lovely.

This was a fun read.

Good to see ICML is both experimenting with their policies here, and clearly enforcing them

Maddie has been raised on hockey, she finds it relaxing to listen to

Andy seems to attract the angriest replies somehow, but skeets like this just depress me. And it’s not an exaggeration seeing some of his earlier threads.

Oh neat, this is a good iteration on the earlier graphic. It’s worth noting that irrigated farmland uses a *lot* of water! At a global level this is not so much. At a local level, eg the immediate community around a datacenter, the impact is absolutely noticeable.

When Maddie wakes up from a nap these days, the first thing she does is pick up her cow.

This is very interesting and I need to set aside time to read all the definitions and commentary. However I quite like the closing section — “When *not* to define AI” — as it points out that “conduct, outcomes, risks, or institutional roles” are often more relevant for legislation.

This is a neat visualization. I do wish we had better data on this. As Andy points out in the visualization in the replies, this is “Based on average datacenter water usage, which can vary significantly.” But even if off by a factor of 10 (very unlikely!) it’s not a huge difference on this scale.

Well this is lovely news

There are some problems which can only be solved with either no soldiers, or hundreds of thousands of them. Alas, we seem forever doomed to have idiot leader swho come at the problem with "what if a small but steadily growing number of soldiers, ever insufficient to solve the problem?"

I will say one thing: nothing demonstrates the value of military history, the staff and war colleges, and reading military theory like watching a war conducted by a bunch of guys who skipped all of that in favor of 'manliness' and push-ups.

I just received one of these adorable little e-readers myself. And of course the first thing I did was flash CrossPoint on it.

This is very good

That was fun

@segyges.bsky.social FYI, you seem to have ended up on your own AI Haters list? Not sure if this is a test or an accident or what

My employment history includes working in all of: national security, social media, and artificial intelligence. So really, I’m sorry, you get what you get.

I am admittedly someone who would probably go completely nuts without some kind of productive work to do. That said, I do think that a Star Trek future — or even a Culture scenario — should be the high-level goal. Fully automated luxury queer space communism is in fact a good idea.

I’ve been reading/re-reading some of Neal Asher’s Polity novels lately, and one of the interesting notions is that the AI characters consider themselves as extensions of humanity by other means. (With, of course, disagreement and drama because fiction).

I found this on Twitter many years ago (I wish I could find the source), and I continue to think of it on a regular basis.

Introducing the puppy to being out on a patio. So far doing well at people watching without barking.

TBH such a common story in tech. And while hilarious, also a good reminder that you should know where your lines are and pay attention to if they’re being crossed.

This. I’m not sure I’d make all the same choices, but the BlueSky team has been thoughtful about their technical choices and clearly had the time and freedom to prioritize that.

I’m not qualified to evaluate some of the specific bits of this, eg in linguistics or neuroscience. But it’s definitely a good read and thought-provoking.

A short note that the predictions that LLMs would favor "boring technology" that's over-represented in the training data don't appear to be playing out as expected with the latest models - once you attach them to a good coding agent harness at least simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/9/n...

I’m pretty sure some derby folks still follow me these days. David is an excellent guy and a great person to learn from.