I haven't played Clair Obscura but I assume this is what it's about

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

"I watched a lot of Alan Partridge on the flight and now I'm hyped for Norwich" is a bit of a weird thing to say upon landing in Tokyo but I have just said it.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

It’s sort of insane how pervasive the framing that multiculturalism is some weird liberal experiment has become. It’s the default state of what happens when people have easy movement and aren’t actively being told to hate each other. You can prove it by going outside in almost any city.

This is why computers are good actually

god help me I might try to write multithreaded python

Making random changes to some code I don't understand and seeing whether it results in more or less test failures. I probably could get an LLM to do this for me.

Once again my firm conviction is that ordinary people are meeting the moment in a way that the upper echelons of the media, judiciary, and capital (albeit I probably didn't expect any better from them) are not. People, in fact, are typically not so evil as fascists want and need us to be.

the vibes are so fucking bad, man. they‘re bad not even because of any component inherent to the technology itself (not even the ethicality of the training data, imo!). just everyone coked out of their mind gorging themselves on the seed corn of our industry.

making a note to myself

The wax on Icarus' wings melted when he flew too high? Sounds like a skill issue.

Considering violence

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Questions you ask when doing something diabolical

I think I am a Cloud watch hater. Particularly CloudWatch metrics, the traces are almost useful.

Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January

I don’t think it could be more clear that they have no intention whatsoever of resisting the global rise of fascism, or that they are absolutely committed to ensuring a future far right government will have as many coercive powers to use against protestors and dissidents as they can push through now

i have had to say, in writing, at work, "the only thing we should ever write in python is code for calling AI libraries" at least three times

I hate that this is probably correct

Become immortal or die trying

www.popularmechanics.com/science/heal... I'm going to inject this all over my body and become a tooth elemental

Developing a new hermeneutic: AI cannot create art or replicate the works of man but it can write code because code is outside the light of God

And y'know, in this context, maybe everyone is aware that it's all pretend, but given the fact that 800 million+ people are using these chatbots per week, I worry that the constant exposure to A Thing That Will Tolerate Any Abusive Treatment And Validate You is giving everyday people CEO brainrot

Something for quantum computing folks to think about. 👇

Going to kick off 2026 by cancelling my gym membership (I don't use it and I'm not going to start!) (I do other exercise)

There are real serious issues with AI and they keep getting ignored for the worst analysis ever.

it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther

Going to _woke_field for a walk...

I didn't make much progress this year, but I can almost read sheet music now...

Building Woke 2 (a giant flaming skeleton with a scimitar named 'Pronouns') in my garage.

TIP TO NEW BLUESKY USERS: Junction enables characters to power up and use abilities. This means a GF must be junctioned in order to power up and use abilities. Let's begin by junctioning a GF. Right now, no GF is junctioned. All other commands in gray cannot be selected yet. Once Junction is selecte

Quickly checking what year "Children of Men" is set...

Reading LLM discourse on bsky is driving me fully insane. I don't use them for work but I still feel incredibly confused and conflicted by people I considered influential in my career arguing with each other over them.

>>> list({"a": 1, "b": 2}) ['a', 'b'] Lost several weeks to this happening somewhere in my code and losing type information

That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.

Scientists should read this. artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...

Generative AI is amazing at tasks where I am not qualified to judge the output.

Receiving support emails for a quantum computing service lets you see a lot of very interesting things, some of which I expect are being made worse by LLMs. This morning's email was about "the world’s first AI Ethics & Philosophical Validation System" with a bunch of pdfs I dare not open.

"Retore spice production, or you will live out your life as a chestnut roasting over an open fire." s/o @theotherjustin.bsky.social for the inspo #dune #memes #sietchposting #dunesky #christmas

2026 will be the year of Sol Badguy

M&S food finally figured out my target market

Do people still do serverless? I don't hear as much about it anymore.

I think I did okay, probably failed listening but I'm not sure if I'd retake anyway even if I do fail. Probably will take a break from practice for a bit.

JLPT day and I have a cold 😭