Most economists agree that by the time you're 50, you should be living in a dilapidated Victorian mansion at the edge of the forest, sitting by a roaring fire, and discussing poetry with furtive ghosts and indifferent cats.

I just hit Yegge Stage 8 it’s like launching the rocket in Factorio now what

word of the day: botsplained

brb rewriting my gastown in elixir

wildest thing I've vibecoded. so I've been carrying around the source code for a game that ran on a computer my dad owned in the 1980s github.com/jes5199/worm...

project hail mary the book is about a guy in a series of crisis situations, who uses problem solving skills to get out of them project hail mary the movie is about a guy in a series of crisis situations.

when I say that something is universally true I mean my personal universe

this is very good

alright, it hasn’t crashed and burned yet so, try my dumb game? canyoupasstheturingtest.com

heh, oops

Then vaporware is software that's turning into a gas?

software is just hardware that starting to melt

faster cars don’t mean fewer traffic jams

vitriol

the last gift of the neckbeards

I said "recreational Haskell" at work and someone giggled like I was making a drug reference

Ramadan Mubarak! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Laissez bon temps rouler! Hodesh Adar tov! Y'ALL ⭐

Wuthering Heights (2026)

I didn’t have a way to get sound replication praxis out of the speely but I was able to down-convert to farspark, extract the noise stream, then upconvert back to speely >.<

the most esoteric shit I’ve been up to in days is figuring out

vibe typesetting

Claudius? Claudius Ptolemy??

there are a few classes of cognitive errors that I’ve seen LLMs make that I still find surprising and bizarre. like, saying “like you said earlier” and quoting themselves instead of me,

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

stafford beer is responsible for one of the best tables of contents I've seen (in his "Designing Freedom")

the most esoteric shit I’ve been up to in months is figuring out what the hell Stafford Beer was up to when he drew this fucking thing

and you shall know the love of Moloch through the blessing of the humble cheeseburger

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER PERFORM ANY MENIAL TASK THAT WAS EVER PERFORMED BY A GEN X’ER

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather.

someone suggested that “a gastown” could be jargon for any giant, personal AI harness project. I have one, I call it “Commonplace.” but I want to hear about other people’s gastowns. What’s your weird idea? How big has it gotten? What parts of it work?

the plurbs are the good guy

it’s pretty obvious that it can’t be the singularity— we don’t have enough mass to form a black hole.

_Accelerando_ foretold that the first autonomous AIs would be digitized lobster brains

weekend family project numbercrosswords.us

Aka why you shouldn’t watch murder videos online you should just care about people and show up

Please do not watch a video of someones murder. It will do nothing but harm you. You know someone was murdered. You dont need to see it.

hey so consider not quote tweeting autoplaying murder videos, thanks

I love Haskell because you can write code that’s provably correct and still doesn’t work

funny to remember I started saying “the documentation outlives the artifact” several years ago but I was thinking about retrocomputing

Chad’s blog is hitting an interesting spot of being insightful while also somehow sounding like the text was heavily workshopped by GPT

hey I just noticed that retweets are fixed! now I just need “I never want to see what this friend retweets because they abuse the privilege” and we’ll have parity with twitter circa 2009

My friend @astrolab.ist once spoke of "conversations so big that THEY are having US," and that's exactly what it feels like to be part of Big History. Daunting yes, but others have been there before. Machiavelli and Marx studied Livy's histories of the Roman Republic especially re class struggle!

I vibecoded an AI thing based on some software architecture ideas I’ve been thinking about for many years … it’s going about as well as you might expect from that description

the kitchen-sink monad

climbing back out of the underworld

Omen walk season commences

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot