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

“Pluribus”, “The Good Place”, and “Mrs Davis” are all the same show and will have the same ending

clock?

I have actually managed to become bored

Red Mars

I still occasionally get DMs from people who are reverse-engineering old text-to-speech software. I haven’t gone back to it but I’m glad someone’s doing it

I’m in an “oops, all side-projects” season, and I keep thinking about how this tweet is even more true now

my superpower/curse is that I can see communication breakdowns forming before the participants in a conversation know anything is up

mom says “oh, it’s going to storm” immediately followed by a huge thunderclap

absolutely surreal to code-switch into my native accent after this long

I used to always wear a “superman” t-shirt to the airport, it became a habit, the flight attendants would reliably say “hey, Superman!”

this reply I got on HN? (I’m jes5199)

exponential curve derangement syndrome

vibe coders vs manual typists is just the emacs/vim flamewar reborn

bluesky Wednesdays queens 👀

I was trying to write a text adventure and accidentally invented a new software paradigm

it's so much worse in actual video