“YES: Residents of Takoma Park, Maryland, noticed ICE cars lurking every day in a parking lot. So they showed up early to occupy the space, with coffee, music, conversation, knitting... not leaving ICE a single parking space. ICE stopped coming.” I. S. Democratic Socialists

Good summary about the systematic degeneracy (and specific degeneracy of people in the administration) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAJf...

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

So I ask codex to write a spec and not write code until I can review the spec. It churns for 15 minutes, writes a spec and implements it, ill advisedly runs a long slow tox test. Didn't tell me nothing! I don't like the direction it went. Yes, it is kind of close, but needs to be redone now.

One of my favorite presents ever—my dad found and framed this pic of my mother @sunminkimes.bsky.social at a Seattle courthouse after she passed her US citizenship test in 1981. Like so many of the people who come here to start a new life, she is the best of us—the bravest, strongest person I know.

This youtube video could have been a blog post. I've been using Gemini to summarize youtube video and it is really good at that. So why aren't I reading blog posts? Because the discoverability for blog posts is awful. The youtube algorithm, if you steer it, still finds good blog posts.

* A Ukrainian developed and 3D-printed his own monitoring system in the style of Vault-Tec from Fallout The device synchronizes with air raid maps, power outage schedules, and displays text messages from monitoring channels in real-time mode.*

Enjoying seeing people write little unofficial bots on isitchristmas.com during its interactive season. :)

Already said it somewhere but... AI labs are training their models so hard on broken environments that ALL of the frontier models assume it is normal for your source code files to disappear, that nothing specified in pyproject.toml was installed correctly and so on.

Both Bluesky and Mastodon have such great account search I have to spend a few hours with the LLMs to write account(s to follow) finders.

“He asked to show his ID, which officers declined. Instead, they ran his biometrics. DHS is attempting to rewrite the rules on how the government collects & uses DNA, claiming legal authority to treat the entire human body — its structures, its sounds, even its molecular code — as government data.”

The Internet Archive was built for this

15 years ago: "my" app was written by the original developers. I'm the maintenance developer 5 years ago: "my" app was written by my team, I was the tech lead 0 years ago: "my" app was written by an LLM. I no long now how much credit I can claim.

This guy thinks we should be asking about models, so I've been asking the LLM "what's the model that generates this data, what's the model that generates a gamma distribution" ... very cool approach. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FMT...

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

Musk is contemptable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QibW...

I'm using an llm to add tags to all my github repos and I AM NOT SORRY. Well, your Product Managers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could add a "tags field" they didn’t stop if they should make me fill in 200 repos with tags by my own hand.

There is a reproducibility crisis in social media. I post the same joke on Mastodon and can't reproduce the same number of likes or even a sensible chuckle. Probably because of pee hacking. Potty humor just isn't carrying over.

Why did Anthropic name their smartest model after the academically unimpressive penguin from Bloom County

The 2025 Color of the Year is Shit Show Brown 💩 For tariffs, mass unemployment, falling wages, high inflation, the emergency of secret police and concentration camps, mass pardoning of criminals & the murder of tens of thousands of children by shutting down US AID abroad and ending vaccination here.

My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Installing llms on my computers so they can fight amongst themselves who gets the kvm, monitor, etc.

This is my favorite math youtuber by far. If you need some motivation to learn R and the like, this is the content you need to shovel into your eyeballs. www.youtube.com/@simplistics...

From my analysis of my old feed there are like ~5 people still there, which for a normal person account translates into 20 view on a post. The rest is celebrities, cross posters who post content to all the socials. It's a ghost town.

We should occasionally logon to twitter. To promote mastodon or Bluesky or threads or staring at the wall, anything.

America has only one AZ, so when I am president we will create two more Arizonas for fail over.

Lot of preaching to the choir in the discover tab here

smollm2 a 270mb model doesn't know it is a dumb model.

Work-from-VR-Skyrim. We got the technology www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9gI...

You can also prevent burning down your house by getting a tofurky or pizza.

On the "Discover" tab, all these people whose biggest message are "Well, the important thing right now is that Democrats and the left agree that Clinton and Obama were the bad guys" Who is amplifying that? What is their goal?

russian disinfo: "I hate my fellow americans/the americans because russia is awful" (they want to retweet this) americans: "The administrations policies are awful. The alternative, if we had the political will to choose it, is paradise in comparison" Be careful about tweeting the former.

If the US stops selling weapons to Europe to donate to Ukraine, the US arms industry will be losing sales. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx3o...

About 2 years ago an LLM machine would cost about $6,000 (a maxed out apple studio) I think now with somewhat better small models, maybe $2000 for a used apple studio) I can still buy a lot of tokens for $2,000 or $6,000

The year of LLMs on a cheap miniPC w/o a graphics card... is not here yet. So far any model over 1gb - generates tokens glacially - isn't very bright Honorable mention to - gemma, but only in ollama, not lm studio - granite in lm studio

Extremely William Gibson subplot. Down and out since AI started making all the art, a desperate beat poet falls in with a dangerous corporate espionage gang. Hacking OpenAI will require the perfect stanza. There’s just one problem: poetry is ILLEGAL.

Haaaands... both the vegetarian and omninvore ancestor/cousins of humans used tools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmtN...

#3157 A helpful tutorial

"How to Report ICE" #Charlotte edition zine is up! drive.google.com/file/d/1p_vF...

A class of paramilitary people who can commit any crime at any time, it doesn't even need to be coordinated by the President. wapo.st/4r7J3oc

My fellow country men are so jaded, depraved and apathetic that they care not about the crimes of anyone. (population - people who voted against the guy if we want to split hairs) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlFS...

In different email exchanges dated 2015, Epstein denied claims that Clinton had been to his private island, where some of Epstein’s abuse occurred. “Clinton was NEVER EVER there, never,” Epstein wrote.

From Reddit It’s so over