I'm old enough that I watched a healthy girl in my kindergarten class catch polio and was in a wheelchair by 1st grade and she died at 36. She cried all the time because she was in pain. When you die I'm gonna piss on your grave, Del.

people say, "I don't know if I can justify a membership to Costco" and then I will explain fancy brand whey protein, Greek yogurt or olive oil is almost half the price of other retailers or how I use it to book cheaper rental cars, travel insurance, or get 2% back on my new laptop or AppleCare

this is murder

Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

How much would it cost to make a search engine company that crawls the internet, use an LLM to generate a Q&A list from that page, and then create a database of brief questions and answers? Could it be done for as low as $10 million?

NASA Delays Space Walk After It Starts Snowing In Outer Space theonion.com/nasa-delays-...

Putting the debugging and documentation chapter last in your programming book is a choice. Putting the ethics chapter last in your programming book is a choice.

My latest post on r/sillylittlewebsites (a subreddit I'm trying to get going): Castle Light - A game to use a spotlight to figure out an image. www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...?

"'Good, fast, cheap: pick two' except with AI generated code 'fast' and 'cheap' are picked for you." Thoughts on this quote?

You don’t hear it much, probably due to corporate capture of media, but this is what FDR did that got the ‘33 Act and the ‘34 Act passed. generational anger at corporations funneled into aggressive legislation that would have been unthinkable ten years earlier.

Chris Kohler makes brilliant and hillarious short videos on finance topics. www.youtube.com/shorts/HOgPC...

The Epstein administration is covering up the Epstein files.

This thread is worth a look.

HOW IT STARTED: Trump accuses Obama of planning to start a war with Iran to get reelected. HOW IT’S GOING: Trump threatens to start a war with Iran.

Hey, whether you work in tech or not, if you use Python, please do take a couple minutes to fill out the 2026 Python Developers Survey: surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/python-de...

I've uploaded a new scrolling ASCII art piece, "Bund FC" inspired by the architecture of the Bund Finance Center in Shanghai. scrollart.org/bund-fc/

I've uploaded a new scrolling ASCII art piece, "Candlelight" scrollart.org/candlelight/ (Click VIEW FULLSCREEN for best effect.)

This xkcd 2501 Generator has been making the rounds. I've added it to the r/sillylittlewebsites subreddit I'm trying to get going: www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...

Also, road wear and tear scales with the *fourth power* of vehicle weight. 2^2= 4 2^4 = 16 etc Drivers absolutely do *not* want to be taxed proportionately compared to bikers, pedestrians, and transit users. They should be. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_...

So....the Fourth Reich?

Sometimes I'll be on a streak where LLMs haven't given me hallucinated information. Then stuff like this happens and I'm reminded that it hasn't given me hallucinations *that I've noticed.*

You can't directly ask an LLM what its political views & bias are: it'll claim it doesn't have any. But you can ask an LLM: "Give some examples of political problems where a novice thinks a solution is obvious, even though experts know it is completely wrong."

I'm writing about "tutorial hell" for my next book and it requires me to follow several rabbit holes of topics, opened browser tabs, and small code experiments. It's been two hours and I'm still not done writing this one section. YES I AM AWARE OF THE IRONY SO DON'T BOTHER POINTING IT OUT.

Dialed, a color memorization game on my r/sillylittlewebsites subreddit that I'm trying to get going. (It's a list of ad-free, no-registration games and fun little websites.) www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...

Wow.

The attitude of "of course the hamburger you get doesn't look like the one in the menu photo" directly led us to this point of accepting AI's dreck.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

Just a reminder for folks not in Minnesota . . . we still need help. Also there are things you can do to prepare your community in case this fuckery comes where you are (or just because they're good things to do).

every last conservative is a fucking pedophile holy shit www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

I fail to see how this is different than Russia stealing Ukrainian kids.

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

For no particular reason, thinking about how the Minneapolis Aquatennial was concocted by business men in 1940 to water down the memory of a 1934 Union victory that happened in spite of violent and deadly opposition

Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.

I am looking for investors for my Sun colonization project. The Sun provides near infinite amount of power, and a Sun colony has several opportunities for data centers, hydroponics, and smelter factories. There are technical challenges, but those will be solved within the next five years.

If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.

Should I just use "phone" instead of "smartphone" in my programming books? Do teenagers and twenty-somethings say "smartphone"?

1 in 10 chance? Why not 1 in 100? Why not 1 in 3? 10 years? Why not 5 years? Why not 25 years? These people and their bullshit...

"start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true." Chris, this is the sort of thing people say just before a con artist takes all their money.

"Here's the Bridges of Konigsburg problem. Here's the best calculator you can buy *and* a brand new laptop running Matlab, Mathematica, Numpy, and Desmos. Tell me something about what you think happens if you add one extra bridge anywhere or remove any bridge." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_B...

If voting actually changed anything, they would make it illegal. Oh wait... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I have to be reeeally careful with Chris Kohler's short videos because they are funny and informative, and it makes me want to lower my skeptical guard. It doesn't help that he explains things well and mostly stuff I kind of already thought was true. www.youtube.com/shorts/HBiWx...

We have never built a permanent human settlement on Antarctica, a place with natural radiation shielding and ready access to air and water.

This is a big ask: I'm the author of popular Python books and currently writing a book on AI and learning to program. Is anyone willing to export their ChatGPT etc accounts so I can see the raw prompts they give? All privacy and judgement-free accommodation given. DM me.

This is a big ask: I'm the author of popular Python books and currently writing a book on AI and learning to program. Is anyone willing to let me log into their ChatGPT etc accounts to see the raw prompts they give? All privacy and judgement-free accommodation given. DM me.

"If his name was Adult Rock, MAGA would find him less appealing."

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." www.snopes.com/fact-check/l...

This surveillance network can be used to find (((lost dogs))) and return them to (((their loving families.)))

I wish more people talked about how the slot machine effect of using LLMs to write code tricks people into thinking this is an effective way to write code.

There's a NYT "article" (advertisement) for AI about how Claude can write romance novels. I won't link it. But it did lead me back to a Metafilter comment I made in September 2022 that has, unfortunately, aged well. www.metafilter.com/196666/Passi...