My girl played A Short Hike all the way through, her first narrative game, and I couldn’t be prouder

Matt Webb: “Gin & tonic was invented by the East India Company to keep its colonising army safe [from malaria] in India. Bet the covid vaccine would have been more popular if it got you drunk.” [interconnected.org]

New blog post with some FACTS about - birds - the avian archaeoacoustics of Mexican pyramids - birds - catnip interconnected.org/home/2025/09...

✅ I'm not a robot

not now The Sun www.sciencealert.com/our-sun-is-b...

Homing pigeons fly mostly by smelling. Cool.

This is such a cute site: interconnected.org/home/2022/10... The blog post is really fun to read but wow it's so cool to look at all the cursors from around the world. Tried to communicate by mousing over letters in the article :3

I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022) L: https://interconnected.org/home/2022/10/10/servers C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45226135 posted on 2025.09.12 at 16:05:05 (c=4, p=4)

Hey, so @genmon.fyi wrote this post about how Claude Code should play calming elevator muzak while it's cranking away (interconnected.org/home/2025/09...) so I wrote a little thing that does that. It might get annoying, but I like it so far. You can try it here: github.com/mikeindustri...

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Out of bbq gas right at the end of the final pizza grill session of the summer ⏰

What I think about when I think about Claude Code (a blog post) interconnected.org/home/2025/09...

What I think about when I think about Claude Code (a blog post) interconnected.org/home/2025/09...

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

love it when the blog hits hacker news, excellent chatty chaos

Seeing as Apple has given up on good sizes and I need to replace my beloved 13 mini, may embrace the absurdity and spring for the Le Creuset iPhone

cats evolved the catnip response because catnip repels mosquitoes!! what?? I get it tho that's what I get like around G&T

cats evolved the catnip response because catnip repels mosquitoes!! what?? I get it tho that's what I get like around G&T

Who gives a heck about Angela Rayner. Who has the best policies to rebuild the UK’s engineering and manufacturing base? What’s a root cause analysis of why transport infrastructure unlocking jobs can’t be 10x quicker and cheaper? Why isn’t there a Commons debate about fixing the energy markets?

is this HedgeDoc?

app request - pure markdown editor on the web (like Obsidian, Ulysses, iA Writer) - with Google Docs collab features (live cursor, comments, track changes) - collab metadata stored in file - single doc sharing via URL like a GitHub gist am I... am I going to have to make this?

5 years to the day since I first tried GPT-3 and here’s what I said, when I even had to explain the interface > The interface to GPT-3 is modelled on text autocomplete. What excited me was what we now dismiss as “hallucination” — we should do more with that interconnected.org/home/2020/09...

best logo of the year just dropped

5 years to the day since I first tried GPT-3 and here’s what I said, when I even had to explain the interface > The interface to GPT-3 is modelled on text autocomplete. What excited me was what we now dismiss as “hallucination” — we should do more with that interconnected.org/home/2020/09...

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Here is the vid:

😔 In Our Time is a monument, Melvyn Bragg is an inspiration

Turns out there’s a very ordinary, not very busy cafe underneath the Bow Bells church on Cheapside, and it’s not every day you have your flat white in a 1,000 year old crypt. London!

A genius pun that requires a lead-up so precise and rare that the opportunity is unlikely to ever reoccur. So enjoy it now

I just didn’t have anywhere I could ask these questions before

Inspiring post by @genmon.fyi . AI interface conceptually as DWIM (Do What I Mean). As we lose the concept of syntax errors in dialogs with AI, the errors become hidden in misinterpretations of meaning. We no longer learn from interactions with our machines. interconnected.org/home/2025/08...

Walked into a room of tweens watching YouTube on the big screen in the dark at a party yesterday and that’s how I learnt about NEN FAM

A noodly/big picture design blog post about the destination for AI interfaces Featuring - Do What I Mean (1966) - Put-That-There (1982) - the mythical Third Device interconnected.org/home/2025/08...

A noodly/big picture design blog post about the destination for AI interfaces Featuring - Do What I Mean (1966) - Put-That-There (1982) - the mythical Third Device interconnected.org/home/2025/08...

I kinda can’t believe there is another Avatar movie out this December, and another two to come It’s simultaneously utterly asinine but also a rare franchise creating actual new IP; zero cultural impact but huge money involved Maybe gen alpha will adopt them as this century’s LOTR? It’s baffling

What I wish the TV adaptation of Asimov’s FOUNDATION had been (2020) > What If Prophecy, but Really interconnected.org/home/2020/08...

Picked up a mini bar of premium caramelised white chocolate (“blonde”) from the posh deli, opened it with a glass of wine. Realise I paid £2.80 for half a Caramac

I like this post from @genmon https://interconnected.org/home/2025/08/22/ooo Wouldn't it be nice if there was an "out-of-office" for social media. Much better than people thinking you're ignoring them.

✈️ 47A from Nairobi NBO to London LHR

Out of Office

just found out about this ... installing now!

Watching hippos graze from the lodge balcony and jog back to the water as the sun comes up

@simonwillison.net any idea what Juice means in the system prompt? Saw somebody said it was reasoning effort but then is this a case where a term in the system prompt tweaks a completion param?

✈️ 47A from London LHR to Nairobi NBO

Saw a 3 min 48 sec film called Lasso by Salla Tykkä earlier and can’t stop thinking about it. The subject matter, the delicacy of the expressions, just the whole thing

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

we are >this< close to some top tier art. keep going pls

The age/identity verification system should be an independently run industry co-op that disburses frequently rotates anonymous tokens and publishes statistics on government warrants to connect them to real names. Nothing else shared. It worked for payments infra, would work for identity too

It IS great

Turns out there’s a movie adaptation of LAST AND FIRST MEN? Narrated by Tilda Swinton?? It covers the final sequence about the 18th men (on Neptune in two billion years) and is spoken word over moody panning shots of brutalist war memorials in the former Yugoslavia Is great. youtu.be/f-lBSl4MqWY