Strong reco: Korean drama Bon Appetit your majesty en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_App...

Struck me that whenever the left wins a political victory it's by establishing an impersonal institution that then gets captured by careerists and turns into an easy right target. So victories just turn into sieges. Whenever the right wins a victory, it's by tearing down a captured institution.

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Reading the Boone County collection is really bringing up memories. Haven’t heard Lee Iacocca mentioned in 35-40 years. His autobiography was one of the first business books I read as a teenager.

Bought this. This Bloom county strip is amazing!

People in the US in the 80s, do you recall the Bloom County comic strip? What was the fandom like? What was the culture around it? (before my time in the US and it wasn’t syndicated in India, so I just learned about it)

Lol ESB

Robots are the new poor people

Advances in boubakikiology t.co/nUrbuQLw2C

The torment nexus is other people

They should put Skyrizi vs Rinvoq on pay-per-view.

I have spent an unreasonable number of hours of my life being repeatedly informed of the benefits of once-a-day Rinvoq, for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. My sympathies to sufferers of this condition but you’d think there’d be a better way to reach them without occupying my attention 🤔

My wife drinks matcha that comes in a really nice little can. I’ve been collecting these cans. I now have 35 of them. About 7cm high x 5cm diameter. Open to suggestions for cool projects I might be able to make with them.

“Accelerating towards sincerity” 🧐

It’s not slop it’s delvatronium

My test baitpost worked exactly as I expected 😂

Nate Silver is more right than wrong I think. Sadly the term “blueskyism” does point to a clear capture situation. If yiu cant see it youre part of it. www.natesilver.net/p/twitter-or...

NRx = silver surfer MAGA = galactus 🤔

🧐 Wut? MAGA *is* NRx shooting its shot as best as it has been able. There’s not much bench strength left past Vance afaict. It’s a nerd fantasy that had one shot at picking a populist horse to ride and this is it. They’ve had a good run but they’ll go down with their horse.

when people suck, one tell is that their attempted jokes are not funny & they can’t *tell* when they bombed

A good way to start your weekend would be to read the top three winners of our Ghosts in Machines short story contest, exploring near futures visions of distributed AI and protocols coming together in unsettling, haunting ways. protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/archive

The problem with the Nazi bar theory is the whole world is a Nazi bar now And places that aren’t have Nazi bar Derangement Syndrome 🤔 Oh well

Substacks Nazi bar problem is actually a lemon market problem in disguise created by the unavoidability of a distribution aggregation endpoint if you don’t own a hardware client end-point

Being dead ain’t that bad Paul. We’ve got tasty braaiiins there.

Did you hear about the AI app that mysteriously jumps into your overflowing email inbox at night just when you’re feeling overwhelmed and slashes through all of it? It’s called Inbox Zorro.

Third place winner in our Ghosts in Machines contest, by Zach Hyman protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/loyalty

Starting now, SIGFPT session on Impossibilities and Symmetries discord.gg/rjzQP8w2?eve...

I’m helping organize a week-long Protocol Symposium, Sep 12-19. The symposium is fully online and free, but limited capacity. Deadline to apply is tomorrow, August 22. Probably your best chance to catch up on Summer of Protocols work this year. summerofprotocols.com/protocol-sym...

Nathan Schneider on the protocol town hall www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Lq...

Bouba is a better word than vibe because it has a well-defined antonym: kiki So the opposite of boubacoding is kikicoding Most of us bouba hobbies and kiki our work but if you have an easy low-expectations job and a demanding hobby, you might bouba your work but kiki your hobbies

Help me satisfy some idle curiosity. I want to know what happened to people’s Covid hobbies. Responses will be visible in summary to all. Not collecting personal info, just your hobby and to what level it’s dropped off now. forms.gle/uB9sbxX3rGds...

executive function is attention to attention

That was a fun talk. Here are the slides for those interested. That was a fun talk. Here are the slides for those interested docs.google.com/presentation...

Doing a big, messy talk in 5 minutes. YouTube livestream link below. You can also watch on Substack Live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh61...

Good to see people using bouba and kiki in a kiki way. Too many people are way too bouba in their usage of the dichotomy.

is TEDx like latinx or

On right now -- Cory Levinson on climate protocols www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYhA...

In the land of the disoriented, the utterly lost iterator is king

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The ley lines are clogged. Something is off about the energy flows of the world 🤔

If you’re on any active paid slack, try out the “pinch to summarize” AI UX in the “catch up” swipe carousel. It works really well! Both the interaction and the summarization quality. First AI UX element I’ve truly liked since chat. More threaded conversation stream products should adopt it.

I like my therapist

So we’re at the stupid prizes phase of the stupid games

Starting in a couple of minutes: Protocol Town Hall with @charity.wtf , on Observability and other matters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=13P3...

Fine, fine. Let’s just have a dark age.

I'm toying with the idea of teaching FUN as a compositional virtue in first-year writing next year. Something like: play and desire as essential to good writing (in addition to voice/clarity as instrumental skills). @vgr.bsky.social 's piece on LLMs as ludic technologies is giving me ideas.

Wrote a big post after a long time. contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/texts-as-t...