Lies, damned lies, and remaining time estimates

Perfectly timed my in-flight entertainment today: read a book (mostly) start-to-finish, switched to a TV episode, plane landed as the end credits started. It’s weird how inordinately happy I feel about this

I know we’re mostly mad at ICE these days, but don’t forget: fuck the TSA and their sexual-assault-based pat downs, too.

Since it’s Virgil’s…does that mean the bar is in hell?

In Bellingham, I tend to associate Fall not so much with the turning of leaves, but rather the return of the rain.

Can we turn this into a “quote post with the pettiest thing you’re upset about with the current administration” thing? I’m upset that washlets have like 0% chance of getting normalized in the current political climate.

Sometimes I wonder if a spiritual successor to Katamari Damacy would fix the world

Most of the shades in my house are set on a timer that follows local sunrise/sunset, which means that there’s invariably a day in early Fall when I walk out to the living room and find that they’re still closed. Today was that day 😞

I don’t know who Ezra Klein is, and at this point, I want to keep it that way out of spite.

Like Marcus Aurelius said, you are not required to have a take on everything.

Is there a streaming service that’s just like, dog shows 24/7? I could use more dog shows in my life.

Pretty good seats, for the nosebleed section

Mail on iPhone used to have this really cool feature where tapping on an item in the list of messages would immediately display the message. I miss that feature…

Ever have one of those mornings when you wake up and have one of the songs from the Katamari Damacy soundtrack stuck in your head? 🎶

Is it okay to start deconstructing K Pop Demon Hunters in a spoilery way yet? Because I can’t help thinking about the contradiction at the core of the film and how it mirrors some patterns of queer affirmation in Evangelical spaces…

So K Pop Demon Hunters is about the toxicity of Side B theology?

So K Pop Demon Hunters is about the toxicity of Side B theology?

He’d done it! After years of ridicule, he’d proven that reality was a simulation; and with it, a remote code exploit that allowed him to “borrow” the compute cycles of anyone who tried to predict his behavior. There was just one thing left to do: become the Main Character on social media.

Is there a word that captures the idea of “carcinization”, but for spreadsheets?

I’ve had Chappell Roan’s “The Giver” stuck in my head for days. If I built a country playlist around that and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”, what else should go on it?

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the reasons that a lot of folks fail to make progress is discussions about AI. Is this part of it? mandymusings.com/posts/what-w...

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the reasons that a lot of folks fail to make progress is discussions about AI. Is this part of it? mandymusings.com/posts/what-w...

Anyway, if you need something to distract yourself from the horrors this weekend, I’m working on a draft essay about everybody’s favorite super relaxing topic—AI—and I could use some feedback before I post it. DM me if you’d like a super secret link to it.

I had a dream that I needed to look up information on how far one needed to stay away from a nuclear detonation to remain moderately safe, but I couldn’t get it because cell towers were down. Huh, I wonder what made my brain train for *that* scenario. 🤔

Chobits (2022)

Folks in the LLM space are always talking about "tokens this" and "tokens that"; I'm just wondering, "When did I walk into a Chuck E. Cheese?" If I get my agent to play skee ball really well, can I exchange the tickets for a stuffed rabbit that's been collecting dust behind the counter for 5 years?

This essay was a fantastic read, and it draws together many threads that I had just begun to grasp at

Come and take it

I forgot how weird it is to be unable to log into *any* work related account. 😅 It feels like having a gap where a tooth used to be.

Somebody needs to get this reviewer on a podcast for a retrospective

When I left Twitter, one of the biggest things that I missed was finding frequent links to good tech blogs, although I suspect that this was more about the *memory* of finding such things in earlier days. In any case, I feel like today’s Bluesky is better than Twitter’s later years. 🎉

End of an era #withGusto It’s been an incredible six years!

I think it might be about time to binge Evangelion again

Lies, damned lies, and the 'don't ask me again' checkbox

Remember Trumpet WinSOCK?

Starting my Pride Month by listening to the legendary, queer anthem, “Let It Go”

Isn’t this basically half the premise of Psycho Pass?

I guess this clears up some of my confusion about Site Ready to Eat

An AI agent named “Suckrates” that never actually produces anything of its own, but instead belligerently questions all of your own conclusions. Is this a thing?

The chat bots don’t facilitate serendipitous discovery

So…what do we have to do to get a Gilroy Cut of Rogue One?

I was kicking around some similar ideas to this with a colleague a couple weeks ago, but this presents a *much* clearer vision for LLM tooling that I might actually want to use

I admit that this is nice

When you’re on social media, you can look at an exchange between folks that you follow, imagine a funny response that would only land well if you knew each other, and then just not post it. Not many people know this.

So do you suppose that the tariffs apply to planes offered as presidential bribes, or…?

Waking up the day after electrolysis feels like this:

POV: your friend has never seen Star Wars, and you decide to introduce them to it via Andor

I *finally* summoned the energy to make my first blog post of the year. As a reward, I will now go to bed. mandymusings.com/posts/more-s...

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