There's a fundamental constraint on human attention and time to consume apps / media / other things -- the question is how much of our economy relies on it ultimately? If the answer is most of it, then I think AI is more of a cost cutter than GDP grower, but i think jury is still out

It's basically harmless spam in the registry. Doesn't cost much so we decided to just ignore it until the independent PLC governance is established and can make a decision about how to handle it

This was a really good read. A lot of people are going to focus on specific numbers mentioned in the blog post like "we estimate these 800 API fixes would have taken 4 years", but I recommend reading the whole thing holistically as a write up of how software development processes are changing.

The good intentions and bizarre conclusions of evidence-based medicine.

An idea for a good cold start retrieval model is a weighted random walk on the social graph kind of like Pixie. Is that a thing. Idea is if new accounts follow your faves you see their stuff cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/...

I know there are other things to worry about - but they count the height of the radio antenna for the empire state but not sears tower. This feels like a Chicago snub and i dont like it. Sears tower was tallest in world from 1973 to 1998

Have I ever heard of the ELIZA effect? No, wow, that’s crazy. Can you elaborate on that?

Here was DHS’s statement at the time.

This morning federal agents hit a woman’s vehicle while chasing and eventually detaining a man, later using a taser on him while pointing tasers and pepper spray at bystanders at Lawrence/Kedzie in Albany Park. Story to come via @chicago.suntimes.com

At last! Tuesday's architecture column critiques the Obama Presidential Center. Last year, I said the museum tower "looks funereal enough to fit in at ... Oak Woods Cemetery." But after spending time last week on the completed campus and inside its buildings, I gotta say I like it.

I oscillate from feeling it's inevitable that algorithmic choice will become the norm, with ever better ways to curate our attention as we please, and feeling that it's hopeless because there's too much incentive to take it from us. Posts like this keep me feeling hopeful

I wrote a custom Bluesky feed! It's a classifier trained my past likes. As a bonus, I got to learn more about recommender systems ("RecSys"). adamwiggins.com/posts/a-blu...

Stray thought - with labeler filters and other filter types (maybe seen based or proximity based) should the getFeedSkeleton protocol support predicate pushdown? I’ve seen this movie before and the over retrieve over filter cycle is no fun

The Chicago riverwalk is a truly 10/10 urban renewal project

The very slightly different way I would put this, building on work with Hahrie Han is that AI is hitting our capacities for _collective agency_ by replacing our tools for collaborating with other humans to figure stuff out with mediated relations to frozen monuments of accumulated cultural knowledge

This contraption is dredging the pond in Graceland Cemetery.

So I've been digging into bluesky retention data to see what is preventing growth of the ecosystem. Using likes/posts/follows you can see who is active or dormant on ATProto. The headline is that only 5% of users are retained at 28d and 10% of current users churn. That's not pretty

open: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is such a phenomenal piece in Liberal Currents today. When we treat states as exceptional (and my first concern is always American Exceptionalism) our critiques of what’s dysfunctional in them suffers. When we treat them as ordinary and banal, we can speak freely.

Park Gazebo Celebrates 20th Year Without A Sober Person Inside It

Obama center opening June 19 is the second biggest event in Chicago that day

first memorial day weekend in chicago with zero homicides since 2010, the year the supreme court overturned chicago's handgun ban

The pope understands AI better than many in Silicon Valley seem to (the latter having a financial incentive to pretend it is something other than what it is)

This new theory brought to you by the joy of a Chicago Summer Day

Happy cottonwood fluff season from LaBagh woods in Chicago!

The Pope in about a week: 3056. The Alphabet of sin goes from the Amazon to X - the Meta point is a bite from the Apple of Eden in the Valley of silicon idols has no salvation and it must be found in the communion of our souls

I cant imagine why the pope felt he needed to weigh in on AI when you can just go ask his simulacrum

Interesting essay by Noah Hawley on the new psychopathology of the infinitely rich. “They float in a sensory-deprivation tank the size of the planet, in which their actions are only ever judged by themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

I see far more local chicago content on here than i ever did on the bird app - it brings me so much joy. My politics is now happy neighborhoods and a sunny chicago day is the best

Is there a way to sort quote posts differently than chronologically? Replies you can

Another one because this is fun Time is fundamentally different pre and post kids. Like measured, experienced, talked about, etc. it makes communicating with non parents hard sometimes because you have to be overly specific about timing Maybe i have just become more lame too

Im in a multiyear argument with the venmo team because they will embargo a transaction if its close to the word “cuba”. I sent one with Kuba and have yet to get my 50 back. Riles me up every time i think of it

Always post skyline architecture tour edition

Kids are born baked and who they are from a young age

Probably 80% of posters madness is downstream of thinking that posting on a niche microblogging platform is, in some way, important, rather than being a way to waste time on your phone

i was just saying to folks on my stream that the true measure of a writer who doesn’t actually know anything is that everything they write is about online discourse

There’s really no reason for the ios voice to text to be so bad. Daily bummer for me

the hungry observatory

Everyone i share this article with instantly gets super angry and also feels validated.

Chicago seen from above is undeniably gorgeous

Kind of upset that he implies miller lite is bad? Like he hasnt shaken enough of the snootiness to write: “Miller lite is good”

Glasswing update: they used mythos to find 10k+ high or critical severity vulnerabilities, cloudflare has found the false positive rate to be better than human testers, and they've used mythos to scan 1k+ OSS projects, finding 6k+ bugs with high or crit severity, and 23k total). Crazy stuff in this

Great video about how moving chains work, with a real example youtu.be/QQYMUMTI7fk?...

"We’ve locked ourselves in the stupidest possible version of Plato’s cave, where what looks like the spontaneous consensus of the hive mind [is] put there by marketers..." “I don’t know if we’ve found a true viral trend in a while." www.vulture.com/article/soci...

If you were a double agent the best way to get away with a leak is to do an oopsies commit on github with an awshucks the next day krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa...

Maybe the most interesting thing about this case is in order to show all public listings Zillow is actively hiding listings that were private. It feels like both sides of the controversy can make the same arguments about reducing reach. Kind of rare to see!

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

Everyone still on twitter --- this is how they boost the bad stuff I'm pretty sure. Would lovvvvveeee to read the Banger Prompt, I'm sure it reads like a rant