CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

partner: do you want a cookie now or one with chocolate chips later? me: are you ... running the stanford marshmallow experiment on me ... with cookies? her: ... would it be hot if i did? (she wasn't, she was just making multiple batches)

i refuse to learn how to spell onion in french

honestly it does suck for the people who've put their time into building something only to see it being burned to the ground in slow motion so as flippant as i am about ruby stuff it is pretty bad all around

love too get an email from github saying i am exceeding cache limits without any indicator of which repository i should look at bro I have hundreds of repos across multiple organizations I have absolutely no idea where to start, and you don't have a central panel for this

the fundament nature of cooking:

i was BETRAYED by my bestie Firefox (Disk kept filling up, thought it was Windows Update, turns out it was old Firefox telemetry logs. 30 gigs worth)

INDO-EUROPEAN #1: *h₁ey, *knh₃ck *knh₃ck INDO-EUROPEAN #2: *kʷo's *thh₂re? IE 1: *Larry IE 2: *Larry *kʷo? IE 1: Laryngeal! 😁 IE 2: ... IE 1: *gh₂ddit? 🤣 IE 2: that was so bad I think we need to all get in our chariots and head out in all directions just to get as far away as we can from you

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

so I decided to read this french book on the chinese calendar on my very long flight (amongst other things; also reading the new Cosmere novel) THE FRENCH WORD FOR "SOLAR TERM" is *SOLAR SOUFFLÉ" "there are twenty four soufflés in a year" i can't even

Happy Zero Cool Day!

oh my god

忄 is 心 but it's been radicalized by the far left

this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny

ooh, new type of googledorking just dropped

i am going to die in a world that is more antisemitic than the one i was born into and it will be entirely thanks to what the israeli state has done in the name of fighting antisemitism. i think about this constantly.

serendipity: visiting Mumbai whilst working on timezone handling code, and some of my system time zone tests immediately started failing because of normalization discrepancies (the Indian timezone had its canonical name changed from Asia/Calcutta to Asia/Kolkata)

new anh phoong dropped

It's ridiculous that California only provides $5 billion each to the UC and Cal State systems. The state's general fund budget is $230 billion, and there's another $90 billion of non-general-fund stuff on top of that. We could afford to *dramatically* expand both systems if the state gave a shit

i think two things are true regarding college admissions: - elite colleges get way more sufficiently-qualified applicants than they can handle - it's an existential threat to the mythos of the elite college for them to not have an appearance of selectiveness dealing with that

the dangers of attempting to pronounce retroflex consonants around a linguist: eventually they'll try to stick their fingers in your mouth

While we're at it, can we finally stop using the catch-all term "Asian" in polls? We literally have a *mayoral candidate* who isn't East Asian; it's time to finally provide accurate categories

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

It's actually kind of weird how "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" has dynamic scope for the home-team metavariable

at long last, we have created the sorting system of the Library of Babel from the classic Borges story the Library of Babel

like sucks working in a hated industry! but also ai was used to mass fire civil servants, tariffs, and about to unleash a tidal wave of scams, csam, abuse, and overall Pain and its v important to not forget that because of ai water posts and i cannot explain to you how much i hate ai water posts

i just realized that cotton eye joe is actually the perfect rhythm/tempo for irish country dancing

this sounds like one of those made-up kid stories but hand to God it isn't: my ten-year-old son reports that he was gaming with a friend who got mad and left, and said, as he did so: "I'm not rage-quitting, I'm leaving because I'm angry" deeply adoptable for daily use imo

i know he's just finding excuses to be racist but it's still funny to be like this when we live in the country of the chili cheese fry, the walking taco, the fried oreo, the loaded potato skin, etc. there's nothing more american than lighting up a big messy pile of starchy goop with your hands

oooh internet linguistics are happening @lingthusiasm.bsky.social @gretchenmcc.bsky.social

my partner has started calling things "migrolino tier" when they're good

All the sins of Wade–Giles romanization, rendering 北京 as "Peking" and all, are forgiven for setting up this joke.

evangelion coming full circle

This is it, exactly. The word is so useless that I find myself in deep, intractable arguments where it turns out we both agree. GenAI =/= ML and GenAI doesn’t automatically mean using stolen material That conversation is impossible in an environment where artists livelihoods are being taken away

a jj shell prompt, but fast because of powerlevel10k (it took me two weeks to implement it and another week to write 3800 words about it, I hope you enjoy) andre.arko.net/2025/06/20/a...

Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

like this was some honest to god ~Good Trouble~ from a sitting United States Senator

real props to Padilla for everything he did today, this is exactly the kind of confrontation we need to see more of and the optics are fucking terrible for the Trump goons hasn't always been my favorite Senator but credit where credit is due, I hope others see this as a model

oh: ok but, my primary lathe okr is still...

please describe / draw a picture of what you think the phrase "je te brosse ses dents" ought to mean

just normatively (and even legally) if a man not wearing identification and not bearing a warrant tries to jam you in the back of an unmarked van, you are fully justified in ventilating his skull. the way this program is being conducted is insanely dangerous to ICE agents.

the reason all of this “wealth exodus” shit is always overblown is that rich people like living in cool places they will whine, they will complain, they will throw more money than they’re being taxed at reactionary causes but at the end of the day they like living in NYC and aren’t leaving

It's wild how this was the 1642 equivalent of swatting someone

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

one thing about Silicon Valley is that the idea that major Internet firms have a ton of people sitting around doing nothing is largely driven by startups' seething rage that they are unable to hire those people to work for 120 hours a week for what those startups are willing to pay

It’s kinda morbidly fascinating how any sufficiently large and lasting riot and crackdown reinvents premodern warfare from first principles.

making a shirt that says “1sg.ERG ❤️ ergativity-ABS”

WHAT ARE MY PRONOUNS PRIVATE SIR YOUR PRONOUNS ARE SIR AND OR GOD SIR AND WHAT ARE YOUR PRONOUNS PRIVATE SIR PRIVATE DOES NOT HAVE ANY PRONOUNS YET SIR AND WHY IS THAT PRIVATE PRIVATE HAS FORSAKEN PRIVATE’S OLD PRONOUNS AND HAS NOT YET EARNED NEW ONES FROM THE CORPS SIR

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...