Asked the resident 6-year old K-POP DEMON HUNTERS expert which song he think should’ve won and he picked “Love, Maybe” — if you haven’t heard it 7 million times, it’s a sentimental Fogelberg-esque adult contemporary jam all in Korean. Our son “sings” every word, or at least hits all the syllables.

To help LLMs do math (famously tricky for transformer architectures) researchers implemented web assembly in the model weights. That’s FASCINATING. The models can perform arithmetic without having to reach for a calculator. https://percepta.ai/blog/can-llms-be-computers

Unexpectedly stopped by the grocery store last weekend while waiting to pick up an item I would later have to return and came upon some fulsome leeks so of course I made leek confit and now I have leek confit for my scrambled eggs and sometimes life can just be so beautiful you know.

“Cool mornings, warm evenings: a study in contrast” (2026, mixed media)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/116200675747480657 This is great news for decentralized social. @thisismissem has been doing great work on FedCM and OAuth for years and is now going to focus on bringing FedCM to protocols like Activity Pub and atproto. And this brings us one step closer […]

The way everyone regardless of race, creed, or religion treats the posted speed limit as a floor with 15mph of ceiling — whether in a school parking lot, residential street, or highway — is going to be what turns me into Michael Douglas in FALLING DOWN.

It is both ageist and disinformation to tell me the last Gnarls Barkley album came out 18 years ago.

Bluesky CTO (and my ultimate boss) wrote a sharp piece about practical decentralization that I think does a good job of summing up the atproto ethos. It’s been encouraging to see some similar moves from Activity Pub of late — relays, DIDs — I hope we’ll both keep moving in this direction […]

It’s important to know how to communicate with your partner

I’ve been listening to Thich Nhat Hanh lectures on YouTube while I do my little home improvement projects as a reminder that the person I need to have the most compassion for is the well-meaning idiot currently fucking up my house.

The best time to federate with Threads was never. The best time to defederate from Threads is right fucking now. https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5718532/zuckerberg-defends-meta-in-trial-alleging-social-media-is-deliberately-addictive

A lovely homage to a URL scheme that only @mwichary could write https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/

We released a shiny new https://atproto.com today with all new docs, guides, tutorials, translations. I think it’s pretty sweet, would love to hear your take, especially if you’re new to AT Protocol or developing on decentralized social.

I recently wrote about adding social features to good ole website via AT Protocol — think adding a comment thread to your blog posts, that kinda thing. Curious what some analogs in ActivityPub land would be. https://am.jimray.net/3me75lkz4wk2a

The Salesforce board could replace this herb with Claude Haiku and the only difference is they wouldn’t have to put up with this bullshit https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-reportedly-jokes-about-ice-at-company-event-in-vegas/

I take a certain middle age pride in being BEST IN CLASS for my life insurance premium though I can’t help but wonder: am I the most boring human?

As an enjoyer of several @BenRiceM productions, I’m looking forward to this one https://indigosocial.app/

Sunday Soul is a great way to kick off getting in the mood for cheering on Seattle https://www.kexp.org/shows/sunday-soul/

Even as a fan of the film, I can’t argue with the argument that the fantasy at the heart of K-POP DEMON HUNTERS is neoliberalism. The best way to counter this is an immediate follow up with Satoshi Kon’s PERFECT BLUE, of course — fun for the whole family! […]

Tim Urban currently 7,000 words in on a three-part series tentatively titled “If We Want Second Rate EVs and Exploding Rockets Society Might Need To Accept A Little Pedophilia”

Switched to mise for version management and holy moly is it great https://mise.jdx.dev

A recent post from @scripting got me thinking about how we communicate the value of decentralized protocols https://am.jimray.net/3mdecavhkns2t?auth_completed=true

Some day Donald Trump will be dead and Tim Cook’s biography will contain a chapter about how he deftly maneuvered around American fascism, and I’ll remember how he flew to DC in a snowstorm while American cities were occupied by ICE to attend the premier of MELANIA, directed by Brett Ratner.

This is an incredible, and ultimately very hopeful, interview. The generosity here to not let her slide while still being open to accepting someone who seems genuinely contrite and wants to try to fix a bit of what she’s broken. https://youtu.be/KG-pL7aZoeY?si=JQ5M-Nk_eIbXMV1K

This tracks with my experience pretty much exactly. AI tools excel at generating a ton of output and synthesizing that all at once is nearly impossible. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/10-things-i-learned-from-burning-myself-out-with-ai-coding-agents/

Sorry it took me so long to reacji to your slack post, I had to sift through the 33,761 emoji I downloaded from my previous employer and add it to our workspace to properly convey my feelings about this.

Hey hey, I wrote a bit about the *other* decentralized social protocol, why I think it’s cool, and how it unlocks some of that excitement of the early web. Still love you Mastodon. https://jimray-bsky.leaflet.pub/3mcxq7tyx522r

I’ve known plenty of charismatic, credentialed, ambitious for the sake of it charlatans. The media’s problem isn’t the Weisses and Bowlses, it’s the bosses so easily flattered by these obvious frauds. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/26/inside-bari-weisss-hostile-takeover-of-cbs-news

Got my ass kicked by a 12yo girl this weekend* and I’m feeling very middle aged today * skied into me while I was standing still, based on the crowd reaction it was a good one!

Bier, like his boss, is an artless troll. He built a product that directly incentives slop spam to juice his numbers and now he’s desperate to walk it back. 🤡

Lotta good reasons to stop publishing anything in Twitter, the most boringly transactional is that Grok will bury your posts if you’re not aligned with Musk’s political project. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/media-matters-says-its-ending-its-presence-on-x-twitter

> We’re a worker owned media collective dedicated to doing things differently Hell yes sign me up > Follow us on Instagram! Goddammit

I wonder if there will be any reflection by leadership at the Times about how they managed to get duped by not one but two of the most obvious charlatans of the era https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/business/media/cbs-evening-news-bari-weiss.html

Soon-Tzu Speechley wrote this in 2020, ‘what if we write about American food the way they write about us’ “In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]

Lololol engineers at Musk’s xAI, parent company of both Grok and Twitter, were using Claude Code but they just got shut off. Begs the question: when will Anthropic’s engineers stop posting to the synthetic CSAM-on-demand app formerly known as Twitter?

Replace your HR department with Grok for Business. Work is based now. https://venturebeat.com/ai/musks-xai-launches-grok-business-and-enterprise-with-compelling-vault-amid

I started my career as a journalist during run up to the Iraq war, an absolutely unhinged moment in American history filled with lies and the worst political duplicity. And for the rest of my life I’ll look back on that as a high mark in Republican foreign policy.

“Excuse me SIR. It is currently 5:02pm and I have been neither fed nor walked.”

Just got around to unpackaging one of my favorite Christmas gifts, an Asahi rubber cutting board, nervously cutting through the tape to make sure I didn’t… oh. Right.

I should write a blog post about the subtle art of taking over the music at a party

Spare me this encomium for a dying city. Landlords like Kaminsky and the rest of SF’s hippie gentry have done more than anyone to make the city unaffordable for normal people and allowed the tech oligarchs to run roughshod. https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/30/cookin-store-closing-san-francisco/

Remember as you gear up to make New Year’s collards, pick a bigger pot than you think you’ll need. Bigger. Is that seriously your biggest pot? Fine.

My family loves to put each other on pretty much as a general rule. So when I showed up to my folks and mom asks “where’s the roast?” I kept waiting for them to break. And this was the Christmas we defrosted and grilled a flank steak and the boys ate chicken nuggets!

Thankful we built the home office in a completely separate building when I have to try to set up a new Apple Watch, including creating a new family member account, one (1) mimosa in on Christmas morning.

My ongoing frustration with smart people who work in media is a kind of steadfast refusal to understand how platforms work. The idea that Instagram’s algorithm has a functionally different effect on our culture than Spotify’s is not exactly borne out.

Welcome to AirbnBoomer! We dropship all the creature comforts your visiting family can’t believe you live without: * Kuerig * Too loud TV with motion smoothing (Fox News experiencing technical difficulties) * Kitchen radio set to whatever station delivers weather and traffic on the nines * Florida

You’ve heard of Elf On The Shelf, get ready for Christmas Eve With

It’s possible Weiss gets fired for failing at even the basic task of pulling off a Mildred Gillars. It’s equally likely she’s succeeding brilliantly at the job of epistemic collapse accelerationist.

“Hm. Nice. Your mother’s gonna be irrationally upset about this one though” [Four hours later] “And THIS one’s FUCKED UP with some CITRUS bullshit” Stay tuned for further dispatches from the neighborhood cookie exchange.

I assume the reason parental controls in iOS suck such absolute shit is Apple execs all have three literal human nannies for each of their children and send them to $75k/yr schools where computers are banned within a 500ft radius. First day of holiday break is going FANTASTIC thanks for asking.