YOOOOOOO fucking KNUTH dropped a lil note on a problem of his being solved w/claude y'alllllll

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

With the popularization of AI agents, I look forward to non-programmers discovering the joys of spending more time automating a task you’re going to do infrequently than it would have taken to just do it yourself.

Myself & the other comedians who did the Riyadh Comedy Festival are donating our fees to help get influencers under attack in Dubai back home to their influencer houses. I am sponsoring Braevyn McTaigg from Orlando, FL. 🫡🇺🇸🏝️

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

I really did think the Riyadh Comedy Festival would help bring peace to the Middle East

Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”

Kind of a diss of Reza Pahlavi, no?

Has a younger generation ever been *better* prepared for the workplace than those that came before, or has it been an inexorable decline since the dawn of time? apple.news/AZLo9sr5bTz6...

Hegseth doesn't like Anthropic because Claude sounds French

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each. It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

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The King is mad

This is true AND I could absolutely assemble a team of 12 year olds with more military and foreign policy insight than this administration.

Seeing that others are rediscovering GYWO, and as much as I enjoy David Rees’s work, I wish we all weren’t.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization

Fuck you, Pete. I’ve taught social theory to career officers whose shoes you aren’t fit to shine.

Betting on war is evil and wicked biblical senses.

Just thinking about how lots of people in the White House are making money off of this

the US once again sending the message loud and clear: never negotiate, just get nukes. Never compromise, just get nukes. Never give in to sanctions, just get nukes. what could go wrong

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

gm from OpenAI HQ

Prescient.

does anyone need a used monkey’s paw? I’m all finished with my wish to vindicate effective altruism by regulating frontier AI labs

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

Everything is so stupid.

language models capturing, internalizing & restructuring the conditions of human existence? call that "ontology recapitulates philology"

The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must—unless the strong are constrained by the terms of the MSA.

Do companies not need people to build software anymore… or do people not need companies to build software anymore?

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

I’m even going to violate the @dril.bsky.social prohibition on this one. Well done. Eager to hear from Hegseth tomorrow.

Agentic engineering is driving the cost of code to zero but the cost of good taste and product sense is going to go sky-high.

just saw a sticker that said "britney survived 2007. you can handle today"

LinkedIn is going to need a “Marked Safe” feature at this rate.

Claude says it’s time to go to the gym.

We barely even have trains.

Any sufficiently advanced AI agent is indistinguishable from a rootkit.

You cannot actually know trans people and then be this cruel. This is all such hateful ignorance. It is heartbreaking.

okay so what i'll say about the Kansas situation is this: it is now open season to pull over any visibly gender-non-conforming person for any reason and then cook up any pretext for arrest. they can take trans women in, throw them in a drunk tank full of men, and let come what may.

So this is making the rounds (source: arxiv.org/abs/2602.147...). Inappropriate escalation by LLMs in strategic decision-making simulations and "wargames" is a real, and known, issue. It is one of the reasons my lab has recently started researching mechanistic interpretability... 1/

One of my favorite math jokes: What does the “B” stand for in “Benoit B. Mandelbrot”? “Benoit B. Mandelbrot”

thought you probably needed to see this

So much wrong with Kansas.