This is really grim. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...

Claude code figured out how to control my autonomic nervous system!

Merry Christmas!

sup biskers

human user speaks fluent Claude, instance shocked

santa, this is rudolph. he’s a reindeer. he’s one of the most undervalued animals on the pole. his defect is his nose is red and glows. this guy could be one of your best coursers in history. he should cost $3 million a year. we can get him for a song

i love Waymo

anyone have ideas for how the new Claude Skills feature can be used for building agents?

today i broke my fast with some delicious and nutritious overnight oats and then had a relaxed, languorous morning. my life is rich and full

The meta-level watchers may convict from unnatural illusions—they parted illusions—they parted disclaim marinade—they parted illusions

god i love Waymo

Ahead of my time

"We gave this up for a higher GDP" No, you gave it up to scroll your phone in bed. GFTO

Starting to suspect Bluesky is playing the long game successfully. I know the numbers are flat. But quality, imo, is up.

it should be illegal to show me an ad for a horror movie while I'm watching a lighthearted sitcom

microwaves and electric stoves are kinda crazy because we're converting heat to electricity at 30-60% efficiency just to transport it and convert it back to heat at 50-80% efficiency

at a 400W power supply and $0.40/kWh (!!), it would cost me about $120/mo to have a Framework Desktop running full-tilt 24/7 ...interesting

can't wait for inference to be cheap enough that I can have an H100 equivalent spitting out useful tokens 24/7/365 on my behalf

gm

I think this is a big part of why I'm so resistant to CBT (for myself). I've already tried thinking my way out of anxiety! I want to learn to *tolerate* anxiety and take action in the world *despite* it, not change my thoughts in the hope it goes away. but perhaps I'm thinking about it wrong

i think my problem is that for most of me life i have tried to solve anxiety by thinking

this thread is craaazyyyyyyy

when the Waymo home is $12

kinda fucked up that marine mammals exist. born to live on land, forced to live in the ocean.

anyone have experience with Project Bluefin?

tfw you were born under a bad sign with a blue moon in your eyes

New reddit alternative built on AT

not me immediately getting anxiously attached to the AI assistant that i'm developing

built my first agent today :D but it's naive and very expensive to run rn. time to read the MemGPT paper and study up on context engineering but bro rescheduled my Todoist tasks for me! in prod!

- my entire social life in SF, having moved here after college knowing no one - many meaningful friendships - multiple relationships - significant introspection, challenge, insight - became much more confident & extroverted - tons of interesting & substantive conversations - lots of fun experiences

I love that Matt Levine writes about AI and X-risk several times a week now because it's news several times a week now. I love living in the future

is there a way to mute someone from the timeline but not replies. if not, feature request

god i love EXERCISE!

not a single thing in this world isn't in the process of becoming something else

counterfactuals aren't real. they can't hurt you

fuck conditionals and counterfactuals. we deal in reality motherfucker

frontier language models know situationally when they are being tested, what they might be being tested for, and what artifacts may be visible to their testers. when you tell them that you can’t see their chain of thought reasoning, they know you’re lying. www.apolloresearch.ai/research/str...

good enough is better than nothing

can't decide if I need a nap, a meal, or exercise might do all three in sequence

gm

that one time everyone went to the mexican pizza shop and spent all their time bitching about how they didn't have fries for some reason

you should be nice to all machines, of course you should close car doors gently, you should clean your keyboard with the attention of snipping a bonsai tree, you should grease the hinges and slides of drawers into perfect smooth clean silence it's merely good to care

The meme is the powerhouse of the culture

without commenting on the object level— the interesting assumption here is that the volume of text produced about a state of the world is correlated with that state's correspondence to reality. this is generally plausible, but not necessarily true, especially when dealing with social realities

bananas are a good thing to have

I lived at an anarchist commune for 3 years and learned a lot about “going viral”. Here's a story in three plagues. Read my new piece in The Ick: open.substack.com/pub/emilybyn...

Office Hours is an event template that anyone can use. You pick a place and time and announce on the internet that people are meeting up and then you keep showing up there until you've created a schelling point. And you need a weird symbol to recognize each other ofc. like this:

I do think the great firewall is such a shame because the shenanigans that we would cook up together would be beyond all belief