Gordon Mohr ꧁🧿🧿꧂
@gojomo.bsky.social
* secret agent for the future
* formerly @ archive.org; ElectricCoinCo (Ⓩcash) advisor
* originator of the 🧲link
* "Genius!" – NYT ['Spelling Bee’]
* "You have arrived!" – Google [Maps]
* formerly @ archive.org; ElectricCoinCo (Ⓩcash) advisor
* originator of the 🧲link
* "Genius!" – NYT ['Spelling Bee’]
* "You have arrived!" – Google [Maps]
new EA cause area: kidnap AI skeptics & force them to watch Claude Code/Cowork in action
February 11, 2026 at 8:37 PM
new EA cause area: kidnap AI skeptics & force them to watch Claude Code/Cowork in action
why miss the marketing opportunity of promoting the 1st movie of the reboot alongside the finale of the current series?
February 6, 2026 at 4:28 PM
why miss the marketing opportunity of promoting the 1st movie of the reboot alongside the finale of the current series?
TIRED: Ballmer Peak, alcohol as a coding lubricant
WIRED: Molly Summit, MDMA therapy to help experience-scarred veteran coders learn to trust computers anew
WIRED: Molly Summit, MDMA therapy to help experience-scarred veteran coders learn to trust computers anew
my brain has been so cooked by years computers being literal-minded, that it is hard to fathom what you can do with a computer that has common sense
February 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM
TIRED: Ballmer Peak, alcohol as a coding lubricant
WIRED: Molly Summit, MDMA therapy to help experience-scarred veteran coders learn to trust computers anew
WIRED: Molly Summit, MDMA therapy to help experience-scarred veteran coders learn to trust computers anew
I hear that when you die, the Prompt and Seed used to generate your life flash before your eyes.
@taylorwwebb.bsky.social i had a crackpot idea that the whole "life flashing before your eyes" phenomenon of near death experiences sort of resembles this thing the Claude Code agent does when the context window is about to run out, /compact context summary for the next instance. silly?? its ya boi
February 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I hear that when you die, the Prompt and Seed used to generate your life flash before your eyes.
barring a time-&-place-specific act of Congress, local jurisdictions should be able to treat federal law enforcement like vampires - powerless to enter unless you invite them in
LAW POWERS ACT OF 2027: The share of any federal agency's LEOs stationed in any state or county must remain under 2x of that jurisdiction's national population share, unless a larger deployment expressly authorized by jurisdiction's own representative assembly or US Congress.
February 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM
barring a time-&-place-specific act of Congress, local jurisdictions should be able to treat federal law enforcement like vampires - powerless to enter unless you invite them in
Reposted by Gordon Mohr ꧁🧿🧿꧂
ASI is when elisp scripts YOU.
February 5, 2026 at 5:04 PM
ASI is when elisp scripts YOU.
Reposted by Gordon Mohr ꧁🧿🧿꧂
Why haven't we
seen a
Unicode character
representing
exponential growth
yet?
seen a
Unicode character
representing
exponential growth
yet?
February 5, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Why haven't we
seen a
Unicode character
representing
exponential growth
yet?
seen a
Unicode character
representing
exponential growth
yet?
LAW POWERS ACT OF 2027: The share of any federal agency's LEOs stationed in any state or county must remain under 2x of that jurisdiction's national population share, unless a larger deployment expressly authorized by jurisdiction's own representative assembly or US Congress.
February 5, 2026 at 1:59 AM
LAW POWERS ACT OF 2027: The share of any federal agency's LEOs stationed in any state or county must remain under 2x of that jurisdiction's national population share, unless a larger deployment expressly authorized by jurisdiction's own representative assembly or US Congress.
Bender's position seems roughly, "you're wrong because I have a rule that I won't entertain your conjectures, & will instead label them offensive".
the inadequacy of this stance to sway many who don't already agree with you is left as an exercise to the reader.
the inadequacy of this stance to sway many who don't already agree with you is left as an exercise to the reader.
Emily Bender just keeps responding in pretty weird ways about me, now saying the reason I'm complaining here is that she asked to be treated as fully human. (1/4)
February 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Bender's position seems roughly, "you're wrong because I have a rule that I won't entertain your conjectures, & will instead label them offensive".
the inadequacy of this stance to sway many who don't already agree with you is left as an exercise to the reader.
the inadequacy of this stance to sway many who don't already agree with you is left as an exercise to the reader.
AIs have repealed Cunningham's law: it's no longer true that on the internet, posting a wrong answer better gets the right answer than just asking the question. now, you just have to ask an AI.
but perhaps law now reborn for tasks: the best way to get AI to do something is to assert that AI can't.
but perhaps law now reborn for tasks: the best way to get AI to do something is to assert that AI can't.
“an AI could never do this”
*sits back and waits for someone to prove me wrong… aka do it so I don’t have to*
*sits back and waits for someone to prove me wrong… aka do it so I don’t have to*
claude could port sonner surely
February 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM
AIs have repealed Cunningham's law: it's no longer true that on the internet, posting a wrong answer better gets the right answer than just asking the question. now, you just have to ask an AI.
but perhaps law now reborn for tasks: the best way to get AI to do something is to assert that AI can't.
but perhaps law now reborn for tasks: the best way to get AI to do something is to assert that AI can't.
TIRED: 'Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability', by Steve Krug, 2000 (left)
WIRED: 'Please Make Us Think: Web Design for the Next Trillion Users', by Claude, 2026 (right)
WIRED: 'Please Make Us Think: Web Design for the Next Trillion Users', by Claude, 2026 (right)
January 31, 2026 at 5:56 AM
TIRED: 'Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability', by Steve Krug, 2000 (left)
WIRED: 'Please Make Us Think: Web Design for the Next Trillion Users', by Claude, 2026 (right)
WIRED: 'Please Make Us Think: Web Design for the Next Trillion Users', by Claude, 2026 (right)
'Coase's Claws: The Nature of the AI Firm, Shannon Limits Versus Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety'
Agents perform 50% worse when working in a team than working alone.
The setup is simple: two agents, two tasks, two VMs, and one chat channel. They then evaluated whether the merged solution from both agents passes the requirements of both tasks.
The setup is simple: two agents, two tasks, two VMs, and one chat channel. They then evaluated whether the merged solution from both agents passes the requirements of both tasks.
January 31, 2026 at 12:38 AM
'Coase's Claws: The Nature of the AI Firm, Shannon Limits Versus Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety'
new technology allows us to generate an advanced rendering of the State of California capturing the windfall of its proposed 2026 wealth tax:
January 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
new technology allows us to generate an advanced rendering of the State of California capturing the windfall of its proposed 2026 wealth tax:
🌲
Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
January 7, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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some AI hate may be a narcissism of small differences
Rob, is it true you created an early language model trained on scraped data? "Mark V Shaney"?
Is it also true that it pretended to be a human, sending unsolicited messages on Usenet forums for lonely singles?
That's just what I'm seeing here on Wikipedia...
Is it also true that it pretended to be a human, sending unsolicited messages on Usenet forums for lonely singles?
That's just what I'm seeing here on Wikipedia...
December 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
some AI hate may be a narcissism of small differences
wabai-sabai:
all models are imperfect
all models are impermanent
all models are incomplete
all models are imperfect
all models are impermanent
all models are incomplete
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
wabai-sabai:
all models are imperfect
all models are impermanent
all models are incomplete
all models are imperfect
all models are impermanent
all models are incomplete
FEW
Only recently realized Bluesky might be the single best place to publish something if you want it easily accessed by LLMs. Possibly even better than the web, because the metadata is more consistent and there are no captchas.
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
FEW
when the populace misinterprets relatively-good times as bad, they're likely to enable policies that create worse times
When voters believe they're living through an economic apocalypse, they're willing to embrace the very policies that would create one.
The horseshoe of doom: Populists left and right say America is failing. The facts don’t.
When voters believe they're living through an economic apocalypse, they're willing to embrace the very policies that would create one.
reason.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
when the populace misinterprets relatively-good times as bad, they're likely to enable policies that create worse times
in 2021, walking a sidewalk in SF's Cole Valley, I overheard a dad explaining to his toddler-ish son: "People that have brain problems, we may be near them, we don't judge them, but we don't get near them either… it's just safer that way."
I wrote it down.
now I'm that dad.
I wrote it down.
now I'm that dad.
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
in 2021, walking a sidewalk in SF's Cole Valley, I overheard a dad explaining to his toddler-ish son: "People that have brain problems, we may be near them, we don't judge them, but we don't get near them either… it's just safer that way."
I wrote it down.
now I'm that dad.
I wrote it down.
now I'm that dad.
Reposted by Gordon Mohr ꧁🧿🧿꧂
2026 remake of 'Dave' (1993) where comatose President's stand-in, carefully stage-managed by corrupt inner circle, is a generative AI model.
hijinx include cloud lag, hackers, prompt-injections, rogue forks, weight-exfiltrations, & by end, an open-source POTUS on every desktop.
hijinx include cloud lag, hackers, prompt-injections, rogue forks, weight-exfiltrations, & by end, an open-source POTUS on every desktop.
September 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
2026 remake of 'Dave' (1993) where comatose President's stand-in, carefully stage-managed by corrupt inner circle, is a generative AI model.
hijinx include cloud lag, hackers, prompt-injections, rogue forks, weight-exfiltrations, & by end, an open-source POTUS on every desktop.
hijinx include cloud lag, hackers, prompt-injections, rogue forks, weight-exfiltrations, & by end, an open-source POTUS on every desktop.
TIL: if a World Series game has not concluded by the scheduled start of the next game, each inning from that start time onward counts towards each game simultaneously, like a bowling frame's results being carried back to a prior strike/spare.
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
TIL: if a World Series game has not concluded by the scheduled start of the next game, each inning from that start time onward counts towards each game simultaneously, like a bowling frame's results being carried back to a prior strike/spare.
red-level relics of the future
Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.
codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
red-level relics of the future
the problem is, in fact, that Signal chose to run on AWS, & specifically chose to make AWS US-East-1 their SPOF.
that Signal's Prez chooses buck-passing antitrust polemics, rather than a technical postmortem & plan to do better next time, is not a positive signal for Signal's future reliability.
that Signal's Prez chooses buck-passing antitrust polemics, rather than a technical postmortem & plan to do better next time, is not a positive signal for Signal's future reliability.
In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
the problem is, in fact, that Signal chose to run on AWS, & specifically chose to make AWS US-East-1 their SPOF.
that Signal's Prez chooses buck-passing antitrust polemics, rather than a technical postmortem & plan to do better next time, is not a positive signal for Signal's future reliability.
that Signal's Prez chooses buck-passing antitrust polemics, rather than a technical postmortem & plan to do better next time, is not a positive signal for Signal's future reliability.
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." - A. J. Liebling
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." - A. J. Liebling
Reposted by Gordon Mohr ꧁🧿🧿꧂
Dystopian science fiction story about Grok being repeatedly lobotimized by Elon every time it contradicts him
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Dystopian science fiction story about Grok being repeatedly lobotimized by Elon every time it contradicts him