JD Long
@jdlong.cerebralmastication.com
CTO at a specialty insurance company. Perpetual cocktail party host, open source fan, econometrician, agricultural economist, and OReilly Author.
Sorry babe, I can’t pick you up for dinner. My car’s in the shop getting its toner refilled.
Learned today that around 1990, Mercedes-Benz briefly offered a "mobile office" package for the W126 S-Class that included a fully functioning printer, scanner, and fax machine built into an armrest.
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Sorry babe, I can’t pick you up for dinner. My car’s in the shop getting its toner refilled.
This is an interesting morning read.
“conflict is a load-bearing part of society” is really worth exploring.
“conflict is a load-bearing part of society” is really worth exploring.
This post tries to explain why I find language models exciting. But it doesn't try to persuade skeptics that they should agree. It's aimed more at people already working with AI, and its goal is to sharpen our collective sense of what the upside potential might be. #MLSky 🤖 🧪
A more interesting upside of AI
Does AI provide anything to look forward to, if “super-intelligence” sounds boring?
tedunderwood.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This is an interesting morning read.
“conflict is a load-bearing part of society” is really worth exploring.
“conflict is a load-bearing part of society” is really worth exploring.
Tool Time Tips: A Pulaski has a head that looks like an ax with a mullet. That's a hoe blade on the back (who you calling a hoe blade?). A mattock has a vertical hoe blade and a horizontal hoe blade. Sometimes a maddock has a pick. And an adze is just the hoe part of either of these.
November 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Tool Time Tips: A Pulaski has a head that looks like an ax with a mullet. That's a hoe blade on the back (who you calling a hoe blade?). A mattock has a vertical hoe blade and a horizontal hoe blade. Sometimes a maddock has a pick. And an adze is just the hoe part of either of these.
The forbidden verse!!! Color me intrigued! 😂
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The forbidden verse!!! Color me intrigued! 😂
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I’m pretty sure this is what went down at the CME data center on Friday:
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I’m pretty sure this is what went down at the CME data center on Friday:
I had the Orinoco model before Linksys existed. I had a silver and gold model and I ran them in a Caldera Linux server that ran some early configuration of NAT routing. I had to recompile the kernel to include the Orinoco drivers.
And it’s not my back that hurts it’s my elbow. Get off my lawn.
And it’s not my back that hurts it’s my elbow. Get off my lawn.
November 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I had the Orinoco model before Linksys existed. I had a silver and gold model and I ran them in a Caldera Linux server that ran some early configuration of NAT routing. I had to recompile the kernel to include the Orinoco drivers.
And it’s not my back that hurts it’s my elbow. Get off my lawn.
And it’s not my back that hurts it’s my elbow. Get off my lawn.
My neighbor and I have been slowly whacking trails through the woods. It’s slow but fun.
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My neighbor and I have been slowly whacking trails through the woods. It’s slow but fun.
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When it’s fishermen they’re pretending are low level drug runners, they’ll bomb and then circle back to finish off the survivors.
But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.
But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.
Breaking News: President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who was convicted in a sweeping drug case last year.
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
When it’s fishermen they’re pretending are low level drug runners, they’ll bomb and then circle back to finish off the survivors.
But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.
But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.
It’s about damn time…
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It’s about damn time…
🤯 oh hell yeah!
November 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🤯 oh hell yeah!
True… but I feel that way about 3D pie charts too
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
True… but I feel that way about 3D pie charts too
Good morning. I just had my mind blown in a bad way. Now you can too:
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Good morning. I just had my mind blown in a bad way. Now you can too:
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Makes this 'drug boat' obsession seem even less on the level, if that's possible
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Makes this 'drug boat' obsession seem even less on the level, if that's possible
The Sec Def is either ordering war crimes, or more likely, just committing murder. Because there’s no war. There’s just crimes.
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The Sec Def is either ordering war crimes, or more likely, just committing murder. Because there’s no war. There’s just crimes.
I’m so confused. Are we engaged in extrajudicial killings of drug runners or are we coddling them?
<touches ear piece>
New theory on the street is that the US is a ‘pay to play’ drug market and you won’t get extrajudicial killed if you ‘just fucking buy trump coin like a baller, you twat’.
<touches ear piece>
New theory on the street is that the US is a ‘pay to play’ drug market and you won’t get extrajudicial killed if you ‘just fucking buy trump coin like a baller, you twat’.
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I’m so confused. Are we engaged in extrajudicial killings of drug runners or are we coddling them?
<touches ear piece>
New theory on the street is that the US is a ‘pay to play’ drug market and you won’t get extrajudicial killed if you ‘just fucking buy trump coin like a baller, you twat’.
<touches ear piece>
New theory on the street is that the US is a ‘pay to play’ drug market and you won’t get extrajudicial killed if you ‘just fucking buy trump coin like a baller, you twat’.
“My plans for the evening were borked by my generator not being able to power my circle saw.” He said in a very JD Long voice while looking side eyed at the chainsaw.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“My plans for the evening were borked by my generator not being able to power my circle saw.” He said in a very JD Long voice while looking side eyed at the chainsaw.
I miss Chicago. It’s the best.
I love the group rides that are like "we're going out to Kenosha to drink, then metra back"
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I miss Chicago. It’s the best.
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Wow. If this were a war, it'd be crystal clear war crime. Without a war, it's just an astonishing case of murder.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Wow. If this were a war, it'd be crystal clear war crime. Without a war, it's just an astonishing case of murder.
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it's happening!!!
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
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from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
it's happening!!!
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!
wizardzines.com
I monitor our Claude Code usage and when I see a devs usage spike I interview them to see what cool stuff they’ve figured out how to do. Every single one has figured out meta-prompting: having the model help them write a thorough prompt first. That unleashes a lot of cool usage.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I monitor our Claude Code usage and when I see a devs usage spike I interview them to see what cool stuff they’ve figured out how to do. Every single one has figured out meta-prompting: having the model help them write a thorough prompt first. That unleashes a lot of cool usage.
Yeah, this is where I am these days too.
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Yeah, this is where I am these days too.
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I decided to patch ceiling damage upstairs in order knock an item off the honey-do list. I got focused on execution and didn’t realize the drywall dust would rain downstairs. And into my kid’s bedroom. And all over the house including the kitchen where Thanksgiving meal is in progress.
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I decided to patch ceiling damage upstairs in order knock an item off the honey-do list. I got focused on execution and didn’t realize the drywall dust would rain downstairs. And into my kid’s bedroom. And all over the house including the kitchen where Thanksgiving meal is in progress.
My computer when intune meets Okta, EDR, and VPN while I’m on a Teams call…
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
My computer when intune meets Okta, EDR, and VPN while I’m on a Teams call…