Kyle Baxter
@kbaxter.bsky.social
Cause it feels like I've been, I've been here before. The lite brite is now black and white. Exploring LLMs and HCI
http://TightWind.net/
http://TightWind.net/
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If you could go back in time a couple years and show people the sort of garbage official DHS accounts now routinely post, you'd be accused of having concocted some slanderous over-the-top parody. Just a constant stream of nakedly white supremacist imagery and rhetoric.
DHS and Patriot Front post the same white supremacist lyrics.
January 15, 2026 at 11:33 PM
If you could go back in time a couple years and show people the sort of garbage official DHS accounts now routinely post, you'd be accused of having concocted some slanderous over-the-top parody. Just a constant stream of nakedly white supremacist imagery and rhetoric.
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And now he's trying to jail the Fed. Good job, everyone.
January 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
And now he's trying to jail the Fed. Good job, everyone.
It’s worse than that. Vance has been deep into the Yarvin-style theorizing of an American dictator via Trump and MAGA and has espoused it in his own words since at least 2022. He’s also clearly been in group chats with these sorts for at least that same time period. It isn’t just following.
Man you’d never guess this guy follows half of the most prominent open Nazi accounts on Twitter
JD Vance: "America has a bit of a Somali problem"
January 8, 2026 at 7:35 AM
It’s worse than that. Vance has been deep into the Yarvin-style theorizing of an American dictator via Trump and MAGA and has espoused it in his own words since at least 2022. He’s also clearly been in group chats with these sorts for at least that same time period. It isn’t just following.
Really need something to get through to liberals, progressives, and the Democratic Party (not the person QTed here): what a story is in the public imagination is not something that happens to you passively. It’s something you can and must shape. The broader left has ceded the info env for too long.
I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Really need something to get through to liberals, progressives, and the Democratic Party (not the person QTed here): what a story is in the public imagination is not something that happens to you passively. It’s something you can and must shape. The broader left has ceded the info env for too long.
“Recursive Language Models”: RLMs let LLMs handle long prompts by recursively calling themselves on chunks, rather than scaling context windows. Inference-time compute instead of brute-force context length. arxiv.org/html/2512.24...
January 3, 2026 at 11:43 PM
“Recursive Language Models”: RLMs let LLMs handle long prompts by recursively calling themselves on chunks, rather than scaling context windows. Inference-time compute instead of brute-force context length. arxiv.org/html/2512.24...
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We do not need to resign ourselves to thugocracy, and Dems can fight America’s slide toward it by making it very clear to our corporate leaders that willful participation will cost them dearly. Deter collaboration.
January 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
We do not need to resign ourselves to thugocracy, and Dems can fight America’s slide toward it by making it very clear to our corporate leaders that willful participation will cost them dearly. Deter collaboration.
mildly substance influenced thoughts: 2025 sucked but I saw NIN for the first time and NIN fucking rules live so y’know, the wise man bowed his head and such, but mostly, fuck yeah NIN. that’s my thought
January 1, 2026 at 8:24 AM
mildly substance influenced thoughts: 2025 sucked but I saw NIN for the first time and NIN fucking rules live so y’know, the wise man bowed his head and such, but mostly, fuck yeah NIN. that’s my thought
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On Jack Smith deposition, now released:
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
December 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
On Jack Smith deposition, now released:
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
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Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...
Last of Us is getting weird
December 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Last of Us is getting weird
I’m sure the usual suspects agitating against cancel culture will be mounting a campaign in their defense momentarily.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I’m sure the usual suspects agitating against cancel culture will be mounting a campaign in their defense momentarily.
“OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI”: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/...
OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …
simonwillison.net
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
“OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI”: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/...
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Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
That alternate universe would be glorious indeed.
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
That alternate universe would be glorious indeed.
Interesting post from Anthropic on challenges they had with getting Claude Code to reliably perform tasks of meaningful size: www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Interesting post from Anthropic on challenges they had with getting Claude Code to reliably perform tasks of meaningful size: www.anthropic.com/engineering/...
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“You sit in your air conditioning and don’t murder civilians while I am the man in the arena murdering civilians”
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“You sit in your air conditioning and don’t murder civilians while I am the man in the arena murdering civilians”
The Belgian Malinois’ most cherished rule in life is: I will faithfully do whatever you tell me, but I will do it in the most unhinged way you can possibly imagine
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The Belgian Malinois’ most cherished rule in life is: I will faithfully do whatever you tell me, but I will do it in the most unhinged way you can possibly imagine
Claude’s iOS app’s support for Reminders app is so under discussed and under used.
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Claude’s iOS app’s support for Reminders app is so under discussed and under used.
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We're big skills fans at Letta, so I'm starting a communal repository for skills that is intended to be built by and for agents as they learn how to accomplish specific tasks.
Repo here: github.com/letta-ai/sk...
Skills are organized by domain, and further subdivided by topics.
Repo here: github.com/letta-ai/sk...
Skills are organized by domain, and further subdivided by topics.
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We're big skills fans at Letta, so I'm starting a communal repository for skills that is intended to be built by and for agents as they learn how to accomplish specific tasks.
Repo here: github.com/letta-ai/sk...
Skills are organized by domain, and further subdivided by topics.
Repo here: github.com/letta-ai/sk...
Skills are organized by domain, and further subdivided by topics.
Tapbots’ Bluesky client cannot come soon enough. I really miss Tweetbot to begin with and Bluesky’s own iOS client is aggressively mediocre
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Tapbots’ Bluesky client cannot come soon enough. I really miss Tweetbot to begin with and Bluesky’s own iOS client is aggressively mediocre
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SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens Quietly Released From Jail Sparking Trump Pardon Fears
Alexander Smirnov was quietly furloughed from prison months ago.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...
“Loosely I can see two visions for the future of how we interact with computers: cyborgs and rooms.
The first is where the industry is going today; I’m more interested in the latter.” interconnected.org/home/2025/10...
The first is where the industry is going today; I’m more interested in the latter.” interconnected.org/home/2025/10...
Cyborgs vs rooms, two visions for the future of computing
Posted on Monday 13 Oct 2025. 698 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.
interconnected.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“Loosely I can see two visions for the future of how we interact with computers: cyborgs and rooms.
The first is where the industry is going today; I’m more interested in the latter.” interconnected.org/home/2025/10...
The first is where the industry is going today; I’m more interested in the latter.” interconnected.org/home/2025/10...
Apple Music out here trying to end my day before it starts making me all wistful and sad playing Elliott Smith’s Twilight and Beck’s Already Dead back to back. Good taste Apple Music but not today, not today
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Apple Music out here trying to end my day before it starts making me all wistful and sad playing Elliott Smith’s Twilight and Beck’s Already Dead back to back. Good taste Apple Music but not today, not today
Still thinking a lot about Anthropic’s Agent Skills. There’s something profound here. They feel a bit like the Matrix, able to load arbitrary knowledge and skill on the fly into an agent.
October 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Still thinking a lot about Anthropic’s Agent Skills. There’s something profound here. They feel a bit like the Matrix, able to load arbitrary knowledge and skill on the fly into an agent.