Sean Scott
@oraclesean.com
Your database is down because you didn't listen to me.
I put databases in containers so I can cook, buy knives, run & give dogs the life they deserve. He/him.
Backup≠Recovery. Dogs>People. Trans Rights=Human Rights.
I put databases in containers so I can cook, buy knives, run & give dogs the life they deserve. He/him.
Backup≠Recovery. Dogs>People. Trans Rights=Human Rights.
X exists in a state of quantum superposition, both up and down, until observation causes its state to collapse.
February 16, 2026 at 9:14 PM
X exists in a state of quantum superposition, both up and down, until observation causes its state to collapse.
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“A chatbot gets something wrong. When corrected, it apologizes and changes its answer. When corrected again, it apologizes again—sometimes reversing its position entirely. What unsettles users is not just that the system lacks beliefs, but that it keeps apologizing as if it had any.”
Words Without Consequence
What does it mean to have speech without a speaker?
www.theatlantic.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:55 PM
“A chatbot gets something wrong. When corrected, it apologizes and changes its answer. When corrected again, it apologizes again—sometimes reversing its position entirely. What unsettles users is not just that the system lacks beliefs, but that it keeps apologizing as if it had any.”
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This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.
Thinking about the many decisions that get made when you turn your notes into a draft and what that looks like when the bot is making all of those decisions, even if you get the "final say" after the decisions have been made. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 4:52 AM
This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.
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So, when you use LLMs as thinking machines, you will run into variants of a core problem: It isn't reasoning. It's just a fancy bot that copy & pastes then rewords data written by humans. Which means:
1. It's implicitly capped by its human produced-training data, which is largely garbage.
7/?
1. It's implicitly capped by its human produced-training data, which is largely garbage.
7/?
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
So, when you use LLMs as thinking machines, you will run into variants of a core problem: It isn't reasoning. It's just a fancy bot that copy & pastes then rewords data written by humans. Which means:
1. It's implicitly capped by its human produced-training data, which is largely garbage.
7/?
1. It's implicitly capped by its human produced-training data, which is largely garbage.
7/?
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The reason it appears to do well at much more complex problems is because there are "search results" for that "query". It can explain general relativity, because it has data from millions of people explaining general relativity, not because it understands any of the underlying concepts. 6/?
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
The reason it appears to do well at much more complex problems is because there are "search results" for that "query". It can explain general relativity, because it has data from millions of people explaining general relativity, not because it understands any of the underlying concepts. 6/?
"How much can a third CSS variable cost, Michael? Ten billion dollars?" (dot gif)
Thought y’all would enjoy.
Yesterday over on x:
They removed dim mode because the overhead of CSS variables was too much
AI will skip coding and write binaries directly by end of year
Yesterday over on x:
They removed dim mode because the overhead of CSS variables was too much
AI will skip coding and write binaries directly by end of year
February 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM
"How much can a third CSS variable cost, Michael? Ten billion dollars?" (dot gif)
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is it considered good when michael burry writes about your industry's finances? blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind...
Mind The GAAP Again
Source A bit over three months ago I wrote Depreciation and started with this graph from my 2022 post Generally Accepted Accounting Princi...
blog.dshr.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
is it considered good when michael burry writes about your industry's finances? blog.dshr.org/2026/02/mind...
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
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Buy Stickers. Fuck A.I.
nobodyssweetheart.bigcartel.com
nobodyssweetheart.bigcartel.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Buy Stickers. Fuck A.I.
nobodyssweetheart.bigcartel.com
nobodyssweetheart.bigcartel.com
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A reasonable discussion about AI would come to the conclusion that this tech is damaging to humanity in virtually every way a tech can be damaging.
But I'd rather have an emotional discussion and point out that this tech is shit made by assholes, and it stole from me, personally, so fuck it.
But I'd rather have an emotional discussion and point out that this tech is shit made by assholes, and it stole from me, personally, so fuck it.
February 12, 2026 at 1:23 AM
A reasonable discussion about AI would come to the conclusion that this tech is damaging to humanity in virtually every way a tech can be damaging.
But I'd rather have an emotional discussion and point out that this tech is shit made by assholes, and it stole from me, personally, so fuck it.
But I'd rather have an emotional discussion and point out that this tech is shit made by assholes, and it stole from me, personally, so fuck it.
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If there were going to be flying cars in 15 years that would be a pretty interesting article to read like once. "Damn that's crazy" etc. They wouldn't have an article every single day counting it down.
I don't care about the rational guy "this stuff is actually going to be pretty important one day" takes either. OK! Well let me know when it actually works man.
We don't usually have hear about the run up to any other experimental product every day of our lives for years.
We don't usually have hear about the run up to any other experimental product every day of our lives for years.
February 11, 2026 at 6:27 PM
If there were going to be flying cars in 15 years that would be a pretty interesting article to read like once. "Damn that's crazy" etc. They wouldn't have an article every single day counting it down.
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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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theres a video of jon hamm dancing on the sidelines and people are calling him tío jamón
February 9, 2026 at 1:29 PM
theres a video of jon hamm dancing on the sidelines and people are calling him tío jamón
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"However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Those using code RAPTURE20 on DraftKings can get bonus bets, try the parlay with the Seahawks getting a pick 6 in the third quarter." (Matthew 24:36)
February 8, 2026 at 5:28 PM
"However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Those using code RAPTURE20 on DraftKings can get bonus bets, try the parlay with the Seahawks getting a pick 6 in the third quarter." (Matthew 24:36)
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Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Oh for fuck's sake"
"Oh for fuck's sake"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"The answer to your question is in the module handbook"
"The answer to your question is in the module handbook"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Don't use gerunds in headlines and crossheads, for the love of God."
"Don't use gerunds in headlines and crossheads, for the love of God."
February 7, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Oh for fuck's sake"
"Oh for fuck's sake"
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This article is almost 10 years old but remains evergreen.
"The line on men has been that they're the only gender qualified to hold important jobs and too incompetent to be responsible for their conduct."
"The line on men has been that they're the only gender qualified to hold important jobs and too incompetent to be responsible for their conduct."
The myth of the male bumbler
How manipulative men use one of our culture's most muscular myths — that men are clueless — and weaponize it into an alibi
theweek.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:49 AM
This article is almost 10 years old but remains evergreen.
"The line on men has been that they're the only gender qualified to hold important jobs and too incompetent to be responsible for their conduct."
"The line on men has been that they're the only gender qualified to hold important jobs and too incompetent to be responsible for their conduct."
Is it good when your YouTube ad—for a product with a name eerily similar to something a masked man famously used to kill a Sicilian—features an "ER doctor" (who appears to be evading authorities in the backyard of a Boca Raton repo) telling me in bold letters that it's totes safe?
February 2, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Is it good when your YouTube ad—for a product with a name eerily similar to something a masked man famously used to kill a Sicilian—features an "ER doctor" (who appears to be evading authorities in the backyard of a Boca Raton repo) telling me in bold letters that it's totes safe?
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In the March 1981 issue of the @bulletinatomic.bsky.social, conflict resolution expert and Harvard Law School professor Roger Fisher described his “quite simple” idea to force US presidents to viscerally confront the lethal consequences of ordering a nuclear attack. books.google.com/books/about/...
June 20, 2024 at 4:11 PM
In the March 1981 issue of the @bulletinatomic.bsky.social, conflict resolution expert and Harvard Law School professor Roger Fisher described his “quite simple” idea to force US presidents to viscerally confront the lethal consequences of ordering a nuclear attack. books.google.com/books/about/...
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Ho-lee shit this is cool.
I went to a camel festival in the Gobi Desert this morning, a celebration of nomadic life, and it was absolutely amazing
January 31, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Ho-lee shit this is cool.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
1. Physics 311
2. Astronomy 220
3. Physics 417
4. Mathematics 330
5. Anthropology 201
1. Physics 311
2. Astronomy 220
3. Physics 417
4. Mathematics 330
5. Anthropology 201
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
January 31, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
1. Physics 311
2. Astronomy 220
3. Physics 417
4. Mathematics 330
5. Anthropology 201
1. Physics 311
2. Astronomy 220
3. Physics 417
4. Mathematics 330
5. Anthropology 201
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19. I desperately want to know. Who woke up in the morning one morning and was like "screw it, I think I'm going to make this."
Michelangelo?
Michelangelo?
January 28, 2026 at 6:35 AM
19. I desperately want to know. Who woke up in the morning one morning and was like "screw it, I think I'm going to make this."
Michelangelo?
Michelangelo?
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just choked on my beverage
January 29, 2026 at 11:19 PM
just choked on my beverage
On second thought, no edit button.
Sending thoughts and prayers to everyone employed or represented or by Brad Finstad this morning.
January 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM
On second thought, no edit button.