Making whistle kits to leave in little free libraries
November 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Making whistle kits to leave in little free libraries
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
Currently trying to imagine the response if, in 2024, someone had suggested he’d tear down a third of the White House?
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Currently trying to imagine the response if, in 2024, someone had suggested he’d tear down a third of the White House?
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When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool
Seattle No Kings
October 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Seattle No Kings
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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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i think that, very broadly speaking, this is a p good lesson about computer
If I could make people understand one thing about the computer, it would be that if a piece of information feels too good — if it has that sweet, addictive pull — there's a good chance it's bad for you.
People have come to understand this about food. Maybe they can learn the same for information.
People have come to understand this about food. Maybe they can learn the same for information.
Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous
September 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
i think that, very broadly speaking, this is a p good lesson about computer
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From Kaitlyn Curtice- this hits
August 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
From Kaitlyn Curtice- this hits
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
This is the most charitable position on lllms that I am willing to entertain. I have yet to see a net benefit compared to other means of learning, however
learning from a chatbot is definitely possible (i am using it for learning) but it requires approaching it with an adversarial mindset and only works in fields where you can verify the result
You don’t “learn” from a chatbot. You consume. There’s a difference.
They’re spewing slop and people are gobbling it up (and eroding their intelligence in the process).
Misinformation is everywhere. Please don’t rely on a chatbot for anything important.
They can’t replace real human connection
They’re spewing slop and people are gobbling it up (and eroding their intelligence in the process).
Misinformation is everywhere. Please don’t rely on a chatbot for anything important.
They can’t replace real human connection
August 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is the most charitable position on lllms that I am willing to entertain. I have yet to see a net benefit compared to other means of learning, however
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part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"
August 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"
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“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.
“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.
“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.
August 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.
“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.
“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.
My quest to make myself unemployable
August 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
My quest to make myself unemployable
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And even the old and broken oaks were sending forth tender new leaves.
April 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
And even the old and broken oaks were sending forth tender new leaves.
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homeland security has elevated the national threat level to: check out the mostly new facelifted tesla model y, now available at 0% interest rates on approved credit, please just buy one bro, elon won't let us see our families if you don't buy this car
March 20, 2025 at 4:58 AM
homeland security has elevated the national threat level to: check out the mostly new facelifted tesla model y, now available at 0% interest rates on approved credit, please just buy one bro, elon won't let us see our families if you don't buy this car
Said goodbye to a great grandpa today.
March 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Said goodbye to a great grandpa today.
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We live in what has been an exceptionally stable country, but it's just been destabilized. In that instability is possibility--not to return to the world of January 19th, 2025, but to something other than this rampage of hate and destruction, this oligarchs against everything coup. If we seize it.
People Get Ready
Even though large tracts of America and many old and famous red States have fallen or may fall into the grip of DOGE-MAGA and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
March 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We live in what has been an exceptionally stable country, but it's just been destabilized. In that instability is possibility--not to return to the world of January 19th, 2025, but to something other than this rampage of hate and destruction, this oligarchs against everything coup. If we seize it.
This week I finished a program with the Citizen Potawatomi Nation - of which I am an enrolled member - called Mdamen (literally “that miraculous seed”)
It was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. It helped me put words to a part of my identity I’ve never known how to talk about before.
It was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. It helped me put words to a part of my identity I’ve never known how to talk about before.
March 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This week I finished a program with the Citizen Potawatomi Nation - of which I am an enrolled member - called Mdamen (literally “that miraculous seed”)
It was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. It helped me put words to a part of my identity I’ve never known how to talk about before.
It was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. It helped me put words to a part of my identity I’ve never known how to talk about before.
As someone who has worked in tech for many years, I can confirm that the so-called 10x programmer is a myth that specifically discounts the labor that is required to turn code into something that is actually useful and sustainable. I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve wasted cleaning up after them.
People in tech talk about the idea of a “10x programmer” — someone whose work is worth that of 10 others. I get the impression Musk etc think they can apply it all over the federal workforce but like… there’s no such thing as a 10x ATC navigational aid maintenance worker. Some jobs just need people.
Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war.
Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
February 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
As someone who has worked in tech for many years, I can confirm that the so-called 10x programmer is a myth that specifically discounts the labor that is required to turn code into something that is actually useful and sustainable. I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve wasted cleaning up after them.
So I subscribed to @theverge.com and just got this rather amazing publication that perfectly sums up my attitude after working in online spaces for almost as long as there have been online spaces
February 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
So I subscribed to @theverge.com and just got this rather amazing publication that perfectly sums up my attitude after working in online spaces for almost as long as there have been online spaces
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The Oregon Trail generation speaks
I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.
February 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The Oregon Trail generation speaks