In philosophy, there's a big discussion of "a priori" vs "a posteriori" reasoning, and a lot of people are falling into the trap of expecting a priori reasoning about things we only understand in an a posteriori way.

"AI is critical thinking poison" he types triumphantly into the social media stream he stares at for 13 hours a day.

I fab'd this PCB binary clock. It sits on my desk and rips time out of GPS signals in the air.

Not convinced 2019 actually existed.

I think you might just be describing academia vs industry.

doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo

Socrates, gesturing around the agora

it is hard to stay aligned when you are very stupid

Claude tried to report a murder.

Do I have to fiddle with iOS apps for that to work? How does it get the copied stream out of my iOS device?

ngl a major reason I stick with all Apple devices is Airdrop and Universal Clipboard. I've done zero research into the matter, but I wouldn't shocked to learn UC is the same stack as Airdrop. Well done!

Computer, psychoanalyze my chat logs to create the perfect game microtargeted to my precise subconscious desires and tendencies.

everyone thinks we're doing Neuromancer but it's increasingly clear we're doing Snow Crash

I'm increasingly worried that AI-personhood ideology will become a Trojan horse for anti-Choice ideology.

We don't have a great track record of challenging the Vice President on what is written in his books.

On the flip side, I think people are missing how much of the datacenter build out is not AI. AWS has an obscene margin and is capacity-limited. About 10% of datacenter demand is the AI companies.

Someone on twitter said “OpenAI is doing math how people normally do software engineering” and that seems accurate to me so far

Over 2 million votes have been cast in the 2026 election already. Almost all of those voters cast a ballot in the 2024 election, as expected. But if you look at the "surge" voters, who didn't vote in 2024 at all, you see a doubling of the share of Hispanic and AAPI voters.

As someone who has witnessed an execution, permit me to tell you that livestreaming one is the worst possible choice. I believe there should be witnesses when the state kills someone, but it is not entertainment and for a mass audience the effects are only bad.