re: presumption of regularity

I’m fooling no one. I haven’t been in a locker room in 40 years.

I just encountered a new kind of spam. It's LLM generated, responding to a recent blog post relating to home automation. The email is clearly slop, referencing unnecessary details from the post, and asking a question based on a superficial (but not inaccurate) read of the post […]

said on a meeting today: "This is not a Festivus celebration. We do not need an airing of grievances"

"At one point, Justice Department attorney Marissa Ann Piropato told Reyes that government lawyers 'did our best' to keep the court apprised of any construction work at the course. 'No, you did not do your best,' Reyes responded, her voice rising. 'You did your absolute worst.'"

hey, could the Youtube product manager who decided that when a Dutch household puts on a video from the Dutch national news, the audio should automatically be replaced with a TTS voice reading a machine-generated English translation, come meet me in the darkest corner of the Amsterdamse Bos […]

I cannot emphasize enough how horrid Claude Code (and every other LLM) is at systems code it’s horrid at everything, but when torvalds pretends it’s any good for kernel work he’s trying to talk over a clear pattern of failures I cannot name a single vibed piece of systems code that actually […]

I no longer spend any time with other men except by extraordinary accident, so I could do this without social cost, if I were not already a social pauper.

I am really not sure enough people in the U.S. understand that we are actually fighting a war here, and at the moment the pro-democracy side kind of seems to be losing overall.

I'm not a violent man, but I'm concerned that the only way we'll save democracy in the U.S. is to line up a bunch of traitors against the wall and shoot them. And I don't just mean traitors to the U.S. I mean traitors to democracy. We did not shoot nearly enough people for treason at the end of […]

The number of corporations that need to be broken up by anti-trust laws is too damn high.

With 23h 40m left to go, the highest bid is USD 4800. Get your bids in!

A convincing debunking of the claim bouncing around the internet today that disinfo bot activity plummeted after the Yandex data centers were bombed. I.e., there's no evidence that it's true and it probably isn't. Money quote: "If you take a long, hard look at the sources here who told you it IS […]

It seems like every time I leave the room for a few minutes my dog will have changed sleeping positions, gotten comfortable, and gone back to sleep like nothing happened. Come in the room, she's asleep on the couch facing the window. Go make some lunch, come back, she's asleep on the couch […]