I highly appreciate this directed graph showing which language is used to indicate incomprehensibility in different languages (eg, “it’s Greek to me”)

why do nazis keep showing up

I better fucking get a new Apple TV or there WILL be consequences

It's taken SO LONG but I finally have enough done that I can make a little Wikipedia-style image highlighting the location of one of the main nations in my conworld on a globe!

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

Ironically IT taking away our GH Copilot licenses has only inspired me to take another look at Copilot and see what I'm missing. Not much it seems.

Talk to me about any of my other myriad niche hobbies, like fountain pens, mech keyboards, or homelabbing! Hope to see you at the conference!

The fact that DHH credits Marc Andreessen as the person who personally stepped in to help him during the 37signals no politics at work fiasco explains a lot about David's embrace of psychotic optimism imo.

Her chapel is fumigated with myrrh and incense, ducks and geese are cut up on her altars; sparkling gold and faience powder are scattered on the ground amidst cereals, wine is sprinkled around her domain, music and joy! (OGC)

Lots of software companies have bought into the belief that AI has solved software engineering. The debate is shifting from whether AI should replace work done by SWEs, PMs and designers to whether humans should even review the output. Apparently human judgment is now the bottleneck.

Titan A.E., Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Treasure Planet all coming out in the same 3 year span and all three being box office disappointments independently of the quality of the movies is just real fascinating to me.

Typst's HTML output is very interesting. Combined with the eggs package, I can output interlinear glosses with aligned words very easily. Now need to figure out how to set font face and how to inject web fonts into the output.

AI boosters for years: it's not theft, it's creating innovation from insights gleaned from synthesising all our creative output AI vendors: it's theft. it's like the worst theft ever

I’m increasingly of the mind that whatever productivity gains I’m getting from using AI are being eaten up by dealing with other people’s AI slop. Then there’s the increasing lack of trust that people actually understand the work because they either didn’t read or write the material.

Usually the problem isn't technical. Ops sets the SLO with no product buy-in. Teams build SLIs on infrastructure metrics instead of what users actually felt. Error budgets exist with no policy attached. Or everything's critical, so nothing is.

My talk is evidently cursed as both times I have given it a technical issue resulted in it not being recorded 😞

They are LYING. If it was profitable to go public, THEY WOULD DO IT. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT SAFETY.

You can't imagine that even technically, he doesn't know what he's talking about. The white man "whistleblower" must be the technical expert. You can't imagine that WE are the scientists painstakingly documenting our work, with years of expertise and that HE is in a eugenicist doomsday cult.