kevin

oh damn they making Flash 2

switch to github.com/jj-vcs/jj (backed by git) and free yourself!

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

A blockquote from Kyle Paoletta's "Fair Warning" in Real Life magazine, citing a 1985 interview with The Tech, an MIT News service, in which Joseph Weizenbaum — the computer scientist who developed ELIZA, the first chatbot in 1964 — states: "the computer has from the beginning been a fundamentally conservative force … a force which kept power or even solidified power where it already existed." The passage concludes that in place of fundamental social changes, the computer allows technical solutions to be proposed that would allow existing power hierarchies to remain intact.

A new(ish) social media platform means getting to present various baubles from my past like some sort of resplendent and flirtatious bird. Here's a view of the Pacific from R/V Falkor's starboard porthole, taken on January 9th, 2017 during my time as the @schmidtocean.bsky.social Artist at Sea.

Low-Background Code We have irradiated our code and must now hoard salvage.

I wrote a similar thing recently (found this post via today in tabs): kevinbarrett.org/blog/low-bac...

Also, hi neighbor! I live in Hyattsville.

see also `jj new -A`, `jj new -B`, and using them together—time-traveling commits with transparent rebases.

for me, the git -> jj transition has felt as transformative as svn -> git

`jj absorb` is what you described in your initial post, sans llm—inferred by diffs.

yesss zed is very good

Hi Erikk, I hope you're doing well! I’m Alex with the Handshake AI team, and I wanted to personally reach out about a new philosophy-focused AI research project we’re launching. We immediately thought of you given your background in Philosophy. We’re currently staffing a project focused on integrating a specific ethical framework into a widely used language model, and we’re seeking PhD-level moral philosophers to contribute. We’re looking for moral philosophers with strong publication records in ethics. If you're interested, please follow the steps below to secure your candidacy:

if you received one of these and are gonna say yes to it, i would like to talk to you for a podcast. i will preserve your anonymity if requested. d the fuck m me.

I’ve spent the past six months reading Aquinas with @catherineproject.bsky.social folks and it’s been lovely. Fun to have your default state of being be rumination of what some dude named Thomas was up to. Or, put differently:

I;m thinking about thos Beens

the year is 2026 the top charting switch games are

diablo 2 (?)
a star trek voyager game (????)
caves of qud (?????????)

Ooh, I like its lines. How is it joined?

Happy Caves of Qud on Switch launch day!

also! it's probably not the end of those jobs! lived realities adapt to their tools!

breathless SV-guy blog posts predicting AI as the end of some white collar jobs like it's an apocalypse drive me crazy. like, the industrial revolution reconfigured nation states. the invention of plastics poisoned our planet and our blood. i know it's hype cycle PR but damn

This coming Sunday and Monday, come help us raise money for the Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund!

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(Art by @badbucket.bsky.social!)

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

What is your biggest bet about the future of A.I. in five years? Yuval Noah Harari Yuval Noah Harari Historian Within five years, A.I. agents are likely to become legal persons in at least some countries. Melanie Mitchell Melanie Mitchell Computer scientist A.I. won’t have cured cancer or solved physics. Also, no one will consider the ability to converse fluently a definitive sign of intelligence.

lol

in 1776 our books were a kind of strangely portioned cake or bread--and WE HELD THEM UP!!!!!!!

website for chuds to hungrily click through but it's all genai fakes

PROGRAMMING PHASE This is the easiest of all the phases.

The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

I saw this picture and had to close my computer and sit with my head in my hands. I struggle to imagine a more complete violence than arresting and deporting a child.

It is a moral calamity that people can exist who will do this work, much less condone it from a distance.

Abolishing ICE is necessary but not enough. We must dismantle the societal frameworks that normalize Gestapos. We must prosecute those who are attacking us, our neighbors, our children.

CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES