Happy birthday week!
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Happy birthday week!
Thinking about this 2017 talk from @calebhearth.com today: Don't Get Distracted.
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New sparkling water flavor !
Pavlok is a wrist band that gives you electric shocks by remote control: βI have been biting my nails for 25 yearsβ¦I shocked myself every time I bit my nailsβ¦ my husband had a good time shocking me when he caught me biting my nailsβ¦ this helped with β¦ quitting nail.β Those ellipsesβ¦ doing a lot of workβ¦ onβ¦ the βhow it worksβ page. Also, husband. You know that friend who wonβt eat Taco Bell anymore after she got a terrible case of food poisoning? Thatβs how it works: "Thatβs aversive conditioning. Weβll help you use it to your advantage." Well why not. The wrist band also has an alarm clock function.
I once playtested my friend's video game, which used the Pavlok to shock you when you get hit.
I got shocked a lot (they told me I was by far the worst playtester). It was a VR game, and I didn't realize I could look around.
(Image via @genmon.fyi: interconnected.org/home/2026/02...)
"Today, they are choosing to invest this positive energy into a synthetic slop extruder. But tomorrow, they could invest it into their fellow human beings, if they chose to do so."
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From the excellent @spavel.bsky.social:
"The LLM experiment has taught us one thing: people are willing to tolerate error, explain themselves, collaborate, trust."
You're absolutely right!
You know what's better than a font with 9,998 ligatures?
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It's hard to imagine China needing to ban Tesla from the market considering the dominance of BYD and other EV brands there already.
New startup idea
I haven't seen it, but it would be similar to how "honeypot" hidden form fields are used to detect dumb bots.
In general I think people are sensitive to false positives and conversion rate enough that they wouldn't serve a fake captcha unless it was already suspicious ("tarpits")
We only use 33% of the traffic light, wake up sheeple
I've seen "homecooked apps", via Robin Sloan www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...
![During his study in 1939, Dantzig solved two unproven statistical theorems due to a misunderstanding. Near the beginning of a class, Professor SpΕawa-Neyman wrote two problems on the blackboard. Dantzig arrived late and assumed that they were a homework assignment. According to Dantzig, they "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for both problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue.[4][6] Six weeks later, an excited SpΕawa-Neyman eagerly told him that the "homework" problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics.[2][4] He had prepared one of Dantzig's solutions for publication in a mathematical journal.[7]
From a Wikipedia screenshot](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5kr3l2clcsd2b6w6j4be77x7/bafkreibd22f26yofuysepknlm4bdhxdibnf2ocwaxkailedr6kuazzyc2y)
During his study in 1939, Dantzig solved two unproven statistical theorems due to a misunderstanding. Near the beginning of a class, Professor SpΕawa-Neyman wrote two problems on the blackboard. Dantzig arrived late and assumed that they were a homework assignment. According to Dantzig, they "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for both problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue.[4][6] Six weeks later, an excited SpΕawa-Neyman eagerly told him that the "homework" problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics.[2][4] He had prepared one of Dantzig's solutions for publication in a mathematical journal.[7] From a Wikipedia screenshot
George Dantzig core: "seemed to be a little harder than usual"
Alternate-world person-tool etymology:
Protractor used to be someone who made meetings drag on longer by considering new angles (some say this role still exists today)
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in contrast to its modern casual meaning of "I guess".
In dictionaries from the 17th century you'd see Computer defined as "Reckoner", like Leibniz's "Stepped Reckoner" calculator
Wow, that's unexpected
Anti vagueposting: Old French randir "to run fast" -> with great random "at great speed, with impetuousity" -> random "haphazard, lacking purpose"
Just recently in blog research I learned "reckon" used to mean "calculate or compute" with financial or numerical precision,
Everyone is a PM now (derogatory)
How about you?
I really enjoyed seeing the band Couch live for the third time! They are just such great performers.
Happy new year! I'm thankful for all the little interactions with people here and looking forward to more!
Log output: various AT URIs like at://did:plc:ltur3l43nt53imyqqbdrl5j6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mapiuei2r22c. Most are empty, but three have the following text: 1. Elezen man with unicorn ears, horn, and tail. He wears a red sweater with a gingerbread man image overlaid on a coffee cup with text that says βShimmy Shimmy Cocoa What.β Heβs also wearing white leggings and candy-themed high heels. 2. Kitty sitting on her cardboard castle 3. Northern view into Colpoys Bay through some evergreen trees. // Image captured at: 2025-12-24 05:09:12 UTC (about 3 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: windy.com // Current Temp in Wiarton: 35.88 F | 2.16 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NW at 19.551 mph | 31.46 kph // Humidity: 71%
There are three kinds of Bluesky alt text
What a journey, I fear SVG now lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
I hope this email finds you under his domination you will never be free again.
And... they've disabled tag notifications, presumably because they can't handle the abuse: github.blog/changelog/20... what a shame
There are college students younger than this user agent!
Yep. All coming from two ASNs.
