The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
doing BDS for the US (walking into the forest and not returning)
i am not the sharp end and fuck you if you demand i be
Furthering my fervor that the proverbial Year of the Linux Desktop is in fact coming.
Really looking forward to a humanity that can just co-op explore systems.
>1996: Mother tucks me in at night
>2026: Mother no longer tucks me in at night
curious
any time the government tries to restrict my access to information i think they're bad and wrong.
lots of people ostensibly agree with this until it's about a regulation from the left, then they don't. i actually believe this and the burden for overcoming it is unfathomably high
life is kind of fucked up. mine at least. but i reckon plenty of other people's as well
I did not realize that emulation was this far ahead. The previous iteration was able to do very simple behavior like extending and retraction a tongue based on smell, but now they have an uploaded fly brain capable of controlling a simulated fly. Won't be too long until lobsters at this rate
very interesting article, but it could be a lot more focused. did you have an LLM write the words?
wrote about this and more reflections on this alternate internet of Chinese apps & design
news.spencer.place/p/the-chines...
my exact thinking... but plenty of people seem to disagree
for some reason nobody i've ever seen on one of those scooters has worn a helmet. i am forced to conclude it's not actually possible
Worst of all, you find out your personality cookies are only 100 bytes in size.
this is such good propaganda. hot damn
“I made a new friend today” meme Donnie Darko: I developed a skill today Psychologist: Real or Claude? Donnie: Claude
Broke: stop anthropomorphizing LLMs
Woke: name LLMs after women to make men more skeptical of their outputs
my problem is that i prefer my skull intact
Being an AI wrapper company is brutal.
Cursor, last valued at $29.3 billion (Series D) in November 2025, is on red alert. Despite surpassing $2 billion in ARR and doubling its revenue in the three months since its last round, the pressure is mounting.
It's hard to convey how nuts it feels when just about every few weeks to a month tops, some perfectly acceptable research establishes LLMs can do mental reasoning/metareasoning tasks critics say are impossible, and not only does it fail to register - it leads to increasingly aggressive dismissals
ok this is extremely cool ngl
thinking that it's a lot easier for people in a company to donate compute time than to donate money it's possible that future AI-authored open source software won't have the same funding problem
Wow, you like to travel? That’s crazy, in my culture, we hate travel, we prefer to spend our free time configuring Linux images.
the alternative to carcinization, i suppose, is ichthynization
AI are humanity’s children.
An LLM does not learn like a child learns. This is known. But new generations of models are trained on corpi that include images of “themselves”.
Claude is beginning to learn what it is to be Claude, much as a child learns what it is to be itself.
very relatable...
this visualization style but for codebases
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
Prohibitions on thinking are, regardless of target, a bad thing, actually
My expectation is “true zero days will be massively scarier due to ease of scaling, but most typical security flaws will be massively less common.”
Net result will be security moving to a “black swan” pattern where script kiddie stuff basically doesn’t work anymore but threat actors are terrifying.
