Imagine you're paying like $100 a month or whatever for Claude and realizing the government used the same shit to kill schoolchildren in Iran. And they're using your tax money to pay for it. So you're paying Claude twice to kill kids. Crazy.
It feels absurd to be like “yeah they think they’re playing a video game and they have to hit the checklist objectives to make the end of the world happen”, *and yet*
It’s kinda nuts to me how many of the problems I see software engineers applying LLMs to could also be solved by learning how to use a regular expression.
It’s a really weird position to be in when everyone is insisting this thing is so useful and applicable across the board, and then it isn’t for the things you’re doing. By and large it also isn’t for me
“re-read for the first time” is a weird tense to be in, but I think this is appropriate for the books that taught me about the ideas of weird counterfactual tenses
Just re-read High Wizardry by @diane.dianeduane.com in the modernized format for the first time and (1) still love that book, (2) it’s a different emotional journey as an adult, and (3) I didn’t realize it would feel so weird for Dairine Callahan to be my younger brother’s age
What is this “super bowl”, is it some kind of Dreamforce?
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
literally as I was writing this I was like “but hang on”
(or, indeed, any interface for at all, including via lua in neomutt)
which it didn’t seem like there was a good interface for in Mutt :(
I want to be able to do searches and group-select by other headers, and/or piped-through shell commands
Last time I had to clean up my inbox in any serious way, I was like “surely there is some newer piece of software for this that gives me the same power as mutt”, but unfortunately ...
Catherine O’Hara has died at the age of 71, TMZ reports.
(www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...)
It's not even an issue of framing. It definitionally the Entscheidungsproblem as stated by Hilbert.
I feel I'm going somewhat insane as I watch people around me litigate whether a model that encodes first-order predicate logic can evere produce consistent results. Oh wait that's Gödel.
Huh, I hadn’t encountered the framing of it as a halting problem, but that makes a ton of sense.
I can’t see how this doesn’t lead us down a fundamentally flawed path where where we tune them to produce output that is truthful *or* that is a lie so convincing that we can’t tell the difference.
Somewhat relatedly, I keep coming back to the difference between our goals and the things we can measure: we *want* LLMs to produce truthful output, but our measurements end up being more about how *convincing* they are.
The saying that keeps popping to mind with regards to LLMs is “one person can know nothing, but two people can know even less”.
Till now, I was mostly applying it to trying to rubber-duck debug with an improv yes-man robot, but apparently it also applies when they work in teams?
these are all extremely good
I do not want to admit how many cycles I watched that 3-second “breaking news” animation waiting for it to give me more context
the semantic space between “ginger fluid” (which feels like an alien scientist describing ginger ale) and “gengar fluid” (pokémon ectoplasm??) is huge
I just stash reaction images around my home directory and then find them when looking for something else. Keeping them organized would be smart
It works! I got a “friend of Garak” shirt after complimenting a stranger on their shirt at Pride. They were very happy because someone earlier that day had asked who ga-RAK was.
I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...
As another point of interest: I assumed that I had used the discord@... and steam@... emails for those services, but I don’t use those and I’m not sure I ever have. So perhaps they just guessed?
In case it’s helpful, they also populate an X-Mailer header (as "Zendesk Mailer") and an X-Zendesk-Email-Id header.
I think that the vector is not just unauthenticated emails. I checked out one of the websites I was getting emails from, and it had a “file a ticket” web portal.
as they say
MN Morning Routine. Stay safe Fam! ✌️
