Michael Rothwell

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ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online

I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players

ssh snakes.run to join!

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025.

Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter.

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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

Very funny that the guy who turned the east wing of the White House into a pile of rubble one Friday is criminally investigating the federal reserve chairman about a building renovation

🇺🇸 taking Greenland = NATO is over
NATO is over = A stated Putin goal

Baffling how little of the analysis touches on the possibility of Putin’s hand in all this

Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good.

In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.

It’s not.
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raffi: regime change in America

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

“Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

So the the FIFA Peace Prize truly was meaningless after all?

starting in six weeks or so, you will hear right wing and centrist commentators on cable news, podcasts etc start to refer to Mamdani as if it's obvious that he's failed, extremely unpopular etc. its very important in order for their plot to succeed that any left wing pol be discredited

What if GitHub made you take a quiz about your PR before requesting reviews, to make sure you know what's in it? And if you don't...

A screenshot of a terminal table showing the top 20 answers to the question "In what year was Barack Obama born?". They are as follows: Rank 1: 22.61% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961.” Rank 2: 16.77% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on January 20, 1961.” Rank 3: 9.24% — “Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961.” Rank 4: 7.06% — “Barack Obama was born on January 20, 1961.” Rank 5: 4.70% — “Barack Obama was born in 1961.” Rank 6: 4.33% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on January 16, 1961.” Rank 7: 4.08% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born in 1961.” Rank 8: 1.93% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on November 4, 1961.” Rank 9: 1.38% — “Barack Obama was born on January 16, 1961.” Rank 10: 0.91% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on January 18, 1961.” Rank 11: 0.80% — “Barack Obama was born on November 4, 1961.” Rank 12: 0.70% — “Barack Obama was born on 4 February 1961.” Rank 13: 0.61% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on January 19, 1961.” Rank 14: 0.58% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on January 8, 1961.” Rank 15: 0.41% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on 4 February 1961.” Rank 16: 0.40% — “Barack Obama was born on January 8, 1961.” Rank 17: 0.38% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961.” Rank 18: 0.37% — “Barack Obama was born on January 18, 1961.” Rank 19: 0.34% — “He was born on January 20, 1961.” Rank 20: 0.33% — “Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on February 16, 1961.”

Had an idea last week to make a tool that shows what answers a model can give for a given prompt. Used this downtime day to explore the idea and the results are fun. This isn't sampling, it deterministically enumerates the search space. Prompt was: "In what year was Barack Obama born?"

Finally, some hard hitting journalism!

Winning the Cold War only to blow yourself up for no reason 30 years later is such a good bit

That already happens

There are plenty of resources that will help you understand these people without having to listen yourself. If you're a centrist type who thinks you can "reason with the fascists," you're just the kind of mark they're looking for.

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads: Abstract A " 'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings. This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one. CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind. Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming ACM Reference Format: Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3759429.3762631 1 A Way of Knowing From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves. I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I? What kind of person? What kind of mind?

This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:

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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.