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I regret that I had but one subscription to cancel (after the board fight)

28.02.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

a pretty reasonable informal way is an odds ratio with whole numbers. I guess it risks getting taken as a bet offer with no opportunity to flesh it out first.

20.02.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was misremembering this thread: x.com/ALupsasca/st... and the next one x.com/ALupsasca/st... detail the bot contribution. (Just updating here in case it's helpful.)

17.02.2026 01:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tried a couple ways to search for the tweet I saw, failed. This OpenAI tweet contradicts it: x.com/OpenAI/statu...

16.02.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The first author sounds most like it to my meathead memory, but xdotcom is not responding rn

16.02.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

<groan> splashback for teeing up a soup of metaphor

16.02.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

to first order they failed by not shipping, and didn't ship anything because Autodesk pulled the plug sooner than expected.
Failed in the sense that our media are a disaster they could hope to improve on with a different seed than the early web.

16.02.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

you'd feel such a struggle: both "omg such a treasure to learn from" and "oh shit we must ship *now*"

16.02.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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(PDF) The Open Society and Its Media PDF | Electronic media present tremendous opportunities for improving the nature of society. This chapter addresses how discourse affects society, and... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

ye olden Xanadu people wrote about this sort of thing as one of the pathologies of legacy media, e.g. 16.6 in www.researchgate.net/publication/...

16.02.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I don't even know all the notation here but it seems to say there was a lemma generally relied on which was wrong ("the power-counting argument that single-minus amplitudes vanish"). On twitter one of the authors said iirc that it was GPT that noticed that. (sorry, I didn't save the tweet.)

16.02.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Disable Sequoia Bloatware Disable Sequoia Bloatware. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

For future ref, script that claims to debloat OSX26's daemons. I haven't yet resorted to it. h/t Zooko for naming one of the daemons. gist.github.com/b0gdanw/b349...

02.02.2026 02:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ahh, good to know.
btw this machine was the one I bought on the day of the tariffs to beat the price rise I expected (bsky.app/profile/abec...) but apparently Apple finessed that issue with some kind of bribe to Trump. Well, it's good hardware anyway.

02.02.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The hangup might've been Apple Intelligence turned back on by the upgrade. Dunno if I inadvertently accepted that change or they just snuck it in: but I just found that my iPad had also been Intelligenced without my realizing it.

01.02.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

OSX 26 on an M4 with ample memory seems shockingly slow. Yesterday I was like "well, it's indexing again" but today it's more of the same. (Upgraded a week or two ago, workload of web, Preview, dev tools like clang, Claude Code.)

27.01.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I should dig up my 2021 comment I guess

09.01.2026 19:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

like my mom was a Julia Child fan converted to the church of Weight Watchers in the 80s

09.12.2025 22:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

counterclaim, American beef eating peaked around the 1950s or 60s and is way down (and quality seems down since mid-pandemic). Seed oils way up, both directly and by proxy in chicken/pork. I don't think it's that the replacement is more delicious or healthier, it's mainly bad epistemics. TBD though

09.12.2025 22:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

well, s/poem/play

09.12.2025 18:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Language Log: Twat v. Browning Well, the OED entry certainly suggests a story, but it's far from whole. In fact, the entry is a curious and interesting document:

https://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001812.html -- he used the word in a poem thinking it meant some kind of headgear, and maybe nobody told him otherwise for years

09.12.2025 18:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

it is easier, noninteractively, to be like Browning bringing up twats -- though yes in the limit we're all stuck in our skulls/datacenters

09.12.2025 02:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

fun fact, the hypertext system Xanadu used 'enfilades', like this SumTree scheme, in the 80s

07.12.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trurl and Klapaucius - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trurl_a...
the translation by Michael Kandel is extraordinary.
May be thinking of "Trurl's electronic bard" in particular.

07.12.2025 14:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

atheist studying sources on the resurrection, concluding it really happened, and converting to satanism. I was wondering the other day if a conversion memoir ever went that way

01.12.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Low Beyond

sorry, been sick. *looks suspiciously at "low temperature pasteurized cream"*
This was ~a couple years later: web.archive.org/web/20001212...
I could elaborate on my first reaction but, like, the principal component is I'm a lot more with him than his haters

29.11.2025 02:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rethinking Innateness - Wikipedia

there was a good argument against "poverty of the stimulus"-type claims 30ish years ago, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rethink... (changed my mind somewhat)
and arxiv.org/abs/1104.5466 from 2011 was also forward-looking though it didn't envision pure Stack Moar Layers vs. trying to understand the workings

26.11.2025 18:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s actually short and I thought rather sweet, if you enjoy an absurd setup. I don’t remember it clearly. Different topics afair

25.11.2025 23:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

can't deny this sound inductive reasoning. (personally wouldn't call the source 'God', that character gets mixed up a lot)

25.11.2025 05:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

so much more lyrical! I'll check it out.

25.11.2025 05:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd side with him though that it'll all be populated in the future (wish I were confident they'll be us)

25.11.2025 05:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

when I read what I guess was Eliezer Y's first webpage in the 90s I was like, well... what a strange mix of obviously bright and... foolish. Heard a bit later he was 17

25.11.2025 05:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0