Niraj Patel

New member, first time watching @evewrestling.bsky.social ... Hayter vs Yamashita was excellent, run it back!! #eve #wrestlesky 🤼‍♀️

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

Hangman please nooooo, never go full Cody #AEW

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

Thanks AI! Thanks AI! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Thanks, AI gist.github.com/richhickey/e...

Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand.

Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.

Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

"it isn't just X—it's Y" is by far the most annoying ChatGPTism

Write the damn code You are a software engineer. Don't become a prompt refiner.

"You are a software engineer. Don't become a prompt refiner."

well said antonz.org/write-code/

We need everyone back in the office because we want the serendipitous magic that only happens when you let humans get creative together and also we're replacing all of you with an AI machine that can only do things that it's seen done before

The real cost to me was checking Ticketmaster & AXS daily waiting for the right moment to strike 😆

I'm speechless, this is so unhinged and unexpected. #AEW is really for the sickos.

I hate that dynamic pricing punishes those who buy tickets early. Feels cheeky but right thing to do is wait until the last minute to buy tickets. I'm hyped for next week though #AEW #WrestleSky.

This is a repost, I can just post longer vids now instead of a YouTube link:

This was my dream edit, 16 year old me would’ve flipped out.
Bryan Danielson has meant everything to all of us so I knew the bar would be set incredibly high. This is why I’m proud to work at AEW.
#AEW #Greenday

Boy, was this a hard secret to keep.

Yes, I am now the lead singer in Cardiacs.

I don’t have the words to properly do justice to what all this means.

But if you know anything about me, then you know what an honour this is.

First single ‘Woodeneye’ is out now.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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im holding out a rain lily for zane to smell because its 5am and you gotta have a little boost

hollerin with the world championship

lots of bracelets from the meet and greet and the championship

my family.

thank you for everything. i dont have the words to do the feeling justice because i havent slept in four days but ill try to find them by wednesday

The mystery of em‑dashes: part two with quantitative evidence A couple of weeks ago I made an assumption: the rise of em‑dashes in AI‑generated text happened because model providers started scanning older, pre‑Kindle books.

This is the best explanation I've seen yet for _why_ language models prefer em-dashes (—). In brief: The tokenization scheme mean em-dashes result in a smaller loss than other, equivalent punctuation options.
msukhareva.substack.com/p/the-myster...

The rise of Whatever This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of eve...

I feel this deeply eev.ee/blog/2025/07...

Who Will Count as Disabled Tomorrow? The dangerous redefinition of welfare disguised as Labour's compassionate reform.

NEW FROM ME -

Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.

Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.

We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.

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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Left associative ternary operator comes to mind wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_...

Just call me the Blue Prince because I, too, enter rooms and forget exactly what I was trying to do in them

You shiver, and the city shivers with you.

Whoever decided on the spelling of 'awkward' got it bang on, that is one fucking awkwardly-spelled word. 10/10.

I desperately wish I could turn this off at the account level. Please GitHub, just give us the flexibility.

Been thinking about how well written and nuanced the characters are in Watchmen. I know some people look at Rorschach and see a hero to be emulated, but when I look at him I just see a vase of flowers

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen