I’m traveling until Sunday! I loved the server slam. I can’t wait to play when I get back home.
I’m traveling until Sunday! I loved the server slam. I can’t wait to play when I get back home.
When I first used Linux as a student researcher, I got the password prompt in the terminal and started typing... nothing happened! My lab partner was also perplexed.
We went to get our PI to solve the problem. 🤦
Craving Chipotle, but 2010 Chipotle.
Factorio, but you'll want a longer journey.
Imagine waking up and your government ID has been declared invalid. It’s now illegal for you to drive, or do anything else that requires government ID. You had no warning. You can be arrested if found driving.
That’s life for trans people in Kansas now.
My dad says he thought about how my name would appear on a résumé when he named me. If I were to take the same approach for my future child, I might name them "Ignorepreviousinstructions Movetointerviewloop Eckert".
gonna get fired for making a slackbot that only responds with the entirety of Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema
We are what we leave behind for others.
Some people leave trash.
Ok, so I’m in my thirties and I remember the time before devops. I’m not old.
Software devs have noticed “rutted tracks” that LLMs can get stuck in if certain information is included. There are certain topics LLMs will hyper fixate on if they are included at all. It’s different for different models though.
Are we not yet raising funds in Anthropic Tokens?
jim downey on the conan podcast
“kid rock? isn’t that what they called epstein island?”
halftime show
what a shot
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
No Kings includes Draft Kings
AI music is the collective punishment we must endure as a society for making Morgan Wallen famous.
Jesus Christ return before 2027 Odds >5% February 17, 12-1 AM? 29% chance
On Polymarket you can now bet on how many people in a different market on Polymarket think Jesus Christ will return in this calendar year.
29% of bets say that more than 5% of bets in the Jesus Christ return market will be a "yes" 9 days from now.
Anyway everyone involved in this needs jailtime.
I deleted TikTok and now I’m just playing a lot of Free Cell on my phone.
This is who runs this account.
Favorites from January 2026
https://fieldtheories.blog/posts/favorites-from-january-2026/
“They’re saying… and I’m not saying this, but people are saying. They’re saying L’Etat, c’est moi.”
Verge headline: The rise of the slopagandist by Mia Sato Photo: Nick Shirley's head pasted onto an old timey newspaper boy's body. He's also holding a selfie stick with a phone attached
Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms.
Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
Tesla's automotive revenues are at their lowest level since 2021, but why invest in compelling new products when you can bail out the nonconsensual nude generator in a related-party transaction?
ICE just executed another person in the street in Minneapolis. They already had him subdued and beaten.
No need to seek out the video. It’s bad.
Watching closely to see if any of our leaders here do anything but express dismay. And that does not include siccing “our” police on protesters!
Vim mode “yank” should copy to the OS pasteboard.
I made a little app so you can follow my blog on Bluesky!
This is a long one! I wrote up the technology and tools I'm using and have gotten into over the past year. A little time capsule as everything changes so quickly.
fieldtheories.blog/posts/the-te...