max read’s list of movies inspired by the show maxread.substack.com/p/eight-movi... and this youtube essay connecting it to revolutionary politics are great (no season two spoilers in either of these)
lol
Photocopies are indispensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labour he (sic) exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neo-capitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap; as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.
umberto eco on the alibi of the photocopier
ASP is suspended today through Sunday, March 1 to facilitate snow operations.
may he reign for a thousand years
may he reign for a thousand years
the Magna Carta defines a “town” as “any dwellings of mor than one thousand head with kettles for sale”
it was three towns of 5000 people but yes between them it was rural!
eh, i had to drive to three towns in three separate counties in texas to find a kettle.
now we're talking. a claude skill by @mattbruenig.bsky.social built on top of stuff that required a bunch of coding, but which itself has nothing to do with coding. expert-level (at least) labor law research, roughly for free, built on top of nlrbresearch.com/NLRB/NLRB_DB
there are some good posts along these lines though! (xp is back awoouu) laughingmeme.org/2026/02/15/s...
his takes (or sources?) are worthless imo. my guess is this one is due the superficial resemblance between gas town (LLM psychosis + "i'M wRitinG tIcKets") and agile.
An Ed Zitron post quoting Paul Ford posting his recent nytimes story about vibe coding. Zitron says: “every single piece like this should include a statement as to whether the writer is using a subscription to Claude or ChatGPT or if they're paying for the API, and if it's a subscription, the article should have a giant red sign that says THIS USER WAS SUBSIDIZED”
Only bad people go after Paul Ford. I’ve observed this rule for more than a decade and it’s never been wrong once.
Also you can’t share links to what you’re looking at!
Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up
the modern monetary theory of olympic planning
basically I think that if you have a favorite language anymore you might be fucking up
lmao www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Salt is banned on sidewalks in Germany because it kills plants, corrodes infrastructure, etc. They use crushed pebbles. It works better on sidewalks, works in colder temps, and lasts longer. Depends on a city willing to clean the sidewalks when the snow melts though which lol USA.
Live view of how recently streets have been plowed across NYC.
Green = within past hour. Blue = within 1-3 hours.
This is thanks to the extraordinary efforts of @nycsanitation.bsky.social workers driving 2,000+ plows.
Get a live map of plowing in your neighborhood: nyc.gov/plownyc
for example, I thought this was ridiculous. turns out it was only 3 months early. in 2026, of the couple thousand lines of code shipped with my name on them, pretty sure I typed less than 10% of them by hand
this weekend’s print NYT had an article that was published on the website before thanksgiving.
when my manager starts submitting pull requests out of the blue
very funny to try to scare people away from using LLMs by starting with the most thoughtfully designed and rigorously developed software on the planet
i am sorry to say that this is 100% correct samuelalbanie.substack.com/p/documentat...
highly recommend bsky.app/profile/did:... to identify bots and people suffering from poster's madness
2025 bsky.app/profile/mlw....
"rescent". i can barely spell any more. i just mash the keys and claude code understands anything in the ballpark. probably fine, nothing to worry about.
cover of nuclear war: a scenario
cover of little bosses everywhere
non-fiction:
annie jacobsen - nuclear war: a scenario (nuclear wonks have quibbles with this iiuc, i don't care)
bridget read - little bosses everywhere: how the pyramid scheme shaped america (good antidote to the idea that the current grifts are new)
