Jay Scott

a PSA

A balaclava is what ICE agents wear to hide their identities as they engage in shameful Gestapo-like activities for which they should, in fact, be shunned from society

A baklava is a delicious layered pastry treat

Confusing one for the other could lead to comical misunderstandings

OK, this is a pretty solid take on LLMs.

Seems to me that allowing law enforcement officers to wear masks covering their faces….encourages an environment where law enforcement officers aren’t as concerned about being caught on camera doing something illegal. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s weird how the more Google tries to take over the whole web, the less useful Google gets.

I would like to advise people that the domain name "tormentnexis.com" is available for purchase.

A spinoff of "Pimp My Ride" for hearses called
"Bling Out Your Dead"

"The brutality of pure capitalism has to deny empathy in order to function."

It feels like we must be living in the stupidest period in history if a guy like Curtis Yarvin is considered “an intellectual”

Boulder attack updates: 6 injured in 'act of terror' with 'makeshift flamethrower' Police in Colorado are responding to a "heinous" attack at a pedestrian mall in the city that they say left several victims.

It’s not fair to credit @greatesttrek.com for predicting this, but wow what a coincidence for this past week’s episode. abcnews.go.com/US/victims-a...

One of the easiest ways for the public to see the value of NOAA / NASA / USGS data is for broadcast TV, streamers, weather apps, etc, to simply start showing (sourcing) agency logos on graphics.

Repetition and visual association works.

Hurricane season would be a great time to start.

Kuba Komet entertainment centre, which featured 8 speakers (1957)

Personally, I think Congress should not get free health insurance unless they meet the same countable asset limit and income limit as people who receive Medicaid in their state. Seems fair to me.

In my state:

Single:
$1,304 / month
$4,000 asset limit

Married:
$1,763 / month
$6,000 asset limit

wild that we sent a huge number of guys to Iraq at the start of that war without rifle plates and now this is just how cops dress to frighten kitchen employees

Internet Explorer

TACO = Trump Always Chickens Out.

We are told to simultaneously believe AI is so "early days" as to excuse any lack of real usefulness, and that it is so established - "too big to fail" - that we are not permitted to imagine a future without it.

And since they can't deliver, they have to keep making the promise - the FOMO - bigger.

Had a lot of people recently reaching out to do off the record “on background” interviews where they ask me to explain a bunch of stuff to them. This is not something to do to people you do not know! I am not your free research partner. If you do this to people either compensate or quote them.

The more senior you get, the more you focus on mindset over methods. You already know many methods. You use and adapt methods like tools. But mindsets give you strategy & principles to approach problems & people. Here are 2 examples:
- exploration over certainty
- co-creation over control
etc.

Star Wars never specifies how long ago “a long time ago” is. It could all be happening in the 1920s

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

Just saw this interview where the question was “how far do you think we are from having AI operate as a junior engineer 24/7?”

I cannot stress enough that I would pay a reasonable fee to 𝘯𝘰𝘵 have an unsupervised junior engineer operating 24/7 in our codebase.

Keep the Mission Impossible movies just as they are, but every time Tom Cruise is revived from certain death he should be just a bit slower, mentally and physically. Like… noticeable impairment.

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’

shocked to hear that “...AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation" based on a study of 25,000 workers at 7000 companies by the National Bureau of Economic Research
www.nber.org/papers/w33777
fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

Really hoping you make this sketched aesthetic a future app skin

Throw me a bone or under the bus, it’s all the same to me.

Where I get my ideas from

A tweet from NBC news: Measles vaccination among babies skyrocketed in Texas as the outbreak grew, new research shows. Reply by Alex Griswold: Because in practice anti-vaxx is a luxury belief based on the assumption that your neighbors' vaccines do in fact work

I've never seen it so well put before.

Price hikes from Notion and X are evidence the companies aren’t growing.

Companies with strong user growth don’t risk disrupting that growth with price hikes.

Google intentionally making its search engine worse so people spend more time on it to be served ads makes so much sense now. Google is an anti-search engine.

I’ll say it: websites should let you sign in if you got your password wrong but you were still kind of close