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building + words + scheming

[🫶🏼 @hhxchen]

I think every decision we make needs to be vibes-based!!

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

The IBM Datacenter on Toronto's King Street in 1963

[망고탱고 @mangoddango]

스테인드글라스 작품이라는데 미쳤다…
뭔가 새로운 세상에 눈뜬 기분

🥺 https://t.co/hVReS5rklw

[Ante D. Luvian @uncle_deluge]

Heartbreaking: The Internet Sacred Texts Archive has changed their design to "Claude, make me a website"

[breno @industrielegie]

Navajo weaver Marilou Schultz (1954-) and her woven chips

[Mervin @holeliker]

Well met.
{my dialogue is skipped}
Farewell.

[harley turan @hturan]

and here’s @mxsage’s lovely “36 points” running on this 60hz eink panel with the @Modostech glider driver board

[🦋🧩🌈🃏🏠🌎🧬🦠 @seraphsanctity]

Anyone ever have like an "ego birth" where you come back to your identity after a period of dissociation and are finally able to embody a fragmented part of yourself and realize your place in this world and embrace the persona with pride

[Kirill @kegashin]

helping GPT6 Astra become agi

[nathan fielder @nathanfielder]

Just sittin' here being all cute!

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

The exactness of reflection depicted in the artworks of Norwegian painter Frits Thaulow (1847–1906)

[jon drake @DrakeGatsby]

*logging on to the “piss me off” machine as soon as I wake up* sure hope I don’t get pissed off today

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

A lesson for me from this episode is that it’s just really hard to shape history in the specific way that you want to impact things. One of the most famous medieval scholars is this guy Petrarch. He survives the Black Death in the 1340s, watches his friends die to plague and bandits, and says: our leaders are selfish and terrible, we need to raise them on the Roman classics so they'll act like Cicero. So Europe pours money into finding ancient manuscripts, building libraries, and educating princes on classical virtues. Those princes grow up and fight bigger, nastier wars than ever before with new deadlier technology. And this, combined with greater urbanization and endemic plague, results in European life expectancy decreasing from 35 in the medieval period to 18 during the Renaissance (the period which we in retrospect think of as a golden age but which many people living through it thought of as the continuation of the dark ages that had persisted since the fall of Rome).

Anyways, the libraries Petrarch inspires stick around, the printing press makes them accessible to everyone, and 200 years later a generation of medical students is reading Lucretius and asking "what if there are atoms and that's how diseases work?" which eventually leads to germ theory, vaccines, and a cure for the Black Death (Ada has longer more involved explanation of how cosplaying the Romans results through a series of many steps to the scientific revolution). Petrarch wanted to produce philosopher-kings that shared his values. Instead he created a world that doesn't share his values at all but can cure the disease that destroyed his.

[zach lieberman @zachlieberman]

Anne Véronique Janssen

[T. Greer @Scholars_Stage]

I am going to make a point that seems to be missed in all of this. Better messaging—ie, never talking about AI taking jobs—is not the problem. The problem is that AI just has not delivered too many tangible benefits to the country writ large. Consider the cutting edge accomplishments of the cutting edge models. The frontier has been pushed in the world of pure mathematics and in agentic coding. But what good has come of that? The main effect of the first: supplanting grad students from their budding careers in mathematics. The main effect of the second: rogue LLMs hacking other companies.

People keep tweeting things like “being against data centers is being against cancer research.” But why would anyone think this? Are any of the frontier companies focusing their resources on training their models to solve cancer? Or to engineer a breakthrough in materials scienxe that might allow us to lower energy costs? To provide any scientific or engineering breakthrough that might directly, obviously benefit normal people?

The average person thinks of LLMs as the thing their kids use to cheat on school assignments. AI may have made their life more convenient on the margins but that is the margins. So you end up asking communities to accept these data centers and sanction the local tentacle of a technology that is already making people far away very rich but which has not provided the country writ large wirh any tangible goods.

In other words: the problem is the substance not the messaging.

[Alicia Guo @upcycledwords]

Live coding, but make it poetry.

Live Poetry is a system for performing poetry as a live process. This collaborative poetic instrument utilizes grammars (sets of visible, editable rules) to assemble phrases in real time alongside sound and image.

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

“am i crazy or are parents doing a self-own by ignoring their kids until eventually snapping and yell at them?”

“you’re the sane one, actually. it’s the parents that are crazy. and they were once sane too, you know! see, you still have the luxury of assuming that sanity is a natural default state for you, rather than a resource that needs time and space and rest to recharge. you think you have patience because it’s never really been tested. you have been drinking from a cup of peace that has never gone dry. In truth you have maybe 500 units of patience before you lose your shit. anybody can be a wonderful parent for 72 hours. but then you think, surely I can take a break now? surely I can recharge now? you should certainly try. you should certainly try…”

[A. V. Dremel 🔻 @BmoreOrganized]

I predict that in 5-10 years every household will have a backyard furnace that serves all the pig iron production needs of the house

[Geoff Graham @ggraham]

Every time I meet an attorney, I assume he or she is interested in the law, the history of law, why laws are as they are, the current big legal questions, etc. Almost never is this the case.