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2013 National Champion

[Jesse The Free 🏴 @Jessethefree]

Racism is a low-effort, low-intelligence shortcut, the lazy man’s answer to complex social problems that actually demand intelligence, effort, and honesty.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

I will say this again. Elon Musk is pathologically, genocidally racist—it was drilled into him from birth. This has nothing to do with the Oscars. It’s about finding an excuse to generate hatred against Black people.

Remember his tirade against Somalis?
It led to ICE in Minneapolis and two dead protestors.

Remember how he gave Trump propaganda about “white genocide” in South Africa and shut off all refugees to the US except racist Boer farmers?

Remember how he deliberately shut off USAID food and drugs which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Black kids?

STOP WONDERING.

He’s a full fledged, eugenicist Nazi who will use his power to kill millions more people. He will be worse than the original if we keep sanewashing his psychopathy, sadism, and misanthropy.

[WLKY @WLKY]

Former Card Russ Smith acquires rights to UofL alumni TBT team 'The Ville' | Click on the image to read the full story https://t.co/o0uwADpaoP

[IRI Embassy in Armenia @iraninyerevan]

Congratulations to you. Children are innocent and lovable. Those 168 children that your boss killed in the school in Minab, and you justified, were also children. When you kiss your baby, think of the mothers of those children.

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Alex @EuropaActual]

Just so we’re all crystal clear: these servicemembers died because Israel decided to attack Iran.

They didn’t die for our country or our freedoms, they died because our “greatest ally” attacked another country while we were in negations with them.

My brothers and sisters in uniform deserve so much better. Fuck Israel. Full stop.

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the meritocracy they want you to believe Black people are violating

A C student coke fiend with no medical expertise runs our nation’s healthcare system.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks.

Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in December. i.e. I really am mostly programming in English now, a bit sheepishly telling the LLM what code to write... in words. It hurts the ego a bit but the power to operate over software in large "code actions" is just too net useful, especially once you adapt to it, configure it, learn to use it, and wrap your head around what it can and cannot do. This is easily the biggest change to my basic coding workflow in ~2 decades of programming and it happened over the course of a few weeks. I'd expect something similar to be happening to well into double digit percent of engineers out there, while the awareness of it in the general population feels well into low single digit percent.

IDEs/agent swarms/fallability. Both the "no need for IDE anymore" hype and the "agent swarm" hype is imo too much for right now. The models definitely still make mistakes and if you have any code you actually care about I would watch them like a hawk, in a nice large IDE on the side. The mistakes have changed a lot - they are not simple syntax errors anymore, they are subtle conceptual errors that a slightly sloppy, hasty junior dev might do. The most common category is that the models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking. They also don't manage their confusion, they don't seek clarifications, they don't surface inconsistencies, they don't present tradeoffs, they don't push back when they should, and they are still a little too sycophantic. Things get better in plan mode, but there is some need for a lightweight inline plan mode. They also really like to overcomplicate code and APIs, they bloat abstractions, they don't clean up dead code after themselves, etc. They will implement an inefficient, bloated, brittle construction over 1000 lines of code and it's up to you to be like "umm couldn't you just do this instead?" and they will be like "of course!" and immediately cut it down to 100 lines. They still sometimes change/remove comments and code they don't like or don't sufficiently understand as side effects, even if it is orthogonal to the task at hand. All of this happens despite a few simple attempts to fix it via instructions in CLAUDE . md. Despite all these issues, it is still a net huge improvement and it's very difficult to imagine going back to manual coding. TLDR everyone has their developing flow, my current is a small few CC sessions on the left in ghostty windows/tabs and an IDE on the right for viewing the code + manual edits.

Tenacity. It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It's a "feel the AGI" moment to watch it struggle with something for a long time just to come out victorious 30 minutes later. You realize that stamina is a core bottleneck to work and that with LLMs in hand it has been dramatically increased.

Speedups. It's not clear how to measure the "speedup" of LLM assistance. Certainly I feel net way faster at what I was going to do, but the main effect is that I do a lot more than I was going to do because 1) I can code up all kinds of things that just wouldn't have been worth coding before and 2) I can approach code that I couldn't work on before because of knowledge/skill issue. So certainly it's speedup, but it's possibly a lot more an expansion.

Leverage. LLMs are exceptionally good at looping until they meet specific goals and this is where most of the "feel the AGI" magic is to be found. Don't tell it what to do, give it success criteria and watch it go. Get it to write tests first and then pass them. Put it in the loop with a browser MCP. Write the naive algorithm that is very likely correct first, then ask it to optimize it while preserving correctness. Change your approach from imperative to declarative to get the agents looping longer and gain leverage.

Fun. I didn't anticipate that with agents programming feels *more* fun because a lot of the fill in the blanks drudgery is removed and what remains is the creative part. I also feel less blocked/stuck (which is not fun) and I experience a lot more courage because there's almost always a way to work hand in hand with it to make some positive progress. I have seen the opposite sentiment from other people too; LLM coding will split up engineers based on those who primarily liked coding and those who primarily liked building.

Atrophy. I've already noticed that I am slowly starting to atrophy my ability to write code manually. Generation (writing code) and discrimination (reading code) are different capabilities in the brain. Largely due to all the little mostly syntactic details involved in programming, you can review code just fine even if you struggle to write it.

Slopacolypse. I am bracing for 2026 as the year of the slopacolypse across all of github, substack, arxiv, X/instagram, and generally all digital media. We're also going to see a lot more AI hype productivity theater (is that even possible?), on the side of actual, real improvements.

Questions. A few of the questions on my mind:
- What happens to the "10X engineer" - the ratio of productivity between the mean and the max engineer? It's quite possible that this grows *a lot*.
- Armed with LLMs, do generalists increasingly outperform specialists? LLMs are a lot better at fill in the blanks (the micro) than grand strategy (the macro).
- What does LLM coding feel like in the future? Is it like playing StarCraft? Playing Factorio? Playing music?
- How much of society is bottlenecked by digital knowledge work?

TLDR Where does this leave us? LLM agent capabilities (Claude & Codex especially) have crossed some kind of threshold of coherence around December 2025 and caused a phase shift in software engineering and closely related. The intelligence part suddenly feels quite a bit ahead of all the rest of it - integrations (tools, knowledge), the necessity for new organizational workflows, processes, diffusion more generally. 2026 is going to be a high energy year as the industry metabolizes the new capability.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

You are defending the open killing of everyday Americans for exercising their Constitutional rights.

First, the mother of a 6 year old child. Now, an ICU nurse to veterans. Both shot at nearly point blank range.

All without reflection or remorse. People will not forget this.

[Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY]

Sorry for missing this earlier, @tedcruz. Been busy leading my state's emergency response all day. From Kentucky.

[Bakari Sellers @Bakari_Sellers]

Some of yalls political perspectives are warped…

You are pro-life, pro second amendment, pro free speech, BUT you can murder someone exercising free speech who is a legal gun owner for resisting arrest.

Makes no sense

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.

[Van Lathan Jr @VanLathan]

Yup.

It’s the thinking behind it. That scene is basically a Rorschach. He saw what he felt. “Black people dont belong here.” Then went “Let me demonstrate how unlikely it is that they’d be here.” That indicates to me, a very conscious and continual litigation of where Black people belong.

Furthermore the idea of running the numbers to show how far inclusion has gone denotes to me that you have a problem with it. Having an issue with inclusion is racist. If it bothers you that a Black person, or an Asian person showed up in a place that Black people, and Asian people lived, in whatever numbers, then you’re a racist.

Maybe that was the one day a Black and Asian person roamed the streets. Maybe they are part of a secret Black and Asian alliance to fight vampires in 1800s Chicago and this is the first meeting. Who fucking cares? Unless you are tired of seeing Black people and Asian people in spaces where you feel like they don’t belong …

Which makes you a racist.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Dear representatives of various Catholic associations, committed to showing solidarity with the population of the Gaza Strip! I appreciate your initiative and the many others throughout the Church that express closeness to the brothers and sisters suffering in that tormented land. Together with you and the pastors of the Churches in the Holy Land, I repeat: there is no future based on violence, forced exile, or revenge. People need peace: those who truly love them, work for peace.

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I am following with great concern the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, where the civilian population is suffering from severe hunger and remains exposed to violence and death. I renew my heartfelt appeal for a ceasefire, the release of hostages, and the full respect of humanitarian law.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot pray to God as “Father” and then be harsh and insensitive towards others. We must rather let ourselves be transformed by His goodness, patience, and mercy, so that His face may be reflected in ours as in a mirror. #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 11:1-13)
https://t.co/H9SFnhFehU

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Today we celebrate the Fifth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, centred on the theme: “Blessed are those who have not lost hope.” Let us look to grandparents and the elderly as witnesses of hope, capable of showing the path for new generations. Let us not leave them alone, but instead, form a bond of love and prayer with them.

[ESSENCE @Essence]

We’re heartbroken to report the passing of Malcolm-Jamal Warner at the age of 54 from an apparent drowning.

A generation grew up with Warner as Theodore “Theo” Huxtable. His portrayal helped redefine Black boyhood on screen, offering humor, vulnerability, and depth across eight seasons.

May he rest in peace.