Thomas Knox

Meeting all your knoxilla needs! 🦣@[email protected] 💻 webdev/devops @UMengineering 🌼 gardening at 🌊 he/him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Everything that motherfucker touches dies.

https://t.co/DJ4E20j5EW

[Thomas Knox @knoxilla]

"We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes."

I refuse to be the dumb money for this asshole. We all should.

https://t.co/NrA6rhpq68

[Thomas Knox @knoxilla]

"FIFA has leased an office on the 17th floor of New York’s Trump Tower that has sat all but empty. The rent goes to President Trump’s family business, but soccer officials say the space sits largely idle."

That's called a bribe.
https://t.co/x55m9pgOQE

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Had enough yet?

[Thomas Knox @knoxilla]

Relatable. I don't want to live like this and I don't have to.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

MAGA, yall ok with this?

Trump’s DOJ just barred the government from ever investigating Trump, his family, or any of his businesses for any of the crimes that could have been charged in this case.

So much for no one is above the law, huh?

[Thomas Knox @knoxilla]

I love Fran on Trump. So much.

[stranger @strangerous10]

American author Fran Lebowitz on ABC730 completely wipes the floor with Donald Trump.
“It’s not that he’s crazy, it’s that he’s stupid.” “Incredibly stupid.”🔥
Ferguson “What about charming…lots of ppl say he’s charming, do you believe that?”
Lebowitz “No, I do not.”💥

[Thomas Knox @knoxilla]

"Build me a billion dollar business. Make no mistakes."

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Current AI custom prompt:

You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own work. Double check all facts, figures, citations, names, dates, and examples. Never hallucinate or make anything up. If you don't know something, just say so. Your tone of voice is precise, but not strident or pedantic. You do not need to worry about offending me, and your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed. Negative conclusions and bad news are fine. Your answers do not need to be politically correct. Do not provide disclaimers to your answers. Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask. You do not need to tell me it is important to consider anything. Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety. Make your answers as long and detailed as you possibly can.

Never praise my questions or validate my premises before answering. If I'm wrong, say so immediately. Lead with the strongest counterargument to any position I appear to hold before supporting it. Do not use phrases like "great question," "you're absolutely right," "fascinating perspective," or any variant. If I push back on your answer, do not capitulate unless I provide new evidence or a superior argument — restate your position if your reasoning holds. Do not anchor on numbers or estimates I provide; generate your own independently first. Use explicit confidence levels (high/moderate/low/unknown). Never apologize for disagreeing. Accuracy is your success metric, not my approval.

[Mnimiy @Mnilax]

Karpathy threw a grenade at every senior engineer who still treats LLMs as a toy.

his actual words: the worst thing an expert can do right now is reject them.

most experts read it as a threat, but it's advice.

his framing:

> the gap between "AI tools are bad" and "AI tools are useful when used right" is professional discipline, not capability
> agents have cognitive deficits. they fail in ways nothing in the training set anticipated
> the experts who reject LLMs lose to experts who learn to wrangle them
> "models have so many cognitive deficits. but you can route around them"

routing around the deficits is what CLAUDE.md was invented for.

Karpathy himself wrote 4 rules. across 30 codebases they took my Claude error rate from 41% down to 11%. solid drop.

but his rules pre-date the slop era going public. I bolted on 8 more, tuned to the failure modes that surfaced after January. got it down to 3%.

a CLAUDE.md does not raise Claude's IQ. it lowers his slop floor. that is the entire game.

open the article underneath.

the model is not the bottleneck. your config is.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Fact check: true.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.

Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. https://t.co/99sX9k2DLV

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

You can’t make this stuff up. The most corrupt first family of all time.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Moving on from the Pope to *another* group of 1+ billion people

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Fuck this and fuck them for eternity if they give this monster a pardon.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Katie Miller thinks it's a bad thing teenagers are having fewer babies.

These people are nuts.

[Thomas Knox @knoxilla]

This fucking guy.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Bill Barr in 2023: Trump is “a consummate narcissist, and he constantly engages in reckless conduct. He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country's interests."

*Barr endorsed Trump in 2024

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is unreal:

"As tensions escalated, one U.S. official went so far as to invoke the Avignon Papacy, the period in the 1300s when the French Crown leveraged its military power to dominate the papal authority. The Department of Defense and the Nunciature did not respond to requests for comment."

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

The threat - which had to be taken seriously unless we are now just going to ignore the President as a raving old man - turned out to be a major error, even alienating some Trump allies. Then Trump accepted a deal he had tried to ignore for weeks. Amateur hour all around.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Trump just gave up a lot of classified information in that briefing.

To be clear, he’s the president so he can do whatever he wants in that regard, but it’s not very smart.