WickedPupil

[RKA Scope @RKAScope]

"Area 51 Open House" - Had a bit of fun with this one.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Train Dreams is the most beautiful film of 2025.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[Mac Baconai @Macbaconai]

''Cognitive Security'' should be taught in the coming months as a form of defense against the dark arts — a modern discipline for resisting manipulation, disinformation, and psychological sabotage.

[signüll @signulll]

every millennial is now paying apple $9.99/month for 2TB just to not delete their life.

[WickedPupil @messy_takes]

@karpathy This is the most well-presented video I've ever seen on this topic. Thank you @karpathy

[WickedPupil @messy_takes]

The mass deletion of Geocities websites was the Library of Alexandria burning of the digital age. A vibrant archive of early internet culture and creativity… gone forever.

[WickedPupil @messy_takes]

Found a 10 year old computer this weekend...most files were unreadable. Reminds me of @kepano and @obsdmd's "File Over App" philosophy. Talk to your future self with more durable formats!

[kepano @kepano]

File over app

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.

In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.

The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them.

The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems.

Paraphrasing something I wrote recently:

> If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.

You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.

These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian (@obsdmd), but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

10% of international web traffic is protected by a wall of lava lamps in San Francisco which converts the changes in randomness of the bubbles into computer code.

[Jesse Michels @AlchemyAmerican]

BREAKING: Our world is an information theory-based simulation. Our physical worlds are rendered locally by conscious observer nodes. MIT/Stanford trained @Rizstanford provides a master compendium of evidence for the simulation hypothesis in our latest documentary (full vid in reply!):

1. The building blocks of reality and biological life look like computer code: interoperable matter-antimatter particles (like electrons and positrons), human base pairs etc.

2. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle: position and momentum measurement accuracy trade off against each other. When one is precise, the other is fuzzy: this looks exactly like computational caching. Only a certain amount of information is stored in local memory!

3. Biological and cosmic life involves fundamentally conserved, geometric building blocks: Fibonacci sequence leading to golden ratios are prime examples. They are everywhere. These look like copied and pasted code libraries.

4. All of the physical constants (Planck’s constant, big G Gravity etc) seem like they are fine tuned for life. That leaves intelligent creation as the BASE CASE and MORE likely than the idea that we just happen to be in a Goldilocks zone across millions of random permutations. The magnetosphere of the Earth also plays a role in “programming” biology and only letting in enough UV radiation to support genetic mutations and differential selection

5. Knowledge has client-server relationship. When we discover something new, we upload those discoveries to a central server. This makes new breakthroughs that much easier (this explains the bannister effect with the 4 minute mile and Rupert Sheldrakes (@RupertSheldrake) morphic field findings!). Download times are faster than upload times. Doing something incrementally new is always harder than repeating.

6. Given that only certain information is rendered locally, we end up with air pockets of “consensus reality”: this explains mass false memories as shown by the hugely popular Mandela effect

7. The idea of the mind causing wave function collapse was considered by virtually every early quantum thinker, including the pioneers who developed the core equations we use today (Schrödinger, Von Neumann etc.). Modern smug scientists who say that the wave function collapses due to particles colliding independent of an observer or due to any measurement device are engaging in AS MUCH OR MORE speculation as those who think the mind is responsible.

8. Random event generators point to humans being able to affect conventionally thought of as random “events” (with known statistical distributions) in quantum mechanics (I.e. isotope decay) with their minds. This ALSO points to the human rendering reality in real time

9. Donald Hoffman (@donalddhoffman) shows why from an evolutionary perspective, it is not adaptive for humans to see base reality: we basically render objects into “computer icons”. Again, simulation is more likely.

10. Fermat's theorem points towards light using algorithmic optimization principles that lead to most efficient paths,

There are two version of the simulation: Non player character and role playing game. The first is a product of postmodern nihilism -- we can do anything because this is all a video game and we're all bots. The second is life AFFIRMING and it comports with all the world's major religions and Plato. Our primordial souls are being "ported" into a low-level incarnation in which we must learn karmic lessons. Riz and I get into all of the protocols for glimpsing beyond our simulation: it is a narrow, but worthwhile path. In a world obsessing over low level simulations (AGI), we should think more about the computational soup we are all swimming in.

[WickedPupil @messy_takes]

The future I read about in Popular Science as a kid is here.

Is any other car brand even close to making this happen at scale? Is @Tesla_AI going to license out their software?

[Tesla @Tesla]

Point-to-point autonomous transport (under supervision)

This isn’t the future.

It’s the present.

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

I'm so proud of the many teams across Apple developing powerful technologies that are improving people’s lives. The Hearing Aid feature on AirPods Pro 2 uses your personalized sound profile so you can hear the moments that matter.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Insurance, loan, and mortgage searches need to be fixed. Google is making too much money on ads in these categories. We must give people back the power to make informed choices.

[WickedPupil @messy_takes]

Yes.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Should Perplexity buy Chrome?

[WickedPupil @messy_takes]

@joshm @browsercompany @arcinternet Incredible product as always. Thank you @browsercompany team for working on removing the reliance on Chrome.

[Josh Miller @joshm]

Our vision for Act II of @arcinternet

[Michael Irving @MikeIrvo]

The audio log you find in a trashed office in a sci-fi horror game:

[Josh Miller @joshm]

👏Goodbye, Google Search👏

Starting today, you can now set Perplexity as your default search engine in Arc browser...

[WickedPupil @messy_takes]

@webflow Hey team. None of our navbar dropdown menus work anymore on any of our company sites, with nothing altered on our end. - This is a very urgent issue and I cannot reach anyone from your support team. Could you please look into this as soon as possible? We appreciate it!