Andy K

squashing bugs and hanging out with the missus

[Caleb Gross @noperator]

https://t.co/gOSvgSg8kv

[Andy K @nomoredistance]

@ridwanadit Saya follow Mas Iman sudah lama, dari dulu kerjaannya ya berdiri di samping guru (honorer sekalipun), termasuk belakangan ini dengan mendukung Mas Reza Sudrajat. Jika perlu, balaslah opininya, menjelekkan seperti ini sungguh tak pantas.

[Hōrōshi バガボンド @KatanaLarp]

https://t.co/h9C7YZeCx3

[Mark Wright @markeology]

My angelic, autistic 12 year old daughter Annika drew this pencil and asked me to share it with you. She gets giddy when her content does better than mine, which makes me happy.

Please share it far and wide to keep her fire for art going. We've just barely gotten it rekindled.

[Andy K @nomoredistance]

@mathdroid 108 juta triliun? $6.63B = Rp108T

[Mogomra (e/acc) @MightyMogomra]

let me just leave this here for you kids

[Andy K @nomoredistance]

@F2aldi @ivanfioravanti LLM companies argue that training their models on these books falls under 'fair-use', but this argument doesn't hold if you can make it spit out near-verbatim text.

[Andy K @nomoredistance]

@aqfiazfan @arieagung Saran saya juga sama, jangan menyertakan rekonstruksi wajah AI, karena secara tidak langsung bisa melemahkan temuan lainnya.

[twitch.tv/Limmy @DaftLimmy]

Let's make 2026 the year of the WEBSITE!

Let's bring back WEBSITES!

[Sangeet @sangaldoo]

This is a do or die year ngl the whole trajectory of my life depends on this year

[minee 🍉 @peachyfraise]

Irine is my friend & I know how strong she is. She is a brilliant journalist who has covered many other heavy & difficult issues before. Seeing her unable to hold back her tears, her voice shaking, was beyond heartbreaking. It shows just how devastating this disaster truly is.

[sari azout @sariazout]

Always Go To The Funeral

“Always go to the funeral” means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don’t feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don’t really have to and I definitely don’t want to. I’m talking about those things that represent only inconvenience to me, but the world to the other guy. You know, the painfully under-attended birthday party. The hospital visit during happy hour. The Shiva call for one of my ex’s uncles. In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.”

[paw @pawcord]

i’m genuinely in love with this ad
a french one? for a SUPERMARKET?? like woah

[Omong-Omong Media @omongomongcom]

When a president owns nearly 100K Ha of pulpwood plantation in the region wrecked by floods & landslides that killed hundreds of his own citizens, he can't plausibly lead the country out of crisis. He is part of the crisis.

Jakarta Post X Omong-Omong:
https://t.co/SzCrKMEvCR

[ksa 🏴‍☠️ @kosa12m]

okay, this is getting chaotic

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The world needs honest and courageous entrepreneurs and communicators who care for the common good. We sometimes hear the saying: “Business is business!” In reality, it is not so. No one is absorbed by an organization to the point of becoming a mere cog or a simple function. Nor can there be true humanism without a critical sense, without the courage to ask questions: "Where are we going? For whom and for what are we working? How are we making the world a better place?"

[Louis Wain Archive @LouisWainBot]

'Long May You Live, Long May You Love, Long May You Be Happy!'

[taco belle @animalologist]

The best years of life your life could start at any point, just keep going

[William Poulos @W_Poulos]

I’m not usually affected by the deaths of people I don’t know personally, but this one hurts.

Chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has passed away, aged 29.

I never met him, but I’ve spent hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours watching his videos. I got back into chess during the Covid lockdowns, and I wouldn’t have fallen in love with the game without his generous, witty, and instructive lessons.

A history graduate from Stanford, Naroditsky was the most articulate and lucid commentator and teacher in chess. He was rare: a Twitch streamer and YouTube creator without a hint of ego. Everything he did was in the service of the game he loved.

He knew how to instruct weaker players like me. Commonly in his videos he’d say “you might be tempted to play…” followed by the exact terrible move I would have played, and then he’d explain why it was so bad.

I hear his voice and his idioms in my head when I play: is the opponent’s threat genuine or only a “paper tiger”? Can you set up a defence so that the opponent’s attack is “biting on granite”? Can you see a follow-up to your “sexy move” or have you succumbed to “onemove-itis?”

I’ll never be able to play as well as he did, but his videos always gave the impression that, with enough patience and effort, one day I might be able to.

It might be strange to have a teacher younger than you, but it’s even stranger to find out that he’s gone.

Remember Philip Larkin’s lines at the end of his poem “The Mower”:

"we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time."

Memory eternal