Adam Leventhal
@ahl.bsky.social
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Lost a large bet that it would be “American Intelligence”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump tells the UN he is officially changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence" and says all US government documents will now be changed to refer to "SI"
I had Claude extract the comments from my old wordpress blog. This one was fun to remember ahl.dtrace.org/2016/06/19/a...
“You've waited all summer long!” 31 years ago today, September 17, 1995, “Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part Two)” first aired on the Fox network. Guest starring Tito Puente as himself. #TheSimpsons
I work in an electronics-assembly adjacent company, and at one point in the depths of 2022 disruptions, we were buying lots of critical items off of ebay.
Absolutely crazy OxF yesterday with the @oxide.computer team and @bcantrill.bsky.social. The supply chain is a mess and a critical part for us went from a few bucks to, a few hundred, to unobtainable. What followed was some amazing luck, followed by bad luck, followed by good luck, and on and on...
Oxide and Friends 9/14/2026 -- For Want of a Resistor
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Another week at @oxide.computer has given us (yet) another example of the kinds of problems that very much require human engineering. Today, the team joins @ahl.bsky.social and me to regale us with the wild tale. Join us live, 5p Pacific, tonight! discord.gg/9dH7D5Gt?eve...
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Bryan Cantrill@bcantrill.bsky.social · 2w agoI am surely not alone in having family over the weekend hitting me up asking "should I be worried about extinction?" As a response, I have found that my anti-Doomer talk from @monktoberfest.com 2023 (three very long years ago!) remains current and accessible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJ...
Fact check: true (Saturn Hypersystems would eventually become @oxide.computer)
Oxide Computer Company@oxide.computer · 2w agoHow does AWS Outposts compare with the Oxide Cloud Computer? FAQ Friday #59
New episode is up on the pod oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/emu...
Oxide and Friends | Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go?
We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording. How do you test configurations you haven't built yet? Steve, Andrew, and Rai...
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Love it when Telegraph commentary runs headfirst into Telegraph journalism
Oxide and Friends from 8/24 is up--apologies for the delay! It will be on the pod tomorrow morning. Thanks to @sgkaram.bsky.social for joining @bcantrill.bsky.social and me!
Oxide and Friends 8/24/2026 -- Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go?
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This is so fucking lovely. Please read it to the very end.
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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the meanest thing Anthropic could do would be to make tokens cheaper on the weekends
This sweet girl (“Beyoncé”) is up for adoption tomorrow at Oakland Animal Services. Send your friend who need a puppy to adoptions hours (11-4) tomorrow!
Dog Urine Lowers Heart-Attack Risk, Say Snickering Researchers
BALTIMORE—A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found a link between the consumption of dog urine and the decreased likelihood of heart attacks, team leaders announced Tuesday in crac...
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The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3w agoThe company’s shares declined in after-hours trading after the drug failed to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in a Phase 3 study. on.wsj.com/4yrbTTr
This sweet girl (“Beyoncé”) is up for adoption tomorrow at Oakland Animal Services. Send your friend who need a puppy to adoptions hours (11-4) tomorrow!
He’s literally making money illegally. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoThe U.S. Mint releases video showing the manufacturing process for $1 coins featuring President Trump, issued to mark the United States' 250th anniversary in 2026. Critics have raised questions about the design's legality.
Each company is weird and unique in so many ways. I think it's very hard in the moment--or even in hindsight--to truly know which of those idiosyncrasies was essential to success (or to failure?) and which merely came along for the ride.
Season 6, episode 20 of Oxide and Friends is out and it's a banger. (Where's episode 19 you ask? Coming soon! Weird I know) oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-...
Oxide and Friends | AI Detection with Max Spero
More and more, people are relying on AI to do their writing for them. Is this the new normal, or the intellectual equivalent of claiming take-out is your own home cooking? Max Spero, founder and CE...
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On Monday, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @max.pangram.com to discuss the social imperative of separating human- and AI-written content. There’s a big difference between being served home cooking and fast food!
Oxide and Friends 8/31/2026 -- AI Detection with Max Spero
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Trying to figure out what to do while your agents do your job for you? Good news: springfieldgoogolplex.com/database
The Simpsons Movie Reference Database — Springfield Googolplex
A searchable, sortable collection of every movie reference in the first 13 seasons of The Simpsons.
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Deep blue
@pamelafox.bsky.social · 4w ago"The role of software engineer has changed, probably forever, in the face of AI. There’s a collective feeling of grief as our jobs transition away from what we have been doing." Nice post from @humanwhocodes.com on the changing identity of SWEs: newsletter.humanwhocodes.com/posts/the-ch...
Stoked to announce that @max.pangram.com, co-founder and CEO of @pangram.com, will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me on the next episode of Oxide and Friends to pick up the hot (and important!) topic of AI detection. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...
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Shame on me for still being capable of disbelief.
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 4w agoGoogle Maps has officially caved and changed the map.
![Last September, when an aide told Fetterman that officials with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known as CHOP, wanted to meet because they were worried about Medicaid cuts, he was dismissive.
Fetterman
Why do I have to keep having to meet with chop
Aide
Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.
Fetterman
Well I'm not
[..]
I'm convinced they just want free trips to DC
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