Americans will even fire press secretaries to invent new units of measure to avoid having to use the metric system.

I came up with a phrase that encapsulates how I feel about people posting obviously genAI comments in replies just because they had to go ask the AI about something: "we don't need you to claude that for us"

Most of this is very bleak and I don't get all the cultural references, but I'm completely cracking up at them referring to the Bay Area as the Bayesian Area.

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · yesterday

rough

Fun new acquisition: an illuminated copy of the 1470 edition of De civitate Dei, published in Venice by the brothers Johannes and Vindelinus de Spira.

Am I the only one who thinks there's something extremely artificial-looking about the report? I really am not judging her personal appearance, just that there's a whiff of something very weird. Especially if you compare w/ how she looks in the last 2-3 seconds. Feels like it's not just lighting…

WPRI 12@wpri12.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wednesday marked the start of early voting in Rhode Island. Sophia Szabo spoke to the top three contenders for governor after yesterday's 12 News/Emerson College poll: https://www.wpri.com/news/elections/early-voting-for-rhode-island-general-election-begins/ 

It's clear we need to get as much essential code written and essential theorems proved before these companies crater. Max plans, etc.

Tim Duffy@timfduffy.com · 2d ago

Anthropic just told potential investors its Q3 revenue was $16.8B, previous reporting had them reaching $65B run rate by the end of July. Unless there's an accounting difference between the figures, this points to a significant revenue growth slowdown in the last two months.

If you don't use AI for any actual writing but you have tried using AI for planning/critiquing your work, pls head over to this broader AI Writing in Tech survey instead

AI Writing in Tech

If you work in tech and you write as part of your job (blog posts, internal/external docs, commit messages, READMEs, whatever), please share how AI has influenced your writing process. It should take ...

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Short blog post on the little part The Consensus plays in promoting (good) human writing. theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/10...

Fall colors starting to arrive in Rhode Island. A lovely afternoon ride along the Blackstone River.

Hi @vauhinivara.bsky.social — I love your work, including this Atlantic piece [ www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1... ], but was really surprised (not entirely in a good way) by the way you presented Pangram: ↵

Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

The prestigious Caine Prize, announced last week, went to a story with many red flags.

theatlantic.com

Okay, yes -- we did it for the pod. @sdtuck.bsky.social will join @ahl.bsky.social and me today at 5p Pacific to talk our Series D! discord.gg/PeXZW5uPT?ev...

Bryan Cantrill@bcantrill.bsky.social · last wk.

Our $445M Series D -- and a wild milestone oxide.computer/blog/our-445...

Pleased to announce shplait/liquid, a liquid-typed version of shplait, the language of my book PLAI. This version adds liquid-typing, a form of refinement types. It's primarily meant to be a small language for pedagogic purposes to induce people to try grown-up ones later. ↵

I'm impressed (in a good way!) that this review of a book about the tragic killing of Malcolm Kerr, American University of Beirut president, never once mentions his son. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/b...

Book Review: ‘The Best Kind of American,’ by Kim Ghattas

In “The Best Kind of American,” Kim Ghattas shows what an American’s assassination in Lebanon four decades ago reveals about chaos in the Middle East.

nytimes.com

After months of getting things done w/ Claude Code, I've spent ~5 days programming by hand in Lean and a liquid typed language and it's…SO GREAT? I love living in a world where I can get 1000s of mindless LOC in a minute, but also spend an hour on 10 gorgeous handcrafted lines.

Season 2 of @jarrodkimber.bsky.social's Double Century is one of the best abbreviated reports on race in cricket. Ostensibly about Basil D'Oliveira, it goes over a much longer history, even talking about US sports. This is the last episode, but listen to all 5. pocketcasts.com/podcast/comm...

2.05 - The Greatest Hundred

The conclusion to our story on race in cricket and the Basil D’Oliveira story. This is the final episode of this season. - This podcast is brought to you by our supporters at Patreon, if you like…

pocketcasts.com

As of Jan 2027, California requires every citation be "personally verified" by an attorney. Not every change I requested made it into the final text (in particular, excluding paralegals makes law more costly for all), but I'm proud that some changes made it in. www.ropesgray.com/en/insights/...

Signals and Threads episodes are bangers, but this may be the first to become part of my PL course's "text". About 50% is a compressed version of my GC lectures, about 30% is modern updates, and 20% is @yminsky doing his thing w/ Stephen Dolan. (-: signals-threads.simplecast.com/episodes/mem...

Memory Management with Stephen Dolan | Signals and Threads

Stephen Dolan works on Jane Street’s Tools and Compilers team where he focuses on the OCaml compiler. In this episode, Stephen and Ron take a trip down memory lane, discussing how to manage computer m...

signals-threads.simplecast.com

Well, this is a first (for me) for Bluesky: someone posts a bullshit university press release about the negative impact of AI, and then…deletes it? Nature is healing?

Will be hilarious if OpenAI bends the knee to Trump and changes its name to OpenSI -- which frankly sounds like the underground LGBTQ+ club at St. Ignatius College Prep in SF.

every advertisement in San Francisco is like “THORPLE YOUR GLOOPS” and then you look up and there’s a giant-ass dirigible

Not only is the study flawed, this is obviously untrue in the experience of many (including me).

This was supposed to be satire. theonion.com/doj-to-bring...

DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment

WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...

theonion.com

Per this article, Google's electricity use grew ~40% in 2025 to 43 TWh. (Note: *all* of Google, which is much more than AI or US.) For context, I believe 43 TWh ~= everyone in the US • leaving one 14W LED light on all year, or • using 14 min of microwave/kettle per day. ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

Google’s latest report reveals a completely unprecedented rise in energy consumption – more than any of us expected. Generative AI is a climate carbon bomb.

ketanjoshi.co

treat OpenAI as Ramanujan's family goddess

My favorite part is the councilperson trying to use Roberts' Rules of Order to get past the moment of silence. The irresistible force of theology meeting the immovable object of protocol.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last wk.

this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

BOSS: it has come to my attention that one of you is a cannibal BILL: oh no AMY: oh no JOE: ME: *sipping a cup of joe* oh no

From the (excellent) WSJ obit of Margaret Hamilton: she left behind 2^0 daughters, 2^1 grandsons, and 2^2 great-grandchildren. Total boss behavior.

We're hiring! And I think we're a great place to work! Two Professor of the Practice positions, one junior at the assistant rank and the other senior at the associate rank, with a focus on teaching foundational and advanced AI courses for our graduate programs. See cs.brown.edu/about/positi...

On the history of protests against sexual violence at Cornell. What an amazing quote for a protest here! www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

they did the thing

🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · last wk.

this is so fucking sad