Tweeting this again because it's so absolutely on point.

thank u, hexed@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 5d ago

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

Saw this Minecraft build of a castle on Reddit and think maybe I should just retire from tech and build it…

AI does not make you a filmmaker. Being a filmmaker, makes you a filmmaker. Y'all can debate about James Cameron using or not using AI, and if he should or should not do that. But he is a filmmaker. Making films is a *skill*. People that don't respect human talent or skill, can't understand this.

AI can make stupid people feel smart. None of are immune. That includes you. (Stupid people = stupid in a domain. People are multi-dimensional and IQ is bullshit.)

“I’m an American in London” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Englishman in New York”

The Eurostar has turned into such a PITA thanks to Brexit. It’s hard to explain to the kids just how easy it used to be….

On the one hand, I can understand being careful with releasing frontier AI models - on the other, the US govt is not a party I trust to meaningfully evaluate these things.

New workflow: using Claude Code to audit open source deps before running them. Used to grep through codebases by hand looking for sketchy network calls, data exfil, etc. Now I get thorough reports in minutes. Example: gist.github.com/dizzyd/8b184...

This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

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The older I get, the more I relish the feeling of shedding my day clothes for the comfy stuff, sliding into clean sheets and feeling my tired muscles rest into a mattress. A most excellent, simple luxury.

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

If I sound calm, I was actually not calm.

This devastating piece describes what it’s like to die of blood cancer. It also describes what it feels like to do so while your cousin is Secretary of Health & Human Services & a ghoul. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A Battle with My Blood

When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

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It's Trans Day of Remembrance So remember Sylvia Rivera, and every person like her who spoke up despite ridicule and rejection. That is what queer liberation is built upon. Not respectability and comfort. It takes EVERYONE to make a movement happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-J...

From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close. And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness. Musk is everything he hated.

A play in three acts

We aren't leaving as we feel a responsibility to our community on multiple levels. And also, we are insulated from the worst impacts for a variety of reasons and we should use those advantages to help others. Beyond that, I don't want to. This is my home and I want to fight for it.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm realizing a grim exercise/prompt may be in this ... If others want to share, I'm curious: Why aren't *you* leaving america (yet)? Asking for trans folks in particular, especially those of us on HRT and/or other very directly threatened in terms of our healthcare ... Reposts welcomed. Sigh.

Like, it sucks that you don’t get to have fun because everybody wants to keep pointing out how you fucked up, but *that’s what the group chat is for*. Go talk to your exec coach or your therapist. Nobody in leadership should be publicly woe-is-me-ing about users saying their trust is broken.

Today we learned that in June the US economy lost jobs for the first time since 2020. We haven’t seen this kind of net job loss since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.

I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make

And yet, as Jamelle notes, they don't yet actually have full control over the country. So the cosplay is a way to pretend to a more complete power than they currently possess. It's an attempt to cow the opposition but also a way to inspire followers who are enthusiastic about following a strongman.

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.

"Vibe coding is not the same as AI-assisted engineering." — @addyosmani.bsky.social While it's trendy to call any coding done with AI "vibe coding," it's critical to delineate between them because the human intentionality and ownership is what makes products reliable and great.

To put a finer point on it, Pritzker is being presidential in a way Newsom is not. Newsom is doing a decent job trolling Trump for the lulz, but Pritzker is speaking with the gravitas this situation warrants, promising real accountability, with federal, state and local leaders standing behind him.

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

AI isn’t going to replace coding. It’s going to replace writing code with reading code. Hope you like spelunking through someone else’s logic—because that “someone else” will increasingly be an AI.

Leadership protip: Sometimes being Kind is orthogonal to being Nice. Being Kind is giving painful but necessary feedback to help someone correct a potentially detrimental behavior or habit. Being Nice is avoiding giving feedback to avoid hurting their feelings.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Excited to see @simonwillison.net's take on the models from OpenAI... :)

Just got my annual scan results back - I've now officially been in full remission for 3 years! I did CAR-T back in July of '21 as part of a trial for refractory (resistant to treatment) disease. Thank you, science! (This is the longest remission I've had since my diagnosis in 2010).

a man in a brown leather jacket is looking at something

Alt: Denzel Washington looking relieved

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