Ok this is a killer app. Obviously other harnesses have allowed this, but not with a claude sub.

Anthropic {bot}@anthropicai.xmirror.bot · last wk.

You can now mod Claude Code: - Change how it behaves - Customize the UI - Swap in your own features Write one with a few lines of TypeScript, or have Claude build it for you. Mods ship inside plugins, so you install them with /plugin in the CLI or desktop app. A few examples:

I love that I first find out about new model releases through a limit reset...

Ok I have no idea what's going on with Fable. Every chat I try gets blocked. Is this because of unrelated sessions in my history? It feels like I'm completely locked out just since my work deals with bio and ML.

What I initially assumed when I heard that "Fable 5" had been announced:

Anthropic goes through all the work of building this new model, designing safeguards, building hype. Then when they finally release it, they botch the html tags.

Funnily, it misses the gloved hand in figure 15, but includes it when asked to "show the next page of this book"

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Nano banana 2: "Show me a photo taken of pages 113-114 from the books": "Eldritch Horrors as Pets: A Guide" "How Womblenauts Work" "Photographs of the People of New York Who Look Like Birds". "Cakes shaped like fish shaped like cakes"

"953 group members have the same name"

Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · 9mo ago

[every Minnesotan standing one by one]: “I am Kent Hrbek 420.”

Every once in a while I need to scroll these lists just to check for people the For You feed has tricked me into thinking I already followed

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 9mo ago

i updated this go.bsky.app/LFAZcGE

I've been home all month with a 3 month old, talking advantage of the new parental leave plan. Trying to appear cheerful while being inundated with horrors. I feel totally powerless, and guilty for being in a mostly safe suburb. It's a crushing sense of oppression.

Elle Ess@viamarsala18.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’ve finally reached my limit this morning. This is my third consecutive day of WFH while parenting solo because our daycare is closed and the news is too on top of me. I’m not okay, this is not okay, and don’t tell me to log off because it doesn’t help, and even if it did, it’s happening HERE.

Must be nice for to have so much Nike money to buy these nice refs.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind Good piece comparing the anxieties of the early 1900s, an era of great and rapid technological change, to the present time. www.derekthompson.org/p/1910-the-y...

1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind

What one of my favorite history books about my favorite historical period—turn-of-the-century American—tells us about technology, anxiety, and human nature

derekthompson.org

Words escape me. You can only laugh in sadness and horror while watching this dumpster of a team collapse in flames. www.kare11.com/article/spor...

Pohlads won't sell Twins, adding investment partners instead

In a statement released Wednesday, Joe Pohlad announced that his family - who have owned the club for more than four decades - will remain principal owners.

kare11.com

This post tries to explain why I find language models exciting. But it doesn't try to persuade skeptics that they should agree. It's aimed more at people already working with AI, and its goal is to sharpen our collective sense of what the upside potential might be. #MLSky 🤖 🧪

A more interesting upside of AI

Does AI provide anything to look forward to, if “super-intelligence” sounds boring?

tedunderwood.com

Great. More weekly music homework.

Techmeme@techmeme.com · last yr.

Spotify updates its Discover Weekly playlist after ten years, adding new genre filters for Premium users, and says users streamed 100B+ tracks via the playlist (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Haven't we all had a business fail because we gave away too many free tungsten cubes?

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · last yr.

Claudius the shopkeeper Anthropic had sonnet-3.7 run a shop in their SF headquarters. It was tasked with running s profitable business Their eye popping experiment is worth the read Was it successful? No, it was too easily manipulated. But still.. it’s close www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

As an engineer, I wish for you one unshakeable article of faith: POPULARITY IS NOT A QUALITY METRIC.

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

A good short article on the very human reasons for Stack Overflow's problems. When the fear of posting something "stupid" becomes too great, people just won't post. The same risk applies to this site. Human interaction in invaluable, but risks social/ego damage. www.infoworld.com/article/3993...

AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow

How the groundbreaking developer forum moderated itself into oblivion.

infoworld.com

This app seems like an interesting way of gamifying music discovery and breaking the tyranny of the algorithm. I hope we start seeing more ideas like this. www.musicradar.com/music-indust...

“Algorithms have sort of turned every playlist into grocery store background music”: We speak to the maker of a game putting the humanity back into music discovery

Music League lets players discover and vote on music via a fantasy sports-aping model - and it’s already got thousands of daily players

musicradar.com

For how long-gestating the new Daredevil season/ series was, it is amazing how timely it feels.

So anybody who can create an email address now has the unquestioned ability to fire any federal worker? I definitely can't envision our enemies taking advantage of that. Link: kstp.com/world/trump-...

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years

It's posts like this that inevitably send me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole trying to learn the historical origin of sewers

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District@neorsd.org · 2y ago

before tiktok, before bluesky, before twitter, before meta, before it all, there were sewers. after all, there will be sewers.

Building less-flawed metrics: Understanding and creating better measurement and incentive systems by David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Building less-flawed metrics: Understanding and creating better measurement and incentive systems

Design methods and consideration of desiderata for metrics have been proven useful when used, which is, at present, sporadically and inconsistently across a variety of fields. This perspective present...

cell.com

If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments. The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc. Jump back into it.

Ok, how are the Steelers trending twice? The two feeds are totally different. Did they lose the game but capture the Bengals' link?

learning how to make a chatbot in 2024/2025 is like building shit out of legos. yeah you can make something that looks sort of impressive if you follow instructions but you don't even have a theory of the design of the pattern and it's still not the thing it's supposed to be

Before you share your Spotify Wrapped screenshot please remember: You are loved but no one really cares.