Sadboi twinkcop and Lady Chaos are my favorite pro-social literary figures

it's so important that we mercilessly prosecute the trump administration and every collaborator for their crimes, if only to send a message that the US is not irredeemable

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d ago

One weird trick to literally destroy America www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Anyway I do think it’s cool to build a computer program that tells you to go to hell when you try to use it for your racist blog post

What’s funny and unique about Anthropic, I think, is they really think Claude is real and are simply letting him decide what he does and doesn’t want to do.

I think most software providers would like to say, we’re just making the tool, what you do with it is your business. Partly purely ideological tech libertarianism but part is a self-interested question of liability, I think. Once you admit you can do that, you immediately must wonder if you should.

One thing I find interesting about Anthropic’s apparent willingness to have Claude make these kinds of refusals is once you open the door to the possibility of software that refuses certain tasks on moral grounds it raises the question of what tasks you’re obligated to make it refuse

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

as an american, i can understand double parking your gas guzzling child murder mobile in on the EV charger spots. but doing so in Boston, Massachusetts is simply unfathomable to me

americans are addicted to gambling because when all around us has been explored, the final frontier is the future

word up to vannevar bush

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3w ago

One thing I did not understand before starting as a faculty was just how important the NSF is. It's one of the few sources of nearly open-ended research funding that exists in the US. Everything else is significantly more directed

google is now producing softbank-tier infographics

imo the more subtle and pernicious misconception is that it's possible to "100x your ability to learn", under the same logic that 9 women can make a baby in 1 month

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · last mo.

OpenAI employee: "How did the obvious and inevitable result everyone predicted happen?!?!"

feels so quaint to pour my heart and soul into a hypercompetitive grant for $500k that will get slow-walked by my stupid fucking chud government, meanwhile everyone flees to anthropic to make 10x that amount per year. that's life ig

annoying that no one agrees whether <h1> is a document title or a top-level section header

i thought the The Pitt was a bit over the top, but then i got a patient passport on my last trip the hospital, and soon i'm getting surgery from a younger indian woman who goes by Dr. [First Letter of Last Name] and is active on short-form video social media

pop sci books who use "significant" as a shorthand for "statistically significant" make my blood fucking boil man. we gotta stop with this

. o O (bill wurtz is millennial bill watterson)

was thinking about this as i used claude to make a recipe for which i would otherwise have googled for blogspam

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tim Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Work Week and other self-help slop, is seeing his book sales crater because people are getting their advice from ChatGPT instead lmao

one of the greatest to ever do it

Association for Computing Machinery@acm.org · 2mo ago

On this day in 1916, Herbert ("Herb") Alexander Simon, was born. Simon received the 1975 #ACMTuringAward with co-recipient Allen Newell for making basic contributions to AI, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...

the democratic party is communist and socialism is the center. occam's razor

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 2mo ago

A new poll from the New York Times shows potential Democratic voters want the party to move to the right, are happy with where it is ideologically, and rate socialism highly. Huh? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-06-12...

would be funny to produce a graph like this but for a self-hosted compiler. As of May 13, 2011, 100% of the code we merge into Rustc's codebase was implemented in Rust.

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code we merge into Anthropic’s codebase was authored by Claude" Matches independent measures. There is no sign this is slowing down (which doesn't mean there aren't organizational challenges to absorbing this much productivity) www.anthropic.com/institute/re...

maybe i'm too YIMBY brained but it kinda feels like everything with AI is getting channeled through data centers because "cancelling construction projects" is unfortunately the most effective form of state capacity we have rn

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the datacenter backlash is depressing because no one can imagine regulating something novel directly anymore

the difference between a library and a DSL is whether programs are first-class

New research thread: 1/ Error messages have always been designed, sometimes painstakingly, for humans. But now we have new "readers" for errors: agentic AI. Should this affect what PLs generate? Can we measure this experimentally? We have some preliminary results: ↵

grateful to be nearsighted so i'm allowed to call things myopic

a summer reading list for you sickos that still want to think together with the machine

it's 2026 and i cannot select text across lines in a paragraph against a wrapped block. unlimited jihad against PDF

very cool thanks providence

it's crazy that the median experience of coffee is as if you only knew wine by drinking barefoot and bellinis

got an EV this year (mach-e), range is fine day to day. long range travel is actually annoying: limited chargers (esp without a tesla!!), hourlong charge times, mediocre range vs my old prius

Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Among Americans hesitant to buy an EV, 47% cite their number one concern as a lack of range. This is less of an issue in the EU where it's less common for people to drive 300+ miles at a stretch. This range anxiety is compounded by a lack of charging infrastructure compared to other countries. 10/x

alright, i'll admit it. today's a good day to be alive in Boston, Massachusetts