In the land of dreams there are no phones.

ciao firenze

In light of my recent article, you might ask "what is your take on back-to-the-land or tech refusers?" I think they are good. Really their approach is the most *proven* escape from the modern death spiral. My idea is a hope or a speculation. palladiummag.com/2023/05/18/ind…

> be Canadian > have a cough that won’t go away > wait two years for a doctor appointment > big day finally arrives > doctor evaluates me for fifteen seconds > tells me to kill myself > leaves for his next appointment

the cognitive dissonance in the qrts is truly something. many are jumping from awe to visceral disgust upon realization that this is ai generated this is a result of being RLHF’d by artists, and will prevent those best poised to create miracles with these tools from trying them

This but in reverse. From doom to providence.

Just get married you cowards

In Canada, if your household income is above $40 000/year, they start clawing back the child care benefit (8k/year) But you can be a retiree couple with a total household income of $180 000/year and still get 18k/year in OAS pension This is insane

Blackhat front-running a proxy initialization, giving himself admin rights and then making sure the protocol behaves exactly as expected, remaining unnoticed Then waiting ~3 full months to strike One of the worst way to go down

Nick Land’s idea of AI reaching back from the future to assemble itself reads as less schizo every year.

new research on quantum blockchain threats from a16z wildly underestimates the nature of the threat and overestimates the time we have to prepare. good thread

Claude Opus-4.5 is just one shotting stuff I was excited to actually sit down and spend time with

47 minutes into the “brush your teeth” negotiations with the 4yr old (real)

Remember when people were arguing what the best programming language was lol. None of it matters anymore or ever again. English.

Series L(ol) Databricks is going to run through the alphabet before letting a dollar of that sweet Jupyter notebook daycare money touch public markets.

Elderly dermatologist using “peer” tone with me instead of “young man” tone. It’s over.

oh you’re using claude code? everyone’s using open code. just kidding we’re all on amp code. we’re using cline, we’re using roo code. we just forked our own version of roo. were using kilo code. we were on coderabbit but their ceo yelled at us so now we’re using qorbit. apple