French is bullshit. They keep changing the translation of "soup du jour" each day.

remember that famous Baudrillard book “partiful and simulation”

this feels strangely empowering

individual reporting for post-deployment evals — a little manifesto (& new preprints!) tldr: end users have unique insights about how deployed systems are failing; we should figure out how to translate their experiences into formal evaluations of those systems.

how many levels of embedded plot can one dude be on

Philippe Hirschhorn is a crazy example of how bad health + politics + scarce recordings can erase a literal giant from memory unbelievably talented violinist youtu.be/GZG6GoWBrlQ?si…

you can just tweet “J R is the great american novel” and get 0 likes

the most profound idgaf wars are lost by both parties

Just saw the phrase "Big Token" to describe OAI/Anthropic/GDM/xAI/Meta and now I can't stop thinking about it.

Trying not to scream but!!! Noah Smith 🐇 just dedicated a whole section of his new piece to recommending “Reading Abundance from China”—and gave a shoutout to my newsletter Concurrent.

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New piece out on ⚡ reboot ⚡! I’ve been low-key obsessed with Jiankui He — the Chinese “CRISPR baby” mad scientist who made two gene-edited kids, went to prison, and is now back online as an X influencer. I dug into his strange return and what it says about e/acc, biohacking as

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