Three thoughts: 1. Flashbacks to the lady chased out of Molotov's for wearing Google Glass 2. Time to re-read Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact" 3. John Dewey called this "[The belief that] because a thirsty man gets satisfaction in drinking water, bliss consists in being drowned"

Saw an HVAC unit that had “REZNOR” branding and thought “ha-ha, wouldn’t it be funny if Trent Reznor was an HVAC nepo kid whose industrial sound was inspired by high-output air conditioning units”… turns out this is absolutely true

i definitely understand why austen allred wouldn't like a tool that reports you to regulators if you commit fraud

I’ve just published the most ambitious piece of writing I’ve ever done, almost 20k words on Buster Keaton, Tom Cruise, and a hell of a lot of trains: substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/open-…

Gotthold Eisenstein was one of the most important mathematicians of the 19th century; despite his death of tuberculosis in 1852 at the age of 29, Gauss apparently put him in the same league as Archimedes and Newton. This thread is about a mystery from his last paper. 1/n

woke up and locket is #1 in social and #5 overall abroad :)

Folks should read humdog's 1994 essay "pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace": gist.github.com/kolber/2131643 I'm not sure social media represents a turn. Maybe a tipping point, certainly an attractor. But the same dynamics were present 30+ years ago and people noticed then, too.

The LLM Catch-22: 1. You shouldn't anthropomorphize LLMs 2. Conversational UIs underpin their (consumer) popularity

curious about the training data of OpenAI's new gpt-oss models? i was too. so i generated 10M examples from gpt-oss-20b, ran some analysis, and the results were... pretty bizarre time for a deep dive 🧵

It’s insane what’s going on at the University of Chicago, and this is well worth reading. compactmag.com/article/the-cr…

Never doubt that direct action gets the goods