I'm about to do something I think I've never done before, which is assert every bit of whatever authority I have as the person who discovered and wrote down the rules of open source. After ten years of drama and idiocy, lots of people other than me are now willing to say in

5-10 years away means no one has any idea how to get there or even if they can.

Hard to find a more gripping example of the difference between a creator/maker, like Ms. Rowling, and a pretender, like Ms. Watson, whose fortune and notoriety derives entirely from the work of the very woman she chose to savage.

A few months ago, I made this observation about the difference between Ross Douthat and David French. Douthat’s interview with Douglas Wilson demonstrates that his charity to fellow Christians extends beyond Catholics.

Retired MIT scientist LAUGHS off the claim that “the science is settled” on climate change. Once you hear this, it becomes clear that anyone insisting “the science is settled” has no idea what they’re talking about: “On the one hand, you’re told the science is settled… but on

“A great Shadow has departed”, said Gandalf, and then he laughed, and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count. It fell upon

That’s not why we told you to shut up David. We told you to shut up because you were pretending that the fringe of the alt right was the mainstream of evangelical conservatism. And I’m still going to tell you to shut up about that claim. I don’t like the alt right, I think it’s

We had been assured that immigration officials can accurately assess the character of an immigrant, and that they can do so at scale. But every day there is new evidence that any such assurances are delusional. The price of pretended omniscience is being paid in American blood.

Scott Adams Joel Pollak My daughter is deaf and has vision processing disorders that distort distance, depth, and even movement. I flew all over the country looking for answers- no one had any. She would vomit if she saw me use sign language so I went back after years of no speaking to relearn speech -

I think people who get up in the morning, make a trip to the bathroom and simple-mindedly pour themselves a cup of coffee before making some toast and looking out the window don't know how lucky they are. For little do they know that -- out there -- exist people who get up angry.

This would be hilarious

When I observe what is going on in Minnesota, I see those events through a certain lens, and that lens affects my interpretation of events. Here are the top-of-mind things that color my thinking. 1. The majority of American voters in the last election voted for the candidate who

A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in

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The global ruling class ruled by prestige. Good clothes, camera angles, creative editing. But the Internet, along with the attendant document dumps like the Epstein files, has acted like a giant nuclear reputational bomb that stripped them of all mystery and dignity. In the

This is exactly correct. It's like the old 1970's "game of life" on steroids. A fantastically complex kind of cellular automata. Nothing more. youtube.com/shorts/srvQHlh…