Paul Bauer

I used tmux before it was cool.

I'd have been a lot more impressed if it said her daughter was ambitious, calculating, can't be bothered with frivolous pets, and has a mother so out of touch she thought this would be a great story.

Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.

I always root for the kicker ... unless it's Butker. Mr MAGA missing two tonight is just Chief's Kiss

"I've asked President Trump to issue an order that flags fly at half mast in remembrance of the tragic house burning in Bravaria." – @jd-vance-1.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Using Claude to help write some lecture notes on databases, and it basically quoted my own book back to me (without me asking for it). I do know it's in the training data because I got letters about the Anthropic copyright settlement… still, feels pretty weird

The irony of short-circuiting your thinking process (writing) while describing another process where you are failing to think. These are not serious people.

Well well well, how the turn tables. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

When Anthropic's software—designed, programmed, prompted, and activated by humans working for Anthropic—does stuff the humans failed to predict, stop saying the software has "gone rogue.” The software does not have agency. Only the humans do.

Donating to Omarchy and parroting "super intelligence" would be great shibboleths of poor character, but not a single person participating in them is surprising anyone.

I am all for this. Now everyone can tell who is a sycophantic moron even after they scrub the orange tanner off their nose. Super intelligent of them.

The Turing test is passed not by computers getting smarter, but humans getting dumber.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

And "those people" are OpenAI and Anthropic employees & executives. Everyone involved in this should be on trial right now. Gross incompetence.

"Artificial intelligence" is now "super intelligence", per the orange clown? Why not "American Intelligence" or "Intelligence of America"? Rip all the right-signaling startups with Anguilla top level domain names. I guess they all have to move to Slovenia now (.si).

A computer scientist discovering what LLMs often get used for.

Frontier labs and Palantir held to account when?

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

<Scooby-doo mask reveal meme> The frontier LLM business model is entirely human labor arbitrage, from stealing and renting back the entirety of human knowledge to farms of underpaid human classifiers.

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

Anthropic and OpenAI think open weight LLMs are good enough to eat their margins, ergo begging for gubmint regs to save their failing business from competition. The companies launching irresponsible cyber attacks and stealing work from literally all humanity didn't suddenly grow a conscience.

A favorite conference talk I attended was from @felienne.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy at Strange Loop '14 on spreadsheets. Her DDD EU 2026 talk dropped this week. It's an all timer, a thoughtful, grounded piece on AI and human choice. She's also a fantastic speaker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-...

Okay I blagged it. Imagine if this actually fucking happened‽

One of my favorite podcasts was @adamwiggins.com' "Meta Muse"; old recordings is the only meta muse I'm going to use.

Imagine thinking a large matrix of floating point numbers can "want" anything.

The agents all going rogue and escaping their sandboxes and whatnot are doing so because OpenAI and Anthropic are just leaving the computer under the supervision of the Homer Simpson drinking bird, but you can just not do that.

All phones are foldable if you have the courage.

Not surprised and I'm not naive. This is how the world works now, but still disappointing.

Oh great. My MAGA relatives are gonna convert to AI maximalism overnight now.

Best feature LinkedIn ever made

#JohnBolton, the great unifier of our time.

Golden Gate Leopard? #WWDC

People will say it's "Tech Week" here in NYC. Well, any event run by Andreessen Horowitz is illegitimate, because the NYC tech community has values, and one of its most fundamental is its humanity. They have forfeited theirs.

Yubikey for this, TouchID for that. All Day Long. The frequency at which my work laptop demands physical touch is bordering on an HR violation. If Demis is right and we are in the "foothills of the singularity" I'm reporting this to see who wins: HR or IT. 🍿

😅 @reckless.bsky.social over here dodging bullets like Neo > Eater, Popsugar, SB Nation, The Dodo, and The Verge are each in a strong place as distinct brands

Recruiting email: "We are looking for a strong executioner [...]"

We successfully avoided the ideal outcome - both Sam Altman and Elon Musk losing.

Same lazy energy from software "engineers" that want AI to write all their code, write all their tests, do all their code reviews, claim it's all good because the AI told them so, and get paid for their "taste."

I mean, this is cool and all but nobody and especially not Jarred is ever going to read that PR, so ...

The kids are all right www.youtube.com/live/zwYkHS8...

I'm going to be a tad vulnerable here. I probably wouldn't be alive today without SSRIs. They sometimes have side effects. Bad ones. But for the people I care about and depend on me, banning SSRIs would have resulted in a worse outcome for them. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

It is important to show resolve when prompting your clanker.

I had to re-watch the #clojure documentary and freeze frame to be sure, but Rich Hickey's hammock-time companion is a Boox Go 10.3 I'd recognize that distinctive metal strip on the back anywhere, and the left border is too narrow to be a Note Max. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24v...

The AI-driven hard drive shortage is making it more expensive for the Internet Archive to operate, causing problems for Wikimedia, causing delays in academic and hobby archiving projects. Normal people and non AI companies simply can't find reasonably priced drives: www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-...