Caleb Sponheim

Night walk

Im glad I saved this before deactivating my twitter and losing my discord where I had posted it

climate change being my number one political issue is in constant conflict with my love of concrete

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Cats — Shou Xin shop.shouxin-art.com

📸 Everything Chicago is gold #Chicago #photography

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Man, I miss Chicago

Time for the Blackwall

climate disasters are here and worse than predicted, diesel is 6+ bucks a gallon, and solar panels are cheaper than mid grade plywood. yet mysteriously it’s some big obstacle!

GOATed diagram

I think this is one of the things that throws people about AI. We aren't used to a conversational counterparty that can't take accountability for misunderstandings. Your work, as an AI wrangler, is to make it difficult for the machine to misunderstand you.

ICE technology is a dead man walking

This bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it

From: Dance to the Rhythm (1991), dir. Karen Aqua

they're all good but the opening pen sound is impossibly good

good riddance. straightforwardly evil product

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

if we had a remotely normal administration this would present an amazing opportunity for public science

it's this

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

an interesting thing about how Mamdani moves: he injects meaning into everything the meaning of being a New Yorker, the meaning of hard work, the meaning of unity and cooperation among neighbors I think people genuinely want meaning and that’s not an unreasonable or unrealistic political craving

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

You're gonna need a bigger chart

I can be trusted with infinite knobs

built in dictation on macos 27 (and iOS 27 if you have iPhone 17+) are really fast and accurate — third party Whisper or Parakeet based dictation apps are probably unnecessary for most people. highly recommend trying the built in one. you'll still need apps for, e.g., transcribing a video though

Solar power also continues to skyrocket in Texas, with generation up 47% compared to last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 12.6% of Texas' electricity, a record high!

I remember reading a book about energy policy written a generation ago and overall I felt it was helpful read but I chuckle to remember how it wrung its hands about China, how massive its carbon emissions, and what could possibly incentivize its transition what, indeed

tfw you know more effort went into aligning the input and container border radii than 90% of the underlying infrastructure

Insane OP username pull but setting that aside yeah the one drum I refuse to stop beating, much to my boss's consternation (sorry James!) is that *everything needs to look and feel cool*. UX needs to be as viciously and ruthlessly optimized as performance, and right now it just plainly isn't, at all

LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant

Perseverance Landing Rover Uplook Camera - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qMuEAb

Aerospace Flowchart xkcd.com/3298/

As someone in the corporate training industry, yes. Agree.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers above 25MW of peak demand to bring their own power and meet 100% of demand with clean energy (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

You’ve heard of “oh no, I accidentally became important at work”, now there’s the sequel: “oh no, I accidentally created load-bearing company infrastructure”

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

There are about as many trees in Canada as stars in the milky way