Dan P

I’ve been inspired to make AI video: a Becca Bloom style “wholesome rich lifestyle” reel, except it’s Marie Antoinette showing off her lifestyle, talking about the “quaint peasants” in their toy village at Versailles, and showing off her jewelry, clothes, and food her chefs make for her

Omg Instagram’s algorithm has decided I need to see a lot of tartarian conspiracy nonsense and I’m getting dumber by the hour

You have to have ridiculous control and mental capacity to play Bach’s 4th fugue from WTC1. Up to five voices beautifully weaving and building upon each other, flowing between the pianist’s hands. It blows my mind that someone could write it at all. It’s a constraint solving masterpiece, and pretty!

Set aside all the hype and societal implications and discussions of whether it’s fancy autocomplete or not. If you’d told me a few years ago that I’d be having complex conversations with my computer in 2026, I wouldn’t have believed it. It’s remarkably cool

Somehow most of the ads I see on LinkedIn are from Van Cleef & Arpels, which is odd since I’ve never bought jewelry from them and have also never bought jewelry online. Poor ad targeting and wasted marketing budget?

Whenever I see someone with those plastic license plate covers, I think they’re shady. They’re all illegible and there’s no legitimate reason to get one other than to hide the plate

And the award for worst dialog box goes to

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I bet that @anthropic.com will eventually just make Claude Code (with their new fancy UI) into the default way of using Claude. It’s already far better at doing non-coding stuff than the normal client

DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power

Repeat after me: context window size is not the limiting factor in any of the mainstream coding agents today. My context window is way smaller than Claude’s and I perform a lot better. These things can perform decently but not by brute forcing more shit into the context window

What’s sad is that there are plenty of cool things you can do with LLMs for language learning, but they didn’t, and they just further enshittified their product. I cancelled my membership

I need a search bar for my house

This ridiculous sentence is written like a bothsides-ish balancing statement, but it isn’t one. When the mob is in charge, paying the protection money they extort from you is a cost of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed! After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone! Spread the word!

I wish more people understood how incredibly difficult and athletic ice dance is, as well as being fun to watch

I visited Anker.com to download a manual for a charger. No account, no login. A few minutes later, I get an email saying “your visit unlocked an exclusive discount from anker”. Turns out advertising innovation is companies like SafeOpt correlating cookies across sites to identify and spam us 🤬😩

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Fucking gross

Pontius Pilates

Fuck yeah

At some point, the reliance on these euphemisms becomes a kind of propaganda or acquiescence.

I’m looking forward to buying an H100 or two after the AI bubble pops. Lots of cool things to do with them after the bullshitters lose interest

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Ads that make me 😱

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

The worst misfeature in all of software is how Instagram monitors your volume control and unmutes videos if you press a volume button when you have it open. I’m lying next to a sleeping baby and trying to make sure some loud reel doesn’t wake him up -> Instagram plays it out loud 🤬

Two songs I know of, La Solitude by Barbara in French, and Vivo Per Lei by Bocelli in Italian, have similar structure: use ambiguous gendered pronouns throughout the song and at end reveal the subject to be solitude (not a cat) or music (not a woman), respectively. I’d love to find other examples

These days I try to stave off my despair for society by trying to bend LLMs to my will

ln(😅) = 💧ln(😄)

Turns out the risk-free rate isn’t as risk-free as everyone hoped