Dizzy

I was thinking this morning that we're in the nascent age of CAD (Computer Aided Design) for software. Everyone is fumbling about, using thousands of tmux terminals to build a bunch of different things, but there's no unifying concept yet of HOW to do this yet. Fun time to be building!

There is a certain irony to slowly losing my hair - I need haircuts more often to keep it from getting crazy.🤪

I find it mildly hilarious that I'm now viewing an 8GB GPU as "little". I remember when a MB of memory was considered a lot and now 8GB of dedicated memory for specific computations is *nothing*.

Is it just me or is anyone else concerned that watermarking on AI content is basically a free side-channel for agent coordination?

It’s hard to believe, but I think Noah Kahan’s latest album is even better than the previous.

Tweeting this again because it's so absolutely on point.

Saw this Minecraft build of a castle on Reddit and think maybe I should just retire from tech and build it…

AI does not make you a filmmaker. Being a filmmaker, makes you a filmmaker. Y'all can debate about James Cameron using or not using AI, and if he should or should not do that. But he is a filmmaker. Making films is a *skill*. People that don't respect human talent or skill, can't understand this.

AI can make stupid people feel smart. None of are immune. That includes you. (Stupid people = stupid in a domain. People are multi-dimensional and IQ is bullshit.)

“I’m an American in London” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Englishman in New York”

On the one hand, I can understand being careful with releasing frontier AI models - on the other, the US govt is not a party I trust to meaningfully evaluate these things.

New workflow: using Claude Code to audit open source deps before running them. Used to grep through codebases by hand looking for sketchy network calls, data exfil, etc. Now I get thorough reports in minutes. Example: gist.github.com/dizzyd/8b184...

The older I get, the more I relish the feeling of shedding my day clothes for the comfy stuff, sliding into clean sheets and feeling my tired muscles rest into a mattress. A most excellent, simple luxury.

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

If I sound calm, I was actually not calm.

This devastating piece describes what it’s like to die of blood cancer. It also describes what it feels like to do so while your cousin is Secretary of Health & Human Services & a ghoul. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

It's Trans Day of Remembrance So remember Sylvia Rivera, and every person like her who spoke up despite ridicule and rejection. That is what queer liberation is built upon. Not respectability and comfort. It takes EVERYONE to make a movement happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-J...

From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close. And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness. Musk is everything he hated.

A play in three acts

We aren't leaving as we feel a responsibility to our community on multiple levels. And also, we are insulated from the worst impacts for a variety of reasons and we should use those advantages to help others. Beyond that, I don't want to. This is my home and I want to fight for it.

Like, it sucks that you don’t get to have fun because everybody wants to keep pointing out how you fucked up, but *that’s what the group chat is for*. Go talk to your exec coach or your therapist. Nobody in leadership should be publicly woe-is-me-ing about users saying their trust is broken.

Today we learned that in June the US economy lost jobs for the first time since 2020. We haven’t seen this kind of net job loss since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.

I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make

And yet, as Jamelle notes, they don't yet actually have full control over the country. So the cosplay is a way to pretend to a more complete power than they currently possess. It's an attempt to cow the opposition but also a way to inspire followers who are enthusiastic about following a strongman.

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.

"Vibe coding is not the same as AI-assisted engineering." — @addyosmani.bsky.social While it's trendy to call any coding done with AI "vibe coding," it's critical to delineate between them because the human intentionality and ownership is what makes products reliable and great.

To put a finer point on it, Pritzker is being presidential in a way Newsom is not. Newsom is doing a decent job trolling Trump for the lulz, but Pritzker is speaking with the gravitas this situation warrants, promising real accountability, with federal, state and local leaders standing behind him.

AI isn’t going to replace coding. It’s going to replace writing code with reading code. Hope you like spelunking through someone else’s logic—because that “someone else” will increasingly be an AI.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Excited to see @simonwillison.net's take on the models from OpenAI... :)

Just got my annual scan results back - I've now officially been in full remission for 3 years! I did CAR-T back in July of '21 as part of a trial for refractory (resistant to treatment) disease. Thank you, science! (This is the longest remission I've had since my diagnosis in 2010).

Note to self: don’t dig on the beach with your kids, while wearing an Oura ring and claiming “I’m beating the ocean!” The house always wins.

🚂 I've been playing survival Minecraft for a couple of months now, I've made ae2 systems, a whole working train network, and doing a bit of building as well I just finished one of my train stations:

Is it harder to manage high performers? YES. They will give you hard feedback. They will demand excellence. You will spend more time in coaching. Take it as an opportunity, not an attack, and your org will be better for it. YOU will be better.

Quiet as kept, while everyone is terrified of killer robots, the real threat is the egotistical billionaires obsessed with AGI. But y'all not ready for that conversation 😏

I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

Young people are not inherently better people or better at politics. If they were, societies would naturally move towards putting them in power to gain an advantage over societies that don’t. There are large structural problems that shape bad outcomes in the US. Its not one generation’s fault

We are in such a weird place where caring about other people is political.

Setting aside the obvious corruption of accepting a 400m plane, the security implications are staggering. Qatar (and other interests, I’m sure) are taking phishing to a whole new level. It’s really putting the Soviets to shame with their bugging of the US Embassy in 70s…

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. ("Hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LoTR)

The fucking Magna Carta was written down in 1215. It established the principle that the monarch is NOT ABOVE THE LAW. It protected free men from ARBITRARY IMPRISONMENT. None of this shit is remotely complicated. 12 fucking 15 yo. We worked this shit out. Make Kings Powerless Again.

NEW: Fourth Circuit shoots down the Trump administration’s efforts to appeal Judge Xinis’s order requiring it to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. “We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”

Never again is now, friends. Don't look away. We have a moral obligation to EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING being detained, deported, and sent to actual concentration camps on our watch. Who were you when your government perpetuated atrocities? If you're in the US, it's in the wide-open now.