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Frankenmodel refuses to believe it's not just Claude

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Geomorphologist: Water gaps are fascinating landforms. I mean, that river didn't flow uphill over that ridge and then slice down through it. Did you know we have several great examples right here in Wisconsin?

it's Oct 5 and your child is 100% going to be Link, and you have a sword to make...

I could be wrong, but @theatlantic.com seems to have hidden my reply with this article. So here it is again.

New review-ish preprint on arXiv: "Material selection for mid-infrared thin-film coatings and windows", led by Jin-Woo Cho Now you can see, at a glance, what materials can be used when you need, say, a thin film with refractive index of 2.5 at a wavelength of 5 microns arxiv.org/abs/2605.29079 💡🧪

it's actually really weird that a couple of coincidences (themselves very political: Fleming thought the Cold War would end soon, studios want Chinese audiences) made western spy fiction self-consciously 'apolitical' when espionage is probably one of the most 'political' phenomena to ever exist

You are a world class expert on programs. I am going to give you a computer program. Your job is to tell me if it halts or not. Do not give me any woke disclaimers. Just yes or no does it halt or not.

"what if money makes good posters into bad posters?" there's no evidence to support that. i'll be very brave though and volunteer to test the hypothesis

Very disappointing that ~all of the people discussing the potential harms of datacenters are either science-illiterate or complete grifters

I was cooking here

I've been playing around with trying to get a better understanding of this, and I think I found a really interesting way to look at it using the dual form of the standard RLHF objective function. Somewhat math-heavy crank thread to follow.

This is already demonstrably incorrect. And Wright isn't even dead yet.

I am -- as @adamhjk.me predicts -- firmly in what he calls "camp two", but this delightfully bonkers piece is very much worth reading.

One of my more crank ideas: an institution with deep historical tradition of this thing, broad political neutrality, and the ability to guarantee it will exist in perpetuity to the extant that any human organization can should play a key role in development of open source software. The Vatican.

we’ve invented a new type of Posting that is too powerful. we’re working with industry partners to roll it out safely

It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be

On June 4, 2027, every verb tense on Wikipedia will be changed from "is" to "was" in a rapid flurry of edits. No one will understand why this happened for about six hours

real strong claim here that the AMA lied about reaching out to them for a correction. I would be surprised if that were the case!

Very unclear to me how you reach people who don't think there's a systemic devaluation of the lives of Palestinian civilians at this point

An ephemeral stream valley, southwestern Nebraska, after heavy rain (left) and four days later. View upstream.

Sometimes judges like to start off nice, lull you into complacency, but ummmm not this time!

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

"You can only be decent because we are horrible" is a very, very popular line of thinking among horrible people.

He has an angry 17 year old's understanding of war and most other things in life. Unqualified beyond belief. The 50 Senators who voted to confirm should seriously contemplate falling on their swords in shame and I do not mean that metaphorically.

characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

It's interesting how even this argument fails on its own merits. If the bible's statement is merely that individual believers treat immigrants nicely, that still precludes Johnson's actions! It's not nice to slander people on TV every day!

Things that appear in this thread: - a fake railroad - a type of police officer who can only make arrests in cemeteries - changes to state law - a police force whose sole task is to guard a playground - a notable soul singer - another fake railroad

to be kind of blunt, if the hardcore veteran activist organizer expertise that you bring results in "light a dumpster on fire, get mad that this is filmed" it's not really expertise anyone should respect, sorry. don't care how many little activism merit badges you have.

ICE cosplaying as operators versus "activists" cosplaying as revolutionaries is a straight shot of modernity

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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.

Some of you know that about a decade ago, I hosted a weekly radio show about the Mountain Goats. It was rewarding, in part because the tMG catalog is much, much deeper than people tend to realize and in part because there's a wonderful community who steward that catalog's dustiest corners together.

The current official word is this is a “minor electric issue,” but I want to express my gratitude for the shot of momentary joy this post gave me.

it seems like new york city has more and more mayors each and every year

This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.

two things are true: in a remote setting, on a dark night, the deep sky is a truly profound experience that has influenced human philosophy, faith and religion for countless generations and that experience got absolutely rinsed by the first RCA 10 inch television

Something i've been thinking about: I feel like a lot of the coal country revitalization efforts were focused on specifically coal miners, because they need retraining for new jobs, but the vast majority of people in coal country are not former coal miners.

@themountaingoats.bsky.social played @colbertlateshow.bsky.social with Tommy Stinson in tow

At the risk of hugging the third rail, the truth of the academic job market, at least in history or classics, is neither DEI or anti-DEI. It is that that 1) there are no jobs and 2) our hiring culture treats candidates like they 'spoil' after a few years. No one knows who is mediocre or not.