I. B. Cole

Wired up a little app that converts Bluesky blocklists into "followable" lists you can subscribe to. For when the worst person you know online meticulously curates a list of sensible and interesting accounts. memetoclasm.github.io/bluesky_list...

The problem has never really been that conservative voters are reluctant to criticize Trump. The problem is a relentless right-wing media apparatus that tells them Democrats are worse.

unironically I think most devs should work for a serious b2b outfit early in their careers because it's the only time you have any chance to get stakeholder inputs that make any sense at all not guaranteed, mind you

If you watch the aesthetics/performance of MAGA they are ALWAYS CELEBRATING. They are performing power. Many things we shouldn't emulate. This one we cld use more of. Play like youre behind, yes. But playing like you're losing or telegrahing the power of yr opponents is a bad, bad idea.

If thinking doesn't come from the brain region of human space, it's just sparkling pattern matching

One Pentagon official made assurances that a human will always be involved in the decisions.

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

He really is so remarkably good at this

Agentic work rewards skills our culture codes as feminine and therefore pretends are not skills

we’re watching people making ridiculous sums every year discover the concept of dotfiles

I kinda think that a lot of the push towards bigger models is to try to resolve that most people write bad prompts with bad workflows, and would like to replace their own thonk with robot thonk. But I am completely unimpressed with their ability to do so at any level of quality I would accept

if we Simply Stopped at GLM 5.3 and 5.3 Flash price and performance, it would be five years or more before the median programmer caught up and longer for non-programmers The new tiny Qwen model is good too, runs on my MacBook even.

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

on april 1st I'm going to push a polytoken release that lectures you if it thinks you're insufficiently polite to the model

Like, write it in rust, make it use verus, do test driven development, but for the love of god do not waste your time reading code

Been offline for a while: how long have y'all been sp inning out over this new thing, anyway?

if you're lucky this happens, if you're unlucky you don't notice that it fucked things up and you find out in a month bsky.app/profile/segy...

A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way?

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Political campaigns can see whether you voted in every single election going back years and years. When you do not vote, they know, and the message that sends - the *ONLY* message that sends, ever, to any campaign - is that you are less worth targeting in future campaigns.

this is why actually regulating datacenters is a lot more important than banning them. banning them is stupid. please just set reasonable floors for % renewables!

4/ Does extremism exist in EVERY faith? Of course. Human nature is consistent. But it is always a tiny fraction of the whole. Again, human nature is consistent. And every man and woman born is made in the image of God, reflecting His inherent goodness.

I know many of you have seen this already, but i wanted to meta. As you read the post, stop. And analyze your emotion. if you feel the outrage, urge to correct the obvious nonsense, enlighten the poaster - don’t. You will not convince. They are in terrible mood, for whatever reason…

A LOT OF IT! A WHOLE FUCKING LOT OF IT! Though to be fair it's not just "should have thought of", it's also "did not have the effort budget to do". Like people build shitty workflows held together by human attention and human effort and then stop. They do this *all the time*. I do this all the time

like, "yes a bunch of people provided unharnessed LLMs and no guidance have cooked themselves" is not a particularly interesting observation. nor is "therefore the tool cannot be used for useful purposes" derived from that

Fascism thrives in contradictions: COVID was a hoax that never hurt anybody. It's also a terrible pandemic and Fauci must be held responsible. The COVID vaccine killed millions. MRNA vaccines are a crime against humanity. Also Trump invented the COVID vaccine and must be credited for it.

Or do we mean poor people who grew up in rural areas, or emigrated there to work? Because that's a WHOLE different kind of "rural outreach" than "talking to farmers" is. Or the "preserving nature" voters.

The entire MIT Open CourseWare catalog is online, including their full computer science curriculum. Video lectures, notes, tests. ocw.mit.edu

The idea that there's an easy abundance of free resources to learn to code is laughable once you've done what I've done and been a VP of research at a company that helped thousands of people break into tech careers. There's an abundance of *beginner tutorials*

Mike Lee, who's famously concerned about election integrity!

This is an important point! Wealthy countries don't usually have a lot of doctors & researchers who are good at diagnosing, tracking, & treating parasite infections. Why? Treating parasites is kinda walled off into "tropical medicine" and "third-world medicine." You know, USAID stuff.

a core skill in 2026 is having enough experience to tell when a model's lost the plot and is building towers to heaven

The results are in on the 2026 USMNT World Cup fan poll! This was the third post-tournament poll I've run and at 865 responses we reached the largest turnout of the three, so thank you all who participated, and especially thank you to those who shared it elsewhere. Now, on to the results:

"Scientists who use AI are morons who aren't reading" I'm a computational social scientist and I feel like LLMs are a lot of things, but one thing they can be is a computational tool for text-based information in science. Here is what I am doing this morning

We need more conservatives in academia. And by “conservatives” I mean more post-liberal reactionaries committed to burning down the existing order and enforcing a Trumpian ideological purity.

Wait, you're telling me this guy's a sex trafficker and rapist???

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

The actual competition in this space is not in the multi-trillion-parameter models, it is in getting good-enough intelligence CHEAP. Which is why GPT 5.6 Luna is the most important thing that OpenAI has done in a couple years, and why GLM 5.2 is the most interesting open model out there.

Agentic coding is the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4...