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Been designing FM Synths and I found exploration of parameter space without actual knobs annoying, so I designed an exploration and visualization tool with @claude.jason-edelman.org running Opus 5.5. Give it a try: jason-edelman.org/operator-fie...

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"Both top-shelf reporting and top officials in the Trump administration, including Trump himself, have said that Musk made this decision on his own. That would be treason. The traditional way to figure out the truth of such a matter is with a trial." prospect.org/2026/10/26/d...

As a designer, coding with LLMs gives me the speed I used to only find with paper and pencil. Everything my training taught me says that’s the "wrong way round". I tried it anyway, and I'm rethinking my assumptions about speed, quality and what a design system can finally become.

“protein enriched chocolate chip cookie” is kinda the perfect synthesis of the conflicting american male desires to be a spartan warrior and also five years old

i guess this is me coming out as clearly as i have to date as an institutionalist and no longer an anti-organizationalist. it turns out all the shit i thought was bad about organizations is actually the default case for human cooperation, and properly designed organizations actually minimize it.

I would love to compile an anthology or coding horror stories

This confirms an intuition I've been sitting with. Interesting

this is why we did a ton of polling on winning messages and what we found is that cracking down on corruption is really, really important for any cost-of-living argument because people straight up don't believe any of your promises if you don't show you're serious about accountability

I met with Finer, Sullivan, and a bunch of Biden's senior people several times throughout 2023-2024 and I cannot stress enough how maddening it is to watch them reposition now after spending the time they were actually in power gaslighting the shit out of everyone

If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.

you don't have to let these guys just run off with everything. you can literally stop them. nothing is inevitable

ordinarily the government would have to pay Elon to nationalize SpaceX but in the case of capital-T Treason I think an exception can be made

Amazing how quickly we went from "oh no LLMs are going to flood the Internet with insecure code" to "oh no LLMs have discovered the internet was already flooded with insecure code"

rationalist: I predict there‘s a 10% chance that 100% of humanity is wiped out in 10 years actuary: there was already a 100% chance that 10% of humanity would die in the next 10 years utilitarian: it’s the same thing

the fact that an intermediate CA in India that sells only into the Indian market, when compromised, can generate TLS certs for literally any website on the internet, that feels like a major trust boundary problem

So excited for this!

one of the things that we keep seeing is people making real, new discoveries with AI because they're looking at things nobody looked at before. this will, also, result in a lot of crankery but i think it's important to acknowledge that it's not all crankery

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

As with anti-divorce arguments, the underlying premise here is that any explicit break in the family is a grave moral violation. And the underlying premise *there* is that some family members get to be immune to consequence, and others are prevented from complaint. Imagine defending that!

The generation that got to buy cheap houses thanks to a postwar construction boom, then blocked new housing construction to juice their asset values is now whining that they have to pay taxes on their unearned wealth. Just breathtaking selfishness.

The question isn't “Does AI possess moral status?” This is a red herring. It's “What kind of person do I become if I make a habit of treating beings I encounter with contempt?”

My teenage children, who have never set foot in NYC, go around saying "Help me, Mamdani!" whenever anything goes wrong and/or they can't figure out their homework, just to give everybody a sense of the scale of this man's presence in the culture lol

A surprising number of professional arrangements depend on bundling genuinely difficult intellectual work with enormous quantities of routine labor, procedural gatekeeping, credential requirements, and information asymmetry. AI starts unbundling those things.

I think what’s happening in the West Bank right now is best understood as a single unending pogrom

FINALLY

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

Mainframes are back baby

The irony of angrily assuming that this is a leftist vs. liberal thing because the Chapo boys hate it is that Digger is ultimately making a point about recuperation, a leftist concept, in which radicalism is sanitized and cartoonized through popular culture to absolve the horrors of capitalism

Okay this is fun

Consider awareness simply itself. Consider all things alone truth itself identity. Reality remains awareness always.

Imagine what going to the dentist would be like, if the way people became dentists was "be born to someone who already owns a dental practice." That's how we get new farmers! So agribusiness, in a lot of ways, exists to fill in the knowledge & performance gaps that come with job-by-inheritance.

By repeating this lawless and racist lie, Rep. Valadao proves himself either irreparably ignorant, maliciously dishonest, or both. Terrorized communities are being slandered and called criminals by their own congressional representative, who is too much of a coward to defend his own constituents.

both software engineers’ and mathematicians’ jobs have been mostly automated, but for the latter it feels catastrophic but not for engineers why? imo it’s because mathematicians relied on attribution & honor, whereas for software it’s easily reduced to the net value produced

this x 1000. we have been dealing with wily, intelligent, selfish agents for literally the entire existence of "we". we have an enormous stock of tools for dealing with such things. AI is not special.

Star Wars Galactic Racer combines my two favourite elements of racing games: crashing into things and losing

We have a historical opportunity to overcome all this hatred and self-hatred this and defeat Teump and Hegset soundly; and then to turn things around. A chance not to be missed! (3/3)

TIL 70% of US restaurant orders are eaten somewhere other than the restaurant, i really underestimated how many people use these awful apps

these popups drive me insane and are one of the main reasons i am a bluesky / atproto maximalist. information should be agnostic of how its accessed.

Oh HELL YEAH