JD Long

JD Long

@jdlong.cerebralmastication.com

CTO at a specialty insurance company. Perpetual cocktail party host, open source fan, econometrician, agricultural economist, and OReilly Author.

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Delta First Class now offers Shake Shack burgers on pre-order. Because they know I'm first class but simultaneously low class all at the same. So is the duality of JD Long. And yes, I will have a beer with that, thank you.

sure, your budget is stressed. but the transfer of wealth from the working class to my cronies has never been stronger! It's amazing. NOBODY transfers wealth better than Trump. Nobody!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

I have a colleague referring to agentic coding as "Swedish Chef Coding" and I must admit that it's much more work friendly than "Cuck Coding".. you know, where you are forced to just watch...

<holds up big red foam #1 finger> hell, yeah! suck it "Greatest Generation" look who's #1 now!! sorry, just trying to make the best of a bad situation.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! It takes 2 weeks to confirm ocean sea surface temperatures and the long wait is finally over. The first day in recorded history with Nino 3.4 SST at or above 30.0°C is now officially on the record. October 7, 2026: 30.000°C. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...

did they think they were building companion robots for lonely seniors? This feels like the engineers building the FaceEater 5000 petitioning for their creations not to be used for face eating.

My trusty Synology NAS stopped booting. dang, it's only, <checks notes> um... 15 years old. I think it may be the oldest electronic thing in my house. And what's amazing is I install the drives in the latest model and the software is like, "hey, cool. want to migrate form an older model?"

I hate it here…

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

Yes completely unrelated. And neither required complicated AI attacks to exploit. Happy hump day!

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social

for those only dimly aware of cybersecurity people screaming, "a security certificate which underpins the entire internet used '4' for a private key that is supposed to be 116 digits long" and "a popular web language lets anyone run code on your server" are two different issues from the same day

This thing is off my bucket trailer. While Claude won’t do the wiring, I did get a lot of help in finding shop manuals then answering questions. It would not have allowed a total newbie to fix this but it sure made me faster.

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After a brief but institution-eroding slop science era, it increasingly looks like we are going to have 2 revolutions from AI: 1) Everything ever published will be re-read and re-judged in ways that human scientists never anticipated 2) Novel discoveries will start to come faster than we can absorb

Oh look… it’s a @hadley.nz agent.

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me

Researchers made an agent that operates by executing statements in a custom programming language the catch? it extends it’s capabilities by implementing new programming language features learning through programming language development arxiv.org/abs/2610.20809

It’s really her fault. She made him hit her. What else could he do after the things she said?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ron Johnson blames US for Putin invading Ukraine: "The way we treated Russia after we won the Cold War, how we pushed them. I'm not defending Putin, but we said we were not gonna move NATO one inch to the east. We brought it right to their doorstep basically. What did we think Putin was gonna do?"

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Progress on the Grass Fucker 5000 continues. Biggest challenge is that it simply keeps popping chains off the drive sprockets. FPV: easy. Steering: easy. Making wheels connected to drive motors: hard. I’m glad I work in finance. Physical things are dumb.

I don't want this to come across as a defense of JD Vance, but my wife, at least once a day, turns to our dog, Sparky, and says, “It’s very clear to me that he’s full of shit.” And I'm pretty sure she's talking about me.

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"all that matters is me. see these doctors? all for me. if you die? fuck you. seriously they won't do a thing. I'm the very special boy here, not you. you're collateral damage."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I'm the only one that took the test -- the aptitude test or whatever. Every time I do a physical, I do a mental test. And I aced it. Where's my doctor? I travel w/ more doctors than any human being. If people get sick in the audience, they leave them alone. They call them collateral damage."

I bought this old bucket trailer off FB marketplace and it had a stupid truck cab where the trailer hitch belongs. Luckily I’ve got a reciprocating saw and a destructive attitude.

I got pissed off at my consumer grade AA headlamps not being bright enough or lasting long enough. So I took matters into my own hands. Swappable 20v dewalt tool battery and an LED off road light. Needs a belt clip on the battery.

Fireworks took Kimi K3 and removed a bunch of the "thinking" loops that didn't help coding. and made a model that's almost as good as K K3 at coding but 40% cheaper. Interesting.

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Introducing Ember-1, a new AI model developed by the research team #news #ai #technology #artificialintelligence

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My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"