Kai

"Kai, are you industry?" Literally never been more proud to have been asked that Thank you for holding back the various impostor syndromes at bay, Delilah's. You are sine qua non.

WTF of the day, no, week: A black woman in a Burzum tank top working out in the gym at the same time as me

What the fuck do other fat middle aged balding dudes do for Halloween, that doesn't involve buying single-use or single-purpose garbage? Because your boy is being roped to a Halloween bar crawl with people who actually dress up.

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I am texting with a friend caught at O'Hare on a plane delay. She is going through the wines in the lounge. The California Chardonnays are all, predictably, terrible. I then broke the news that there is a Chardonnay literally called Butter. Like, well done I guess, for stating the flaw up front?

What is the collective noun for AI agents?

You Can See Everything is a tragicomedy, a metanarrative-on-metanarrative tapestry, a story about realizing you're profoundly horny for the subject of your documentary, and a very very very strange 4:3 ride. Do recommend.

Good god don't ever make the mistake of wading into any online discussion of Taskmaster. There's some truly unhinged people who actually take performance on tasks, as well as the task design, seriously

I admit never having taken the bar exam but hey, let's all be lawyers! What's funny here is that she's been saying she's a "legal commentator". You know there is a word for that, one that does not require you to be barred? It's "jurist". It could literally have been that easy.

"the new Tesla “Roadster,” a new version (or I guess just like, a new car with the same name??) of the company’s old Roadster — which actually looked like a car someone who’s talked to women before could own..." Sam Cole does not miss.

Lol randomly said yes last night to a ticket to go see Castle Rat for the price of getting the rounds in. A very, very silly experience, down to the synchronized moves and the wizard standing on the smoke machine to make his sleeves blow clouds

Today marks five years that I have lived in Chicago. What that means, thanks to the vagaries of American immigration law, is that it is almost time to go home to London, where I will be covering Europe. It's been a time. I have learned a lot. I figured I'd write a bunch of it down:

Ok weird thing but is there a way to find out where all these year-end car commercials were filmed? Some of them are in stunning surroundings, some in cities I don't recognize. I suppose they can always digitally alter the background, but...

I am entirely too invested in Zuckbot's programming failing at the moment he attempts to drink a Guinness. "Oh I'll do the thing that is popular with humans bleep bloop" and realizes too late that the G isn't an array he can split with a function LMAO

Claudio Velez, aka the Tamale Guy, as seen by the musicians, club owners, bar staff, and regulars sustained by the contents of his magical red cooler https://bit.ly/4yXnSbR

Emotional support ribeye steak salad incoming

Claude what's the best bar that opens at 11 or earlier to go cool off in after a pits-drenching live programming interview that you think you absolutely blew

Me: "I'm glad you feel you can open up and chat about that stuff, man" Him: "Thanks man, I think you're good at that sort of thing." Me: "Thanks, I wish I could sort my own life out" Him: "You're a real Frasier Crane, dude" Damn. Lol. Ouch. Hehe.

I just remembered that the world cup was so messed up that a president could call FIFA and get a red card reversed.

Ok here's a post to confuse @jonanamary.bsky.social : The fuck is this fall in the third, first the two burned challenges and now letting bases get loaded with a walk, with just a single out on the board. Come onnnmnn

I don't think it's my ISP in particular but HBO Max is constantly struggling with this beisbol stream. Anyone else?

Aaargh the commentators on the Guardians/Sox game just said "Rate field... In South Chicago" SOUTH CHICAGO IS ITS OWN MUNICIPALITY! The Sox play just a couple of miles south of downtown. AAAAAAAAAAGH

Current* conditions near Bayfield, WI:

www.reddit.com/r/TopCharact... Oh my God this actually has upvotes. Like, what an absolutely brain dead reading of Obsession to begin with. I beg these people please read something other than Harry Potter and Marvel comics. For fuck's sake.

Why do US sports show percentages as decimals? Like in the Falcons/Saints game they just said the hosts have a "win pct" of .625 Like, why not 62.5? What am I missing here?

this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Brb working on a cocktail idea called Dark and Stormy Daniels

Slides for my #monktoberfest talk today, "Execution in the Kingdom of Agents: Reflections on Abstraction and Complexity"; video to come! speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/ex...

I love the fact that this Monktoberfest I have added two more people to the list of introducing them to Jerk City and get a confused "wait, are you saying this is the same Rands as Rands of Rands in Repose/RLS?" Yes, yes it is.

I already know the answer to this one, #monktoberfest: EVERYTHING

"I have been told that women's pain is normal" - @missamarakay.bsky.social #monktoberfest

Something I’ve learned over the last decade and a half of attending #monktoberfest: The ones and zeros in technology are secondary to the humans behind them. Empathy is the most powerful and most important product the industry can build.

And now Rudy Fraser, @rude1.blacksky.team, is talking about Blacksky. From a Bluesky community, to a stream, and now an app. Going to be a cool story. #Monktoberfest