Tony Dewan

My current bet is that fake people (read: creating/naming a consistent AI-generated avatar/voice) will not be a mainstream success. If anything, people will crave real people even more in a world awash in AI slop (non-derogatory.) Parasocial relationships will be bigger than ever, but not for fakes.

This touch screen MacBook thing is bonkers. Are they really going to announce such a huge thing at a little press event? Does macOS change at all? Whats even the point from a UX perspective?

Hungary's recent election was less free and more unfair than the upcoming US midterms, and pro-democracy forces still won. Similar point about Serbia's election this weekend. In normal democracy terms, America is in bad shape. But in consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're looking pretty good.

He was doing what to him now?

That is not exactly the heart of the market that might frequent such a concept, and is not proximate to other destinations that would bring demand? Is it going to be a destination in and of itself?

Yep, that's me! T*************************92, just as my mother named me

The only restaurant that can be shortened to The Factory is Old and Spaghetti theme, no questions at this time.

just emailin' from eden over here

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First, your taste probably isn't that good, most people have terrible taste. Second, most people don't care, they have terrible taste. Third, it's wild to think the robots will come *this far* but not be able to distill your preferences?

42% seems like a big number!

Indiana likes Michigan is right if you limit yourself to central and northern Indiana. Central to Southern Indiana, the answer is probably Florida. California likes Hawaii, 100%.

The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

The U.S. Department of Justice is sending election observers to Marion and Lake counties in Indiana. They are the two most populous counties, and two of the bluest. www.wthr.com/article/news...

not to be the most annoying person in the entire universe but both these cves are memory issues that rust would have prevented

It seems very good that they count them as they receive them and very bad that they release the count before Election Day?

I built a Command & Conquer style RTS called Battle Drones, mainly using Claude Opus 5.5, which runs in the browser and includes device-to-device multiplayer over an audio link simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/...

2 things: Stephen Miller has negative charisma, please keep putting that guy on camera. Oz has no idea what do with his hands, which is weird because he was on.TV for decades.

does he...live on the blimp?

“Up yours!”

we need you to rename rent to $500/ month and gas to $2/ gallon

wagonda forever, is that anything?

He needs a new roof

Ossoff: "Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the AI they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom ... I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become"

My man has juice

"Perhaps the bleakest factoid is that the US is even less popular as a tourist destination than Nazi Germany in the 1930s." This is a really big deal on so many levels. It's also so damn depressing. Trump really does ruin everything.

Update: checked with TTH support they said it was fine to leave ER without checking out. Weird thing is I found the rabbit grave but it was empty?!? I called support & they were confused & said the rabbits are immortal? I look PRETTY stupid right now, I shoulda known Tesla would think of everything

This is so good

Marjorie Taylor Greene comes out with a statement opposing the raid on Ilhan Omar before Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic Party

I've started adding more and more typo drift in my messages to robots just to see what the edges are. I have fun at work, you?

"I arrived here the way most people in effective altruism arrive at their careers..."

Seems bad that the security services are being used to persecute opposition leaders

“Planned improvements include: More on-street parking along College Avenue.” LOL, and also, of course, LMFAO.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!

This is maybe just an artifact of my codebases and projects, but the robots are happy to make a 10 line change or a 1000 line change, but I can't get a 100 line change to save my life.

I have 1000 balls in the air every day and it’s exhausting and overwhelming and I don’t think it’s ever going to change so I just need to learn to get energized by it?

Addendum: one of the many revelations in “Supremacy” by @daphnarenan.bsky.social and @nikobowie.bsky.social is that the original originalist was Sam Ervin, Watergate hero and staunch segregationist, who argued the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional because things didn’t use to be that way.

I say this as a neighbor and someone who has been dozens of times: sidedoor bagel sucks. Staff is rude, orders incorrectly filled, I’ve been served yesterday’s egg and expired schmear, the process design for customers is stupid. Every few months i give them another shot and it’s never worth it.

Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.

Coming up on the 20 year anniversary of my YouTube channel. 1 video, 9k videos, wouldn't change a thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJna...