jake

see now I wanna complete the circle and invent "descriptivist rust"

<wakes up jet lagged after 2mo of travel, wonders where he is today> <checks phone for weather> “Welcome home, Jake!”

Wazzup, MCM ComicCon London? So many fandoms here. Arcane invades Minecraft, both of whom handily reflect an incursion from the Deadpoolverse. Ran into, but was not exterminated by, a troop of Daleks, as one does.

"believing in the end of the world is good, actually" what the everloving fuck?

new target for tone-inflation just dropped get your act in line, or our grandchildren won't be able to afford exclamation points

Infosec homies, I’m thinking of you. Just know you are appreciated, and when you get stressed out, take care of yourselves (and otherwise: look out for each other - I know many of you kinda get off on running into burning buildings, but… the whole city is on fire. Put on your on mask first?)

[infosec eng fretting] they’re automating away all of our jobs, [fidgeting nervously] I’ll never keep this job, [idly rubs Lucky Monkey Paw] if only the world would appreciate us! …

Today feels like a really good time to realize I have really not much worth stealing, and so the fact that all security is worthless means people who like to fuck with shit have *way* more fun targets to go after than lil' ol' me. Now *that*'s what I call Security Through Obscurity.

Wait so the PHP security nightmare and the “4” CA key are *unrelated* and just happened to come to light on the same day?!? Whiskey is not gonna be enough for my Infosec homies. Y’all gonna need an eight ball or smth

oh no, you are missing out. I want a TV version of this. 6 actors, blindfolded and wearing headphones in a recording studio, passing around this script to read, in succession. I would watch the shit out of this.

wow (and um, nice call putting @shibbi.me right next to "Lake Discourse")

I look forward to a new set of stupid-phrases for diffusion LMs (since they can't call them "glorified autocomplete" anymore, or whinge about "they're just predicting the next word"), I'm sure they'll be every bit as creative as the last ones, since they come from the "spark of humanity".

in case the first one "doesn't count", I supply portoboats as backup!

Oh fuck yeah. Stop listing to us neophytes and go read a damn book, I love it! (have not read, will be reading now. I enthusiastically endorse merely because it's taking the question seriously, and wherever Prof. Schwitzgebel falls on the questions, it's bound to make me think hard about them)

while we're at it...

Oh man, I thought comail was finally the solution to reply-all storms: because "arrows go the other way", reply-all just meant that everyone on `all-engineering@foo.com` would simultaneously send you an email to cut it out (but sadly, spammers would force me to mail them all the time, too? hmm...)

So what do you do when Chesterton’s fence is blocking the Overton window?

What is *with* the so common need to be *special*? Center of Universe, center of solar system, made in Gods Image, Chosen People, special magic qualia… The wide open universe *more* exciting, to me, imagining meaning is what we make of it, and we are just descendants of a slime mold on some rock.

if you are fortunate enough to have not yet read all of The Culture novels, I urge you: go slow: there won't be any more, and this is gonna be a loooong Singularity

We reach the stars and the aliens will reach out to our ships *first* and ask them if they need help cleaning out the weird organic pest infections they appear to be carrying. Hopefully we continue to make great pets. (My guess is that we still require a little more domestication, tbh)

I was <this many> years old before I learned what a proper beer is.

Jev for President (please clap)

Ok, fess up: who asked the money paw for more fingers?

ah, um... yeah. someone reboot the LHC, I'm done with this timeline

every day working with muh agents smh

jesus. when mitchell talks, people listen. read about the program status protocol here. very straightforward mitchellh.com/writing/prog...

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

You (I) can't make this shit up. Fine, p(doom) += epsilon (p(hilarious) += lots more tho?)

I actually wonder whether the Autor/Thompson complex Jevons analysis applies to mathematics, and in the coming 5-20y, *more* people will be doing math, rather than less, because it dramatically lowers the barrier to entry, and opens the field, when the degree of required effort / dedication drops?

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I've gotta say - while sometimes Claudish is too clever for its own good, other times describing a change of basis as "gauge" is both compact, and for someone from a particle theory background, accurate.

Very clever! I'd love to see how well this continues to scale out to the monster-sized models!

Jevbot has perfect based / cringe balance:

*This* is the future that… we want? question mark, question myself, question the universe…