The Revolution will be AI-icized
I heard my friend Dan here give a remarkable brief talk about this last month. Thankfully, he’s written it up at length to share.
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Contrary to the Internet (which usually is never wrong), I am NOT writing for Mike Flanagan's DARK TOWER.
One nice thing about foraging compared to other hobbies is that no one spends $10,000 on stuff for it
Making a mental list of podcasters I'd rather have as deputy director of the FBI
A British-Egyptian team has made one of the most significant Egyptian archeological finds in recent history: the tomb of pharaoh King Thutmose II, who ruled sometime between 2000 and 1001 BCE. This is the first tomb of a pharaoh unearthed since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.
Winners in the Building at the SAG Awards last night! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Cloud nine.
Can’t believe this guy is Deputy Director of the FBI now
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ai wrote my son a very impressive resume, and his only work experience is moderating a subreddit about giving yourself diarrhea on purpose
This one is in my top 5
Have had this on my wall for many years. Thank you!
I know it is small potatoes, but I have an order stuck in customs from AliExpress since February 8th. 🙄
Typically good thread/summary by Mark, showing again that first, most SCOTUS cases are not about the huge issues that get attention, and second, perhaps because of that, the Court sometimes divides in unexpected ways.
No new grants—but a lot of action—on the Supreme Court's orders list today. First, Thomas renews his call to overturn the Feres doctrine, which bars servicemembers from suing the government over injuries "incidental" to their service. (I think he's right.) www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Great guest contribution to the Odd Lots newsletter from Neil Dutta of Renaissance Macro why downside risks are emerging for the US economy. Sub to the newsletter here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
Another dev has slain the OAuth dragon! This time with and done in such a way that apps can be hosted on static sites like pages.
took way to long but finally got bluesky client side oauth with a static sveltekit build working thanks to @mary.my.ids atcute, was fighting alot with the official oath-client-browser package before... now i can finally make bluesky stuff - hosted statically on github pages - where people can login
The Supper: New Blood Demo: Do you hear the doorbell, Stewie? octavinavarro.itch.io/the-supper-n...
Tomorrow is the Final Night of the Slipping Away Tour! Happy AND Sad... Phoenix, see you there. w/ the great Fred Armisen timheidecker.com/live
one interesting difference in writing proofs in Lean vs regular programming is that proofs are *very* amenable to subdivision. since there are no side effects or mutation, you can subdivide a proof into parts before writing the actual logic and solve them in any order, even inside-out
Bottom of a thread of commentary by on the new sync spec. The proposal means new writes can be verified with much less storage, leading to cheaper relays.
i look forward to see how the knock on effects of this play out. my hope— cheap sync makes end applications more on-spec and coherent w/ the network. sync will be better specified, fewer rough edges. cheap relays make the network more multiparty. that is exactly what we want to see. 10/10