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I flew too close to the sun. Riding a ubike thru Taipei in a drizzle and just absolutely ate shit. Just completely careening into a horizontal position. Like Tony hawk but on the wrong dimensional plane. I’m totally ok. Only problem is that there is no video of this world historical spill.

An absolutely insane book so far, I’m 1/3 of the way in and these guys are so f***ed, it’s astonishing. It’s the most staggering depiction of “being totally f***ed” that I have ever seen.

Screenshot of the “Cetology” chapter of Moby-Dick

Inspired by @flaminghydra.com I am finally reading Moby-Dick and I am so so so stoked to get to the cetology chapter

“Xenobrood”? Oh my god

The VERY MEAN AND NASTY Jesus Christ flipped over a bunch of tables in the temple and assaulted our fine money changers with a whip! HE WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS. Jesus is a well-known leftist who has NO RESPECT for the businesses that make our houses of worship great!

Me: that’s weird, I think the thermostat is broken. It is set to 26 but the room is 22.

Friend: … yeah. It’s colder outside than in the room.

Me: oh. OH.

Friend: This isn’t Thailand.

A photo of Burmese style roti prata and tea

Brain exploding food discovery today - Myanmar 🇲🇲 cuisine also has roti prata and this version might actually be better than the standard SG/MY version?

I can't believe I am posting this, but after using Claude Code for approximately 15 minutes I am genuinely blown away by this more than any other AI tool, including original ChatGPT itself.

In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born

Its addressed in the article, but I nevertheless find it super weird that the NYT couldn’t pin down the exact name of the Eric Schmidt company building partially autonomous killer robots www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/m...

If you are not on the Flaming Hydra train now is the time to get on board. This week of writing on Moby-Dick has been astounding.

Flaming Hydra is doing a week on Moby-Dick…. Exactly, perfectly what i needed at this insane juncture.

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One of the best uses of robotics, AI, video/sound installation I’ve seen in recent years, @ MOCA Taipei www.instagram.com/p/DPWYhhBCRt...

the amount of work I had to do this morning to get 14 lines of python working... please at least use version pinning or something, goodness.

National Coming Out Day. Coming out as gay to my family was one of the riskiest, scariest things I’ve done. It was also a moment of profound integrity. In some sense it made possible everything I’ve done.

Not everyone can/has to come out. But coming out matters now and always.

I just reread Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation.

If you’ve ever feared the edifice of the world will crumble and crush us all, read it. Really stunning.

Jonathan Lear, Philosopher Who Embraced Freud, Dies at 76 nytimes.com/2025/10/08/boo…

Uhhh word choice?

Yes finally! Now I can diminish, and go into the west, and remain Galadriel

Had a great time last week at the Rust Asia conference! Learned a lot about what people are doing w Rust in the region

I just heard Mogwai perform Mogwai Fear Satan live. Really up there in what one can experience in person with respect to, um, music.

I got back to Muay Thai after two months today. I was so happy to see I can still kick. My hand strikes however are still terrible.

Asked a paid LLM about election litigation. even when pressed it gave a canned non-answer. Google better, and the Board of Elections website better still. This is a future I worry about, where the edges of thinking get quietly pruned. Google and BOE websites might not be around.

POEM OF THE DAY Summer by Chen Chen You are the ice cream sandwich connoisseur of your generation. Blessed are your floral shorteralls, your deeply pink fanny pack with travel-size lint roller just in case. Level of splendiferous in your outfit: 200. Types of invisible pain stemming from adolescent disasters in classrooms, locker rooms, & quite often Toyota Camrys: at least 10,000. You are not a jigglypuff, not yet a wigglytuff. Reporters & fathers call your generation “the worst.”

Which really means “queer kids who could go online & learn that queer doesn’t have to mean disaster.” Or dead. Instead, queer means, splendiferously, you. & you means someone who knows that common flavors for ice cream sandwiches in Singapore include red bean, yam, & honeydew. Your powers are great, are growing. One day you will create an online personality quiz that also freshens the breath. The next day you will tell your father, You were wrong to say that I had to change. To make me promise I would. To make me promise. & promise. View this Poem A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Today is National Self-Love Day.

my poem, “Summer,” first published in Poetry Magazine in 2021 is Poem of the Day on the Poetry Foundation website—in celebration of National Self-Love Day, which i guess is a thing lol. my thanks to the editor. & to jigglypuff 💖

Weird that Evangelion ended the same in that and every timeline

continue to make things, continue to learn things, continue to share knowledge, continue to share mystery, continue to share being

I am messing around with some data in Python and once again all of my tooling is broken. Brew update yawnnnn I need to just figure out how to do all of this in rust

I think there is room for them to get better at rust... if the hallucination issues get fixed a bit, and bring in some intermediate steps, even at the prompting level. "think REALLY hard about the borrow checker. pretend you have a lot of anxiety, while intellectually understanding it's ur friend!"

Ambient, ambient, Korean synthpop, Taylor, and postrock. That’s… pretty accurate.