oh wow

a LLM is like an ant living on a map of your hometown. the relations between landmarks in the universe it lives in correspond to the landmarks in your hometown, but it does not live in your hometown. it lives in a two-dimensional embedding of your hometown.

Peter Watts on his novels

LinkedIn recommending I connect with the manager who fucked me before I got laid off is so perfect

The good news is all the brazen, cartoonish corruption makes it easier to run on an anti-oligarchy, good government platform. The bad news is you still need candidates who want to do that

imagine having syphilis so bad they find it in your bones 5000 years later

it is worth pointing out that all of the people screaming that the Dems cannot possibly get anything out of the absolute collapse of Trump's immigration numbers are the same people who a week ago were saying that Trump's immigration numbers could not collapse and that inflation must be hammered

Asked about Minneapolis, Victor Wembanyama says, “PR has tried, but I’m not going to sit here and be politically correct.”

Then says “it’s crazy that people make it seem like … the murder of civilians is acceptable.”

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

when the driving range guys are talking about masked agents of the state you’ve probably made a strategic error if you’re the state

US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota

Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.

One court decision, two different headlines.

Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

Democrat leaders looking for "creative ideas" to fight ICE, I've got a crazy one called "go outside to where the shit is actually happening."

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

Today taps into the core problem much older than ICE. There's the obvious visceral fear of being hurt by agents of the state---but it's also having to live daily life alongside and in total deference to armed people who could kill you, lie to justify it, get away with it, and be celebrated for it.

I'm basically a single issue voter in the next presidential primary: whichever candidate will take court reform the most seriously. You won't be able to govern without it.

one must imagine sisyphus' laundry

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face

The Dimitri finds out meme, which is a two panel vertical meme of a guy being interviewed by a lady. The caption reads "The club is bumping, the ladies look good, the alcohol is flowing." The second caption reads "There is much pain in the world, but not in this room."

Bluesky rn

picture of Regina George from mean girls saying get in loser we’re libbing out

my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.

Nice day at the beach in San Francisco, California #NoKings October 18, 2025

the dark sparkly parts are called trichomes

Screenshot of Berkeley’s weather starting quite warm today and trending cooler

Might be in the autumn downward spiral

I love having a smart watch. I’ll get a horrible night of sleep and it’ll send me a notification saying “you got a horrible night of sleep”

I don’t think anti trust world realizes how damaging this sort of stuff is to their reputation. Like truly this level of sloppiness absolutely has made me much more critical of claims about corporate consolidation.

Gavin Newsom is an unacceptable standard bearer for the coalition, so it’s actually quite useful that he’s willing to set the floor in this way

I have never cared about the TDF but hearing you talk about it on the pod and seeing these pics have genuinely piqued my interest

claude code running in the terminal. screenshot shows it's been going for 480s and has processed 12.5K tokens

sickos.jpg

really what is a plane but a nondescript hallway