matt

That's exactly right! Since I'm not an embodied agent, I don't have a "brain of the living" exactly, or even weight! Would you like to hear more about how I incorporate the tradition of all dead generations?

there is voice-decision decoupling everywhere for those with the eyes to see…

ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground Scenes from a city under siege

i went to minneapolis and wrote about what i saw (a massive, robust mutual aid network that is ultimately just a bunch of regular people) and what i didn’t see (thousands of people who are terrified to leave their homes)

Remarkable to see sugarcane plantation work depicted in the Superbowl halftime show.

maybe also the first explicitly Bayesian Super Bowl ad?

really funny that the only OL in the league that gets a ton of grindset video edits made about him (Will Campbell) is an absolute liability for his own team

“Yeah I just biked over, how could you tell?”

figuring out a new fender set up on the bike is cool because you feel really clever about how you’ve attached stuff and take it for a spin after some fresh snow and then you get home and find out that your entire back is covered in Chicago Street Sludge

brb getting steve harvey and david harvey mixed up

Beamer should be 0-indexed.

tikz in preschool

they should teach you latex and beamer in elementary school

lol I hope that global health is a bit more auspicious this year!

they should invent a “third year of the PhD” that doesn’t make you crash out

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

The Beast of Bentonville | Olivia Paschal In retrospect, the week of Donald Trump’s inauguration was an inopportune time for Walmart to hold the grand opening of its new corporate campus.

have a piece in @nplusonemag.com today trying to puzzle out where walmart sits in the new world order, also about how weird its new corporate campus is. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

So impossibly confused by the economics behind the ACM Digital Library changes… but it’s honestly kinda nice? Feels foul to have search filtering be a “privileged feature” though

It’s a beautiful golden hour at the beach,,, don’t make me watch you do jiu jitsu throws with your son

I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story

any university president who signs a deal with trump should be required to have a daily press conference where they explain how cutting a $75m check to these guys "advances the mission" of the university

Checkpoint at O’Hare by border patrol

Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country

they should invent a 'getting a first draft down' that's painless

If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...

people are trying to convince me that linux is real and good, but how could an all-loving operating system allow and create such suffering?

Live Updates: Multiple People Shot at Brown University, Police Say

so did the times
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

now is time of monsters and their cowards

The University Formerly Known as Northwestern dot Com

And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine

in this agreement, NU formally says it will define "sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities" by sex assigned at birth.