Moishe Lettvin

I didn't find it scary, per se, so much as intense. I thought it was very good.

I don't post on BlueSky very often but when I do you'd better believe it'll be about slime mold.

This is super cool.

this rules

Hey Ben what was John Lewis known for? What is this book about?

Ben Chestnut made $6B pretending to be progressive so that his employees would buy into his cult without demanding equity. Honestly the worst part about it is that he has nothing better to do with his life now than punch down on the social network for bland airheads (LinkedIn).

Wrote up some thoughts about LLM-powered "security reviews" here: www.moishelettvin.com/2025/06/06/s...

That’s the beauty of open source,

there’s always someone out there, ready and willing to contribute to your project,

who is wrong.

that was one of my favorite days!!! Your photos bring back such great memories.

An amazing thing AI does is lets us see who lacks a theory of mind.

GeLLMan Amnesia

Trees and rocks, lit up red and white

Pre-dawn aspen trees in front of a misty backdrop, lit pale red

Snow flakes illuminated in front of silhouetted out of focus trees.

Headlights illuminate an aspen grove, split by a dirt road with snow.

Woke up at 4am and drove into the mountains to take some photos.

Prompt engineering? No, the shit takes ages and the estimates are always fucked

Sign — Pearl for You

Hey #Boulder folks - time to sign a petition to get West End Pearl Street as a pedestrian zone added to the ballot.

Idiot city managers re-opened this space despite all data to the contrary.

www.pearlforyou.org/sign

Great quote by Thomas Merton, who was a poet and (should be) a saint.

Beyond this being doomed to failure for any code, I’m thinking about how complex and full of weird little quirks and complexities the payment code is at $prevstartup, and that code had only been around a few years and only served a few thousand customers.

I have Severance takes

I saw them just a few weeks after that at the Mercer Arena in Seattle. Wish I still had the ticket stub!

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

This one has already circulated a lot over the past few weeks but honestly it's all I've been able to think about lately

You can make the world better by trying the dumbest, easiest thing you can think of, and repeating and building on the ones that work.

likewise!

Senator: [shuffles assorted papers] and you said that the park squirrels have appointed a king to rule over their kingdom, correct?

RFK JR: arg [incoherent mumbling] I think I said queen

Senator: alright let’s play the clip

Email to the group house when someone ate some of your peanut butter.

Anne Castle steps down as the federal representative to the Upper Colorado River Commission Worth sharing in full: January 282, 2025 Re: Resignation as U.S. Commissioner to Upper Colorado River Commission Dear (addressee redacted) As requested, I am submitting my resignation as U.S. Commi…

Anne Castle's letter of resignation as US Commissioner on the Upper #ColoradoRiver Commission is worth a read: www.inkstain.net/2025/01/anne...

Really loved this on Civil War & Alex Garland’s career.

January 27th, 2025.
10:22 AM local time.
The frigid North Atlantic waters 8 miles southeast of York Harbor, Maine.
It begins.

the main thing this makes me think about is what US-built models are doing now that is less obvious to us, and what they might do in the near future given our current political landscape.

The first two responses here are unsurprising but the third is a confabulation. Leica was boycotted in China in 2019 because they used a Tank Man photo in an ad.

That they serve as an accretion point for more traditional misinformation and propaganda is an unfortunate but probably inevitable side effect.

I've said this before but to reiterate: the actual existential threat from AI/LLMs is not that they're going to take our jobs, it's that they're incredibly powerful (and literal) advertising/misinformation/propaganda machines.