cordelia

yayy mine is doing slightly better too

bf’s shared faculty office contains:
- totally stopped clock
- jar of Natural Molasses with a 2021 expiration date
- out of tune Aerosonic piano
- 10 volumes of charlie chaplin films on VHS

former punk frontman who just turned 43: 'living in a simulation // food co-op tribulations'
drummer who bought his first moog last year: [80s pop melody repeated 8 times]
frontman's daughter's oberlin friend: 'i'm like a bug // or is it a dog'
frontman's exwife: [angular guitar]

every manufacturer of humidifiers is one thousand times as guilty as your worst SBF or holmes for their production of infinite clouds of baby killing lung fibrosing pm2.5 white dust

‘cool mist’ is basically like toxic gas intended to punish you for believing your life could be better

even after the south korean humidifier disinfectant scandal (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_K..., 20k dead, same products still sold in the US) we have yet to bring one false humidity peddler to justice

if your air is dry your whole life is dry. there’s nothing for you anymore. your epithelial barrier has given up. it’s time for you to do the same

as a new yorker i carry talismans to protect me from the harmful effects of ductwork wherever i go

adding water to air is literally impossible. it’s air. air is a gas, not a liquid. what do they take us for

under communism forced air heating will be illegal. you really can tell it doesn’t want to do that

evan gave you a christmas gift! everybody say thank you evan!!!

in hindsight we were able to close the book on american liberalism when the new york times changed their little front page christmas homily from 'today is christmas. remember the neediest' to 'remember to give back to your communities'

im harking it

Aaron Rupar on X: "Trump: "Transgender for every member of your family. If they're not feeling well that night, let's just change their sex." https://t.co/nDeOMFWADl" / X Trump

x.com/atrupar/stat...

even unopened, totally unsalted butter turns pretty quick. i’ve gotten it off supermarket shelves and had it slightly turned

salted butter keeps way better!

‪i just don’t want to read any more poems or novels about how spooky and evil but also secretly cool you think the thing you’re currently doing is ‬

we need to show less forbearance with people in tech who produce creative work about how sorry they are that they’re in tech. i mean this in a very value-neutral way re: the ethics of tech or whatever; you’re either in tech or you’re not. the cafe across the street is hiring too

it's insane how much applying to things we make artists do. that's basically the last thing you'd expect them to be good at

for me it's like watching disney movies (i don't mean that in a bad way)

all models are agentic with a harness/appropriate tooling; what makes them better at tool use is just post-training on the specific details of the tools they'll be using. the new deepseek models are perfectly fine at tool use, a little worse than the claudes and maybe a little better than kimi

i mean you can clone the best available deepseek models just by downloading them; their best models really do have open weights. but training frontier models is not human capital intensive, just actual capital (only obtainable in american currency) expensive

i don't really think they can afford to train their own model, tbqh. gpu supply is tight even in china rn. probably just they'll RL an open weights chinese model, like you said. but if there actually is ASI/AGI there'll be a generation gap

oh very nice, i will be back by then

it’s important to have an argot shared only with your partners and intimate friends so that when you get drunk and worse at context-sensitivity everyone thinks you’re very strange

imagine if we replaced learning with using the computer. sounds awesome so far. and the computer is replaced with a series of bright colours & pleasant sounds, or perhaps lincoln logs. then we could replace facts with pleasant assemblages of concreta, combined to form Enterprise

if someone over the age of eight begins describing their activities as ‘building infrastructure for…’ you should cut them off by describing the cambridge capital controversy and then reminding them that the wikipedia list of megaprojects isn’t real

clarity in philosophy is mostly about replacing the language you speak, one where you can’t be sure which inferences are ok to draw from an assertion til you’ve seen someone else assert the same, with another language, where no-one at all knows which inferences are fine to draw

i’m posting from inside a vaulted dome. your rude messages only buttress my keystone.

the university was an exercise in professionalising epigrammatists and while it succeeded in that aim we discovered thereby that we mostly just preferred regular epigrammatists anyway