It is truly unknown now if we survive as a species beyond the consequences of our own actions
Up until these papers I held out hope that something could be done.
Sadly, they show with clear science that there is no stopping Thwaites collapse 💔
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
Critical thresholds for ice basin stability
I weep for humanity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ames expressed the popular security more wisely: "that [an autocracy] is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water."
Emerson, 1844, quoting Fisher Ames, 1795
"We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try."
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani
Absolute 🔥 This is right up there with
"We choose to [...] do [these] things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used this method to conduct a preregistered 10-day field experiment with 1256 participants on X during the 2024 US presidential campaign. Our experiment used a large language model to rerank posts that expressed antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity (AAPA). Decreasing or increasing AAPA exposure shifted out-party partisan animosity by more than 2 points on a 100-point feeling thermometer, with no detectable differences across party lines, providing causal evidence that exposure to AAPA content alters affective polarization. This work establishes a method to study feed algorithms without requiring platform cooperation, enabling independent evaluation of ranking interventions in naturalistic settings.
New paper in Science:
In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization.
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invisalgo is the anti-zalgo – the unicode code points the light forward but the truth lurks through the zalgo! slash u two zero zero slash u two zero six hallow be thy prefixes
Zalgo! 0vw! He comes!
When I thought about it more I realized I already knew that product: it's called Microsoft Codeplex ☠️
So ... GitHub is dead! Long live GitHub!
With this new feed tonight, I know my deepest fears have become reality. GitHub as I knew it is dead. Why? Because shipping even a Beta preview of it without the most defining feature — the social feed — shows how little that matters compared to the next AI slop feature
When Microsoft acquired GitHub, I was afraid. Afraid that the myopic lens so endemic to the Borg cube would destroy it. A lens focused on everything that is NOT open source
And I hate it when I'm right
One where there are many more private repositories than public
One that has become a staple of professional software engineers even more than it ever was for open source artisans
Instead, nearly every day since then I've gone to github.com to discover and learn from other practitioners in this art we call open source
That feed was what made GitHub, well, GitHub. Over time, that website grew into the behemoth that it is today
I am one of the first 5,000 GitHub users, and I am disappoint
15 ago I submitted a change on M$FT Codeplex to the Prism project after using the framework at a large financial institution
I was told that contributions were only accepted from M$FT employees. I never went to that website again ⬇️
Thanks to Ken Burns TOL Boston was basically an island during the American Revolution
What a long strange trip it's been 🐢🚀 Excited for what's cooking for 2027 🗽It won't be what's come before — and that's the point
The truth is always more interesting than a movie plot. What a fascinating relic of European History to come to light. I can't wait to go see it when it goes on display in Canada! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
For me, it's been New York or nowhere since Day 1 👶 and it always will be 🗽I always knew the people of New York would not bend the knee ✊ no matter what the fascist Oompa-Loompa-in-Chief lied to the contrary 🤡 and Mamdani's resounding victory backed by historic voter turnout is just the beginning 🇺🇸
> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use regexp", now you have two problems
It's amazing how even after all that time, the Internet I have known & loved is there. And the most recent comment is the most perfect book end imaginable 🤓
regex.info/blog/2006-09...
Mikeal knew this, and I will be forever in his debt for what I learned from him. I'm looking forward to integrating his pkv ideas into _all_docs in the coming months 🧠 we both didn't see it then, but he was onto something important 🚀
I hope you enjoy the story 💚 all-docs.talks.charlie.dev
That it is just one problem a more holistic content addressable web make easier to solve. But the bigger the problem, the more contributors that need to gather
Package managers and the shared digital infrastructure for delivering packages to them become ever more important. If we step back and broaden our scope we see that it is just one flavor of a larger metadata & addressing problem
I knew speaking at @jsconf.bsky.social 2025 would be hard, because so much of what I had to talk about I learned from Mikeal Rogers – and am still learning even now. The goal of the talk was to tell part of that story, a story about how the web isn't finished, yet 💡
all-docs.talks.charlie.dev
24 years ago I shipped my first piece of software from this building. Reflecting on that now the world and my life were set in motion in those weeks
You see, two weeks later a pair of commercial airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center a few blocks away
NY Forever 🗽
Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
Multi-tasking is not good for my internal LLMs tokenization accuracy 🤦♂️
I don't know? But if nothing else I trust now you at least want to schlep down to Maryland next month 🙃
Nice @wesbos.com! @tracy.bsky.social and I are bringing the whole family with us🤠
Wait, does this mean that Captain Kirk is never born now?
