AGI is here

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

Not long ago:

"Oh wow. Someone vibe-coded a proof-of-concept web-browser."

Now:

"Every web-browser MUST go through rigorous LLM-driven adversarial hardening."

This is directionally correct but it has to add that people working to hold AI accountable weren't in the room because most of them went insane and decided the only problem with gamergate was that they werent in charge of it.

They think you're stupid.

DEl speedwagon EM @uhs...•51m X I loathe Spanberger as much as she loathes people like me but I do appreciate that she appears to be governing Virginia like Benjamin Butler governed the military dictatorship of Union-occupied New Orleans The Political HQ • @ThePolitica... • 1h € BREAKING F The Virginia Redistricting Amendment has passed. This changes Virginia's congressional maps from a 6-5 Democratic split to a 10- 1 Democratic split, representing a four-seat gain for Democrats.

the cool thing about being a progressive normielib is that I can just say “this is awesome” instead of doing a bunch of throat clearing about loathing Spanberger before I praise her for obliterating 4 Republican seats

"Let me dig deeper." I don't think you should

Emacs (PID 78574) is pegging the CPU at ~98.3% and has been running since April 11. Let me dig deeper.

Emacs is WHATing the CPU?

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

I have been using GPT ImageGen-2 for the past weeks

I didn't think that better image-generators would be a big deal but it turns out that there is a quality threshold I didn't expect, where you can now get usable text, slides, academic papers

Look at what it does with my "otter test"! (Zoom in)

I want to share this with friends but then realized they would take it seriously and not get the joke

First: hilarious.

Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.

It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.

I think my main advice for any hobby is to try as hard as you can to not join the online 'community' for that hobby

in general, it's more fun to do the thing than it is to sit around and talk about the thing, and so the people who want to talk about the thing kind of end up as the least fun people

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

very sincerely: skill issue

new communities like...

*checks notes*

women

Charlie Kirk memorial pez dispenser would go hard

The creepy Trump-as-Jesus picture Trump posted to Truth Social on 12 April 2026.

"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous—whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light....Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way....And then I see the disinfectant...by injection inside or almost a cleaning."

SWEs with a higher SAT verbal than math score right now:

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

This is NUTS

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

The thing where voters don't believe republican policies could be as evil as they are apparently extends to the republicans actually in charge of the government just mindlessly implementing them

"I need tech bros to get into a humanities class" mfs react with scorn when researchers actually interact with philosophers, anthrophologists and religious scholars.

uh I don't think the sexpest defender animal abuser is working within the dem party when he spends 90% of every stream shitting on the dem party and only the dem party

Waterfall vs. Agile vs. AI development methodologies, illustrated through vehicle-building analogies. Three rows show how each approach delivers value across four stages: • Waterfall: Builds components sequentially toward a final product — a tire, then an axle, then a chassis, then a complete car. Nothing usable until the end. • Agile: Delivers working, incrementally better transportation at each stage — a skateboard, scooter, bicycle, motorcycle, then a car. Always something functional. • AI: Starts with an over-engineered, chaotic “Homer Simpson car” — a wild, impractical contraption — then progressively refines it into a normal, polished car. Begins too complex and simplifies toward usability.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

i have my criticisms of liberals on immigration but looking at this chart and blaming liberals is insane

I have been trying to figure out how half the people I follow only represent a few percent of the population and it really seems like it’s this.

every internal I have heard or seen is basically "anthropic is understating, not overstating it"

Three posts Trying to summarize Anthropic's security pitch: "The Torment Nexus is very bad, but the Torment Nexus also is somehow the solution to the Torment Nexus, so we made the Torment Nexus and are selling the Torment Nexus to the good guys before someone [also us] sells the Torment Nexus to the bad guys." Anthropic's public red-team report reads in parts like it is an independent forensic examination of someone else's product and not something that the company itself made, on purpose! “[T]he threat is not hypothetical. Advanced language models are here." How did the models get here? Did they magically materialize out of thin air and start threatening us? Or did someone decide to make the models? What company does that someone work for?

Hey man that’s crazy, have you heard about any other countries that might be developing this technology and would be open to using it on an adversary that may or may not be us