they should invent a vacuum that picks up pet hair

On the other hand, at least the AI coding agent will read the documents you give them - unlike humans

It's pretty hilarious that the best way to get engineers to write good documentation is to tell them it's for the ai coding agent to read. They've been writing for computers their whole lives! It's humans that are impossible to communicate with.

There is a Tibetan saying: “Think of all beings as buddha, but keep your hand on your wallet.”

Change My View (CMV) A place for people to post an opinion they accept may be flawed, in an effort to understand other perspectives on the issue. Enter with a mindset for conversation, not debate.

It's the sequel to the changemyview subreddit, in magazine form www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...

Proposed new media idea: The Recanter, a publication consisting entirely of people arguing against their own former positions, and/or admitting error in some way.

I think that would be a huge market for this. We’re all tired of reading people who are always right.

If it were enough to be a powerful man, powerful men would be happy

When it comes to the landscape of the discourse, I believe that you should always lead with principles. Not because people are principled but because it's easier to reiterate core principles than policy, which can be complex and confusing.

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

Fun fact: air conditioning takes less energy than heating and no less important. The belief that it's "decadent" is puritanism.

Red and white toyota wiper blade box, part number 85222-48040

Probably not his usual beat, but I picked up these wipers from the dealer yesterday and immediately thought of @cabel.panic.com. Fantastic packaging that probably hasn't changed in 30 years.

It does feel a bit like a "follow the money" play. Though I bet to their framing of "does this help grow our members' careers?", a lot of recruiters would be excited to see a resume with an "AI" certification in it.

Travel Forecast for Thursday as generated by the Weather Star 4000+ emulator. At the bottom my humidity of 7% and dew point of 21°F. Everything is washed out like an analog NTSC television image, which I did by overlaying shaderglass with an NTSC shader.

Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location?

weatherstar.netbymatt.com

Seen another way, guessing the user's desires is the fundamental money-making motion of adtech, which powers much of the internet. The industry is very, very good at it, or thinks it is, so they apply that hammer to a great many non-nail objects.

Software is inflexible once created. If the user is asked of their desires, but the software cannot fulfill them, it is a dead end. But, if the desires can be guessed in advance and the software built to fulfill them, the user is delighted. It's a little like a magician's forced choice.

Haymarket affair - Wikipedia

Tomorrow is May Day, when everyone in the world—except in the US—celebrates worker’s rights based on something that happened in the US.

Literally all your civil rights and freedoms exist because someone sometime said “fuck this shit” and fought to make it better.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymark...

Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meet Sometimes two people will stand next to each other for fifteen years, both feeling out of place and alone, like no one gets them, and then one day, they look up at each other and say, “Oh, there you a...

A lovely post by @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social on learning people: www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/friends-mi...

How to write with the Devil’s hand Detail from a painting I finished a few week’s ago. This week’s question comes to us from Jonathan Stephens: You recently wrote, “...since my brain and your...

It's not everyday I find a piece that resonates that hard with me.

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Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

I was raised with eschatology central to my life and I really can't emphasize enough how life-denying it is, and how much it infects every aspect of how you address the world.

Does anyone else think it’s weird all the domestic manufacturing jobs obsessives don’t seem that interested in producing housing? The thing you absolutely have to make in the U.S., there is a severe shortage of it, a ton of pent up demand, and opportunities for good paying jobs producing it?

So … I’m really hoping the recent chaos and stupidity doesn’t interfere with the arrival of Lyme disease vaccine in 2026. It has become endemic throughout the maritimes, especially if you do anything in the outdoors

This is a feature of the Plume mesh they white-label as their own. It's been around for a few years. You can turn it off, of course. I haven't found it to be terribly useful.

Bret Victor's dynamicland.org meets hygge energy yarn art. Delightful.