agree. I am a heavy LLM user who has (not intentionally) entirely discounted Google’s AI work, on the basis of intrusive & inaccurate search summaries.

Tried Gemma 4 locally recently and was surprised by how good it was

endorse. someone vibecode this

Idea is that cities enable “scenes” by bringing enough aligned people together. “enough“ depends on the scene and the base rate in the wider population. A smaller place might nevertheless achieve scene liftoff by either specialising or by encouraging denser/more productive social intercourse

vibethinking, noticing thoughts arise and then pass

small cities are good. We should try to find ways to make 50k cities have the same cultural profusion as 1m cities

Feels like it codes at 100x my speed, so yeah, prob feels like a month to Claude

Jenny Holzer and Bertrand Russell are my grandparents

Clause would understand me better if it listened along with me

It’s water-wheel powered, wooden cogs for logic gates. 125,000 years to tell you if it’s appropriate to open the top hook of your shirt

you can start being disgusted when the entire expenditure for the city matches a single car highway overpass

it’s a mistake to think that “outcompetes” is the same as “better”: but it’s also a mistake to think that “better” will eventually win

It's really easy to look back and attribute your success to things like "I got As in school and I passed that test." Those are salient memories and legible markers. But it can be more true that what actually got you here was the ability to persevere, to disengage from bad pathways, and to recover

Fabric stocks jumped 12% on the announcement, as pundits predicted a return to voluminous trousers

good noticing

There is a kind of “entrepreneur” whose entire modus operandi is to identify government programs and profit handsomely by screwing the public purse. Defence, childcare, NDIS: full of parasites

@visakanv is this u

In terms of practical applications, we might be able to make huge progress by fiercely optimising how to compute with that operator

is one of these men talking to a younger version of himself

when you know the person (even a little bit, parasocially) you are able to contextualise it in their life, and you get a bit of mirror-neuron vicarious enjoyment

“somehow, trump returned”

Honestly it’s not that hard. Read a little, acquire some wisdom, learn that you are able to modulate your own reactions to stimuli.

Screenshot of 2 (3?) posts. The first by @mapcenter.com: “I’ve long been nervous that ‘I’ am the product at The Map Center. On the one hand it means I am distinct (and better) than online retailers. How fun! How novel! On the other hand, it means I can’t scale. I have to design an entertainment business model. I have to become a mappy Chuck E Cheese.” The second post by @notyourdove.atproto.systems is an image of a dramatic/feral woman in a film overlaid with a screenshot from @RACH4_theSTARZ reading: “Nobody is doing it like me because this is probably not the right way to do it.”

a fortuitous juxtaposition

I have only ever been there in the snow. Once as I skied across the frozen lake, the sun rose behind me and the lake’s surface reflected back with a million flickering points of light

Tasmania would like a word

no-one gives a shit about this gronk, throw him in jail and forget about him

incredible that anyone would think using a brittle format which no-one loves would get any kind of traction

hang on, I just realised Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch aren’t the same person

this is a good point, but long-term memory feels very doable

there is not

I imagine you recovering and going on to triumphantly finish to Holly Holy/I Am I Said/Soolaimon from Hot August Night