In one night, activists flipped a council to 'no' on a data center. How did they do it? They tracked down the addresses of council members who had been voting 'yes. At 1 am, they visited one house, and then made a ruckus! They hit pots and pans and sang protest songs. They left flyers at neighbours' doorsteps revealing that this man was planning to go against the will of the town. They did this at the homes of two council members, and the next day they flipped their vote. Neither had listened to the residents' resounding pleas at town hall meetings to *not* allow the construction of the data center. This was a military Al data center that would be used to simulate drone attacks. The stakes could not be higher.

If your council members are not listening, why not consider taking a well-planned strategic action like this? Why let tensions run up so high, and residents feel so helpless, that one might actually decide to *shoot bullets* at their front door as a warning signal? This goes for all leaders failing to listen to us, and going ahead harming our families with reckless Al development projects. What if the guy who threw the Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's gate had instead thrown balloons filled with red paint? Sam's roof covered in red paint to symbolise the teens who had died by his recklessness. Red paint to symbolise the schoolkids and mums who'd die if he continued his dishonest Pentagon war contract. Red paint thrower would raise an uproar. Seething techbros would portray him Sam's wannabe assassin. Legally, it would be vandalism, and he'd be put into jail.

But if the guy made all the effort to not hurt anyone, and instead took the jail and pain onto themselves, can anyone really blame them for speaking for the public? All this hand-wringing about ordinary folks cheering the Molotov cocktail at Sam's gate feels misplaced. Yes, let's not condone violence. But also let's not shelter this rich authoritarian dude planning to harm our families.

Thoughts on nonviolent confrontation of leaders:

I get it. Every animal wants to be free in Africa, even snow leopards and polar bears. Even I want to be free in Africa. I miss the rains down in Africa so fucking much.

Seeing Dean W. Ball absolutely lose it on Twitter is interesting. Mind you, he was an AI advisor for the Trump administration.

I actually think we should expand the house of representatives so that every citizen is a representative. We'll fix the economy by giving everyone rep salaries and fix the healthcare crisis by getting their healthcare benefits too.

I'm a political genius

I'm going to have such a fun time explaining to my bank why I'm withdrawing all my cash

If you're feeling kind of anxious about everyone saying insane shit about LLMs on Twitter or whatever, just try them out. Fork over $20 for the peace of mind to try them out yourself and see if these people are for real or fucking with you.

And yeah, I think they're fucking with me.

Ethical issues besides I actually do try and keep an objective opinion on LLM capabilities, and I would actually really like it if they could implement some of these ideas since I actually would like to see them implemented, I just don't have the time.

But no, they're very bad at p5js

It's so weird seeing people lose their minds on Twitter over how capable the latest AI models are while I'm over here watching them fail, miserably, at some old creative coding ideas I've been sitting on for a while.

You need to be caffeinemaxxing. You need to buy land in Costa Rica so you can selectively bread coffee trees with higher caffeine content. You need to build an elaborate brewing apparatus to extract as much caffeine as possible.

Should I ever bump into a Coca-Cola corporate employee I'm gonna ask them when we start the Boogaloo with the straightest face possible.

I hadn’t realized until now that AMD’s P/E ratio is an absolutely manic ~150.

By contrast, while Nvidia is hardly a value stock, its P/E ratio is a more modest ~58.

Oh wow! I did not see this graph. I had no idea native apps still had such a strong lead, not to mention that Flutter was doing better than React.

I remember a while back almost working with it on a project, but that never quite came to fruition.

The dominance of React Native is an obvious reason why, but I feel like an overlooked partial cause is that the mobile app frenzy arguably peaked a long time ago. Bad enough on its own, but the decline in importance makes native performance less of an issue.

Worth mentioning that Ilya’s deposition in the Musk v Altman trial dropped today, the evidence making it abundantly clear that Sam Altman was fired for lying and manipulating people, and not because of a “safety coup”.

I actually thought this was some form of satire because of how bad the video was. Like, there was no way this was meant shared sincerely.

But nah, it came from known AI shill Matt Schumer. He was actually being sincere.

Hate that guy so much and his sad fucking Twitter pfp.

Also, no idea why I capitalized ice cream. I think I really like ice cream.

Damn, if you lived in New Mexico I’d totally ask if you wanted to get Ice Cream. I’m always craving a dirt and worms sundae.

Lol, “not even the Europeans”. One has to sink very low to make the Dutch take offense, as amoral as they are.

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I was trying to remember why the name sounded familiar. Turns out it's because there's a minor character in a Rick & Morty episode called Shrimply Pibbles. His name reminds me of some Rick and Morty made-up alien bullshit.

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Also, having discussed this with others they made some good points that this improvement probably isn't the result of gains in the model itself, but through sophisticated internal tools and scaffolding.

Guard rails, in other words

When I first heard this I had so many questions. 11k lines of code is kind of relative in terms of size. I have a personal project that is larger than that, so it's kind of small. At the same time, you arguably don't need 11k lines to build a small Slack clone unless it's pretty feature rich.

I honestly think that's a substantial reason why so many people on Twitter seemed to think the Israelis did it. Imagine going through the trouble and effort of engraving something on a bullet and you settle for the most cliche shit possible

Ah, well, bummer

I have to admit that as someone who’s normally a skeptic seeing it deflect that missile seemed pretty compelling.

In a way they are. Most people live in such a way that their karmic reward/punishment is to be reincarnated into an armadillo. It is an unusually common fate.

Texans are the exception. They’re forced to re-live their lives, but as an okay-ish sitcom.

Had a dream that as part of an effort to colonize a distant planet me and my crewmates would have our minds uploaded to rabbits.

Clever really. Rabbits don’t need large spaceships, and rabbits breed like…rabbits.

A highly-misleading graph of GPT-5's performance on SWE-bench Verified

Allegedly the biggest improvements were in reducing the hallucination rate, but still, seeing this on the livestream was wild.

I guess MechaHitler went too far.

I feel like forming the Weeaboo Party.

We’re a single-party focused on doing what needs to be done when someone says “weeaboo”

Reminds me of some comment I read about how AI executive assistants are a popular topic for founders in part because when they first hire one they’re blown away by how much they streamline life.

But most of us really don’t need an executive assistant, so we fail to “get it”.