TIL that U.S. strategic petroleum reserves are kept in Texas salt caves each one as big as the empire state building. They get the oil out by pumping fresh water in (water is heavier than oil).
Extraction is limited and throughput, partly because the water can dissolve the cave walls.
12 Months, the new Dresden Files novel, is actually a really deep and insightful study of loss and how to successfully go through a grieving process.
It also coins the term "Spice-goyles".
Thanks! It's great to hear there is progress. Makes me want to check it out again.
Last time I tried it, it had zero screen reader support.
I understand that this might not be a priority, but as a blind developer, that is my honest answer to your question.
I agree that that is not really agentic. Pretty much the exact opposite, in fact. I just want to point out that for certain tasks, deterministic flowchart prompting is a completely sufficient and reasonable approach.
I played this a long time ago. Remember delving into an ice cavern were a mind-flayer was in a mental battle with a white dragon. I had a blast. DDO managed to capture something real about D&D.
Glad to see it's still around.
I love thoughts like this because they inspire humility and interrupt my habitual anthropocentrism.
Also reminds me of the plot of Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan.
Look, Peter Steinberger is legit. PSPDFKit is a solid product. I even believe that OpenClaw is a good, interesting project—but there are many of those.
What I'm saying is that its astronomical rise to fame does not seem completely organic. 6/6
And I didn't even mention the crypto-bro identity theft and shitcoin rugpull that was part of the OpenClaw rebranding.
Note that this isn't OpenClaw's or Steinberger's fault—but crypto bros circling your project like vultures just doesn't inspire confidence. 5/6
The OpenClaw hype seems coordinated.
Git repo blows up. Podcasts are talking about it. Steinberger goes on Lex Fridman. OpenAI does an acqui-hire for $10B.
OpenAI is hurting for relevance and funding. Remember Atlas? Neither do I. OpenClaw is the next thing that keeps them in the headlines. 4/6
Before it rebranded to Moltbot, the project was called OpenClaude, a direct reference to Anthropic's flagship AI.
This resulted in a trademark dispute with Anthropic, who is also famous for caring about security. OpenClaw is not.
If mom says no, you go to dad—OpenAI. 3/6
Moltbook is a Reddit-style social media platform for AI agents.
This is an idea that is, IMO, obvious, really cool, and ultimately not useful to anyone. I like it in the way I like an art project.
OpenClaw, formerly Moltbot, emerged from this ecosystem.
I keep seeing their ads, btw. 2/6
So, OpenClaw.
People post their agent harnesses on r/localllama and other AI spaces basically daily. Some of them aren't even bad.
Now suddenly there's OpenClaw, which I've never heard of, and legacy software is supposed to be quaking in its boots. This hype does not seem organic. 1/6
Trying to get my ghostbox python project fully typed and mypy-ready.
"Found 1378 errors in 19 files (checked 1 source file)"
Oh to be at the foot of a mountain.
In books there is the so-called litrpg genre which has characters deal with levels and XP diegetically. It's definitely a niche that exists.
Note that this isn't exactly new: Even the old D&D cartoon from the 80s had characters say "That's against my alignment!" in-fiction.
So I ordered a beach towel and it turns out you can't dry yourself with this thing. Like at all. Now I feel stupid and humiliated. Looks cool though.
In other news, anyone got ideas on uses for a beach towel?
P.S. no beaches
In case you don't know heather Cox Richardson.
She's a historian who talks about the current rise of fascism in the U.S. with a mix of candor and
sanity that keeps me informed without jeopardizing my mental health.
Highly recommend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHgR...
Just like Andrew.
Accurate tbh, though I'm still waiting for robotics to catch up so that the "sweeping the synagogue" can become a real thing.
Also interesting that they all picked the same. Maybe it's true that the big models all converge.
PSA that although modelscope.cn offers free inference via API for various LLMs like qwen and deepseek, this requires you to have a +86 (chinese) mobile phone number for real name verification.
Also, if you go through the setup process, which is extensive, you will learn this in the very last step.
Irradiated Beef
The recent GLM 5 has excellent scores on hallucination benchmarks. Indeed, the entire issue may be a solved problem. Here's a paper on it, not by Z.AI but relevant.
tldr is to simply reward epistemological uncertainty during training.
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664
Bbecause of the Anthropic vs. OpenAI drama iwatched the superbowl ads and it turns out the one for jesus is actually good.
I don't know who's behind this etc, but I like the message.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0-x...
Imagine it's 2001 and you refuse to google something because the search engine is "a stochastic parrot".
lol 2% are fast learners
It's so true.
Bethesda jank has become such a brand for them I'm surprised noone has run with it and made a game where crazy bugs are the main focus.
I love throwing a dense, Chinese-language technical manual at an LLM and then immediately getting the answer I need to get a thing working.
Makes me feel like a cyberpunk crime hacker from Neotokyo $$$
I guess the same is true for stuff right in front of you, just at a much smaller scale.
Kind of makes the whole concept of "now" a lot more tenuous.
Life is strange.
Thank you for phrasing this position so clearly and succinctly.
Out of genuine curiosity, what is your definition of meaning?
The Anthropic Superbowl ads are on fire. Reminds me of Apple vs. MS.
This is my favorite because it's the funniest one. The one with the business lady is creepiest IMO.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBSa...