the open-closed gap on generally-available model performance is narrowing

frontier labs risk being undercut in opus-class until they make mythos-class GA

<checks for a borrow>

One of the hardest things in the way of cannabis policy getting to a normal state of affairs is the thing i have at the end of the second screen cap: most lawmakers (in legal weed states!) still see cannabis as an industry that they created, and a privilege the government gave the people.

Lotta evil is downstream from wanting to be scared instead of bored.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
House of Sand and Fog

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

Let 👏 claude 👏 listen 👏 to 👏 tunes

It’s not a great movie, but this might be the original

“a bass part so wholly speculative as to really dissociate him from the proceedings altogether”

Opening paragraphs, #16:
Patricia Highsmith

do NOT call me a NIMBY. I FULLY support new housing if it is AFFORDABLE, passes my personal VIBE check, will not be lived in by people I consider UNCOOL and is constructed only when the MOON is waxing, upon the APPROPRIATE ley lines

Love a good 'this is regulatory arbitrage in plain sight' chart

funniest thing about working in tech is that all my projects have top-secret code names and then the actual project is like “rewrite a paragraph on the website”

I have yet to see an argument against the pied-a-terre tax which doesn't make the arguer sound ridiculous, which I guess is a great argument in favor of the tax in itself.

Eleanor Brown

I stopped wearing a Fitbit after I’d have a day where I’d feel really good, check how well I slept, learn I slept like shit, and then think “well I guess I feel like shit”

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

FWIW I’ve found a lot of plane tickets in old books, which makes sense

My system is more destructive: single page dogeared to mark a passage, double to mark my place, add 1-2 pages to both if they’re too dried and brittle. I aspire to your system but never seem to have that stuff in arm’s reach

Sally Timms - Horses YouTube video by Dr. Orloff

Not sure why there have been so many similar versions of this song, but this is the first one and still my favorite. The best Will Oldham version is also not on Spotify
youtu.be/V6DTXwml5us

today i continue my long struggle: attempting to recreate the pinto bean salsa from el jarrito, the mexican food restaurant in west houston where we ate after church in the 1990s

Right, and a $20M market cap, and there’s $50M in new converts. It’s a goofy story but the % changes are not that meaningful

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Jesus' Life YouTube video by Byronic Tonic

and the Bethlehem Star
youtu.be/lL8_cfi-bCw

It’s a close race between this and “learnings” for what will push me over the edge 😂

“The big ideas don’t always occur to the biggest people: imagine Frazer, undoubtedly one of the stupidest bastards who ever put pen to paper, getting the Golden Bough inspiration! And in this age of copyrights & private property we’re stuck with him.”

I would donate to a GoFundMe to re-animate Northrop Frye

Seriously though, I think a lot of these people probably misread The Last Samurai as kind of a highbrow Ender’s Game

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta