That loud kick drum in Dying For You sounds so good… stuck in my head!

the kids and the commies are always right, nobody ever listens to them and nobody ever learns a single lesson from being completely wrong about everything all the time because capitalism gives them headpats and belly rubs for refusing to change

I don’t like Smol Maltman or Melon Dust, but I use this cursor/claude thing and I have to admit it’s better than me sometimes. But it just needs to be “good enough” for the task at hand
And it’s going to have economic consequences for a lot of people

I don’t want to be an AI booster, but all of us who write text for a living (coders, copywriters, mgmt to some extent) have to confront the Innovators dilemma for our products:
AI is not as good as a professional, but a)it keeps improving and b)one day (today, in some cases) it’ll be “good enough”

I really like these “Git of Theseus” charts that make your git repo look like a weathered mountain.
Unfortunately they can be slow/cumbersome to make.
By reimplementing it in Rust with a better algorithm I got a massive speedup, hopefully now more people will make them! amedee.me/introducing-...

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

Political Violence Is Abhorrent. Charlie Kirk Didn’t Think So. The murder of Charlie Kirk was a moral travesty. We can recognize that without ignoring that he repeatedly fanned the flames of political violence himself.

jacobin.com/2025/09/kirk...
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. This feels like a normal, level-headed, centrist take. It shouldn't take one of the most leftist publications to publish this, this to me is a WaPo/WSJ/NYT uncontroversial opinion. Instead these other places are hagiographizing.

The two things to remember about the Hillary email thing is:

A) the Times have hated the Clinton's since they made them look dumb in the 1990s.

B) by the time the NYT printed this, it had already been discovered that the whole thing was a troll job by Jason Chaffetz, and the FBI had cleared her.

It’s more fun thinking of the mind (and oneself) as a (less faulty , more honest) LLM than a bad computer. The average person has trouble multiplying 8 and 9, but at least we know how many Rs strawberries has.

I spend so much time evaluating Claude output for work and guiding it, that I catch myself using that framework on myself.

This provides so much opportunity for self-compassion if we start thinking of ourselves as mini-LLMs that often make mistakes. The other day I got side tracked doing a task and caught myself thinking “I’m like a Claude session that’s gotten too long, I should take a break and restart myself”.

There’s a funny thing where historically we tend to inadvertently use the “currently hot thing” as our model of the mind. Freud used steam engines, when I was a kid it was computers, and recently deep learning/“predictive processing”. But now the hot thing is LLMs, and they are so faulty!

It's very telling that the far left refuses to support huge pieces of shit who everyone hates

To some extent low-code was already for that, but having it be on the dev side feels great, and more realistic as the prototype is integrated into the real app. Concerns like “which URL is this page at” and “who creates this resource” get fleshed out more than just connecting blocks in a low-code UI

Something I’m not seeing any discussion about is vibe coding for UX prototyping. I just implemented a figma for a complicated new feature in 2 hours, you can interact with it much better and find gaps in the user flows.
It’s like 3D printing a prototype to iterate on before sending it to the factory

* $9B

Wiz rejects Google’s $23 billion takeover in favor of IPO “Saying no to such humbling offers is tough,” said Wiz co-founder.

Oh and apparently Google tried to buy Wiz last year for $23B! www.theverge.com/2024/7/23/24...
A year later they’re happy paying $11B more!

At least NSO Group(another ex-IDF cyber company) had to develop Pegasus to hack iPhones, they didn’t get welcomed into the company with open arms and a big $$$ check.

While it’s nice to use EU-based services with better privacy and less spying, I’m still going to keep using American tech like Apple and Anthropic, just more selectively.

I don’t want the IDF to have access to my email.
Even if they don’t, I have choices as a consumer that’ll be exercising now.

I’ve got:
* Kagi for search
* Still have to choose for email (seems everybody picks either proton or fastmail)
* I already pay for iCloud 2tb so I’ll try to lean into that, or maybe expose my NAS to the internet over Tailscale
* It’s going to be tough to get rid of all the Login With Googles OAuths

Google buying Wiz for $32B (!) and adding a bunch of ex-Unit 8200 spies (the cyber unit of the IDF) to their payroll is the final straw for me, I’m going to start de-googling my life.

At your company, is your key issue collaborating on things that could be transactional, or trying to treat collaborative things transactionally? Or somewhere in between?

Aviation used to have a culture of “shut up and do what the pilot says”, and planes would fall out of the sky bc of it, but now every crew member is meant to be equal and speak up.
Doesn’t help that for aviation if the pilot is overbearing and wrong, he dies instead of the patient.

A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...

Holy absolute fuck this story is damning. Medicine’s culture has to change to weed out perceived “toxic geniuses”, or else it’s going to keep killing people like the 16 year old girl mentioned here.
www.propublica.org/article/thom...

Everyone values arts and humanities until it’s time to pay for it; everyone thinks they can be a painter or a writer until they try; everyone is a confident problem solver until there’s no single right answer.

"Working in this field in 2024 is like ..." (we asked 570 people to answer this with a metaphor). Some themes/examples:

Cool! The heavyweight models had 80-90% precision vs bag-of-words doing 67%, so "LLM stuff" still has some value at the top end, but I love to see simpler stuff like BoW still holding its own and having applications for on-device classification