hell yeah!! congrats!!

I really liked her analysis of Totalitarianism — seemed like an insightful analysis of how/why the phenomenon arises and its character once it does… though I haven’t read it in a couple years

i think classical liberal values are, on balance, good

EVERYBODY SHOULD BE BACKING UP THEIR STUFF

I LOVE AUTOMATIC REMOTE BACKUPS

someone on the red line has tried to sell weed to the pope. i guarantee it

just crashed my puny macbook trying to generate one measly token from llama4

will also shamelessly plug www.henryjosephson.com/writing/My-O...

thank *you* for the quick response!

also a great reminder that i should be posting more grids. especially with the nyt being stocked up on themelesses

knew nothing about the movie, which ngl confused me for a bit. great grid — loved the prosocial purchase clue and the chicago references!

i want to subscribe to your blog! do you have an rss feed or an email thing?

new favorite poem!!

Marge Piercy’s “To be of use”.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/...

Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.

to be clear, i think that a ton of what eg openai does is super problematic — reneging on voluntary safety commitments, trying to shirk their nonprofit obligations for a quick $, undermining our education system etc

just not sure climate is the worst thing they’re doing (pls convince me otherwise!)

Hi Dr. Luccioni! Strong agree that we need more transparency from big AI corps.

The original author seems to have alr addressed your points in the OP, tho: bsky.app/profile/andy...

I know much less about this than you, so I’d be vv grateful if you cld help me see what I’m sure you think he missed!

i love the white sox like my own, but i’m unsure if we should call whatever they do “baseball“

disgusting that my phone puts slack as a “productivity” app. be honest. it goes in “social”

all my homies hate negatively-valenced conscious states

the unicorn whisperer... the feel-good movie of the year.

trying to download a 6 GB csv

🚨NY has a new frontier model bill🚨

read my thoughts here: www.henryjosephson.com/writing/RAIS...

beware the shortest path between two points

I'm glad I made it out of high school before gpt3 dropped.

underrated trick: piping command outputs into `pbcopy` to give to claude

anthropic probably has a great rationing model rn but just doesn’t have the compute to ship it

if i’m hitting 3.5 sonnet usage limits as a pro subscriber…

office hours might be the thing i’ll miss most about college.

you can just chat with world-leading experts in a field one-on-one (because nobody else ever shows up) and they’ll be thrilled to talk with you (because nobody else ever shows up)!

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