ah, that guy. That would track.

anyway, this ostensible tech journalist didn't watch the video, he doesn't expect any of his followers to watch it, they all just want to jerk each other off in the replies. Pretty typical for that crowd.

I actually watched the video (half of it, honestly I got bored). and, mildly provocative title aside, it's just an interview with a security professional about the implications of AI that is very good at finding software vulnerabilities? Useful but extremely benign stuff.

some people don't like Green's aww-shucks affect and that's fine, but it's very funny seeing Chris pivot in real time to accommodate the "actually he was always bad" replies. Doesn't matter if you're completely incoherent as long as you've correctly identified that the Bad people are bad!

the important thing to guys like this is not to disagree with hank green, but to reinforce that attempting to engage with anything that is not condemnatory towards AI will be socially sanctioned, if you happen to care about that

hank green hasn't changed, he's just applying the same essential curiosity he always has and reached tentative and nuanced conclusions which your social circle has deemed verboten to even consider

playoffmaxxing

he can’t press, he can’t play as a fulcrum, he’s easily bullied off the ball, and he can’t head the ball, but he’s okay at scoring when he gets his shots off, which he also can’t do

You can tell just by watching him play, he's quite athletic but it's all shoulders and no hips.

Neglected to consider that I'd be jet lagged to hell, and then it was freezing outside and I hadn't brought a decent coat, so I spent the day mostly huddled in an unused conference hallway until they could get me a room. Lessons learned.

I took a red eye into Boston a few weeks ago, thinking "oh cool I haven't been there in years, I'll just drop my luggage off and tool around the city before checking in and showering up for the opening reception"

I will say, as someone who gets to travel a few times a year for conferences: if work will pay for it then arriving a day early is great. Gives me time to actually explore the place a bit and not feel like I spent half a week in the hotel. Big “if” though

Three cuing strikes again

interesting that maybe ten of the boys names have some plausible connection to Mormonism and none of the girls names do

Rural counties in blue states are also hyper-conservative parasites with a death wish. They deserve no special accommodations either.

sure would suck if NYC stank of trash in the summer

what he means is “they should go where the black people are”

and then be forced to respond when, without prior warning, an actual five year old is wheeled out to yell “NO I don’t want a smiley face, I want a TRUCK” at them

will probably delete this in a few days before some deranged anonymous waste of carbon with professed leftist politics trawls through old posts and leaves a creepy reply about my kids, but damned if they aren’t cuties. Being a dad rocks.

Rural America’s revealed policy preference is that it wants to die. Fine. Let it, and offer plenty of escape routes for the people who will need to escape it.

this has become my informal role at work lately, trying to guide people away from “LLM as open-ended data gathering tool” towards “LLM as producer of bespoke, deterministic tools” (my qualifications: used Claude code to build like two things)

this is just every spring weekend when you’ve got a kid with asthma and GERD

In the realm of AI debates I like to see how long it takes someone who nominally wants to dismiss LLM *capabilities* pivot instead to yelling about business practices. Reductio ad Altman, I guess. It’s a pretty reliable sign of how seriously they can be taken, in my experience

One of the fun things about being online is seeing people with advanced degrees show their entire asses on a variety of topics on the regular. Really disabuses one of the notion that academics as a class are more thoughtful or careful than anybody else.

who can afford taco bell in this economy

at least he doesn't seem inclined to dip his toe into trying to write about housing policy, as far as I can tell. Unlike, say, Kevin Drum

(it's me, i'm #2 and #3)

i like that Carly Rae's fanbase (male category) seems to consist primarily of:

1. Gay men
2. Over-educated guys who embraced poptimism in their 30s but still feel a little embarrassed by it
3. Metalheads

“affordable mandates increase market rents, rich people can afford higher market rents, ergo affordable mandates soak the rich to benefit the poor” sounds convincing if you don’t think too hard about it

like, I think he genuinely thinks that "affordable" mandates come purely at the expense of greedy developers and rich people, he has no concept that it's mostly *middle-income renters* who are pinched hardest.