brent

not the first to note this but once you give the thing a name you're cooked. another way LLMs are like a demon or a fae i guess. names have power

First of all i dont have 'meltdowns' or get 'over-stimumated'. These are simply Rockabilly Freakouts, and are totally normal

Putting together a conference on “tangible computing” — DM if you’d like to give a 10, 20, or 30 minute talk :-) In NYC / late November / early December 🎉

park slope enterprise rent-a-car once again earning its place on the enemies list

IMO we’re really missing a practice for staying sane in a paradigm shift

“keep austin weird” appears to have been a real monkey’s paw type deal

bizarre ride II the pharcyde is a wall-to-wall perfect album. why is nobody talking about this www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-mA...

been at the houston airport for four hours and brother you better BELIEVE im imagining sisyphus happy

at the knocked loose show and the teens are already doing a circle pit to the k mart chevelle opener. hardcore will never die

in retrospect watching a slice of life anime expressly about how smoking cigarettes kicks ass may not have been the best choice while actively quitting

the openai math drop seems concerning but it is extremely validating for those of us who got an F in algebra 2 for being drunk in class and never took a real math course again

unfortunately i've come to believe fairly strongly that online community is deeply insufficient for the human experience, which makes it hard to stay attuned to the online communities i care about

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To reiterate on a point I've made before, I really wanna see more Neocities-style unhedged rejection of the post-FB web in the AT Protocol world. I imagine a lot of people may see that approach as being more unserious or impractical, but I really do think it's worth trying

i would never use twitter. i prefer my brain cooked sous vide

i don’t doubt that pigs are conscious but i think it’s in the same way that cenobites are. if you gave them opposable thumbs they’d invent the lament configuration

Let me just explain the arithmetic thing real quick; I'm seeing a lot of people not understanding what it's supposed to show (or was supposed to show in 2023). First, let's agree that an LLM is a Stochastic Parrot, a description which I find poetic, useful, informative, and basically correct.

trying to remember to use leaflet for writing that is too long for posts but still too half-formed for my personal site. here's some thoughts about AI etiquette

chive on, space cowboy...

i know times are bad and scary rn but it’s important to keep perspective on how much better things have gotten even within my lifetime. for example they sell taco bell sauce in grocery stores now

i stand by what i said here (play 500FF demo, it’s the best kind of psychlogical torture)

People call this album problematic, but what makes it great—makes it art—is how it’s the sound of a man putting his every Bad Thought on the page, and only recognizing about half of them as being Bad. And then there’s that splashy drumming, that sludgy bass, that sound of barely holding together

I also think there is a hint of an implication that trying to describe or understand the difference is ivory tower nonsense time-wasting and/or r/thisisdeep posting which I think is wrong. It’s precisely the fact that the line has gotten harder to see that makes identifying it worthwhile.

”no trespassing” would have gotten the message across just fine i think

the problem with interesting technology is that engineers would much rather entertain themselves with how interesting it is than prove why it's interesting for others

man i hate to hand it to openai but it is wild how much less insane their paid models are than the various claudes. massive own goal by anthropic