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My biggest pet-peeve in the current tech climate is how the term “AI” has taken over and now everything is simultaneously both AI and also just another garbage LLM

I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie. It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D) charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E

Beautiful vintage #infographic on the ceiling & speed of different aircraft (via Reddit bit.ly/4c2bMCs)

North American population density map. Beautiful! by @Civixplorer

Today I announce Cantrip: On summoning entities from language in circles. In this book I unify the paradigm behind base models, chatbots, coding agents, RLMs, and RL agents, through the metaphor of magic. Code is provided. deepfates.com/cantrip

Rivers are living beings.

Curve fitting methods & what they say xkcd.com/2048/

Christopher Nolan's hand-drawn map of Inception

I see it's once again time to post this:

Major languages spoken in Toronto (other than English) by neighbourhood by Alex McPhee pronghornmaps.com/toronto/

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

MUST READ thread before Monday night's forecasted G4 / SEVERE geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be seen as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border at times. Widespread mid-latitude displays are possible. Here's what you need to know to have a successful aurora chase tonight! 🧵 #heliophysics #aurora

Agreed on what the actual ****. This is reflected of a pretty fundamental failure to understand what historians do, because LLMs do basically none of my job and are completely incapable of most of it. But they have the ears of the people that write the checks, so this is real bad news. 1/

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

No kings in this country! ...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

Who's your favorite sexy Dropout car wash team? ❤️ 'Like' if Team 1 is your favorite 💬 'Comment' if Team 2 is your favorite!

If you love hearing oddly satisfying cracks at the chiropractor, Grant O'Brien has something special for you...

Forget having to choose between The Big Game and The Puppy Bowl - we've got the ultimate sporting event that combines them both: The Human Puppy Bowl! 🏈🐶

Can Jordan correctly identify three of their friends' breast milk? Let's find out... 🤔🍼

Now everywhere Erika goes, a roast of Sam Reich follows... 🔥

The lady said $3,000 worth of animated buttholes, Sam! 🍑

Brennan's announcement

If there’s one talk you watch from #pycon let it be Cory Doctorow’s keynote youtu.be/ydVmzg_SJLw?...

more terminal fun: canonical mode wizardzines.com/comics/canon...

oh god, it’s true, we’re living in an era of Clippy Maxing

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

With the White House using OpenAi to make racist propaganda in studio ghibli art style there has never been apt scene in anime history:

Even if the technocrats were right about AI replacing all jobs (they’re not), notice they never pitch any vision for what happens to humans. “No one has to work anymore” sounds great, but the only version of it where we’re not sleeping under bridges is one where these guys pay their fucking taxes

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

I have been trying to formulate some rules for giving good talks and fundamentally it’s this: tell a story. People like stories, and they will listen to you if they trust you are telling them.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

You'd think the DeepSeek-replacing-OpenAI situation was kinda obvious - I don't think there's ever been a company who's "bottled lightning" and thought to themselves "oh yeah no one could ever replicate that" and had it work out well. #ai #machine-learning

LLMs aren't interesting to me as a logician because there's hardly anything to mathematically prove. "This seems to work well enough, when trained on this corpus, but sometimes it doesn't". Okay.

I love how the deepseek model is out and open source instead of this garbage closed-source proprietary approach that OpenAI has taken but it doesn’t change how fundamentally limited LLMs are at solving real problems

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign