Evan Goer

we've identified another vulnerability leak. now hackers on the dark web have identified your bad knee and that weird thing your shoulder does if you sleep on it wrong. there's no patch available for this, they're now just keenly aware you feel like your career has stalled out

OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.

It made something with much more brevity

There are some great papers to be written here about the type of culture that would let this happen.

Here to say: we can still write *programs*. Programs that make purposeful LLM calls, even, as part of their job. We do not need to generate and execute unmonitored arbitrary Bash in a loop. We can just not do that.

The illusion and politics of objectivity in cost-benefit analysis, a decision-making institution so ingrained that Americans can’t imagine life without it.

Maybe my memory is shot, but I would swear that the Sunnyvale Public Library had this edition forty years ago.

California regrets the error.

dario's friday letter demanding a new regulatory regime and asking for a waiver of antitrust laws so they could form a cartel was signed off on by sam, dario, elon, and something like half of all politicians. so everyone who sees this as a bid for Complete EA Takeover and has any other ideology

it's very simple: non-competes are bad and network effects are real

actually wrote the word “gated” as a verb just now, FML

now that we know how the new season of Reacher is (excellent), a thread about why you should watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show, in the form of a Q&A

Salesmanship!

The arms race of deferring agency and the dark acquiescence to robotic bureaucracy.

Not sure I'll ever get over the fact that every villain I ever thought an unrealistic blithering idiot with half-arsed writing was in fact unrealistically over-written and over-thought - while every 'realistic' villain with a coherent, sympathetic motivation is now clearly 100% literary fiction.

OH MY FUCK THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT

My investor told me he doesn't really see the moat in my plan. I explained that's the point. The glacis protects the base of the wall and obscures the ditch entirely. By the time the assault party reaches the counterscarp with fascines, they will be committed and under crossfire from grapeshot

Just came back from a lovely 4th of July party in perfect weather. Now checking in on what God has seen fit to deliver to the capital.

Hopefully, Steuard thought to bring some of the physicist’s mordant sensibility when teaching this class. “Now, it is our turn to learn about Balrog physiology.”

1975. A dingy IBM office. Doc Brown is grabbing Michael Fagan’s sleeve. “It's your kids, Michael! Something's gotta be done about your kids!"

This paper by Margaret-Anne Storey is the most important thing I've read about the field of software engineering in years. arxiv.org/abs/2603.22106

It really is wild how much of stuff you thought had to be based in some kind of rigorous, evidence-based process ends up being just vibes all the way down.

the bad guys have a dev+deploy cycle about 4-5 orders of magnitude faster than your average harried municipal IT team, so

Does not escape my notice that here, the CEO of a giant private prison company is showing more personal integrity than your average law firm partner. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Run under piping hot water for at least 15 seconds, then twist hard.

i needed this out of my head

Had log back in to share this piece by @segyges.bsky.social about LLMs and consciousne— wait, where are you going? Come back! It’s actually pretty good! www.verysane.ai/p/might-an-l...

This tracks with slipping into a pre-literate society. The Big Man and his family don‘t need to read, we have scribes for that.

my evergreen take is that "building software" is a bad metaphor because just like any other artifact made out of language, software is written the dominant activity of building is actually building (laying bricks or whatever); the dominant activity of writing is determining what to write

Going back many decades, every physics department would receive a steady stream of crank physics manifestos. Typically from a retired engineer, using dimly remembered undergrad math. Kalanick & friends have discovered that this hobby is a lot less lonely if you have an LLM providing flattery.

The older teens has gotten into programming. He now asks with genuine interest what I did at work each day. I don’t have the heart to tell him, “Five hours wrestling with dependencies, blinking back tears, then some code reviews as a treat.”

INDIANA JONES AND THE LEAVERS OF THE LOST ARK ALONE BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE FUNDING FOR THAT AND ALSO FIGHTING NAZIS WOULD BE DEI I GUESS