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separately i think those organizations are clearly not up to this, but one of the reasons they are not up to this is that their belief in AI alignment risks are essentially theological beliefs that are conveyed to them via strong social bonds and emotionally compelling writing

Unfortunately the products work lol

I have no idea if this changes, but if we froze progress here, I’d say the job is far from dead, it just involves a new higher level programming language

2026 is wild because you can just say shit like this and everyone will be like "oh yeah, the text elementals, that's a good phrase for what they are" instead of looking at you like jesse what the fuck

Software engineers are plumbers, we always have been.

Story time! Six years ago, my first book, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), came out. It was fun to write! I got to share all my cosmology fun facts and dig deep into all the ways the universe might end. I had SO much fun with it, I thought, "maybe I should write another book?" 1/?

The Pattern We Keep Forgetting open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

Shabbat Shalom to everyone, and especially to everyone who refuses to compromise on anyone else’s humanity.

"How can you not be romantic about baseball?"

Hold on, did everyone do so much AI last night that US-east-1 started to melt?

Writing code for work is basically just overseeing a bunch of coding agents. Like a video game where you have to trick all the MPCs into doing your quests.

To date, @blackskyweb.xyz’s focus has been on building tools to provide a safer online space for members of the Black Twitter community to move to... With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Today in social justice toolkit: A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation. You've given them only bad options. I give some examples & then we talk about how to design them. This one's pretty important. Read and share, please?

SWEs with a higher SAT verbal than math score right now:

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

The machines the Luddites smashed were literally the machines that let women work.

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Is there a Vietnamese spot in Pittsburgh called "Danh Tanh Banh" because there should be. If you steal this just like, give me a free banh mi sometime idk

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ME: How's it look? MECHANIC LOOKING UNDER MY IMAGINATION'S HOOD: *wiping hands on a rag* I see your problem. You've been filling this thing up with despair when it's supposed to run on joy.

Hello atmosphere ! Over the last few weeks, a bunch of us have been collaborating on a new set of lexicons for publishing, indexing, and building out social features across long-form reading and writing apps ! 🧵1/7

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places but still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater." - Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien #photography #nature #love #jrrtolkien #books #hopecore #hope

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There’s a whole thing in Hanukah about how you’re supposed to “publicize the miracle” except that there are all sorts of exceptions in times of danger. Because the times that the Jews have lived under have not always been safe. May the souls of the murdered in Australia be for a blessing.

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