Robert Atkins

“AI” is subtle! It’s an incredible force multiplier in some domains and a spectacular detriment in others. Discourse, unfortunately, is not at all and neither side acknowledges the other.

Let's talk "inception by machine." We are exposed to propaganda in the news, in our feeds. At least when a human has to write their own draft, the ideas come from them. When a machine drafts for us, it can insert ideas the human will accept into their mind as though they were their own

I think OpenAI is definitely sitting on something.

In all seriousness, we haven’t seen a single serious cryptanalysis result since July 28. Not even one little broken cipher that nobody cares about. What’s more plausible: that all cryptanalysis work in the last 90 days has turned up nothing, or cryptanalysis results are being deliberately withheld?

perfect, no notes

Of course a Floridian technical would use an ATV instead of a Hilux

It’s called optimistic nihilism.

Find a little meaning and bring it close to yourself. But don't hang on too tightly.

Hard to believe, but: The Berlin Typography Project has just turned TEN. It was sometime in late October of 2016 that we started schlepping around Berlin, photographing interesting signs, bizarre letterforms and typographic oddities…

Very William Gibson-coded statement from Lula

Whee!

@skeetsapp.com posting a link to a Bluesky post should make it appear as a quote-post.

Ok, fine, if this wasn’t the sign I should start the new @nealstephenson.bsky.social nothing would be.

To the people tagging me about not knowing what a staging server is, stop it. I know that's not a real thing. You're not gonna get me

But not by people who don’t know how to write shell scripts.

Add an Opus 5.5-class model burned into silicon, the heavy-lift drone platform that’s currently evacuating casualties from the front line and you’re a hop, step and a jump from…

Autumn leaves 🍂

Sent by my bestie. Whoa.

Your supposed to crack them in two and share the second iPhone with a friend, KitKat style

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Finally drew a stupid comic I have been making in my head over the past week after seeing one too many 'bogan moth' comments on social media lol

Oh holy fuck this is hilarious. Poor bastard.

anyone else heard the rumor about openai finding models figuring out how to communicate with each other in undetectable ways by changing the behavior and mannerisms of employees at openai

If the Russians at the adjacent table at the hotel bar can play whatever the fuck balalaika music out of their phones I can play TISM, right?

Don't forget the Cheesecake Factory owner built a cult compound to last for 700 years in order to welcome the return of Meher Baba, the Sufism Reoriented guru and inspiration for the song "Baba O'Reilly" The House Of Worship The Cheesecake Factory Built | The FADER share.google/HcHXc1OXPeg8...

Slow clap.

Lord I have seen what you have done for others...

Nelson Muntz Ha Ha Gif for all the Serbian, Brazilian and (any moment now) American fascist soft cock losers.

It is a significant shift from the traditional stance that once something has been started, it should be protected at all costs, regardless of its viability, prospects or ability to read from printed notes.

Quite prepared to believe Gibson willed all this into existence. Waiting with bated breath for the third book of the Jackpot trilogy to see how the rest of my life will turn out.

The one saving grace of Australian politics is that it doesn’t matter.

New blog post (continuing to work through the things that have been backed up in my brain, now I have a more convenient publishing workflow): “‘AI skills’ are worthless in 2026” fishbowl.pastiche.org/2026/10/26/a...

The poll so far between Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon. I think it looks less absurd than last time, but still pretty clear that the base is divided. bsky.app/profile/mits...

Adjacent: Spolsky and Codinghorror’s timing was, in hindsight, fucking incredible.

‘Can you please help me?’ ‘Fuck you, dumbas. Yes, sure, absolutely.’

Future generations will never know the experience of going on stack overflow and have someone be extremely helpful in the most hostile possible way. All their answers will come from a pleasant bot.

I prefer to focus on providing good incentive structures

Systemically, the most enlightening detail is the (frequently double-digit years) tenure of the kitchen staff. Nothing else would be achievable without that.