sophie alpert

I keep hearing about RAM prices but no one is talking about the real cost of AI scarcity? I haven’t seen an Anh Phoong billboard in months

got frustrated recently at work about people writing using AI instead of using their brains! here's my take on it: sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/t...

teachers: “resist peer pressure” autistic kids: “ok!”

@enclose.horse any idea why sometimes one tile gets stuck as a ghost?

this ngrams chart is delightful to me

“I would’ve thought that was so cool if my parents had done that when I was little!” no you wouldn’t. you’d’ve thought it was normal

thinking today about how if AI takes the easy parts of our jobs then we'll just spend all day doing hard tasks instead! maybe first written about by @fredbenenson.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

saw this @muni.sfmta.com bus last night. what does it mean! this little guy is living two weeks in the future

nine years old

why does every ecommerce website now offer me “You’ve earned a mystery discount!! Which of the following are you most interested in:” as soon as I click on anything I really don’t think it used to be like this

catching up on @dropout.tv's @smartypantsshow.bsky.social and @paulrobalino.bsky.social is amazing

I keep getting into conversations with engineers where I talk about how desperately I want my database to support materialized views with incremental updates and too often I get a blank stare in response. so I wrote a new post about why you should care! sophiebits.com/2025/08/22/m...

@estradiol.bsky.social your username goes hard

I wrote a blog post sophiebits.com/2025/07/21/t...

I have a confession to make. I've gone back and forth on whether to say anything, but I can't keep quiet any longer—not only does this look bad, it makes no sense. Please stop doing the cursor-smoothy effect that Screen Studio does. It's so bad. Not how hovering on things works!! Hello!

you can always do the “5 whys” in your incident review but be careful about going past that because after like 8 whys it’s just “capitalism”

every time you think "maybe I should add a layer of caching in the application", take that energy and make the database faster instead

shinigami eyes a bit concerning when it glitches out

Union square is full of people protesting for trans youth. Over for 4000 in attendance

transgenderism

weirdest review I’ve seen in a while

kate I found it!!! give this a listen youtu.be/S3ucrGLTI9U

if someone handed you a button that changes your gender instantly and kills a random person somewhere in the world, how many times would you press it?

mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the eepiest of them all?

it really is amazing how quickly someone arguing in favor of "think of the children" legislation makes it absolutely explicit they think children are property with zero legal rights or protections, all while claiming to be the ones who care about child safety

I prefer CDFs over histograms for empirical data. no sense in trying to differentiate a non-smooth function

@mileswgriffis.bsky.social curious, what do you wear on the front of your flo mask?

I unfortunately never liked Calibri so I’m ready for era 3

the devil works hard but the figma monetization team works harder

I am a staunch anti-prescriptivist except, of course, when it comes to the words “crypto” and “algorithm”

oh, you’re getting a vaginoplasty? I call that “ding-dong ditch”