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Optimism rewards capacity for tomorrow, not certainty of it. I tell myself.

When I put together my moonshot wishlist of dream authors for Love Letters: Reasons to Be Alive, Bo Bolander's name got underlined twice. No one, and I mean no one, writes like Bo. Here is her breathtaking essay on the song 'Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground' by Blind Willie Johnson.

When I heard about the MIT study I immediately wondered about it’s applicability to coding agents, and it turns out that the same team is already researching it.

The amusing (pejorative) outcome of this is that it's less likely to generate a sentence like "I don't know" without guard rails because (1) it does not reason anything and (2) humans rarely say it either (proportional to corpus), so not much training data paints those spots on the die.

A skeet went by about accountants using LLM for reading receipts and invoices and that is so oddly specific to my professional niche for the past near decade that I'd swear it was my old employer trying to bait me into an NDA case, but I have a lot of feelings about that.

If I ignore what's in my head, feelings about work, the well-being of friends, and everything that's going on in the world, life's pretty okay.

"We're just not ready for automating testing." Yeah, sure, principles discussed since the 1968 conference circuit can be hard to plan for adequately but I will leave this mortal coil if we take any longer.

“Why is bluesky so incredibly dull” because you haven’t carefully curated a feed of the most unhinged people on the internet, like i have

When we moved into this house a couple years ago, my very kind neighbor was like “oh FYI my husband is a concert cellist so if it’s ever too loud or disturbing you or anything, please just let us know.” You know what, hasn’t been a problem.

"Move fast and break things" but management has decided moving is glue work.

historians is it good when the robe Nobles are able to buy the positions and honors typically reserved for the sword Nobles?

Shark at Work 🦈

On the off chance anyone wants this and more: Names: shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/f... More: github.com/kdeldycke/aw...

There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes. A clipart comic called Get Your War On. Click on through: www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...

There's still the worm in my head that says voting for someone and calling them a "young 74" when the statistical lifespan of a white man is 76? years is as much from the inability to accept their own mortality.

Little thing on illnesses and ailments: you just kinda gotta believe people. If someone says "I am really struggling with hayfever" they are not telling you they have the hayfever you got when you were five and shrug off like it's nothing. The key part of the sentence is, "I am really struggling".

For no reason, from 2019: Napkin math: Abu Ghraib was operated by US until 2006(?). Suppose younger than teenager at the time doesn't know. 0-25 years old is about 1/3rd of US, maybe 1/3rd of that is voting age? 11% of the US is 36.3 million voters who has no awareness of these crimes of ours.

I need to do more reading.

What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.

🦎 for my feelings about "We needed a study for that?"

"hey 35 to 50 year old newsreading liberals what was the run-up to the iraq war like" is the most precision crafted bait possible on this website

Every piece of war media is antiwar. There's no way to make "Let's solve problems via mass murder" look good. :)

Pithy because the pith is bitter and that's the taste of getting responses in a different direction than the words you didn't say meant.

. You got it exactly right. They want to tamp it down now Because fascism and racism by definition become awful aesthetically , they want to pre bake in a culture of deference And you being able to say no is caustic to their entire economy

No conflict of interest? No conflict? No interest! Interest? Conflict.