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Likewise, I propose we call Type I errors “yeah, no” and Type II errors are “no, yeah”

--dangerously-rewrite-in-rust

Ok, who decided to call it “the bitter lesson” and not “Scaling Compute Rules Everything Around Me”

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Have you seen the new optimizer?

This opened a realization in me about the way transphobes insist on “defining” womanhood, that’s really rooted in their drive to achieve control, not to gain understanding

man goes to library and asks for books about paranoia

librarian whispers, "they're right behind you"

Truly why does anyone believe Boris has any vision or insight, he’s a super lucky guy but it’s obvious everything he puts out now is Ant marketing slop

people have spoken

There’s got to be a Conway’s Law analogue here like “the behavior of a large language model will mirror the neuroses patterns of the lab that created it”

“Butter from another udder” is this a thing

idk if Bluesky or the atmosphere will ever take off, but I think it might become the velvet underground for the next gen of internet apps where federated identity and first-class agent use cases will be the norm

Daily affirmations

I am both a member
and a nonmember
of the simcluster
I am neither a member
nor a nonmember
of the simcluster

I am top chicken and not top chicken
I am neither top chicken
nor not top chicken

Browser extension that replaces “normies” with “the gods”

“The gods don’t read documentation”

“The gods don’t update their app”

“The gods don’t file bug reports”

What if Herbert meant to imply that the Butlerian Jihad would be the worst thing that ever happened to humanity?

You had me at proto

Someone should invent a social network website that shows other people the words you actually posted instead of whatever the other people had already decided you meant

It worked

My MIL got my kid into listening to “Hit the Road Jack” so now every time we try to get him to listen to our directions he’s like, “uhhhhh, WHAT you say?”

Thanks for blessing my timeline @marshallscott.bsky.social @telephonesis.bsky.social

watch DARK STAR (1974)

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Vibe coding is second nature to us simclusterists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the 2D fluoddity and one or two minor mobius websites.

1/ 🍭 Nobody talks about this, but the “Mystery Flavor” Dum-Dum taught me more about business than my MBA.

Here’s the truth: there is no mystery flavor.

It’s just what comes out of the machine between batches. A liminal candy. A transition state.

And isn’t that… all of us? 🧵