My recent perspective on search-assisted AI
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My recent perspective on search-assisted AI
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You gotta understand this is somehow the most Gen X coded show. Tool, Metallica, smashing pumpkins, smoking, Cray aesthetic continues to the future, suspicious Youths
That's it, today is the right day to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Raised by Wolves.
My daughter got access to full Spotify because the kids version doesn't have kpop demon hunters or pink pony club (why) so now there's portal sound of silence blasting somehow
This show is so good
Oh my God yes
booooo
I don't do the shopping that often but I grabbed some bread today and noticed the price on a couple things I buy was like 50% to 2X higher than I remember
Holy shit groceries are expensive
the next Knives Out movie should be loosely based on the murder at Burning Man
You would not believe how much money a woman-sized smock dress costs. Oh you want to dress like this? Hope you've got $500+ burning a hole in your pocket!
Why must I as a grown woman spend so much money just to buy dresses that are large versions of those made for 6-year-olds
OK I have made this (But not tried it yet). So many things I was not expecting: the dough is super sticky and hard to work with but then puffs up a lot. I dunno what size plums they expect but 4 bigger ones was more than enough. Smells good.
Beautiful
amazing
Would read this murder mystery
Anyone hiring global remote?
Judging from my linked in feed, this is a service that is desperately needed
Anyone else doing Duolingo and feel like they just dumped a bunch of AI generated content?
Brussel sprouts and farts
Too fancy
Should I watch Bring Her Back when my family is out of town or wait till they're back to not be scared alone
Such a fascinating concept and creative analysis
This is a convo I had with Emma Wiseman and Camila Galaz on a recent puppet making workshop in Melbourne, where folks made puppets representing AI and then told stories with them: mostly, people ended up killing their puppets.
VOID SEASON IS COMING
too late!!
My family is going out of town without me and I bought too many fruits oh no
An administrator at a PreKâ12 charter school in Northwest D.C. told me that parents at this school had been both harassed and detained by federal agents, leading to an attendance fallout www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
ScREAM, Scale Rules Everything Around Me
my father-in-law is a âI know a guyâ Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because itâs not about âwinningâ a deal, itâs about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
ICE forcing firefighters to stop battling a wildfire and make them all show their papers, then arresting some active firefighters and pulling them off the line shows there's no bottom. As @aselrod.bsky.social pointedly argues, it's nothing less than an "active assault on virtue wherever it exists."
www.allrecipes.com/new-and-impr... is the recipe I use. I use an immersion blender to make the sauce smoother which isn't strictly necessary. Even my kids like this!
Baked feta pasta season
Please call your CA Assemblymember today and ask them to vote for SB 79, which faces a critical vote. The reason we ask you to do this is because it works. findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov
Checking the proofs for the ***new edition*** of THE DESIGN OF CHILDHOOD with all of my Pulitzer Prize winning essays! Out in November. www.bloomsbury.com/us/design-of...
Oh shit ok yeah I didn't read this bit
I read one excerpt and didn't see that how did she kill her?
What a cursed sentence (gift link) âThe A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.â
lmao good grief theyre gonna do AI death panels www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
I don't think this is the case at big g but I wouldn't know
big big big
Wouldn't even surprise me if efforts like this are worse for many of the affected reports of the former managers because their old ic "manager" usually retains the responsibilities just not the same training requirements or systems access, putting them in somewhat less supervised positions of power
The whole exercise (which I have been witness to at companies) is very seeing like a state/the map is not the territory bluster.
This piece is interesting. They were targeting people who managed "fewer than 3 people" in an effort to have "fewer managers", mostly an artifact of binary hr systems. Because managing 1 person flips the "manager" flag companies get weird about this. But I'd bet most of those were really senior ICs.
the aestheticization of politics means that apparently two pretty white people making out is MAGA obviously MAGA believes this--they couldn't stop yammering about it when she started dating the dude--but we don't exactly have to do their work for them
I just want everyone to know that if there's a guest on Odd Lots, Tracy and I chose them, and we never ever have been forced to have a guest on that we didn't want to talk about. You don't have to like them, but guest selection is our job.
maga is the most divorced political tendency in history, they don't actually get to claim marriage. that's counter to their whole thing
I was imagining like fumes and a motor pull chain myself
Somehow I read this as you owned a hair salon hence my reaction imagining your career arc
Really??
I googled and I still can't quite believe this exists
Excuse me, gas powered hair styling tools???
Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
"how do you show your loyalty? By paying the costs of humiliation. The more grotesquely over the top your praise, the more credible it is as a signal of support for Dear Leader." www.programmablemutter.com/p/short-post...
Apparently London has both a âMayor of Londonâ (does normal mayor stuff) and a âLord Mayor of Londonâ (does civic events in costumes) and like, not to hand it to England, but I think Iâve figured out what we can do with Eric Adams
How does this woman keep getting such major press for her scam "school" wapo.st/3HDJVPv
What's even the point of these click jacking or something?
AI slop ads are so weird
we need more a little more bland boring professionalism in the world. brands with dignity. marketing campaigns without goofy, ironic innuendo. politicians who don't dress like slobs or talk like dimwits.
whatâs the name for a version-and-dependency-and-more manager like `uv`? I donât know, but Iâm building one for Ruby anyway andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/r...
Sucks sucks sucks
The thing about the Snoop situation is that it was such an obviously insincere attempt to ride the current anti-woke wave and the result is that he's never looked so weak and so foolish to so many people. It's not so much the clumsy bigotry as it is the weakness of character it reveals
Today is the new semester for @db.cs.cmu.edu's Intro to Database Systems! We're going harder into material than before. More challenging projects but you can use LLMs to help. We also have 10min talks each Wed from leading DB companies: 15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2025
Decades of broken promises, capped by Trump's tariffs and even more insecurity for American workers. Will we never learn?? These are policy choices, not acts of God! We can have better lives if we make better political choices!! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/b...
Grim
It won't photograph but the sunset tonight on long island is definitely "red sky at night sailor's delight"
Babies. I used to have a ginger and a black cat, awww, what a pair
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I hate it, it's summer not fall!
Have this song suddenly in my head youtu.be/LStJEynL3Ek?...
Putting the brutal in brutalist
my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)
I have been hearing it the past couple years and I feel like it's unintentionally fascist-adjacent
Tremendous crossover move right here:
In the _tallahassee_ cracker barrel parking lot? Overlooking I-10? You could at least've given it inside over the cinnamon apples
đ§đ·GuarĂĄ đEudocimus ruber Conservação:Pouco Preocupante O guarĂĄ Ă© uma ave pelecaniforme da famĂlia Threskiornithidae. đ· Leonardo Casadei
Man what is with this weather
The Trump deportation nightmare is even worse than we feared. A new report reveals that ICE has detained *50* children under 18 in the NYC area since January. At least 4 as young as 6 years old. 38 children have already been deported. This achieves nothing other than cruelty.
Timothy Olyphant as a blonde synthetic?? Brilliant.
Loving Alien: Earth. Just my favorite sci-fi aesthetic
OMGGGGGGGGGG
yeah like, I think that if I had a job where I had to do tedious repeatable stuff that really could lend itself to simple automation, I would like to think I would reach for those types of tools and that these will make a big difference to people. But I do wonder if it'll come to pass!
And the example you gave is work? Which I already agreed there's potential demand for, whether or not it'll be realized with these tools
But you could easily buy a security camera it's not like that's a product that doesn't exist
Outside of actual work I don't really think there's meaningful demand for making random shit ourselves from bits of code
I'm just not sure that anyone wants it you know? Either the thing is a product worth at a minimum creating a cheap version of, or it's probably just a hobby thing that very few people will want even if it was easy to achieve
I just don't even know what I would want to automate unless it's directly about scaled work
I know how to program and I genuinely do not ever feel the need to do this sort of automation. I'm not convinced it's actually meaningfully useful most of the time.
Eric Schmidt (February) vs Eric Schmidt (August) is the fight of the century. [joking aside, this is a very significant shift] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...
One of those quasi-genetic shorthands at the heart of a lot of AI myth building, ie, âtalent comes from your DNA rather than practice and work, so this evens out the playing field.â This belief is also tied to a perception of powerlessness among those who hold it.
She doesnât need a hero, she is the hero we need. đ€©
Been reading The Magus and this quote felt very... modern www.goodreads.com/quotes/27764...
It is so wild to me that we had a terrorist attack on the CDC and it just blended into the rest of the political violence.
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That's awful