conditional friendships | yours, tiramisu

Ack, there I go again, not writing for several days. I blame the cold this time. Even inside the apartment, sometimes I hop up and down just to get some feel...| yours, tiramisu

Variety vs Certainty | Joseph's Journals 🖋️

Friend: Me: Friend: Me: I had this conversation with my colleague yesterday, and now that I think about it, I've had plenty of similar ...| Joseph's Journals 🖋️

No Rules Are Implicit Rules | Brain Baking

As per recommendation by a co-worker who is very enthusiastic about the possible ramifications for …| Brain Baking

Appeasement at Munich - by Timothy Snyder

World Wars, Past and Possible| snyder.substack.com

Leave it to the Germans

Just a day after JD Vance's remarkable speech in Munich, 60 Minutes validates his worst accusations in a chilling segment on the totalitarian German crackdown on free speech. You couldn't have scripted this development for more irony or drama! This isn't 60 Minutes finding a smoking gun in some secret government archive, detailing a pl...| world.hey.com

Leaked Audio: Jamie Dimon Goes OFF On Staffers Wanting WFH

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon torched young staffers for wanting to work from home, tearing into employees who opposed the bank’s RTO mandate.| Mediaite

AI is Stifling Tech Adoption | Vale.Rocks

AI coding assistants are React evangelists.| Vale.Rocks

Context – Manu

There’s a tweet I read a few weeks ago—and yes I call tweet everything that’s posted on microblogging platforms, don’t care if it’s Twitter, …| manuelmoreale.com

Personal Software Is Becoming A Trend

Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust| xuanwo.io

Marshmallow Test and Parenting - @desunit (Sergey Bogdanov)

Today, when my 1.9-year-old daughter tried to grab and eat an unwashed orange, I asked her to give it to me so I could wash and peel it if she could wait for a moment. She did. It got me thinking about the marshmallow experiment, where the idea was that patience equals success. But … […]| @desunit (Sergey Bogdanov)

Is it okay?

Squaring up to the foundational question for language models.| Robin Sloan

Sloth was not the right answer

You can have a wrong favorite animal| DYNOMIGHT

Programmers are modern-day computers

A reflection on how AI is transforming the landscape of programming.| jtlicardo.com

AI is Robbing Jr. Devs | benbrougher.tech

LLMs Are Robbing Jr. Devs of Opportunities to Gain Experience| benbrougher.tech

分享即壓力 – 一天世界

《地心引力》: 看這篇文章的時候我腦子中突然湧現出一個想法:80 後和大部分 90 後已經集體進入中年了,在這…| 一天世界

The Social Media Sea Change - by Anne Helen Petersen

What happens when the thing that structured so much of our lives loses its utility?| annehelen.substack.com

I Am Just as Ignorant | Brandon's Journal

I have the opposite political views of most of the people in my life. My family and most of my friends are on the opposite side of the spectrum from me. W...| Brandon's Journal

整个鲁镇都洋溢着乐观向上的氛围(风慢慢) - 博客 | 文学城

孔乙己最后一次在鲁镇的酒店出现,是在初冬,之后他就消失了,大约的确死了。掌柜把孔乙己还欠十九个钱的记录擦掉,他已经确定,这些钱再也收不回来了。我仍然做着温酒的无聊工作,但大多数时候是无聊地等着,因为来喝十文钱一碗酒的人也越来越少了,更别说点一碟茴香豆。...| blog.wenxuecity.com

论宗教不相容及解决办法 - 博客 | 文学城

作为一个推崇科学方法的无神论者,以奥姆剃刀的原则看世界,宗教里神的存在,于我有些格格不入。世界上许多名门正教,比如基督教,天主教,佛教,伊斯兰教,印度教,一样都是教人向善,给人好的信仰与关怀。然而世间都向善的宗教为何冲突惨烈而不断?!...| blog.wenxuecity.com

Beat the Drum

Beat the Drum| www.dannyguo.com

Why Social Media has Captured Our Attention - Make Art with Python

(And what we might be able to do about it with the help of LLMs)| Make Art with Python

It will always be the Gulf of Mexico to me

It got the name in the 16th century, it’s internationally accepted, but one clown thinks he has the authority to change it. Unfortunately, Google is happy to cave on this issue. Google said M…| Pharyngula

The Alpha Myth: How Captive Wolves Led Us Astray

A wolf paces in captivity, teaching us all the wrong lessons about power| anthonydavidadams.substack.com

Setting Expectations | Unplatform

The definitive guide for escaping social media (and joining the indie web.)| unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com

Reblog: One acceptable truth or a million fantasies – Economist Writing Every Day

I’m in Houston to give a talk on “Ability to Pay” reforms for how fines and fees are assigned in the criminal justice system, so I’m taking the opportunity to economize on m…| Economist Writing Every Day

What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried TikTok | The New Yorker

In 2016, I went viral for telling people to quit social media. In 2024, I ignored my own advice.| The New Yorker

OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web | brid's blog

This week OpenAI released a new offering called Operator. Operator is basically an AI agent that will browse the web for you. They weren't the first to do it...| brid's blog

PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory | Hall of Impossible Dreams

An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet.| Hall of Impossible Dreams

我能问你为什么吗?

我之前写过一篇 不要问为什么 , 阐述了为什么在公众场合,一对多的情况下,问为什么不是一个好的说话方式。最近我又觉得,即使在私下场合,一对一的情况下,很多情况下,问为什么仍然不会有好的结果。这是为什么呢?| 一言堂