Ed

i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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Machop: now you get in the ball

Me: but

Machop: now you get in the ball

arianism is a heresy

if it's a plumbob, where's the string, huh

AI can conceptualize nachos for you

he exists in a bit-liminal space

I do think I know a few things, and I'd like to share them in a structured way, but. I think that getting good at this stuff means wanting to know things for the sake of knowing them, and you can't sell that

HCI wasn't cool enough to feel like part of the club

it's still the correct description

All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.

I still (and will keep beating this drum) do not think Claude is going to get substantially better at this stuff because *it hasn't so far*

getting better at topical-implementation stuff (and it has! 4.5/4.6 is way better at Rust!) does not equate to foresight. assume it can't until you see it

this is one of the things that's most discouraging about trying to write about this stuff outside of shitposts on bluesky, where I get dopamine out of it

if there is no dopamine, there'd better be money, and I haven't seen it so far (outside of like, direct consulting)

that was red umbrella

blue umbrella is a bunch of ex-umbrella employees who are trying to do science for good

they are both very dumb.

red or blue

I have spent my entire career trying to automate myself out of a job and I sure as hell am not going to stop now.

capitalization for emphasis is not acceptable english and therefore

good lort

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

(you assholes thought I was going to say "me")

on one hand, I hear this objection, and it's a fair one.

but on the other hand: @proptermalone.bsky.social has a podcast

more room for ravels

Against Claude’s advice, by the way

We should tax the shit out of the 50 executives for social reasons, not because it will keep product prices down or because it will be enough money to fund the welfare state (it won’t be)

a lot of people I know ask me about furniture and none are ever prepared for how much a six board chest is actually worth

it's why I only make furniture for myself or as gifts

I am getting very tired of people blaming “private equity” for changing consumer behavior.

Private equity didn’t degrade the quality of the clothes you buy, ultra fast fashion and online shopping where you sort by low price, then buy clothes without ever actually touching them did that.

there is precisely nothing you can do about it

it would probably be a good idea to stop mainlining panic, man

If an economy well and truly blows up, Great-Depression style, it means a whole lot of peoples' jobs are now "beggar", "bandit", or "corpse".

one rumsfeld, eh

this chart is incorrect. @nonbinary.computer