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The New York Times Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

Slurs spoke themselves unto the mouths of young GOP members again! I just hope that they're all OK!🤡

Slurs emitted themselves fully formed, from the fingertips of innocent far-right people! That must have been terrifying for them! 🤡

Pray for those that survived spontaneous chat room devolution! 🤡

As an old dad, I applaud your parenting. Teaching the classics.

The year is 2035. Gemini-144.2-apotheosis-preview has begun colonizing the light cone. All life is extinct except uplifted Dutch pelicans. Google bears no liability, product is in beta and is provided “as is”

From what I gather, that will require you to start doing a lot of vibe coding.

I haven’t done it in something like 45 years, but I think I’ve still got it in me.

I know this is perverse, but I wish I had more insight into what led someone to block me.

Special Envoy for Pridwen, Shield of the Pendragon

Special Envoy for the Salmon of Knowledge, Consumer of Hazelnuts

Special Envoy for Billion Auto Chevrolet of Sioux Falls, Your Home For Silverado, Impala, and Malibu; By Grabthar’s Hammer, What A Savings

The magic is in figuring out how to arrange the dippy birds correctly so as to press the right keys and not the wrong keys.

But she’s going to be “special envoy for the Shield of the Americas”! That sounds cool as hell.

This is probably my strongest argument for the utility of coding agents. I think of them as extraordinarily capable templating engines.

I definitely agree regarding the cultural differences. I just don’t know that AI changes either genetics or culture—at least along this dimension.

Like many (all?) character traits, I assume it is some mix. However, even it were fully learned, what will prompt more people to learn it?

Likewise if you spend time adjacent to artists, writers, musicians, etc. It is somewhat frustrating.

If you made it more concrete, it would also be too weighty.

Fortunately, I don’t think the distribution of agency is going to change—along with many other human characteristics.

Claude’s Cycles Don Knuth, Stanford Computer Science Department (28 February 2026; revised 02 March 2026) Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 — Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model that had been released three weeks earlier! It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem solving. I’ll try to tell the story briefly in this note.

YOOOOOOO fucking KNUTH dropped a lil note on a problem of his being solved w/claude y'alllllll

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

With the popularization of AI agents, I look forward to non-programmers discovering the joys of spending more time automating a task you’re going to do infrequently than it would have taken to just do it yourself.

Well, that is just going to send me straight to your mentions.

I love “apophenia”, and once you’re aware of it, I feel like you see it everywhere.

Myself & the other comedians who did the Riyadh Comedy Festival are donating our fees to help get influencers under attack in Dubai back home to their influencer houses. I am sponsoring Braevyn McTaigg from Orlando, FL. 🫡🇺🇸🏝️

Maybe I just haven’t pushed on that enough in AI discussions. It just seems that people who are very concerned about AI welfare have little to say about animal welfare. I realize people can and do care about more than one thing.

captain america says i understood that reference Alt: captain america says i understood that reference

Though I guess technically that is a pointer.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Boooo.

I look forward to discussing this elsewhere because thinking an LLM could be conscious but not also assuming that many (most?) non-human animals are is position I find very confusing.

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

I really did think the Riyadh Comedy Festival would help bring peace to the Middle East

Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”

I’ve wondered whether there are opportunities for “adversarial” briefs. Documents easily intelligible to a human reader but with land-mines for machine intelligences.