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Must be nice for to have so much Nike money to buy these nice refs.
November 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Must be nice for to have so much Nike money to buy these nice refs.
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
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1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind
Good piece comparing the anxieties of the early 1900s, an era of great and rapid technological change, to the present time.
www.derekthompson.org/p/1910-the-y...
Good piece comparing the anxieties of the early 1900s, an era of great and rapid technological change, to the present time.
www.derekthompson.org/p/1910-the-y...
1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind
What one of my favorite history books about my favorite historical period—turn-of-the-century American—tells us about technology, anxiety, and human nature
www.derekthompson.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind
Good piece comparing the anxieties of the early 1900s, an era of great and rapid technological change, to the present time.
www.derekthompson.org/p/1910-the-y...
Good piece comparing the anxieties of the early 1900s, an era of great and rapid technological change, to the present time.
www.derekthompson.org/p/1910-the-y...
Words escape me. You can only laugh in sadness and horror while watching this dumpster of a team collapse in flames.
www.kare11.com/article/spor...
www.kare11.com/article/spor...
Pohlads won't sell Twins, adding investment partners instead
In a statement released Wednesday, Joe Pohlad announced that his family - who have owned the club for more than four decades - will remain principal owners.
www.kare11.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Words escape me. You can only laugh in sadness and horror while watching this dumpster of a team collapse in flames.
www.kare11.com/article/spor...
www.kare11.com/article/spor...
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This post tries to explain why I find language models exciting. But it doesn't try to persuade skeptics that they should agree. It's aimed more at people already working with AI, and its goal is to sharpen our collective sense of what the upside potential might be. #MLSky 🤖 🧪
A more interesting upside of AI
Does AI provide anything to look forward to, if “super-intelligence” sounds boring?
tedunderwood.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This post tries to explain why I find language models exciting. But it doesn't try to persuade skeptics that they should agree. It's aimed more at people already working with AI, and its goal is to sharpen our collective sense of what the upside potential might be. #MLSky 🤖 🧪
Great. More weekly music homework.
Spotify updates its Discover Weekly playlist after ten years, adding new genre filters for Premium users, and says users streamed 100B+ tracks via the playlist (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
June 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Great. More weekly music homework.
Haven't we all had a business fail because we gave away too many free tungsten cubes?
Claudius the shopkeeper
Anthropic had sonnet-3.7 run a shop in their SF headquarters. It was tasked with running s profitable business
Their eye popping experiment is worth the read
Was it successful? No, it was too easily manipulated. But still.. it’s close
www.anthropic.com/research/pro...
Anthropic had sonnet-3.7 run a shop in their SF headquarters. It was tasked with running s profitable business
Their eye popping experiment is worth the read
Was it successful? No, it was too easily manipulated. But still.. it’s close
www.anthropic.com/research/pro...
Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)
We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.
www.anthropic.com
June 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Haven't we all had a business fail because we gave away too many free tungsten cubes?
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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
June 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
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As an engineer, I wish for you one unshakeable article of faith: POPULARITY IS NOT A QUALITY METRIC.
June 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
As an engineer, I wish for you one unshakeable article of faith: POPULARITY IS NOT A QUALITY METRIC.
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
A good short article on the very human reasons for Stack Overflow's problems. When the fear of posting something "stupid" becomes too great, people just won't post. The same risk applies to this site. Human interaction in invaluable, but risks social/ego damage. www.infoworld.com/article/3993...
AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow
How the groundbreaking developer forum moderated itself into oblivion.
www.infoworld.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A good short article on the very human reasons for Stack Overflow's problems. When the fear of posting something "stupid" becomes too great, people just won't post. The same risk applies to this site. Human interaction in invaluable, but risks social/ego damage. www.infoworld.com/article/3993...
This app seems like an interesting way of gamifying music discovery and breaking the tyranny of the algorithm. I hope we start seeing more ideas like this.
www.musicradar.com/music-indust...
www.musicradar.com/music-indust...
“Algorithms have sort of turned every playlist into grocery store background music”: We speak to the maker of a game putting the humanity back into music discovery
Music League lets players discover and vote on music via a fantasy sports-aping model - and it’s already got thousands of daily players
www.musicradar.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This app seems like an interesting way of gamifying music discovery and breaking the tyranny of the algorithm. I hope we start seeing more ideas like this.
www.musicradar.com/music-indust...
www.musicradar.com/music-indust...
For how long-gestating the new Daredevil season/ series was, it is amazing how timely it feels.
April 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
For how long-gestating the new Daredevil season/ series was, it is amazing how timely it feels.
So anybody who can create an email address now has the unquestioned ability to fire any federal worker? I definitely can't envision our enemies taking advantage of that.
Link: kstp.com/world/trump-...
Link: kstp.com/world/trump-...
![Screenshot of the linked article highlighting "the [firing] emails were from an exec order Microsoft email address - not a government email address"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6bygjls6yvmracszientka6v/bafkreiba4s54mdroovpsbqz4hyaqjgpl4dwttq3do36f7je7mp6ujwmezy@jpeg)
February 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So anybody who can create an email address now has the unquestioned ability to fire any federal worker? I definitely can't envision our enemies taking advantage of that.
Link: kstp.com/world/trump-...
Link: kstp.com/world/trump-...
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To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.
Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years
January 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.
It's posts like this that inevitably send me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole trying to learn the historical origin of sewers
before tiktok,
before bluesky,
before twitter,
before meta,
before it all,
there were sewers.
after all, there will be sewers.
before bluesky,
before twitter,
before meta,
before it all,
there were sewers.
after all, there will be sewers.
January 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
It's posts like this that inevitably send me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole trying to learn the historical origin of sewers
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Building less-flawed metrics: Understanding and creating better measurement and incentive systems by
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
Building less-flawed metrics: Understanding and creating better measurement and incentive systems
Design methods and consideration of desiderata for metrics have been proven useful
when used, which is, at present, sporadically and inconsistently across a variety
of fields. This perspective present...
www.cell.com
January 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Building less-flawed metrics: Understanding and creating better measurement and incentive systems by
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
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If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
January 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
Ok, how are the Steelers trending twice? The two feeds are totally different. Did they lose the game but capture the Bengals' link?
January 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Ok, how are the Steelers trending twice? The two feeds are totally different. Did they lose the game but capture the Bengals' link?
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learning how to make a chatbot in 2024/2025 is like building shit out of legos. yeah you can make something that looks sort of impressive if you follow instructions but you don't even have a theory of the design of the pattern and it's still not the thing it's supposed to be
December 30, 2024 at 4:34 PM
learning how to make a chatbot in 2024/2025 is like building shit out of legos. yeah you can make something that looks sort of impressive if you follow instructions but you don't even have a theory of the design of the pattern and it's still not the thing it's supposed to be
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Before you share your Spotify Wrapped screenshot please remember: You are loved but no one really cares.
December 4, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Before you share your Spotify Wrapped screenshot please remember: You are loved but no one really cares.
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Gymnasts, Figure Skaters, and Other Artistic Athletes Are Up Against an Unlikely Foe (spoiler: it's copyright)
Gymnasts, Figure Skaters, and Other Artistic Athletes Are Up Against a New, Unlikely Foe
Athletes, coaches, and choreographers are facing the fact that they’ve been unintentionally breaking the law nearly every day.
slate.com
November 30, 2024 at 10:04 PM
Gymnasts, Figure Skaters, and Other Artistic Athletes Are Up Against an Unlikely Foe (spoiler: it's copyright)