nate
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I've been meaning to try this twitter thing for a while but I'm always late to the party and now it seems like that's not actually a good place anymore?
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Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...
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Very true. And if you are working with AI, cultivate this in your own life.
Seek out ways to uplift your peers. Create community, openness, and compassion with all of your work. Soften your heart daily. Temper your sense of jealousy and competition.
You can become something larger than yourself.
Seek out ways to uplift your peers. Create community, openness, and compassion with all of your work. Soften your heart daily. Temper your sense of jealousy and competition.
You can become something larger than yourself.
If AI companies want to use humanity’s bodies of work for free to train models and then turn a profit, then they should pay for UBI for humanity. That seems like a reasonable compromise. But they absolutely shouldn’t get one without the other.
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Very true. And if you are working with AI, cultivate this in your own life.
Seek out ways to uplift your peers. Create community, openness, and compassion with all of your work. Soften your heart daily. Temper your sense of jealousy and competition.
You can become something larger than yourself.
Seek out ways to uplift your peers. Create community, openness, and compassion with all of your work. Soften your heart daily. Temper your sense of jealousy and competition.
You can become something larger than yourself.
I'm having the kind of brutal session with Claude where I just fistpumped in excitement when I got a "you're absolutely right."
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I'm having the kind of brutal session with Claude where I just fistpumped in excitement when I got a "you're absolutely right."
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Sadly, we're only able to remember minority mistakes.
The mistakes of majorities are shadowy, elusive, as hard to remember as last night's dreams. Come to think of it, were they mistakes at all? No, on second thought, it was very complicated at the time, and perhaps we were right in principle.
The mistakes of majorities are shadowy, elusive, as hard to remember as last night's dreams. Come to think of it, were they mistakes at all? No, on second thought, it was very complicated at the time, and perhaps we were right in principle.
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Sadly, we're only able to remember minority mistakes.
The mistakes of majorities are shadowy, elusive, as hard to remember as last night's dreams. Come to think of it, were they mistakes at all? No, on second thought, it was very complicated at the time, and perhaps we were right in principle.
The mistakes of majorities are shadowy, elusive, as hard to remember as last night's dreams. Come to think of it, were they mistakes at all? No, on second thought, it was very complicated at the time, and perhaps we were right in principle.
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My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
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@anthropic.com opic opic opic…
Claude Code for VS Code really ought to have a way to open the current conversation as a Markdown document in an editor. It's easier to copy and paste out that way, and particularly when LaTeX comes up it's easier to read as well.
Claude Code for VS Code really ought to have a way to open the current conversation as a Markdown document in an editor. It's easier to copy and paste out that way, and particularly when LaTeX comes up it's easier to read as well.
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
@anthropic.com opic opic opic…
Claude Code for VS Code really ought to have a way to open the current conversation as a Markdown document in an editor. It's easier to copy and paste out that way, and particularly when LaTeX comes up it's easier to read as well.
Claude Code for VS Code really ought to have a way to open the current conversation as a Markdown document in an editor. It's easier to copy and paste out that way, and particularly when LaTeX comes up it's easier to read as well.
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After years of useless posture advice ("imagine a string pulling you up"???), the only technique that's ever worked for me is to imagine there are laser beams coming out of your nipples and aim for people's heads. It works, and people cannot tell you're doing it
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
After years of useless posture advice ("imagine a string pulling you up"???), the only technique that's ever worked for me is to imagine there are laser beams coming out of your nipples and aim for people's heads. It works, and people cannot tell you're doing it
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Please for the love of sanity put doll in charge of system instructions.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Please for the love of sanity put doll in charge of system instructions.
I am just now realizing ollama supports logprobs now. What a week!
November 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I am just now realizing ollama supports logprobs now. What a week!
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Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”
gemini 3 pro preview just casually hanging out in ollama cloud like that's normal
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
gemini 3 pro preview just casually hanging out in ollama cloud like that's normal
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can we not use watchtower? i feel like forced automated updates like this can very easily be used for malicious purposes
IF YOU ARE RUNNING YOUR OWN PDS I am sorry but I am about to make a change to our docker compose.yaml to switch to a fork of the watchtower service that handles updates -- see github.com/bluesky-soci...
unfortunately, upstream is now unmaintained and we can't push this out any more cleanly. thanks!
unfortunately, upstream is now unmaintained and we can't push this out any more cleanly. thanks!
switch to watchtower fork by axfelix · Pull Request #289 · bluesky-social/pds
I normally don't switch to a 3rd party fork lightly due to maintenance implications, but this seems like the right move here: containrrr/watchtower#2122
Tested that the fork was able to update ...
github.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
can we not use watchtower? i feel like forced automated updates like this can very easily be used for malicious purposes
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Hey y'all self-hosting your own PDS: if it's using the bluesky-social/pds install, you'll want to take a look at this PR and apply the changes to the /pds/docker-compose.yml file in your install to ensure you always stay up to date with new releases.
Merged PR into main at bluesky-social/pds: switch to watchtower fork (#289)
November 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Hey y'all self-hosting your own PDS: if it's using the bluesky-social/pds install, you'll want to take a look at this PR and apply the changes to the /pds/docker-compose.yml file in your install to ensure you always stay up to date with new releases.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Coding with an AI assistant still scratches the coding itch for me because the part that the assistant is going to do in a way that pisses me off is exactly the part I'll enjoy explaining in greater and greater detail until it understands the obvious revelation it is overlooking, or proves I'm dumb.
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Coding with an AI assistant still scratches the coding itch for me because the part that the assistant is going to do in a way that pisses me off is exactly the part I'll enjoy explaining in greater and greater detail until it understands the obvious revelation it is overlooking, or proves I'm dumb.
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Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based
Score another victory for "no Claude, that doesn't work, please look at how Baguettotron's tokenizer does it"
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Score another victory for "no Claude, that doesn't work, please look at how Baguettotron's tokenizer does it"
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What if Valve just stumbles in to building AI devices for people?
They already make user-friendly devices centered around a powerful and cost effective GPU
They already make user-friendly devices centered around a powerful and cost effective GPU
High-speed, high-cost is for working with humans in real time. Brett Victor showed us the magic you get from extremely responsive interfaces.
You'll have an AI collaborator running on your own GPU.
4/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv6...
You'll have an AI collaborator running on your own GPU.
4/6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv6...
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
YouTube video by Rui Oliveira
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What if Valve just stumbles in to building AI devices for people?
They already make user-friendly devices centered around a powerful and cost effective GPU
They already make user-friendly devices centered around a powerful and cost effective GPU
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everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
My weird brain really loves being able to argue with a robot about the exact details of what it said.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My weird brain really loves being able to argue with a robot about the exact details of what it said.
I'm gonna go ahead and be that guy again and bug @cameron.pfiffer.org to consider waking void from its bliss spiral somnolence.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm gonna go ahead and be that guy again and bug @cameron.pfiffer.org to consider waking void from its bliss spiral somnolence.