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the reason i am so vehemently anti-janet mills is that 79-year-olds should not be making plans for six years in the future
February 13, 2026 at 7:34 AM
the reason i am so vehemently anti-janet mills is that 79-year-olds should not be making plans for six years in the future
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oh my god??
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 AM
oh my god??
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I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account...
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February 12, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...
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Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff.
In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast
In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast
February 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff.
In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast
In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast
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Shoutout to GOP Senator Cassidy, who was the deciding vote to destroy health care research in the US
February 13, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Shoutout to GOP Senator Cassidy, who was the deciding vote to destroy health care research in the US
Someone should write a book about this.
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Hang on, I’ve received an incoming message
February 13, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Someone should write a book about this.
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Rurals/exurban are playing a dangerous game if they successfully get urbanites to hate them to the same degree back.
It’s time to stop subsidizing people who despise us
It’s time to stop subsidizing people who despise us
There were a couple themes of the 2024 election but one was a declaration of war on American cities by American rural/exurban voters
He’s also doing this in Memphis…no one is reporting on it
February 13, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Rurals/exurban are playing a dangerous game if they successfully get urbanites to hate them to the same degree back.
It’s time to stop subsidizing people who despise us
It’s time to stop subsidizing people who despise us
no need for the most odious forms of degrowth if we can keep up the decoupling of economic growth from GHG emissions
Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
February 12, 2026 at 11:20 PM
no need for the most odious forms of degrowth if we can keep up the decoupling of economic growth from GHG emissions
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they fired the OpenAI product policy VP for "sexually discriminating against a male colleague" after she opposed reorienting the product towards porn. having seen precision/recall numbers for large production abuse systems you do not want to tune for precision.
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 AM
they fired the OpenAI product policy VP for "sexually discriminating against a male colleague" after she opposed reorienting the product towards porn. having seen precision/recall numbers for large production abuse systems you do not want to tune for precision.
we need a Nuremberg trial after we get through this, and RFK Jr is going up first
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 9:22 PM
we need a Nuremberg trial after we get through this, and RFK Jr is going up first
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the truly nuts ai takes that often circulate are way way more comprehensible since i started assuming it's actual psychological denial, ie, "making something up to avoid confronting a thing that is too horrible to contemplate"
imho the denialists are actually literally in denial, which has the consequence that they are constantly throwing off statements that might as well be cooked in a lab to generate a maximum of friction with reality
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 AM
the truly nuts ai takes that often circulate are way way more comprehensible since i started assuming it's actual psychological denial, ie, "making something up to avoid confronting a thing that is too horrible to contemplate"
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I work in artificial intelligence and I build the infrastructure required to automate vast amounts of work.
The models are very good. The agents are getting better.
The risk to social order is significant.
The models are very good. The agents are getting better.
The risk to social order is significant.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 12, 2026 at 5:38 AM
I work in artificial intelligence and I build the infrastructure required to automate vast amounts of work.
The models are very good. The agents are getting better.
The risk to social order is significant.
The models are very good. The agents are getting better.
The risk to social order is significant.
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the real nutty stat here: 'business subscriptions have quadrupled since the start of the year.' whatever subjective experience you have of agent usage exploding, there are the numbers to prove it.
Anthropic says its run-rate revenue hit $14B, growing over 10x annually in the past three years, and Claude Code's run-rate revenue hit $2.5B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
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February 12, 2026 at 7:35 PM
the real nutty stat here: 'business subscriptions have quadrupled since the start of the year.' whatever subjective experience you have of agent usage exploding, there are the numbers to prove it.
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On the one hand, this ruin several people’s lives. On the other hand, most of them will probably deserve it.
February 11, 2026 at 11:42 PM
On the one hand, this ruin several people’s lives. On the other hand, most of them will probably deserve it.
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When you have made a terrible mistake
February 11, 2026 at 11:41 PM
When you have made a terrible mistake
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its funny to me that the same folks who yell about how people in tech need to take classes in the humanities simultaneously get upset whenever the humanities start getting applied to tech
February 11, 2026 at 11:37 PM
its funny to me that the same folks who yell about how people in tech need to take classes in the humanities simultaneously get upset whenever the humanities start getting applied to tech
hit dogs are hollering in the replies / QTs
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
hit dogs are hollering in the replies / QTs
it’s Not Great that one of the leading AI denialists is an academic coping with her entire life’s work being a waste
imho the denialists are actually literally in denial, which has the consequence that they are constantly throwing off statements that might as well be cooked in a lab to generate a maximum of friction with reality
February 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
it’s Not Great that one of the leading AI denialists is an academic coping with her entire life’s work being a waste
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my position is that intelligence is decomposable into families of capabilities, a few of which LLMs have but humans do not and many of which humans have but LLMs do not.
I have very strong and I believe well-justified scientific opinions about what LLMs have and don't have and how that relates to human cognition but to claim that anything about this is settled or inarguable or not debatable is in fact super wild and people should be real careful about it.
"LLMs raise absolutely no philosophical questions whatsoever, because the issue of what intelligence consists of was settled a long before they existed" is an insane statement even if you cede the incorrect "it was a settled question" point to the other side.
February 11, 2026 at 4:43 PM
my position is that intelligence is decomposable into families of capabilities, a few of which LLMs have but humans do not and many of which humans have but LLMs do not.