Brandon Muramatsu
@bmuramatsu.bsky.social
⚙️Builds connections at the intersection of learning, tech, innovation & scale
🌎Plans & implements int'l strategic education initiatives
👍🏼Open Ed
🎲 Board games & TTRPG
I block follow farming, bogus accounts & those w/o profiles.
🌎Plans & implements int'l strategic education initiatives
👍🏼Open Ed
🎲 Board games & TTRPG
I block follow farming, bogus accounts & those w/o profiles.
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Shel Silverstein’s short poem Homework Machine (1981) was prescient about the limitations of LLMs. “I guess it’s not as perfect / As I thought it would be.” [kottke.org]
The Imperfect Homework Machine
Shel Silverstein’s Homework Machine was one of my kids’ favorite poems of his when they were little. First published in 1981, the short poem turned out to be rather prescient about AI, especially the earlier LLMs, whic
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December 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Shel Silverstein’s short poem Homework Machine (1981) was prescient about the limitations of LLMs. “I guess it’s not as perfect / As I thought it would be.” [kottke.org]
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This thread is amazing
I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
asking the sommelier which wine pairs best with swedish fish
December 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This thread is amazing
Down to 1 browser window with 15 open tabs.
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December 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Down to 1 browser window with 15 open tabs.
😬
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Caution: room is rapidly filling with ramen
December 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Caution: room is rapidly filling with ramen
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![Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreig43e2u4zzpifhq6fbf2iwplmva2lt5rokfg5uws5dysbe55up6wa@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Miracle of miracles, I've gotten my work inbox to 10 messages on this last day of work for the year.
My personal inbox is also below 10.
A couple other folders to clean up and I'll have caught up in a way I haven't in many, many months!
My personal inbox is also below 10.
A couple other folders to clean up and I'll have caught up in a way I haven't in many, many months!
December 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Miracle of miracles, I've gotten my work inbox to 10 messages on this last day of work for the year.
My personal inbox is also below 10.
A couple other folders to clean up and I'll have caught up in a way I haven't in many, many months!
My personal inbox is also below 10.
A couple other folders to clean up and I'll have caught up in a way I haven't in many, many months!
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Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
hopefully I just reduced the metric effton of useless notifications from the #LinkedInIndustrialComplex
December 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
hopefully I just reduced the metric effton of useless notifications from the #LinkedInIndustrialComplex
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Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas: a series of animated shorts featuring Gromit having to deal with the aftermath of Wallace’s inventions (like a rabid cracker vacuum and a remote-controlled shopping cart). Free on YouTube. [kottke.org]
Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas
In 2002, Aardman Animations produced a series of short episodes called Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions. In each episode, Wallace unveils a new invention, which Gromit then has to deal with. For the holiday seaso
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December 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas: a series of animated shorts featuring Gromit having to deal with the aftermath of Wallace’s inventions (like a rabid cracker vacuum and a remote-controlled shopping cart). Free on YouTube. [kottke.org]
In today's Masshole driver story.
Aggressive alcoholic on his way to the liquor store nearly sideswipes me as I'm turning right at a T intersection.
Aggressive alcoholic on his way to the liquor store nearly sideswipes me as I'm turning right at a T intersection.
December 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
In today's Masshole driver story.
Aggressive alcoholic on his way to the liquor store nearly sideswipes me as I'm turning right at a T intersection.
Aggressive alcoholic on his way to the liquor store nearly sideswipes me as I'm turning right at a T intersection.
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My exclusive @wsj.com column and video on the updates
@anthropic.com and Andon Labs have made to Project Vend www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
@anthropic.com and Andon Labs have made to Project Vend www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
My exclusive @wsj.com column and video on the updates
@anthropic.com and Andon Labs have made to Project Vend www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
@anthropic.com and Andon Labs have made to Project Vend www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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If you're stuck, simplify. If you're still stuck, simplify again.
December 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If you're stuck, simplify. If you're still stuck, simplify again.
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[Trailer] The Muppet Show is returning! It’s a one-time event, hosted by Sabrina Carpenter, to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary. “It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights…” [youtube.com]
The Muppet Show | Official Teaser | Disney+
The Muppet Show” returns Feb. 4 for a triumphant special event on Disney+ and ABC.
It’s The Muppet Show! Kermit, Miss Piggy and the beloved Muppet gang are back with a brand-new special event. Music, comedy, and a whole lot of chaos is bound to ensue when The Muppets once again take the stage of the
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December 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
[Trailer] The Muppet Show is returning! It’s a one-time event, hosted by Sabrina Carpenter, to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary. “It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights…” [youtube.com]
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“On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.” Includes Betty Boop, Blondie & Dagwood, and works by William Faulkner, Agatha Christie, and the Marx Brothers. [web.law.duke.edu]
Public Domain Day 2026
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US
web.law.duke.edu
December 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.” Includes Betty Boop, Blondie & Dagwood, and works by William Faulkner, Agatha Christie, and the Marx Brothers. [web.law.duke.edu]
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Here's a fun thing I just learned: If you're a magazine or catalog or other bulk mailer who is willing to add AI-generated content to your mailing, USPS will reward you with a 5% discount—potentially many thousands of dollars!
How on earth does this benefit USPS? www.usps.com/business/pro...
How on earth does this benefit USPS? www.usps.com/business/pro...
December 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Here's a fun thing I just learned: If you're a magazine or catalog or other bulk mailer who is willing to add AI-generated content to your mailing, USPS will reward you with a 5% discount—potentially many thousands of dollars!
How on earth does this benefit USPS? www.usps.com/business/pro...
How on earth does this benefit USPS? www.usps.com/business/pro...
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please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
Me standing at my kitchen sink: Why is it so cold here?
Also me: Oh right, it's 15℉ or 9℉ outside.
🥶
Also me: Oh right, it's 15℉ or 9℉ outside.
🥶
December 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Me standing at my kitchen sink: Why is it so cold here?
Also me: Oh right, it's 15℉ or 9℉ outside.
🥶
Also me: Oh right, it's 15℉ or 9℉ outside.
🥶
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It has given me a reputation as "scary" but knowing these numbers has meant for me that when I am interrupted in a meeting I will often just keep talking. Not always, but if the floor is unequivocally mine I will just. keep. talking.
Too many mediocre men talk over capable women.
Study of problem-solving teams: Men dominate the conversation, taking 50% more turns and saying 69% more than women. Men with low skill speak more than women with high skill.
It's long past time to value competence over confidence.
Study of problem-solving teams: Men dominate the conversation, taking 50% more turns and saying 69% more than women. Men with low skill speak more than women with high skill.
It's long past time to value competence over confidence.
December 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It has given me a reputation as "scary" but knowing these numbers has meant for me that when I am interrupted in a meeting I will often just keep talking. Not always, but if the floor is unequivocally mine I will just. keep. talking.
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How Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Are Made. (Spoiler: they are *not* made by two people bumping into each other on the street, as we were led to believe in the 80s.) [kottke.org]
How Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Are Made
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are probably my favorite big brand candy (perhaps only bested by Reese’s Pieces), so it was a real treat (groan) to see how the company makes them cups.
But did you know Reese’s purposely ov
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December 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
How Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Are Made. (Spoiler: they are *not* made by two people bumping into each other on the street, as we were led to believe in the 80s.) [kottke.org]
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Congratulations to TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year: The Box of Miscellaneous USB and Firewire Cables You Started Collecting in 2007
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Congratulations to TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year: The Box of Miscellaneous USB and Firewire Cables You Started Collecting in 2007
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Johannes Gutenberg invented guacamole
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Johannes Gutenberg invented guacamole
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Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century. But: “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” [nytimes.com]
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century. But: “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” [nytimes.com]
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This is a pretty good optical illusion. If you’re not on your phone, it also works if you shake your head a little. [kottke.org]
Jiggle Cat
This is a pretty good optical illusion. If you’re not on your phone, it also works if you shake your head a little. (thx, caroline)
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December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is a pretty good optical illusion. If you’re not on your phone, it also works if you shake your head a little. [kottke.org]