Why Are We Seeing Different Findings About AI?
Well, we haven't gotten specific enough about our questions, or we're using the wrong language or format for how we ask about it.
Intraducing Mastrodon
On May 25th I used Claude Code for the first time. I’ve used GitHub Copilot for some time, but I’d never used a “coding agent” with any success...
My Eyes
A long meander about a normal if premature eye surgery
I've Got a Fever, and the Only Prescription Is More Archiving
This was more than just a scholarly tendency to hoard footnotes or to lovingly alphabetise newspaper clippings. Derrida’s mal d’archive was more deeply affecting than that.
The State-of-the-art in AI Is No Longer About the Models, It Is About the Tooling Available Around the Models
Simon Willison: I really don’t like ChatGPT’s new memory dossier (May 2025)...
Weekly Roundup
In which I just [mostly] just compile things I posted about elsewhere…...
The Tyranny of AI Is Not AI Itself, It Is the Lazy, Rushed Product Designers with No Imagination or Sense of Craft
I’m doing it! I’m writing this post...
What I Might Be Seeing Was the Retreat of People into Themselves Because They Were Anxious and Alone
Adam Curtis on The Rest is Entertainment podcast...
She Don't Mind the Late Night Radio
One of the most delightful things I've found on the internet recently
AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
As a “oh, it is already happening” follow up to the philosophical section of my Overview of the GenAI Landscape post, where I quote Todd McGowan and Ryan Engley...
I Guess You Are Afraid of What Everyone Is Made of
Hey, what are you looking at? Who the hell do you think I am?
Overview of the GenAI Landscape
Word salad on a few weeks' worth of thinking about this stuff from a few different perspectives
Kester Brewin: Countering Political Turmoil with a Real Summer of Love
From a talk given in 2017, all the more pertinent today...
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Future of Coding 76 – Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing...
His Name Is Buster
This is one my best lifelong friends. We don’t get to talk much since I moved from SoFL and then he moved to PDX. Discovering this brought me great joy...
Ambiguous Sensibilities
From "Foxwizard: Void Hunting"
General-audience AI Presentation
I gave a presentation to my company, which consists of ~20 people with a wide array of technical abilities/knowledge, from struggles-with-their-webcam to knows-more-about-this-tech-than-me...
Everyone Dies Alone
It's absurd
Check Your Paradiastoles
🐙 Love & paradiastoles in the time of shoggoths...
From Inbox Zero to Inbox Hero
Keeping email closed is one of the greatest life hacks in existence