I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race

Opinion | Pay More Attention to A.I.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

It's somewhat telling that moltbook is what he's using as the point of attention.

Tasker widget showing open projects

Ok, not ObjC, but Swift!

Weird feeling, having bought a Macbook. NeXT cube, slab, a ton of chromebooks, and now this.

I've had work issued of course, but having my own is a sort of homecoming. Can I write a desktop widget in ObjC?

My talk on the limitations of algorithmic fairness is now online! youtu.be/YjZ4s3nqxbs?...

This was a great listen with a wide ranging overview, from angels and daimons/daemons, Shelly, to Tolkien, to Dartmouth, to how to think about the eschatological singularity.

An engaging review and critique of a movie I wasn't interested in seeing and now am more interested in all the references that were misunderstood.

A Hallmark Christmas, Through the Dark Lens of the Trump Economy A lump of coal from President Scrooge [The NYT assigned me a column about Christmas and affordability in the Trump economy but also assigned approximately four million other columns for the holidays ...

The NYT asked me to write about Christmas in the Trump economy, but also assigned too many holiday columns so mine didn't make it in. But here it is! The Hallmark Christmas movie you didn't ask for: www.elizabethspiers.com/a-hallmark-c...

Ultima ref ftw

AI Safety Requires Pluralism, Not a Single Moral Operating System | TechPolicy.Press Diversity isn’t a weakness in the age of AI; rather, it is a necessity for AI safety, says R Street Institute president and co-founder Eli Lehrer.

Society should pursue a strategy that allows general-purpose AI systems that learn “moral judgement” through experience, facilitate the emergence of specialized professional AI agents, and implement policies that assure the greatest possible diversity of AI models, writes R Street's Eli Lehrer.

I was talking to a bay area friend of mine who's not in tech and we realized he's more physically in tech than I am, with billboards and waymos literally in his physical space.

I'm not a lawyer.
It seems like cease and desists are a PR statement and a negotiating tactic and bullying and nuh uh and narcissism all in one.

Work is doing a lot of work there.
2026 is the year we stop worrying about agents and just do... work.

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this NYT article about programming work at Amazon (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html) because it perfectly illustrates how “productivity” trends in AI in the workplace benefit so few.

The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it

AI isn't coming for your job, the end of tax write-offs is.
Thanks, Trump.

qz.com/tech-layoffs...

This is what happened when Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry Thomas Keller is a legendary chef. Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan hadn’t met him, until she went to the French Laundry and he asked her to leave.

Damn.

www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Catastrophic forgetting weekend - willingly closed all my chrome tabs after setting to not reopen. Awaiting the wonders of Monday with eager eyes.

@pydantic.dev's FastA2A! (A2A is Google's Agent2Agent Protocol, which complements MCP (developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new...).

ai.pydantic.dev/a2a/

Apparently not. It's not even out. Spoiler much?

Based on all the hype in my news feed, I figured Murderbot was over. It hasn't even debuted and people have season one reviews. I guess I'll just reread the books.

Turn any gRPC api into an #mcp server: github.com/redpanda-dat... ... watch a live demo here: youtu.be/gIFN8NlV8vk?... ... let's go! ... apache 2 licensed

A mob of Hasidic men in Brooklyn chase down a woman who came to protest Ben-Gvir.

This sort of reaction has become normalized in NYC and LA, where violence against protestors has spiked enormously since October 7th.

This largely isn't covered or addressed by media, despite how widespread it is.

Mountainhead | Official Teaser | Max Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

It's just the trailer but an oddly tone deaf attempt at dark humor. Would rather see a Careless People movie. Or read it again.
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An LLM‑as‑Judge Won't Save The Product—Fixing Your Process Will Applying the scientific method, building via eval-driven development, and monitoring AI output.

eugeneyan.com/writing/eval...

This is a great thread, and it’s why every time someone says, cynically “well, do you think the courts are going to save us?” I think, “not on their own, no, but we aren’t going to get saved without a real legal apparatus.”

alright, i'm asking in seriousness. do folks know what lynching is? do folks know the *legal* issues with lynching? it's actually more complicated than you think, and i'm not a legal scholar so i don't want to step out of my lane--BUT I'VE READ BOOKS.

Language Models Are Implicitly Continuous Language is typically modelled with discrete sequences. However, the most successful approaches to language modelling, namely neural networks, are continuous and smooth function approximators. In this...

I don't know enough about linguistics to know if there are languages that have more emphasis on time duration (aspect) than ontera or if there's an analogy for the behavior described here (the "green banapple" for example). It'd be super interesting to know.

arxiv.org/abs/2504.03933

Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein from normal. Rather than discussing the historicity of Tolkien’s world or adaptations of it, …

Fantastic post on how the portrayal of Celebrimbor in the TV shows misses the moral points of the text

From @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

acoup.blog/2025/04/18/c...

A black colored square with photos of authors Nghi Vo, N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, and Matthew Kirby announcing the American Writers Museum's talk "Making New Gods" April 22, 5:15pm CT at the Harold Washington Library Center of the Chicago Public Library

Save the date! I'm moderating an @awmuseum.bsky.social discussion about creating faith systems in fictional worlds with @nkjemisin.bsky.social @nnedi.bsky.social @nghivo.bsky.social & Matthew Kirby on 4/22 at 5:15pm CST at the Chicago Public Library. americanwritersmuseum.org/program-cale...