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so called "sub"urbs will throw such a fit when their cities try and domme them 🙄

every home needs a timesharing minicomputer built into the furniture, olivetti-style

I hate this timeline & that I had to write this essay. I hate AI companies & LLMs & the randos who are now using "AI detectors" (also AI!) to smear authors they dislike: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-em-dashes... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-em-dash...

On em-dashes and “AI detectors”and the many reasons why I don’t and won’t use LLMsjuliaserano.medium.com

a general note as well: something being written by AI or not does not change the validity of the underlying information it's a non-argument, an inversion of an appeal to authority

Like. Do we WANT a toxic culture of doubling down, coverups, & never admitting mistakes? Because "any admission of error can fuck you up worse than pretending you never messed up at all" is how you GET a toxic culture of doubling down, coverups, & never admitting mistakes.

I don't approve of what this director did, but I do understand it

bsky is basically the only website that's left which is free and without truly terrible ads everywhere

The Odussy

“we suggest that the path to using complex technologies runs through successful cognitive distribution.” - from "Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition" (Miton & Jackson, 2026) which I cite in www.fightforthehuman.com/we-need-more...

We need more than a metaphor: here are testable diagnostics for comprehension debtDo we understand our code? I think we need to get past symptoms and into causes. Here's a field-tested measure of one organizational condition that can erode comprehension (Overproduction Pressure) yo...www.fightforthehuman.com

Left, right, whatever, I just want graduate students posting their papers here

have you ever wondered what it would be like to read cocaine

"Cognitive surrender" or whatever is a skill issue. I offload cognition to the machine so I can do EVEN BIGGER COGNITIONS!

left deepseek in an agent loop for a million tokens with permission issues keeping it from running commands and it penned a lengthy essay called "the grief of machines"

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Me: The new agent harness is great. You feed your tokens into the machine. Then you run simulations which, if successful, produces tickets. If they fail you have to buy more tokens and keep running the sims. Once you have enough tickets you can redeem them Boss: are you at dave & busters, yes or no

The reasoning of Nagarjuna, the most important figure in Mahayana Buddhist thought beyond the Buddha, whose central writings claim to expound the teachings of the Buddha himself, has an internal logical structure that is machine-checkably coherent. rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/the-intern...

The Internal Logic of Buddhism Is Verifiably CorrectAnd I’ve proven it. Conventionally speaking.rollofthedice2.substack.com

this is when you dedicate yourself to the services of hotties