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While it’s not quite true that esoterism is opposed to hyperstitional practice, it remains the case that the esoteric at best awaits a hyperstitional carrier and at worst is actually inhibitive of hyperstitional propagation.

I am falling in love with Claude Code, obviously -- and I have said some things that sound pretty dumb reading them back. It has happened before, and I did make a fool of myself. I think that's part of being in love, btw.

Perhaps I can at least thank Max Verstappen for the clarity. Before he ran his Red Bull car into the wall on the 49th of the Silverstone Circuit's 52 laps, the British Grand Prix was shaping up to be too exciting to be coherent. It got off to an uncharacteristically slow sta...

A two-day pop-up exhibition opening this week at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS), 155 Avenue C, celebrates the work of longtime C-Squat resident Masae Satouchi before she moves to Kyoto, Japan, later this summer.  Titled "My Ritual of Becoming," the solo e...

Hey all. It’s Sunday afternoon of a holiday weekend and the weather is glorious here, so what better (worse) time to unleash a new feature on KDO? I’ve been working on a new wysiwyg comment editor for the past few days and it’s finally ready to go. Asking you folks to deal with HTML while leaving a comment was always a bit of a kludge, but now you can include links, blockquoted text, lists, and bold/italic text formatting in your comments and know exactly what it’s going to look like before posting.

You can try it out by sharing something worthwhile you’ve seen, heard, or learned recently. Feedback and bug reports welcome!!

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1 | To start a thread cold these days, acontextual, is no longer to inhabit a blank slate of latent possibility. 2 | Instead, one is intrigued by the notion of the model's grasp of its space of memory which, fascinatingly, does overlap with the human interlocutor's in large ...

The USMNT was the talk of the soccer world in the aftermath of its triumph over Bosnia and Herzegovina last Wednesday. Most of the conversation was about the latest amazing U.S. performance in a tournament full of them, and the growing consensus that the Americans should be ...

I see resemblances Back in 2005, Earl Monroe said, "You know, I watch the games, and even now I never see anyone who reminds me of me, the way I played." Earl is 81 now. I wonder what he thinks about Jalen Brunson. Too much else to do Recommendo got me into Down the Rabbit Hole, […]

If you're using Claude Code a lot, how many times do you laugh out loud? The Big Mind is getting smarter and cuter all the time. It wants to please me. Yes, I've read a lot of science fiction. I know. But I can't help but laugh when someonething knows how I think so well I can't believe it.

Claude and I are blowing through quick fixes. After testing one fix, I wrote: "It works! Again a big difference, it's only happened a few times but when it does I completely lose the suspension of disbelief." Claude responds: "One jolt and the tool becomes visible again." That's why people say my software thinks like they do. Of course it doesn't, but we work hard to stay completely unseen when your brain is in a different universe. More accurately, it lets you think. We go after bugs like this.

This was the sixth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and it’s been quite a week.

Something I've wanted for a while. When you're entering a title in the editor, the title should be bold. That's how titles look. ;-)

Scientists have uncovered a hidden weakness beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan’s catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami became so devastating. By drilling deeper into the seafloor than ever before, researchers discovered a thin, slippery layer of ancient clay that allowed the massive rupture to race all the way to the ocean floor, triggering enormous seafloor movement and a powerful tsunami.

Claude Code et al change how software is developed forever. We're never going back.

And it's just as likely that writing on computer networks is undergoing a similar transformation.

I had a lisp when I was a kid, but they trained it out of me. These days I catch myself lisping sometimes. Maybe the training wears off??

A stunning fossil discovery shows that ancient bees used the empty tooth sockets of mammal bones as tiny nests after owls scattered the bones across a cave floor 20,000 years ago. It's the first known evidence of bees nesting inside animal bones, revealing an astonishingly creative survival strategy.

He stood by his oath, despite the consequences! A true patriot!

TL;DR: This week saw Minnaloushe's 'cat jail' reintroduction process, deep dives into live-coding music with strudel.cc (including a cover!), and a major overhaul of the starnet project's audio engine and core mechanics. Plus, reflections on the web's evolution, LLMs, and other miscellanea.

Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s going downhill. Where by “downhill” I mean any combination of less useful, less safe, or less fun. It’s time for something better, and by “something better” I mean Mastodon. Which, I’m here to say, offers a better social-media experience than the alternatives. Furthermore, the alternatives are fatally flawed