Jack Rusher
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Jack Rusher
@jackrusher.com
· Apr 15
Intro. I’m a multifaceted weirdo, so in three parts:
① Homeschooled child prodigy, early/pre-web Internet’er, contributed to software used by ~2/3 of the world. Worked at multiple labs, including Bell/AT&T. Many successful startups.
Currently building tools to move forward science and computation.
① Homeschooled child prodigy, early/pre-web Internet’er, contributed to software used by ~2/3 of the world. Worked at multiple labs, including Bell/AT&T. Many successful startups.
Currently building tools to move forward science and computation.
①
What living my values would look like in terms of technology: running BSD or Plan9 on a modular, repairable laptop[1], carrying a minimalist phone and a dedicated camera, only SMS and Signal for messaging, only open/federated social media, Bandcamp, &c.
What living my values would look like in terms of technology: running BSD or Plan9 on a modular, repairable laptop[1], carrying a minimalist phone and a dedicated camera, only SMS and Signal for messaging, only open/federated social media, Bandcamp, &c.
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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What living my values would look like in terms of technology: running BSD or Plan9 on a modular, repairable laptop[1], carrying a minimalist phone and a dedicated camera, only SMS and Signal for messaging, only open/federated social media, Bandcamp, &c.
What living my values would look like in terms of technology: running BSD or Plan9 on a modular, repairable laptop[1], carrying a minimalist phone and a dedicated camera, only SMS and Signal for messaging, only open/federated social media, Bandcamp, &c.
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there is no reason to expect—or fear—computers becoming intelligent. we should be afraid that people have already stopped thinking for themselves
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
there is no reason to expect—or fear—computers becoming intelligent. we should be afraid that people have already stopped thinking for themselves
"Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... It's the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound"
— Tom Stoppard, RIP 😿
— Tom Stoppard, RIP 😿
November 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... It's the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound"
— Tom Stoppard, RIP 😿
— Tom Stoppard, RIP 😿
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today i was randomly reminded that this generative algorithm served as inspiration for the internal structure of the Druun in Raya and the Last Dragon (it's a good movie, i recommend). here is a description of the algorithm: inconvergent.net/generative/d...
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
today i was randomly reminded that this generative algorithm served as inspiration for the internal structure of the Druun in Raya and the Last Dragon (it's a good movie, i recommend). here is a description of the algorithm: inconvergent.net/generative/d...
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Technically “fuck around and find out” is the scientific method
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Technically “fuck around and find out” is the scientific method
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Saw person with 2" fingernails use chopsticks and type on phone tonight, as fast as anyone. Human brain consumes 20W total. Bet she didn't use 1kWh to learn either skill. Humanoid companies using big learning on big data to learn dexterity, eat your hearts out. You got it wrong. Humans are gooder.
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Saw person with 2" fingernails use chopsticks and type on phone tonight, as fast as anyone. Human brain consumes 20W total. Bet she didn't use 1kWh to learn either skill. Humanoid companies using big learning on big data to learn dexterity, eat your hearts out. You got it wrong. Humans are gooder.
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Gallery: Sorry, your art was not accepted for our exhibition, but thanks for applying.
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Gallery: Sorry, your art was not accepted for our exhibition, but thanks for applying.
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
‘This chart […] shows that only 34% of Americans have managed to escape deprivation. It shows that the “Middle Class” (the dark blue section between $50,000 and $150,000)—roughly 45% of the country—is actually the Working Poor.’
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
‘This chart […] shows that only 34% of Americans have managed to escape deprivation. It shows that the “Middle Class” (the dark blue section between $50,000 and $150,000)—roughly 45% of the country—is actually the Working Poor.’
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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spending over a decade getting pretty good at doing "generative things" only to land in the decade of generative slop is ... not ideal
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
spending over a decade getting pretty good at doing "generative things" only to land in the decade of generative slop is ... not ideal
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My five-project (along with slides, video lectures, etc.) compilers course has all projects now available online free: kmicinski.com/functional-p.... Five projects have you incrementally build a compiler for a substantial language, including functions, mutation, loops, vectors, etc.
Build a Compiler in Five Projects
Class website here: https://kmicinski.com/cis531-f25
kmicinski.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
My five-project (along with slides, video lectures, etc.) compilers course has all projects now available online free: kmicinski.com/functional-p.... Five projects have you incrementally build a compiler for a substantial language, including functions, mutation, loops, vectors, etc.
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
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Oxide is hiring in the embedded space. If you enjoy baffling choices by hardware vendors and debugging performance issues come join me.
oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...
oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...
Embedded Systems Engineer / Oxide
oxide.computer
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Oxide is hiring in the embedded space. If you enjoy baffling choices by hardware vendors and debugging performance issues come join me.
oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...
oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...
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As I have said to students nowadays, the most important thing one learns in school is how to learn, and using LLMs completely defeats that objective. The process matters.
You don't use a fork lift the gym. The immediate result—weights up in the air—is not always the key reason to do something.
You don't use a fork lift the gym. The immediate result—weights up in the air—is not always the key reason to do something.
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
As I have said to students nowadays, the most important thing one learns in school is how to learn, and using LLMs completely defeats that objective. The process matters.
You don't use a fork lift the gym. The immediate result—weights up in the air—is not always the key reason to do something.
You don't use a fork lift the gym. The immediate result—weights up in the air—is not always the key reason to do something.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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here is the graph data structure (triplestore) i have. it is optimised for certain lookups/queries. if i represent triangles with properties i don't really need to add anything to the data structure. i only need to enforce some restrictions. eg. no more than two properties (faces) per vertex pair
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
here is the graph data structure (triplestore) i have. it is optimised for certain lookups/queries. if i represent triangles with properties i don't really need to add anything to the data structure. i only need to enforce some restrictions. eg. no more than two properties (faces) per vertex pair
Seen in Kreuzberg 😆
(Spanish for “this country lacks poetry”, more or less).
(Spanish for “this country lacks poetry”, more or less).
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Seen in Kreuzberg 😆
(Spanish for “this country lacks poetry”, more or less).
(Spanish for “this country lacks poetry”, more or less).
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force installing ai bots on every mobile device in the world is a great idea, and is absolutely not going to cause any problems
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
force installing ai bots on every mobile device in the world is a great idea, and is absolutely not going to cause any problems
I really like what they’re doing here. Keyword arguments have many advantages over positional ones, but have the big disadvantage of verbosity. Here the editor auto inserts keyword arguments when one performs direct manipulation so manually typing the keywords is seldom required.
KCL functions often have a lot of optional arguments (e.g. the `extrude` function can optionally twist the shape around). Now you get autocomplete for these argument labels, including their docs and type info.
November 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I really like what they’re doing here. Keyword arguments have many advantages over positional ones, but have the big disadvantage of verbosity. Here the editor auto inserts keyword arguments when one performs direct manipulation so manually typing the keywords is seldom required.
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if ursula k le guin had dressed up like irma vep, covertly assassinated libertarian pro-incest sci-fi writer robert a. heinlein, and then returned to her cozy life, our current reality would be significantly different
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 AM
if ursula k le guin had dressed up like irma vep, covertly assassinated libertarian pro-incest sci-fi writer robert a. heinlein, and then returned to her cozy life, our current reality would be significantly different
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Apologies for sliding and hijacking this but ROOST is still accepting applications for our Staff software engineer role! We're a v small team so this person ideally has a mix of backend and frontend experience.
Improving the UI of T&S tools is my personal soapbox
roost.tools/staff-softwa...
Improving the UI of T&S tools is my personal soapbox
roost.tools/staff-softwa...
Staff Software Engineer | ROOST Careers
Join ROOST as a Staff Software Engineer to build safety infrastructure for the AI era.
roost.tools
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Apologies for sliding and hijacking this but ROOST is still accepting applications for our Staff software engineer role! We're a v small team so this person ideally has a mix of backend and frontend experience.
Improving the UI of T&S tools is my personal soapbox
roost.tools/staff-softwa...
Improving the UI of T&S tools is my personal soapbox
roost.tools/staff-softwa...
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Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
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One of my best friends on earth, and the producer of some of the albums I love the most, is trying something new and awesome (producing YOUR songs): www.instagram.com/p/DRBVDMhjOnJ/
He's a Canadian socialist & self-promotion is literally his worst nightmare, so I'm boosting.
He's a Canadian socialist & self-promotion is literally his worst nightmare, so I'm boosting.
Stephen Ramsay on Instagram
20 likes, 3 comments - stephen__ramsay on November 13, 2025
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November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
One of my best friends on earth, and the producer of some of the albums I love the most, is trying something new and awesome (producing YOUR songs): www.instagram.com/p/DRBVDMhjOnJ/
He's a Canadian socialist & self-promotion is literally his worst nightmare, so I'm boosting.
He's a Canadian socialist & self-promotion is literally his worst nightmare, so I'm boosting.
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Next week I’ll be in Berlin for a European Digital Sovereignty Summit satellite event to help launch @eurosky.social.
So it's time to ask: what does #sovereignty look like in the #socialmedia space?
mathewlowry.medium.com/building-res...
So it's time to ask: what does #sovereignty look like in the #socialmedia space?
mathewlowry.medium.com/building-res...
Building resilient social media
Next week I’ll be in Berlin, speaking at a Franco-German “Summit on European Digital Sovereignty” satellite event to help launch…
mathewlowry.medium.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Next week I’ll be in Berlin for a European Digital Sovereignty Summit satellite event to help launch @eurosky.social.
So it's time to ask: what does #sovereignty look like in the #socialmedia space?
mathewlowry.medium.com/building-res...
So it's time to ask: what does #sovereignty look like in the #socialmedia space?
mathewlowry.medium.com/building-res...