This whole thread will probably make some people mad or hurt.

If that's you, I'm incredibly sorry. I say this in love and pain and a desperate wish for a better world.

I just don't think we can get there in democratic society if we see opponents as enemies and their beliefs as irredeemably evil.

I think often about this quote about "the fascism in us all" from Foucault introducing _Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia_

Every one of us would like to cut off the head of powers that be and install our views in their place—only to find out whoops we're the monster fucking our own moms.

Does the world need to be better? Hell the fuck yes.

But I'm not convinced we can get there anymore by being mad about how bad "those" people are.

It's as effective in changing minds and winning people over as Christian fundamentalism—by which I mean: not at all.

Do those beliefs cause harm? Yes! 1000000%

But are the people causing that harm going to be shamed into compliance due to the beliefs of people who cannot spend a minute to treat them with respect?

Zero chance.

Having made friends and colleagues from vastly different global cultures, I see how narrow is the range of "acceptable" worldviews and how self-centered it is to view ignorant beliefs that *most* humans have had for all of human history as making the people who hold them implicitly "bad".

Having grown up in Eastern Washington and having never personally had a single trans person as a friend until I was 30, I understand how it feels to be absolutely ignorant and well-intentioned.

Having rural neighbors and family who are *generally* protective and anxious about what their kids are exposed to in the modern world and what impact it has on them makes me see how they would want to restrict what material their kids have access to (even if they are thinking about it ignorantly)

Building with LLMs and deeply interested in using them for projects that enable civic engagement, I see how, for some progressives, there is no room for viewing it with the kind of nuance afforded other technologies that can also be used to hurt or to help.

Working in crypto on a project that protected people from hacks and was built on open community-ownership, I saw how it feels to be vilified blindly and how first-world the disdain for crypto is, even as it creates opportunity for access to the economic system we take for granted.

Living in Eastern Washington, I see how even people who LOVE and protect trans kids are 100% convinced by the argument of "fairness in sports" (even if it's purely motivated by bad faith politics!)

Same!

Marshawn at the goal line

These are such great questions!

I feel that. I only like working on greenfield stuff. There’s a lot at the fringes of building LLM tools that is not solved or not solved well yet imo. I’ve been working on a language for scripting LLMs for the past 10 months.

lol yes! One thing that is amazing to me is that really well designed MCP servers are like a jobs to be done kind of tldr focused API with instructions attached for how to use it. Should’ve been a thing already!

This is a demo that shows forging a JWT and getting the information for a random Cursor based on an user_id I found committed to GitHub.

scorching:

Ennio Morricone pop music

youtu.be/x6fpSiE953w?...

scorching:

Ennio Morricone pop music

youtu.be/x6fpSiE953w?...

Gemini 2.5 is SOTA in my practical experience