brad piss
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husband. father. patriot.
Here to make friends, I suppose. Interested in how organizations functions and fail. Will bring back cybernetics or die trying
i care about palestine and trans rights
posts mostly in english, rarely swedish or german
husband. father. patriot.
Here to make friends, I suppose. Interested in how organizations functions and fail. Will bring back cybernetics or die trying
i care about palestine and trans rights
posts mostly in english, rarely swedish or german
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Jag tycker om att kolla feeden med alla första posts på svenska och försöka välkomna människor lite. Postar vanligtvis på engelska men du är inbjuden att kolla min profil och få min vibb. Vill gärna öka mitt svenska nätverk!
What an absolutely spiritually crushing read. I'm glad i pushed through, it feels like a necessary corrective to the desperate optimism about China of Adam Tooze that I've recently grabbed on to, but its just grim to stay abreast of the world and see so harshly the tracks of blood-soaked titans
i've reached the chapter on the one child policy in Breakneck, and i think that anyone who ever thought china was going to transition to democracy was deluded purely on the grounds of what people would do to anyone who got near to that policys enactment if it got looked over with any transparency
January 23, 2026 at 11:05 PM
What an absolutely spiritually crushing read. I'm glad i pushed through, it feels like a necessary corrective to the desperate optimism about China of Adam Tooze that I've recently grabbed on to, but its just grim to stay abreast of the world and see so harshly the tracks of blood-soaked titans
Another thing breakneck makes me want is a full accounting of dan wangs communications with his publisher after the tyler cowen ai virgin actress free press substack post
January 23, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Another thing breakneck makes me want is a full accounting of dan wangs communications with his publisher after the tyler cowen ai virgin actress free press substack post
i've reached the chapter on the one child policy in Breakneck, and i think that anyone who ever thought china was going to transition to democracy was deluded purely on the grounds of what people would do to anyone who got near to that policys enactment if it got looked over with any transparency
January 23, 2026 at 9:54 PM
i've reached the chapter on the one child policy in Breakneck, and i think that anyone who ever thought china was going to transition to democracy was deluded purely on the grounds of what people would do to anyone who got near to that policys enactment if it got looked over with any transparency
what 1000 hours of bg3 do to a mf
this film is dedicated to the brave squirrel resistance fighters of rock creek park
January 23, 2026 at 7:54 PM
what 1000 hours of bg3 do to a mf
it's fucked up that I'm fighting on both frotns of this by both listening to way too many (leftist) podcasts, and podcasting myself
January 23, 2026 at 7:52 PM
it's fucked up that I'm fighting on both frotns of this by both listening to way too many (leftist) podcasts, and podcasting myself
every now and then i think about how cool it would be to send some videogame into the past and see what impact it would have, the branching strange alternate lineage of games cribbing off something decades ahead of them that would ensue
January 22, 2026 at 8:20 PM
every now and then i think about how cool it would be to send some videogame into the past and see what impact it would have, the branching strange alternate lineage of games cribbing off something decades ahead of them that would ensue
another day that ends in y, another having to look up how Haplodiploidy works because its so hard to keep together
January 22, 2026 at 6:01 PM
another day that ends in y, another having to look up how Haplodiploidy works because its so hard to keep together
I worry that making anything with LLMs is kind of a local optimum trap. It's an astonishing first jump when you start something, but you're just climbing the smaller hill. And because of diminishing returns, you eventually end up circling at the top taking two steps forward two steps back.
My adventures in vibe coding continued: Generative AI is a deeply expensive edging machine, but for your life.
www.garbageday.email/p/generative...
www.garbageday.email/p/generative...
January 22, 2026 at 2:39 PM
I worry that making anything with LLMs is kind of a local optimum trap. It's an astonishing first jump when you start something, but you're just climbing the smaller hill. And because of diminishing returns, you eventually end up circling at the top taking two steps forward two steps back.
now seeing a rise in US healthcare company names in the spam folder. i guess it's no longer a mystery. despair and gambling, the two eternal monoliths of scams.
I'm not sure what this is an indicator for but i've just started getting ozempic spam
January 22, 2026 at 12:45 PM
now seeing a rise in US healthcare company names in the spam folder. i guess it's no longer a mystery. despair and gambling, the two eternal monoliths of scams.
It's interesting actually encountering what a discipline being "insular" means practically. I'm keeping an eye on PhD positions being posted at the moment, and a lot of the social sciences will consider you if you have social science credits, but business & economics only accept "their own"
January 22, 2026 at 11:51 AM
It's interesting actually encountering what a discipline being "insular" means practically. I'm keeping an eye on PhD positions being posted at the moment, and a lot of the social sciences will consider you if you have social science credits, but business & economics only accept "their own"
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he’s right
January 21, 2026 at 4:55 AM
he’s right
In completely unrelated news, the german interface of linkedin recently changed the apply button from apply (in the sense of apply to a job) to apply (in the sense of apply a tool)
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:30 PM
In completely unrelated news, the german interface of linkedin recently changed the apply button from apply (in the sense of apply to a job) to apply (in the sense of apply a tool)
maybe al gore was raised on "if you don't contribute, you have no right to complain" and is drawing the correct implications
January 21, 2026 at 1:28 PM
maybe al gore was raised on "if you don't contribute, you have no right to complain" and is drawing the correct implications
Restarting my read of sciences of the artificial, trying to take good notes this time
January 19, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Restarting my read of sciences of the artificial, trying to take good notes this time
Inching ever closer to being an information pollution crank. Just need to come up with something as gripping as Silent Spring
LLMs are spam generators. That is all.
They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".
But really, all they are is spam generators.
We have hit the spamularity.
They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".
But really, all they are is spam generators.
We have hit the spamularity.
January 17, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Inching ever closer to being an information pollution crank. Just need to come up with something as gripping as Silent Spring
incredible
January 16, 2026 at 9:22 PM
incredible
The most elaborate PhD proposal I wrote last year was more or less this haha (i did not get called for an interview)
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January 16, 2026 at 7:06 PM
The most elaborate PhD proposal I wrote last year was more or less this haha (i did not get called for an interview)
I'm not sure what this is an indicator for but i've just started getting ozempic spam
January 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM
I'm not sure what this is an indicator for but i've just started getting ozempic spam
Solidarity with Jerome Powell requires solidarity with Sepp Blatter. American meddling with and pressure on independent institutions has a history far deeper than trump, and we need to fight its every stage. How do you think the world cup came to the US in the first place?
Since last night, 16,800 fans have cancelled their FIFA World Cup 2026 tickets.
In addition FIFA has scheduled an emergency meeting next week to address the escalating protesting and how it relates to safety and political concerns.
In addition FIFA has scheduled an emergency meeting next week to address the escalating protesting and how it relates to safety and political concerns.
January 13, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Solidarity with Jerome Powell requires solidarity with Sepp Blatter. American meddling with and pressure on independent institutions has a history far deeper than trump, and we need to fight its every stage. How do you think the world cup came to the US in the first place?
There is something indelibly european about taking a decent but terribly delayed night train
January 12, 2026 at 9:42 AM
There is something indelibly european about taking a decent but terribly delayed night train
Itll be really funny if this pops the ai bubble
January 12, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Itll be really funny if this pops the ai bubble
Torn on the concept of snap elections. I do love hubris punishing itself
January 11, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Torn on the concept of snap elections. I do love hubris punishing itself
Having a deeply strange time going about berlin because i had to travel here early due to the weather, my luggage is chonky and my hotel checkin wasnt till just now, so i spent half the day at the library, and am now visiting the museum of musical instruments
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Having a deeply strange time going about berlin because i had to travel here early due to the weather, my luggage is chonky and my hotel checkin wasnt till just now, so i spent half the day at the library, and am now visiting the museum of musical instruments
i cant say this with utter certainty but i'm pretty sure spam was down over the holidays
January 9, 2026 at 10:22 AM
i cant say this with utter certainty but i'm pretty sure spam was down over the holidays
The trains in the corner of germany where i grew up have decayed from bad so you complain about them like the weather to completely untenable
It used to be that the app made the delays navigable but theyve completely lost the ability to predict even their own delays affecting each other
It used to be that the app made the delays navigable but theyve completely lost the ability to predict even their own delays affecting each other
January 8, 2026 at 10:56 AM
The trains in the corner of germany where i grew up have decayed from bad so you complain about them like the weather to completely untenable
It used to be that the app made the delays navigable but theyve completely lost the ability to predict even their own delays affecting each other
It used to be that the app made the delays navigable but theyve completely lost the ability to predict even their own delays affecting each other