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Jonathan E Cowperthwait
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Slow runner, fast talker, kind of medium speed reader. Tell your dog I said hi. @cowperthwait

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Just an orobourus of bullshit, all the way down. Excellent use of magic sand, everyone.
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Some marketing newsletter today had an article about how the new hotness is using AI to help you come up with better AI prompts. This feels like being a kid shuttled between divorced parents, if both of those parents were intellectually disabled.
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Hahaha Strava, you dumb cow
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This has been a subtweet about Kubernetes.
December 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
*Y’all!* The earth is *round!*, etc.
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
2, I can’t actually socialize my enthusiasm for having just learned a Thing that everyone else already knew.
December 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
What’s a little bit annoying about the process… well, two things. 1, I just went through all the effort of a first-principles exercise only to learn what I already knew. Not a good use of time!
December 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
SECOND, sometimes—not always!, but a lot of the time…—this is followed by a gradually but steadily amassed certainty: ah, yes, the conventional wisdom *was* right, after all. My worldview is intact.
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
FIRST, the trough of nihilism and despair. Holy *shit*, this is *complicated* and I don’t know *anything*, previous confident me was an *idiot*, wow, the world is *hard*.
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Those poor lambs.
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
My parents lived in Hawaii for a few years, and still today are amused that the local TV weather presenter had to reach for novel ways, every day, to say that the high would be 82°, the low would be 72°, with winds from the west at 5 mph, and there would not be any rain.
December 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Strava is burning like a nickel of compute every time I go for a run so that its little bot can come up with a new way, each time, of saying, “You went for a run, pretty much like the last one. There were hills, but not too many.” I applaud the effort but I can tell that they’re getting bored […]
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December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Teenage me was a powerful argument in favor of 54th term abortion.
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Bang bang
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Multiple people were responsible in the production and approval of this advertising, which means that we will need that many fewer seats on the ark.
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Son, you’ve got to use your *head*
November 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Of course the way to solve this would be to build Waymos on top of Audi cars, since, as best as anyone can tell, Audis don’t have turn signals.
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM