Jeff Waugh

“During a lecture [at Harvard] by Henry Kissinger, I got up and left the room,” [Tracy Kidder] recalled. “I was just bored to death.” a good soul

Florida bans sociology from core curriculum at state universities miamiherald.com/news/politics-…

@Brocklesnitch and Javadi's reaction to that convo 😆😊

@sachee per german pronunciation rules, weiner describes the typical owner of a wiener

like maybe i spelled it right or maybe it's weiner idk

wiener feels like it's always spelled wrong no matter how you spell it

@noampomsky Young memoir rather than YA, but… Prozac Nation?

incredibly niche ask but I have a memory of a young adult novel I read as a kid, it must have been written in the 90s or early 2000s, where Bruce Springsteen was a major figure. I think the main character was a girl and her dad was obsessed with Bruce Springsteen or something like that. I tried asking AI and it's not "Dear Bruce Springsteen" or "So Lyrical"

@mitchellh unpleasantly flippant attitude about people's lives there

Here’s what I’d do if I was in charge of GitHub, in order: 1. Establish a North Star plan around being critical infrastructure for agentic code lifecycles and determine a set of ways to measure that. 2. Fire everyone who works on or advocates for copilot and shut it down. It’s not about the people, Im sure theres many talented people, youre just working at the wrong company. 3. Buy Pierre and launch agentic repo hosting as the first agentic product. Repos would be separate from the legacy web product to start since they’re likely burdened with legacy cross product interactions. 4. Re-evaluate all product lines and initiatives against the new North Star. I suspect 50% get cut (to make room for different ones). The big idea is all agentic interactions should critically rely on GitHub APIs. Code review should be agentic but the labs should be building that into GH (not bolted in through GHA like today, real first class platform primitives). GH should absolutely launch an agent chat primitive, agent mailboxes are obviously good. Etc. GH should be a platform and not an agent itself. This is going to be very obviously lacking since I only have external ideas to work off of and have no idea how GitHub internals are working, what their KPIs are or what North Star they define, etc. But, with imperfect information, this is what I’d do.

Written in 1983, part 1:

The fastest path to “AGI” is making sure that “AGI” means nothing.

@KMooreGilbert @ksadjadpour @TheAtlantic This is a classic attempt at manufacturing consent and full of total bollocks like, “Unable to compete militarily with the United States and Israel, Tehran has…” 😆

"Asymmetry of resolve is Iran’s greatest structural advantage. Tehran wins by not losing; Trump loses by not winning." Another excellent piece by @ksadjadpour in @TheAtlantic

RØDE is smashing it. The RØDECaster Video and Video S were cool, but the RØDECaster Video Core is *such* a great idea. And they've made it compose well with software control, or RØDECaster Pro for deeper audio production and control.

so now tim o'reilly (of book publishing fame) is sharing his "conversations" with a large language model… jesus christ people have lost their minds

While the irrational exuberance crowd is over-indexing on utility-priced non-deterministic chaos, there's a quiet thread of more sensible and pragmatic enthusiasm ticking along in the background, using coding agents within more secure, rigorous, deterministic systems.

yay ania on the weekend update desk #snluk

Do they have any hope of fusing the SNL style with UK humour? [first sketch: UnderAge] lol, okay, yes. #snluk

Wow. This 2025 Modern Love column in NY Times. Human writing or...? 😬 I don't want to falsely accuse writers of AI-use. But this reads EXACTLY like AI slop. And this is the frickin @nytimes Modern Love column, which is notoriously competitive, super hard to break into. Just sad.

Social media is naturally awash right now with calls for the abolition of preferential voting, which would do precisely nothing to address the issue being raised. Yet to be see in the wild (by me at least): a call for what would, namely proportional representation.

Indiscriminate autotracing can be… unhelpful… but dial9 for tokio is very thoughtfully done. tokio.rs/blog/2026-03-1…

it is astonishing how quickly people (who should know better) have lost their minds and accepted extreme normalisation of deviance on so many levels…

Tech bros will never have taste because taste evolves from liking things purely for their own sake, and tech bros cannot conceive of value that is not tied to profit or clout