andrew thompson

Brilliant essay in this month’s Harper’s on living in dark times, the immaturity and complacency of Western elites, especially journalists, and “the mental self-mutilation of mankind through its press.”

I know a guy in Philly who panhandles in his wheelchair every night before scrapping metal into the early morning. We talked about the war one night and he and said he heard on the radio that the IRGC is now decentralized into autonomous units

I need a GitHub too! Is it like that or nah?

ah yes when your life's mission is to provide soc 2 compliance as a 20 something year old

Bluesky is fantastic, all the most sexless unfunny people in America ghettoized themselves into their own little fishbowl where they can pretend like the little prop rock is a whole reef and devour one another without it affecting absolutely anything outside the bowl

This was so controversial to say last year. Now it’s basically a fact—they’re adding to the Python stdlib.

When the New Yorker profiled marc andreessen, he basically shut down all discussion of his actual upbringing and instead talked about Charles Schulz. When the author suggested a Rilke poem that could shed light on his situation, "he stared back in absolute horror."

@AlexYablon It’s even better fully framed as a help desk column (yes I remember this exact piece) theawl.com/2015/03/i-hate…

What an incredible historic document of the mid 10s.

@daniel_lefferts Genuinely one of the most embarrassing people on this entire platform

Guy who has spent years incessantly posting conspiratorial garbage:

The swing back to an economy of buying things continues

@John_Attridge And honestly? It wasn't just the best of times. It was also the worst of times. And that's rare.

@Math_UK Wanted to see if it made life better

@asthompson sup w the blue check bruh

Why are there people hellbent on creating the worst thing you can possibly imagine

@DanTurnerEvans @AdamMarblestone Why are you glad they’re working on a problem whose solution is worse than nuclear weapons

@AdamMarblestone Totally agree! I am glad these folks are working on this problem and would LOVE to see more FROs in this space.

I worked on the fly connectome for over 6 years, and let me just say that y’all have to slow this hype train way down. Connectomes are amazing. Biomechanical models are amazing. Linking the two is awesome. But scientists at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Princeton, and other institutes have been working on this for years now, and it’s not clear to me what’s new in the below. And connectomes are still missing a LOT of information. We’ve had the connectome of the worm for over 30 years now, and we still can’t reliably simulate a virtual worm. For example, connectomes don’t capture information about neuromodulator or neuropeptide release sites or receptors. These molecules are constantly changing the properties of neurons in the brain in ways that we have yet to really understand. And we don’t yet understand animal behavior well enough to refine and/or evaluate whole-brain simulations effectively. @AdamMarblestone and @doristsao already made many of these points, as well as many other good ones, but I just wanted to also add my two cents.

Of all the kinds of porn that have taken over this site this one is my least favorite

“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

what is inside the mind of someone able to post on LinkedIn right now