Carl Thunman

You only live once, so make sure to spend as much time as possible on your computer. You won’t have access to it when you die

@MaxTuretzky @kchoudhu Funded by @TheStalwart no doubt.

A UChicago student group is currently handing out onions at the Northwestern Arch to protest to the Onion Futures Act of 1958

@TheStalwart @KelseyTuoc Damn, typomogged.

Just as a test, I put today's newsletter into 4.7 right before I sent it out and it not only identified me correctly, it said that the presence of typos was one of the clues 💀💀💀

Stallion season

@ID_AA_Carmack @Jonathan_Blow I found the same thing taking notes. Notes in a notebook from years ago I can find easily, and anything in Google Docs/email/etc from a month ago is very difficult to dig up.

A Canticle For Leibowitz is a classic early (1959) post-apocalypse novel where an order of monks preserved the last remnants of learning (the memorabilia) after a nuclear exchange turned the remains of society into book and scientist burners. I first read it in the 80s as a mass market paperback that I somehow lost along the way. Other paperbacks from that time are yellow with age and getting brittle, but still readable. I read it again in the late 2000s on a first edition Kindle. I eventually migrated to iPads for Kindle reading, but every couple years I would come across an old Kindle in a drawer, charge it up, and check out what I had been reading on it. They eventually stopped working entirely. I’m just finishing reading a new Folio Society edition, printed on heavy, acid-free archival quality paper. If it doesn’t get soaked or burned, it could still be in good shape for centuries. The ephemeral nature of digital storage does give me some pause. We can still read Sumerian tablets full of administrative trivia from four thousand years ago, but there are no known copies of some important software products from just fifty years ago. I am a proud supporter of the Internet Archive!

@jackfriks Telemark skis.

what’s a material thing under $1000 you’ve bought that actually changed your life?

OMG. Sweater weather.

@skooookum It’s the only way to truly lock in.

$300... For a timer?

@Jonathan_Blow @adityaag

@adityaag Sorry, no, that's not true. It's mostly only imposters that have imposter syndrome.

A lot of people who are new to SF/Silicon Valley tell me they have impostors syndrome and feel like they are not smart/technical/accomplished enough. Here's the thing: *Everyone* in Silicon Valley has impostor's syndrome. It's because we look to the future, not the past. It's a feature, not a bug.

Just saw some people coding on their laptops in a coffee shop in NYC. This city is cracked.

@twentyone21___ Very cool style! What are you using to create these?

GOOD MORNING!

@TheStalwart Hell yeah, brother.

Turned 45 yesterday. Celebrated with my family by eating the best dinner in America. I think is a fine halfway mark.

Hot and Dumb 2025

@Jonathan_Blow For me, midjourney has been good for this. I sketched a shape I was looking for and it took it and made it look pretty cool.

What is the best web site where I can input a sketch of an image and a description of how I want it stylized super cool AI-like, and it does it? (As opposed to de novo synthesis)?

Nerds don't want you to know this, but during white boy summer, you can just wing it.

Re-Elect the Mayor

Another incredible Kim Jong Un album cover.

OMG. Hot sweaty garbage summer.