David E. Weekly

@trondw There was an era. I was friends with the number of the people who had single letter usernames. I have well over 10,000 followers but it seems only a few percent from that era are still active.

@dweekly Perhaps, depending who you’re connecting with. Some cohorts of users left and never came back unfortunately.

Oh, hello friends! (Is X becoming a better place to reconnect with people we know?)

@Dirtdog "Terrible idea; highly recommend" 😂

5 years ago my wife suggested a 2-6 week family trip every summer. Our oldest of our 5 kids was 12 at the time and she was calculating how many summers we had left. It doesn’t make sense financially or for my work schedule, but we have done 5 of these now. Strong Recommendation

@JohnKoelliker @alexisohanian You can't outsource parental love and affection. But you absolutely can and should get help.

@alexisohanian People won’t like to hear this but you also can’t outsource parenting

There are three things you cannot buy. Fitness: You have to keep fit, whether you’re rich or not. Diet: You cannot pay someone to be on a diet for you. I think that diet is the biggest sacrifice in my life. Then, looking after your soul. No one can possibly treat your soul but you yourself. This is something you can do through culture and philosophy.

@alexisohanian Related but different: sleep. Sleep quality determines so much else about quality of life.

@simonw Waiting for Betelgeuse

(Meanwhile OpenAI's new Sol, Terra, Luna naming convention makes perfect sense to anyone who's familiar with the Latin names for bodies in our solar system)

I've seen a few people predicting that Opus 5 will be out soon and will be better than Fable 5, but have Anthropic clarified how their relative naming scheme works yet? I assumed it was Haiku < Sonnet < Opus < Fable < Mythos - but is Fable meant to go between Sonnet and Opus?

Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

@simonw IMO it's a pricing positioning attempt to change the implicit cost framing from the $20/mo/seat that you pay for SaaS to the $20k/mo that you'd pay a SWE.

The idea of "AI employees" feels so short-sighted to me - both disrespectful to humans and a complete misunderstanding of what these tools can do and how to best put them to work You may as well start adding Excel spreadsheets to your org chart

@frank_smith1111 @JonathanClayba1 You say "Europe" but it's really Lisbon that gets this more than any other place. Love that city.

Europe figured out concessions decades ago. Every park has a kiosk: espresso, pastry, maybe a spritz or a beer at 6pm. Small operator pays rent, city gets revenue, park gets foot traffic and eyes on the grass. Everyone wins. SF has 230+ parks and almost none of this. Dolores Park froze a Blue Bottle cart permit over community outreach complaints. Coit Tower took years of hand-wringing over a removable food kiosk (unsurprisingly: Peskin territory). Meanwhile we wonder why maintenance budgets are tight and parks feel empty at 7am. Give me a coffee kiosk in every major park. Let the concession help pay for upkeep. Let foot traffic take care of public safety. Create a third space — a square where people can meet instead of shouting at each other on social media. I’ll die on this hill. Photos from Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹

@StephenFleming Top mortality risk for teenage boys coupled with imminent arrival of autonomous vehicles and in between options like e-bikes. That's the positive take. The concerning one is that kids aren't connecting in person.

Yet another friend with a child turning 16 next week. Hasn’t gotten a learner’s permit. Zero interest in a driver’s license. I keep hearing this same story. What’s WRONG with these kids?!?! On my 16th birthday, my mom took me out of school to take my driving test. Same for everyone I knew. Even if you couldn’t afford your own car, you could beg the use of the family station wagon occasionally. Freedom. Independence. Heck, privacy on a date! Are these kids giving all that up for scrolling TikTok and an occasional Uber?

@nikillinit And thus began the rise of negfluencers: people who were trusted because they only wrote negative things. They were paid by the competitors.

One sad thing about this app is that because undisclosed paid promotion has become so rampant - I no longer trust anyone that says they like any product or post

@SethAbramson Discount all you can eat buffet 2.3 stars on Yelp

God this looks so grimy and disgusting and low-rent

@perrymetzger "AI only copies things it has seen, it can't come up with anything new." - people who have never actually poked at this stuff

Saw a programmer a few minutes ago calling AI systems "slop bots". Meanwhile in another window I have GPT 5.6 Sol explaining to me why some of the choices I've made on the proof assistant project I'm working on are serious mistakes, and explain it clearly enough that I know it's right. It's going to be an interesting few years.

@gabor TBH the deprecated Google Home Max won at a Google recruiting fair remains the most impressive smart speaker in my home.

New Google Home Speaker just arrived in the mail! It replaces the 10 year old Google Home we have from when it launched in 2016.

@rezoundous Sundar promised on stage at I/O that he'd ship Gemini 3.5 Pro by end of June...

I can't imagine what the Gemini team must be feeling now.

The website detailing the algorithm and linking to the paper and GitHub repo: cyrinx.org

Existing SoTA for acoustic transport (e.g. laptop-to-phone) is pretty slow, <1kbps. I worked with Fable 5 to create a library that can get well over 30kbps. I call the algorithm Cyrinx. (Paper and site below)

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@pitdesi Bowling Alone

Would love to see similar charts for yoga studios, gyms, coffee shops, coworking spaces