Phil Roth

@paularambles These are so good. Keep going.

Consider, if you will, this peculiar Silicon Valley confession: “I worked for 36 hours with no sleep. Although I was dead, I also felt energized. I even fell asleep a few times while driving home in my Cybertruck, but fsd came in clutch. Happy thanksgiving.” People read this and say, “Wow, so crazy.” No. This is not crazy. This is ideology speaking in the first person. Look at what he is really proud of. Not what he built, not the result. He is proud of his own exhaustion. He whips himself and calls it self-actualization. Before, the saint starved in the cave for God. Now, the engineer fasts from sleep for the billionaire. And the best part, the truly obscene part, is the drive home. Here the machine steps in as what Lacan would call the big Other, the big adult in the room that keeps going while you collapse. You can be unconscious, half-dead, and still you are “productive,” because the car does the driving, the system does the watching. You close your eyes, the algorithm stays awake. But notice the ideological twist: rather than confronting the absurdity of a society where one works until unconsciousness, the narrative is inverted. The same system that squeezes him until he is sleeping at the wheel also appears as his savior. This is pure capitalism. First it injures you, then it sells you the bandage, and you say thank you. You wreck yourself for one of the billionaire’s machines, then another one of his machines rescues your body on the drive home. Which brings us to the “Happy Thanksgiving.” It is the final twist of the knife. Gratitude here is not for rest, or sanity, or enough sleep to drive safely. Gratitude is for the privilege of being exhausted in the right office, in the right hoodie, for the right man. You give thanks to the very structure that wears you down. It is like saying grace over your own burnout. Thus the man who naps on the freeway is not a deviation. He is the ideal subject of our time. Half-alive, overworked to the point of being a public hazard, and then thanking the machine that keeps this madness just barely on the road. The system grinds him down, risks his life and the lives of everyone around him, and his reaction is not “this cannot go on,” but “I am so grateful.” In this one man in a Cybertruck you get the whole picture at once: exploitation, technology and holiday cheer condensed into a single, obedient “thank you.”

@SimonParkin I consider this the pinnacle of the form: youtube.com/watch?v=jpge9B…

Holds up.

If you're at @kdd_news, stop by and chat with Ed and @rjjoyce8 about the new EMBER dataset

I'm excited to announce the EMBER2024 dataset, created in collaboration with @mrphilroth, @drhyrum, @EdwardRaffML, @rjzak, and others. The dataset brings an update of 3.2 million malicious and benign files first seen between Sep. 2023 and Dec. 2024. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05074

@bryancurtis They immediately played a commercial during 3rd down. Not great.

What's the difference between A+ production and not, cont'd: Brady asks for a replay on that false start and it's *right there.*

What's the different between A+ production and not, you say? Taking four tries to find the right view of that roughing penalty.

@justin_fenton Yeah. That's not a thing. It really annoyed me during the broadcast.

Al Michaels just said the Thursday Night Football broadcast team went to a bar in Baltimore called Fort McHenry and does anyone know what he could be referring to??

@kymelan8 This really annoyed me. He hasn't been in a bar in 20 years. They planned that bit yesterday.

Al Michaels is a liar. There is no Fort McHenry bar.

@inpredict I can't believe it went unmentioned on the broadcast. They just thought the review was 1st down or not.

@mrphilroth Ball definitely looked like it moved while touching the ground.

Incomplete?

The json files feeding the Olympics website have three categories of participants: - persons - teams - horses

professor: ... you've ... installed python before? student: no, this is my first time professor: your envs are isolated per project. who taught you to do that? student: it seemed the right way professor: *muttering* he shall know your ways as though born to them

@rseymour @Andrew___Morris Big congrats! Now I'm debating cutting my miles and introducing vaping...

Through a strict regimen weekly yoga, kettlebells and running a fraction of what @mrphilroth does I’ve managed to get to my best physical fitness ever, approx 56% of what @Andrew___Morris gets with whole milk and vaping.

@RigelRed @the_transit_guy I ran through that intersection on a trip home years ago. It was as awkward as you'd guess based on these pictures.

Staying in the suburbs means my mom and I are driving to go for a walk. Read that again.

Listen to this that shit is hilarious 😭

@shncldwll Let Down is underrated

not to normie-post but it’s crazy that radiohead has no surprises and karma police on the same album WHAT WERE THEY COOKING

@SpikingWhamos And if I'm the Jets, I'd take the points as well. Everything happened as it should, but the announcers were just weird about it.

You have to let him score there.

@tdhopper Yes. Or ChatGPT? Trying to think of something non-LLM related: SNOWFLAKE DUCKDB POLARS But these are so much less buzzy

@mrphilroth Yeah, what replaces it? OpenAI?

It's definitely time to update Data Science Conference Bingo github.com/tdhopper/Data-…

@tdhopper Please keep this up. Scrolling through the past bingos brought back good memories. This might be the first year without the Venn Diagram?

@tdhopper ANALYTICS ENGINEERING PROMPT ENGINEERING FOUNDATION MODEL EXISTENTIAL RISK GENERATIVE AI SCALING LAWS GPT

@rseymour Not many people get their vows published in The Atlantic. 🎉

Last paragraph 🥹