Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
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Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
@ThomSnodgrass
Technology and moral sentiments in the age of unreason. AI researcher, poet, scapegrace, Passage Prize winner.

Friends, stop drinking alcohol. Not cut back. Eliminate. > alcohol increases cortisol > disrupts REM sleep > accelerates epigenetic aging > shrinks hippocampal volume > elevates resting heart rate > raises inflammatory markers > impairs glucose metabolism for 16 hrs One drink does that.

There’s a lot going on here, looks like fraud, but one thing that’s also super clear watching this vid is that these are kids - 21 yr olds. You can feel it in the way they talk and hold themselves. They’re in over their heads and it’s a little gross our industry valorizes it.


FWIW I no longer keep the Claude app running on my desktop because, after the Claude Cowork update, the app inevitably soft crashes into massive resource consumption. One imagines this relates to the vibecodedness of Cowork, though the Claude app rests on a very poor foundation.

For a half-century, America has critically under-built family-sized housing in our most dynamic cities and neighborhoods, rendering them childless and unaffordable. It's time to save the American Dream. Introducing The American Housing Corporation.






German soldiers with masks and M1915 Stahlkappe helmets. AKA the Gaede helmet, it was designed to protect against shrapnel in rocky terrain. WW1, Vosges Front, circa late 1915.



Buttigieg: In a country that amended its constitution so you could not purchase a beer and then realized it was a bad idea and amended it back, surely we can have an amendment clarifying that a corporation is not a person and money is not speech.













