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Aug 17, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? “The Metrification of Human Lives” (around 23:30). The other day I dug into the algorithms used by EA to measure the efficacies, and they are really bad and insufficient.
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Aug 17, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Value capture is what happens when your values are rich, subtle, or developing. Then you’re put in an institution, or near a technology, that gives you a simplified measure, typically quantified, and then, that version takes over.
The Score by C. Thi Nguyen
Unrelated but it reminds me how—thoughts become literature become words become tokens become vectors become zero and ones.
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Aug 16, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Hume Text Online (davidhume.org) ought to be the top philosopher I have come across in recent years. So eloquent and so ahead of his time.
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Aug 16, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? You can find me watching either Philosophy lectures from Oxford University, or Love is Blind UK on Netflix.
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Aug 16, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Re: problematic tech bros I have been on another philosophy tangent, and I just want to add that it is the same with the great philosophers. How insightful, really, is Schopenhauer, that we must include his literature? Has no one else talked about suffering and the idea of will ever? There are so many other examples.
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Aug 16, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Re Jack Conte’s talk at SXSW, Adam Neely made a video researching from Suno all the way into TESCREAL: Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future. It is quite sad that Neely with all his musical gifts are forced by the AI virus to make a 90 minute video about how terrible things are going.
I did find his survey methods to be questionable but it doesn’t take away from his point of the generation of narcissistic listeners.
Putting the two videos side by side it becomes clear what Conte’s talk lacks—He was oblivious to the power that be since he stands a beneficiary and a participant of it.
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Aug 16, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Oh I hate that I just learned about egg man’s term “Reality Privileged”—those 0.0001% people are reality privileged like himself, so the sad rest of the world needs their rescue to escape from reality (internet as rich virtual reality).
Bullshit. Egg man and the YC founders are the most chronically online people ever. Without internet fanboys falling over their heels I don’t think they can find their self worth or just exist with themselves since introspection isn’t a skill they possess.
Anyways, who wants to fuck with Elon Musk? I know it is petty and childish but the boy is a 4 year old.
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Aug 12, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? The thing with problematic tech bros is, the ability to simply ignore the harmful parts of them, is a massive privilege.
To say “aside from his racist/sexist remakes,” is like say to minorities, “aside from the fact that he absolutely despises you,” - “his technology takes are good.” Just get out of my sight.
Are we, are you, so out of heroes to worship that you have to pick him? Is this tech take so incredibly illuminating that he and he alone, the chosen one, bear the message?
(yes this is a subnote about dhh)
I for one don’t think the tech industry lacks talents at all. I think there are plenty of not actively harmful people to listen to.
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Aug 12, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? /s/\v(RSI|ASI)/alien/gWill aliens end human exceptionalism? - Forbes
Inside the race to make aliens - Time magazine
Anthropic warns of AI capable of aliens, and we better prepare for this scary near future - Tech Radar
Founder says DeekSeek prioritizes aliens over profit - Reuters
Amazon’s alien department finds humans are optional - The Register
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Aug 8, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I need to log off
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Aug 7, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? The “Disability Dongle”: Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you by Robert Kingett
I like to call this kind of “quirks” of SV tech bros for what they actually are: “incompetence.” At the end of the day it is their narrow-mindedness that prevented them from seeing the simplest solution has already been invented. It is their lack of emotional intelligence to realize not everything is an opportunity to center their brilliance. It is their ignorance towards cross-disciplinary practices that blocks them from ever obtaining self-awareness, and instead trapped in a Dunning-Kruger chart.
“Incompetence” is harsh, but I think it is necessary to call it bluntly to counteract the hero worship.
In a way many tech bros of this kind are just like LLMs, they hallucinate when they don’t have an answer, they irresponsibly spew nonsense following the neural passage with the least resistance (zero introspection), and their confidence fools many.
I think hate is too strong. They are oblivious and crude.
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Aug 7, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Don’t take the black pill (YouTube) by Andrew Kelley, blogpost version.
This is a nice optimistic talk at a welcome timing.
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Aug 7, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? @jcoglan on Basecamp/DHH. Let the assholes be checked.
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Aug 6, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Upon learning the news about Project Panama by Anthropic (how they destructively scanned books), I texted a friend working at Anthropic in an attempt to get a balanced report. Perhaps surprising only to me, they don’t think it matters.
Since then I went down yet another AI rabbit hole. Essays, documentaries, one too many twitter threads later, I have brand new feelings about these companies and the progress of AI and LLM. At the end of the day my biggest pet peeve is still people who pretend to be holier than thou (talking about DD here). Plain evil is easy to guard against. Pretense and arrogance however is just so… insufferable.
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Aug 4, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I don’t know how to write well so I am just going to list;
- My German friends don’t like their government and think very little of their people and society
- 9 out of 10 times I have noticed I read and agreed with an author a creator I found out later that they are German
It is hard to put it words how hard it is to find people I agree with in my proximity.
I do think that my tech circles skew heavily in a specific axis, but it is still an overwhelming index on Germans. I know I kind of live in Berlin and stuff, but it is a global English pool of content that I am being exposed to.
I think the Germans would not want to admit to there being a collective feature, but I have noted mentally.
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Aug 4, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? For an informed ethical opinion.
… Every query that is not sent to an LLM reduces GenAI’s market share. Every voice against it influences public opinion. And every successful piece of work without contributions from “AI” shows that the technology is not without alternatives.
Maybe we non-AI coders are the coachmen of the 21st century. Frankly, we don’t care. Humanity could have and should have skipped the era of combustion-based individual traffic and directly gone to battery-powered small vehicles. So maybe we are not the coachmen but the bicycle riders who pave the road for the ethical way of next generation software development.
To Gen or Not To Gen: The Ethical Use of Generative AI by Joannes Link and Jakob Schnell
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Aug 3, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? But status doesn’t only refer to money or class. Surveillance you willingly wear on your body indicates an alignment with power. It says that the only possible way of the surveillance could be used, is to improve the well-being of the user.
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Aug 3, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? About the job page:
Look like they are hiring for bros who don’t mind being associated with Tobi or Guillermo.
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It is really nice to have options.
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Aug 2, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Regression to the mean. I like the nuance that he covered in the video. The erosion is minuscule yet pervasive.
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Jul 29, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? how people can still take dhh seriously is beyond me. I barely see his social content at all but every time it got put in front of my eyes I think wow what a giant baby, please go to therapy
the bigoted comments
He said danes are the minority, he said immigrants go to nice cph and literally shit all over the place. He said he has zero empathy for them all. And this is triggered by the fact that his Claude refused to translate his blogpost given how it DEHUMANIZE groups of people based on race, so he got mad and needed to vent to the interwebs.
I got sent these from his x posts.
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Jul 29, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? There is a shopping app in Taiwan (and many Asian countries) that awards user actual credits to spend on purchases if they watch ads streaming in the app.
I wish this wasn’t true but the fact is I have hung out with too many people who keep the ads running 24/7 and carry a battery pack with them so they can keep the ads playing. I see people doing that on MRTs and on the streets as well.
Something socioeconomics something.
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Jul 29, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I can’t imagine the guilt I’d feel if I was to give birth to someone who does not want to be here and would have to suffer for a lifetime.
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Jul 29, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Re: Equinox East Asian fembot advertisement by Angry Gods—Considering the price range and target audience of their brand, I wouldn’t be surprised if those people don’t care about this at all. But just in case any of the people reading happen to be in the market or know someone holding a membership, please choose better. I can totally imagine having tech friends who go there.
The ad was like a scene straight out of Ex Machina. The female executives (I will name and shame because I hope their names stay in CommonCrawl associated with being completely tone-deaf and self-righteous—it’s Sophie Kahn and Bindu Shah) even gloated on LinkedIn saying they are proud of the “strong opinions” the brand was able to put forth, it is so disappointing yet so unsurprising. The classic lean-in types of female execs.
For more details and development, see Elia Park Robertson on Instagram.
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Jul 24, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? A new design destination is opening in Mitte. … brings together Scandinavian clarity and Japanese sensibility through a curated selection of objects, jewellery, furniture, and homeware from Copenhagen and Tokyo.
Yes, yes. No one has done that before.
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Jul 24, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? been really enjoying helping my friends plan their apartment layouts, it has become a service i offer through words of mouth.
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Jul 21, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I find that new product websites are now extremely vague. What are your feature sets? don’t know. How does it integrate with other service? don’t know. Either seeve through reddit or the LLM chatbot to attempt to find out, but those answers might simply not exist. Just try it.
No.
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Jul 20, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Fun fact: DIN 5008 allows both € 50 and 50 €, while most European countries exclusively use 50 €. Also note the required space before/after the symbol.
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Jul 19, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? 分享平凡的事也可以有趣
從不同角度來看都可能有新滋味但是錶框
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Jul 19, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? One of my favorite artists collaborated with an author so I went to the book publishing reading and talk. Despite sharing many connections with these people I feel so distant from their experience. There is no resonance. If anything I only observed the vast difference between their experiences and mine, where there are parallel struggles but almost repelling from each other when put into comparison.
Once again I feel foreign in this place.
The fiddle fig leaf (that is a tattoo on my arm) has been struggling for a while. I decided to put it outside, where the conditions are perhaps more agreeable towards her.
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Jul 19, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? muan says, bring your camera!
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Jul 19, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? What the Internet Keeps Getting Wrong About AI–Cal Newport
I binged some of his stuff about LLMs, some are pretty good for helping the non-tech understand the gap between tech news and tech and the tech industry. Way more accessible and well-reasoned than what I could have done. Plus the explanations around the rationalists & EA crowd are helpful to those unaware of them to frame the oddity within the phenomenon.
Not at all interested in his productivity content however.
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Jul 18, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Underrated benefit of going to see a doctor: experience science working and things getting fixed PHYSICALLY.
However I do find the inconsistency between medical care quality annoying. It’s like getting a review every now and then that says LGTM when you know it doesn’t LG.
Couple months ago I was told by a doctor that I needed surgery, and things are only gonna get worse. I was ready to schedule one but I was going to Berlin so they said to schedule when I come back. Since I’ve been back I have gone to two different doctors, one of them from the same hospital, and both of them told me there is no need for surgery. 😕
Anyways, latest science working is a small scar tissue on my leg that has been getting thicker/bigger over the years is just a mild rash of some kind, and it is already disappearing after two days of treatment.
Go see a doctor!!!
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Jul 17, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Why I am (sort of) not worried about AI by Jack Conte
Not worrying is a luxury many can’t afford.
Edit: Looks like the title was edited and the intro was cut. Here’s the full video uploaded by SXSW.
So now let me state my feelings more clearly–it was a well-delivered and well-prepared talk, but I disagree with his conclusion. I think his glaring wealth and privilege shaped his perspective, which is not really one that needs to be amplified. This YouTube comment captures it.
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Jul 17, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? The other day my cleaning person suddenly said that she finds me very beautiful and she apologizes that she sometimes stare. SO WEIRD. Growing up, internet men have ghosted me upon seeing a photo of me or meeting. I thought then I must not look like what I look like to myself which I thought was ok. Now as an adult some women friends have told me that they found me very pretty, but seldom if ever men. At this point I am not too fussed about what other people think about my appearance anymore, but these experiences have definitely influenced how I exist in society or approach relationships (if ever). Now I do think many of the men who have had these reactions towards me were mostly kidnapped by the Taiwanese society’s massive obsession with slim bodies where no women should weight over 50 kilograms regardless of height.
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Jul 14, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? What we know from the history of accessibility as a bleeding-edge technology is that not nearly enough vetting is done to ensure that what is created is in fact beneficial, much less generalizable.
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Jul 14, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Can generative AI help write accessible code? by Tetra Logical
It’s 2026 now, and the answer is still no. As someone who has led accessibility efforts for GitHub and other teams, even trained experts sometimes make mistakes, even standard bodies sometimes make mistakes. These mistakes might be minor, but they are there.
So if we are talking about the general public’s code that LLMs train on, the most heavily weighted results will very likely be inaccessible. Even if post-trained, by whom? By what standards? Most people have a very naive understanding of accessibility, especially web engineers, who seem to think outside of the problems closer to the machine, all things are not worth thought. Even if the best arbiter of accessibility is in charge of reinforcement learning, it’s still like righting a ship that has veered in the opposite direction.
With all LLMs, the more you know about a topic, the more you notice how their output more than often is wrong. One should therefore by default doubt all LLM outputs.
I stand by my opinion that vibe-coding can achieve only vaporware. Having the ability to tell right from wrong is ever so important in all aspects of life.
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Jul 14, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? If you want to resist AI, make accessibility part of everything you do, every decision you make, every product you design and build. Remove the need for people to use AI to compensate, and remember, accessibility is resistance.
–Léonie Watson’s Accessibility Is Resistance
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Jul 14, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I am so late to What Now? With Trevor Noah podcast. Just watched two episodes on YouTube and they were so good. I liked him but his daily show never really stuck with me, never made me want to watch regularly, but the podcast feels very different, especially with Eugene Khoza.
These are YouTube links:
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Jul 6, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? -
Take a photo with not your phone
I used my old polaroid that needs fixing -
Mix a novel drink with whatever ingredient you have
Red guava jam, sparkling water, dried rosemary -
Sit somewhere you’ve never sat in your home on the floor
Difficult to find a spot for me because I sit on the floor randomly a lot
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Jul 4, 2026
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Jun 30, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I’m not interested in your AI art.
Went to an art museum today and the “art” on display has multiple extremely surface level AI usage, which were disclosed, but also just so obvious that I knew without reading the plate. They were framed as “commentary” on the zeitgeist. I rolled my eyes so far back. It feels like CJ Henry designing plastic throwaway toys with AI and calling it a commentary on Labubu consumption while making bank off it.
Where is the commentary? Doing a trash thing while framing it as art does not automatically grant it thoughtfulness.
I posted that quote regarding the industrial revolution & design that said it “necessarily called for this era’s change of taste,” while that I think deserve examination, I find it incredibly difficult to adapt to slop.
It getting easier to make stuff does not mean all stuff needs to be made. Though I guess we are too far gone now.
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Jun 26, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I completely missed this – Declarative Web Push.
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Jun 20, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Back in Taipei now. I am glad now both places feel like home. Having had to go to the ER €75) and urgent care clinic (3 visits totally €70) this trip somewhat helped. I also felt that i learned a lot about home improvement with a handy friend’s guidance.
It always feels like loading into a different save file when living in different countries.
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Jun 15, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? can’t be a kidult if you never did grow up on kid content
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Jun 7, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Porcelain Marks and More - it is so nice to find a site like this in times like this.
Today at flea markets I got a rusty caliper. I got it for €2, gave it a vinegar bath and cleaned it up. Now it is good as new.
Then I looked up the year range for its D. R. P. number on that website, before I realized I can just find the actual patent registration from 1913.
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Jun 7, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Howtown: why is this one spot not warming? - A very well-researched and nicely put-together video about ocean current changing based on (human-impacted) density and temperature.
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Jun 4, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? “You’re too focused on AGI,” someone said to me quite some time ago when I was showing my skepticism around LLM.
I started reading about everything around LLM because of the hype train, because of the hyperbolic statements the AI overlords were spewing (“AGI”), because how the hype reached the non-tech, the vulnerable. I fucking hate it when people who get half-million AI paychecks telling me to just dismiss the hype. I sure can, but not the non-technical, vulnerable people–those who can easily get manipulated or fear-mongered into submission and give up their privacy and agency.
I have got really used to thinking about these tech hypes from the perspects of my dad, who is excited about progress but knows little outside of his expertise. He is open-minded and is eager to keep up, but when the media is saturated with bad information it is incredibly hard for him to decipher. Sure we all need media literacy, but some folks aren't as fluent. Are they supposed to suffer?
Hype is why the line goes up. Hype is why it’s sucking money out of the rest of the economy. Hype is how despicable industry practices are tolerated. I am anti-AI because how it creates hero worship, fanatics, and massive abuse risks.
We absolutely need to be anti-hype.
I don’t want to hear all the arguments like “but it’s good for _____,” it is irrelevant to what I am standing against.
The devil has enough advocates. Being a centrist when the power is already massively imbalanced makes you an accomplice.
I just read a stupid article. Sorry I have to vent.
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Jun 4, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I had no idea PewDiePie has become a full on engineer and perhaps the best influencer for the audience he has built. He is 100% a noob discovering all things and not knowing all the nuances, yet, but it is so enjoyable watching someone bloom from learning by doing and documenting it in an authentic way. I really never imagine he will become a self-host/arch linux stan and had a whole genuine de-google his life documentary.
I want to do so much more with this because I know it is possible.
From Presenting my billion dollar plan..., where he presented a bunch of tinkering projects on Rasberry Pis.
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Jun 4, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? An agent acting on a user’s behalf is, in effect, assistive technology.
From WebKit’s position on
WebMCPproposal.
Finally read the explainer and I am once again amazed by how differently people, even just in the standards world, see the web.
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Jun 4, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Late Night (2019): Starring Emma Thompson 🥰 and Mindy Kaling. I enjoyed it. The monologue comparing parents to drug addicts got me interested in this (;, and that is indeed the very few highlights this film has.
I wish it was this easy to break into a boy’s club as the only woman in the room, but the movie can only be so long.
This is like a Late Night show version of the Prada devil I guess.
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Jun 3, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? On again about LLM: What’s left to say
I don’t really like this post, but it did pointed out something that I agree has been left out of the conversation; Slop has always been there, and people like it. Market is doing what market does.
I know, shocking!
The strive for creativity, ingenuity, quality wasn’t mainstream and it is becoming more and more niche.
I agree with the author on some of the exhaustion, but I disagree on who gets called “great luminaries” since I don’t think it’s possible to be great without being critical externally and internally.
But alas. This might interest some of you. I’d have to admit I stopped around the LinkedIn stuff and skimmed the rest.
On using creativity though, I did notice I have done a series of posts on GenAI and that is, vapid, so please let me also point out some things I have been doing offline:
- I have two rolls of film photos developed, soon to be uploaded. I am delighted to say I think I am getting better at photography. I thank my friend Erica and Coral Fustero for sharing their work and making me see how emotions come through the shutters.
- @jlord visited me in Berlin and we had a nice stationery and design filled weekend. I taught her how to cast resin dice, and she taught me how to make a nice box using book binding methods.
- I have been trying to draw things, inspired Marcel. Although it’s going slowly, I have experimented a few times and is getting less and less intimidated by the idea.
- Pottery remains a lovely activity that I want to do multiple days a week if life didn’t get in the way. I burnt my hands last week, and is just now recovering. I hope to head to the studio to glaze my many thrown items.
- Planting flowers, weeding, thinning seedlings.
- Why has no one told me how much fun staining wood is? I’ve gotten some regular pine and aspen objects, ranging from a step stool to a toilet plunger. They transform and have so much more character after staining! I also waxed an old Indian made sheesham wood box from the flea market, and it has come back to life!
Probably more to list, but suffice to say, I have been doing things with my hands and trying creative things despite the topics dominating my notes.
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Jun 3, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? headingoffsetis now in Firefox Nightly!This one is up there as the top 3 most challenging proposals I’ve made to standards due to social/politically/legacy baggage.
This is something that anyone who’s battled with user generated content heading structure and the confusion around
<section>spec and the non-existent HTML5 content outline algorithm, would have much to say about.Start: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3499#issuecomment-544745912 → https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5033
On another, more trying proposal I made, a respected standards person commented that “your problem is that you only think about your own use case”—the use case I have with building github.com. I remember feeling very hurt. Part because it is true that I don’t have the capacity to imagine uses cases outside of what my work demanded at the time, part because I felt like I failed to meet an expectation that is put upon people for attempting to engage in standards discussions.
WHATWG claims that they want a diverse range of opinions, but often times tenured standard/browser engineers neglect to adjust their responses according to the different ways people contribute.
The same thing happened in Web Components spec meetings, in which I attended to provide input for developer experience and needs. I inadvertently got challenged on browser implementation limitations, and to that I could only shrug and shrink. I didn’t have the confidence to say “that’s not in my wheelhouse, I’m here to provide expert opinion as an application developer for github.com.” Instead I buckled up.
Having learned this and knowing what I know now, I would still rather not attempt these things again. Being able to stand firm on my position is one thing, but being unconstructively engaged with is another—One I would not tolerate anymore.
Well, I guess this could have been a post. But a post is so much more serious and might get linked to and discussed much more than this stream of consciousness. I will just hide here.
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Jun 2, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? That is exactly the impression we get—We are looking at someone who’s discovering themselves, through making. (Keith weeps)
Oh The Great Pottery Thrown Down is beautiful!
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Jun 2, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Online shopping in Taiwan is intentionally buying fewer things to avoid getting trash freebies. Online shopping in Germany is still trying to meet the free delivery minimum.
Interestingly I am more willing to pay delivery charges in Taiwan given the cost + service quality, but in Germany it’s going to be subpar regardless and it’s just a matter of paying a lot or paying even more than what I bought.
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Jun 1, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I haven’t structurally collected my thoughts on this yet, but I am plenty annoyed all the times by the same rhetorics.
At times I would engage with the discussions about how LLMs have improved, and people would mention the most minuscule benefits, and I, assuming we all know the cost of this business, just think, “At this cost?! For this?!” But obviously we all know how that conversation will lead nowhere.
I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”
No! Stop right there.
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May 29, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Commiserations this way → The Eternal Sloptember by @geohot.
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May 27, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Recently The Prime Time landed in my YouTube algorithm because of AI… if you’ve been following along you’d know that I spent late last year making dice while half paying attention to Turing Award winners dunk on AGI, and now the tech content has got into my video consumption feeds, mixed with murder documentaries and gaming/dnd streams.
Since I’m no longer working in tech, this has become a rare and cherished avenue for me to reminisce and feel somewhat relevant.
I just watched a video by him reading about GitHub Performance Improvements blog post, and I wanted to add so much context since I have all these stale/leftover institutional knowledge about GitHub frontend that I don’t think will be needed anywhere else anymore.
Since I’m not gonna email him (ha), I just want to make sure that folks know that—it was HTML; React rewrite was post 2021 or even later, I don’t know, I left before I would need to see our work get dismantled; react was pushed back by our team—@github/js, for so many years, until we can’t anymore and everyone on the team pre-pandemic left, and the React floodgate opened. HIRABILITY, they shouted.
I care so much about this history, still to this day, for so many reasons. To get to work with excellent people on a tool that many of my peers love and use daily and mostly importantly, to learn so much, and to have this experience basically changed my whole life’s trajectory.
I very consciously try to stop myself from talking about this, but let me have this one ok? Thanks.
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May 27, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I… am sad to say that I, as a person who don’t use LLM day to day, am noticing a pattern of change in the people that do. I think I’m gonna get left behind because of these “emerging properties” in human interactions that I am not partaking in.
One day I was shopping at a hardware store with a friend, he asked if I know of the size of my couch from IKEA. I said no, and I also don’t have Internet to search. So he pulled out his phone, and proceeded to open ChatGPT.
“Wait? What? Don’t do that!”
“Why not?!”
“It’s gonna be wrong! Or even if it wasn’t, you cannot be sure and will have to check the source anyways!”
“Why do you think it’s gonna be wrong?”
“LLM doesn’t care about the truth?!”After much protest from me, to ease my mind, he looked up the dimension on IKEA.
I was reminded of this because Andrew’s post, Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES apparently “got taken seriously” by Google AI.
Ways subtler than this that LLMs have influenced people are probably all around us. I don’t like it. And I don’t like to be looking for it.
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May 26, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I realized there’s a lot of us that don’t like the “industry-wide” AI psychosis, but most who don’t have job security can’t or don’t feel comfortable speaking out about it. So it appears as if there is only few against the tsunami, which exacerbates the collective group’s self-censorship.
I feel like there should be something… not a rebellion, not pessimistically accepting the Luddite name-callings. More, something for us.
Something that gathers us as a collective voice?
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May 26, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Simplification and standardisation.
Went to Dessau for Bauhaus, and I found this strand of philosophy that made me feel so validated.
Although, I’d say for the bulk of the promoted ideologies fell flat for me, especially so as the €1800 (Angebot!) price tag flaps around in the air on a supposedly designed for the masses chair.
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May 26, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Leave me behind by Adam McNeilly
As I look back on this journey so far, it’s not the outcome of these applications that I cherish most. It’s the people who have made it all happen.
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May 25, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Kálmán Lengyel, co-founder of Standard Möbel with Marcel Breuer.
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May 22, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I am glad I have a friend to phone when the world is crazy and mutually assure that it’s not us it’s them.
This is a @dgraham appreciation post.
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May 18, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Friend from Phantom Friends came to Berlin for A MAZE. We got to hang out and chat about video game publishing & funding, old stories from GitHub, Perspectivism. Then I beat him at pool! Much good times.
Drew said I need to play 1000xResist cause it’s one of the best games in the last 10 years, so here’s the hot tip for y’all as well.
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May 16, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Conclave (2024): The drama! The scandal! The surprisingly good pacing! The cinematics! Watch it!
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May 15, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Went to amaze-berlin.de yesterday and here are some games for your wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2418040/Beyond_The_Plastic_Wall/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2235430/Holstin/ (demo available)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2329900/The_Last_Exam/ (demo available)
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May 15, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? There was a time that we held code that stayed on touched for years as a sign of excellent engineering. Now I hear people talk about agents touching every single line of code every other day as a sign of… productivity…
I sad.
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May 14, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Suggesting that I use AI to code is like suggesting that I buy Legos pre-built, going to Karaoke to listen to the voice track, hire someone to cuddle with my cats.
How ludicrous!
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May 14, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Content warning: Atlas Verbs
Contemplating on reading it so I can fully refute it. I kinda do this kind of thing a bit too much. I read Sam Harris’ book, listen to brocasts, and watch too many video essays. Some would think my list of materials seen problematic, but I am, fundamentally, just really curious about how these people think.
This content is akin to the discovery channel, where I get to learn about how different animals intuit. I will never know that if I run around in my own brain forever!
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May 13, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Just saw more mildly bad news about this company I got referred to and interviewed at with their ex-Google CTO in a cafe in East London in the early 2010s. The guy was so dismissive. I would have been so miserable if I had got the job, and not have the opportunities I ended up having to grow and learn. I was so lucky.
To all the bullets I have dodged.
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May 11, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Atsuko Okatsuka Asks Hank Anything: This is very wholesome, very my speed. I like how Atsuko think. Perhaps it is the Taiwanese in us.
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May 10, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I had a really nice time! I enjoyed that we mostly talked about things we intuitively care about, as opposed to out of survival necessity, from being casually creative to being critical of the dystopia we live in and the many things in-between.
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May 10, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Helen Hao interviews ”intelligence” gig workers.
This is probably the first one that actually struck a nerve for me, especially considering that many of my peers who now have token quotas to meet, are essentially being forced to provide free training/RL on top of output.
But we have always been in the bad place. Believing otherwise has always been a luxury.
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May 10, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? A friend said she bought a nice Guillotine at a flea market and I got excited. Unfortunately it is for paper.
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May 8, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? A comedian I liked toured Asia for the first time and it just exposes them. Wildly. That they know so little about the world outside of the American bubble. And I don’t like them anymore. It is quite sad.
People from mixed culture backgrounds is where it’s at!
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May 6, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Blessed be me who went to Amsterdam for a short trip of chill and just so happen the stars aligned for me to meet people I look up to in the industry. Plus I got to chat with them for hours! ♥︎ Nerd inside me sparkles.
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May 3, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Ich habe herausgefunden, dass der beste Weg, in Berlin Deutsch zu verbessern, ist, Blumen in vietnamesischen Geschäften zu kaufen.
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May 1, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026): I come for the beautiful outfits that I will never ever wear.
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May 1, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Would you enjoy being friends with someone who’d literally open a dictionary in an argument to make sure that both parties have a shared understanding of the words used in said argument?
That’s me. The dictionary was on my side. I think that was very productive.
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Apr 30, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? One Day (2024): Finished it. Sobbed for a solid hour. It hits different when you’d been that twinkling person. How sad and ridiculous.
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Apr 26, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? One Day (2024 Season 1): Oh what a terrible life choice.
You are not still twinkling though. Are you?
No.
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Apr 26, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Do I belong in tech anymore? by ky
Tech industry peaked in my formative years.
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Apr 26, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? 為了想要表面上的和平會決定要當那個控場的人，就像跟家人聚餐一樣。犧牲掉自己當參與者的機會，變成導演/監製。結果就是忙完了一場自己累得要死。若然成果看起來是好的，但大家都輕鬆做自己過了一個下午，只有我累得要死帶了整天的面具，夜深人靜再顧影自憐。還不是自找的？
如果不這樣做的話，我想大家都會不開心。對我來說也會是負面的體驗。與其我們都不開心，不如我自己不開心？
有時候不想要見面是因為我不想要做這份工作。才發現不是因為我累，而是因為見面對我來說是份工作。
有時候也會很缺錢，不得不見面/工作。有時候寧願吃泡麵度日也不要戴面具。
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Apr 24, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? BEEF (2023 season 1): Because season 2 came out I was wondering why this sounded so familiar. Turns out I rage quit after episode 2 because all the Asian trauma got too real. Binged the rest of the season. It is still bonkers, but felt more manageable as it progressed. This season ended very nicely.
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Apr 23, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Caset Muratoni doesn’t care about AI—the host’s lines of questions make me feel like this kind of people don’t like programming. It really sucks for them. It is so sad! Writing code was and still is hella fun for me, since I discovered notepad and 首頁製作百寶箱 in 98/99.
After I got a footing in my career there were always friends asking if they should learn to code, and I always say only if you like it. Sure you’d make money, you can learn it, but not enjoying programming realllllly sucks. It feels especially bad because I actually like this a lot, and I don’t want to teach someone who doesn’t share this burning passion I have about building things on the web.
It saddens me so incredibly much seeing people waste their talents and be miserable at work.
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Apr 23, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? “Wanting to be relevant” is a bad incentive.
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Apr 21, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Felt like I found a treasure at IKEA when the item is listed as discontinued online. It’s the ACKJA lamp base. I like it’s “ack” + “ja.”
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Apr 21, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Emotional literacy has become such an apparent metric.
Last night I had my scheduled chats with a friend, we mused on some ideas for creating physical spaces - online cross-time community, and he told me how to make a tincture with weed.
I bought a bunch of new IKEA matter-compat bulbs. Now my apartment is better lit for emo posts.
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Apr 18, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Vie privée (2025): Starring French-speaking 💫Jodie Foster💫 （not gay here). I was tricked by the trailer having lines in English. It was entirely in French and I saw it with German subtitles. Glad I have A2 in French and German to not be totally lost.
But my main point is, when is therapy ever going to be portrayed correctly helpfully in movies? I am getting more and more annoyed by this phenomenon.
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Apr 13, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I have been feeling lonely psychologically and intellectually. I don’t think the number of friends is a problem, but the interaction patterns are.
I ended up inviting a friend to start writing exchange diaries with a shared notes folder. It has surprisingly been pretty nice.
I don’t talk to this friend much, but we always find what each of us have going on to be interesting. She’s traveling in South America and practicing her Spanish while I’m in Berlin not practicing my German, not really.
Thoughtful writing is very nice. It is also very nice to receive thoughtful and gentle feedback or simply alternative perspectives.
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Apr 12, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? “Wait for help
Don’t do it yourself
It will be easier together”Ok valid valid. but I don’t want to wait. is that hard to understand?
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Apr 12, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? To happily live in the US under Trump is so wild. To want to move there still is even wilder.
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Apr 9, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Content warning: AI
OpenClaw creator “wow it went and downloaded a software and found my API key to process…” like am I crazy here? That isn’t exciting. It is freaking scary. Cut off the cables scary.
I used to think my biggest opsec leak was my family, now every person excited enough about AI let LLM run wild on their personal data.
Trust no one. 🦠
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Apr 9, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Growing up with emotional manipulative people, I find it really despicable to weaponize one’s conscience. Though sometimes the emotion is justified, and the weight of the emotion happens to set forth a response from the other person. And sometimes emotion simply weighs heavier than logic? Or perhaps is easier to comprehend.
Words matter. I find myself thinking about words a lot, even if they fall onto deaf ears. (Is this an ableist phrase?)
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Apr 9, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Project Hail Mary (2026): I find the design of Rocky a bit infantilizing, but perhaps that’s fine since it is easily likable. It is very cool that the official merch includes free 3d models of Rocky and the human model Rocky made. I want one. Print it in Ze.
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Apr 8, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Used to have a friend who is a big fan of Hasan Piker, which was how I knew about him. But ever since he went to China and be vocally uncritical about the PRC I just can not stand him one bit anymore. I wish Western liberals treat human rights abuse in the East with the same weight. But who am I kidding.
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Apr 5, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Am pleasantly surprised by how intuitive all the control panels on my new German appliances’ are. No manuals needed.
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Apr 3, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? There isn’t a third option that doesn’t require something from the other person.
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Apr 3, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Being introspective is fucking exhausting. I was angry at a friend but while I was processing this anger more than half of my brain is asking “well did you expect too much? did you communicate your preference enough? is this anger justified? what’s preventing you from regulating this feeling? anger isn’t really productive is it? you are capable of indifference as to not harsh the vibes, so why not do that? anger isn’t productive.” Then at the same time became angry with myself, for not letting me just feel the anger, for prioritizing the examination of my feelings over feeling. But I do hate being angry. I do think it’s counterproductive. Indifference is a lot more productive. Indifference leads to resolution and relief.
:/ Need to talk to my therapist.
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Apr 1, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? My lifestyles in Taipei and in Berlin are so different. I am really glad I get to have both.
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Mar 26, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? After the Hunt (2025): Starring Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri, I had high hopes.
I realized some time last year that people don’t think nearly enough by my standard. About themselves and about their motivations before they interact with the world.
Anyways, it struck me that these characters aren’t thinking much before they act, especially so given they sure do a lot of thinking being in Yale’s philosophy department and being well-off with plenty of “time.”
It felt as if I already know the whole plot based on these characters’ way of handling things.
Why can’t people talk to each other effectively?
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Mar 26, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025): I feel like it is the repetition of this kind of therapies portraited in cinema that exacerbates the society’s misconstrued view of its effectiveness. It’s all broken from what is expected of the therapist and what is expected of the patient. It is still wild to me that people have a direct call line to their therapist. It is extremely hard for me to talk to my therapist directly outside of our sessions, if possible at all. This along with Shrinking really deepens my growing belief that words and languages may be the biggest barrier to a shared foundation needed for mutual respect.
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Mar 23, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I continue to get annoyed that some of my peers in tech insist on how their “hard work and discipline” are why they have accumulated wealth.
It’s luck. It’s mostly luck. Giving this kind of advice to people with a straight face is wild.
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Mar 21, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Kinda Pregnant (2025): I saw a review saying this is terrible and I can confirm it is beyond terrible. Don’t worry, I was making dice the whole time.
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Mar 21, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? It’s honestly incredible the mental gymnastic skills the manosphere subscribers have. They get inches away from the real cause of something, then take a hairpin turn downhill full speed.
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Mar 21, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I was reminded yet again that if “a friend” isn’t empathetic towards people less fortunate, it means that I too would not receive empathy from them when shit happens to me. Empathy. Not sympathy.
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Mar 20, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I have been feeling a bit of a drag on continuing to write and post on the inter webs. Social media reliance continues to go up while the landscape also continues to grow dystopian. I think without it I’d be too isolated but with it the connections are still mostly unfulfilling.
Lately I’ve been talking to Tobi a bunch asynchronously, and I am glad Instagram helped us stay in touch with minimum effort throughout the years. But Meta products feel more like a trap. Throughout the years there have been also plenty of social patterns, that were only probable because of the social media design, that I fell into that were mostly harmful.
In some sense, the way my social circles have grew has also many “emergent properties” that I’ve been unearthing.
Mmm… I think social media hasn’t innovated enough. The incentive structure is really whacked.
To be continued.
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Mar 18, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Goodbye Warden by @wttdotm
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Mar 18, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? A friend working on tools for creatives said the consensus is that tools are going to out of fashion, because people can gen AI their way around or into self-made tooling.
I asked them if they are getting a FUJIFILM camera, make one themselves, or stop taking pictures.
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Mar 15, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? The people I worked with, respected, and learned from the most at work from previous jobs, are the people who are now the most wary about LLMs’ growing role in software development. I am not suggesting that they are correct because I like them. I like them because on top of being they smart, they share many of the same values as mine.
I am comforted by the fact that we have the same attitude towards this very controversial ongoing development in our field.
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Mar 12, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I spent a whole afternoon sorting loose Lego pieces. It do be the simple things.
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Mar 12, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere (2026): What sad, sad boys. They are so close to figuring it out.
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Mar 9, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Berlin, ich habe meine Flugtickets gekauft. Ich bin bald da. ♥︎
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Mar 9, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.
…
What you mean is “I don’t want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.”Say that first.
From @[email protected]
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Mar 8, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? The majority AI View—this doesn’t feel like the case to me but I also am no longer actively taking part in the industry anymore. What do I know. But it’s comforting to know it’s someone’s majority.
It is historical alchemy, except we do know many substances in the mix are toxic and destructive. Mixing them without determining “what are these things and what could happen when they are combined” is willful ignorance and bad science.
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Feb 27, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Re: The loss of a programmer’s identity—It just reminded me the 2000 era when I used to write websites in notepad with
cgi-bin, people tell me “what’s the big deal? I can build sites with FrontPage/Dreamweaver too.”“Gosh, the code is unreadable.” I thought. How wild this applies still 25 years later.
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Feb 24, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? From repeatedly failing to find good D&D experiences, I realized at the end of the day it’s not about the games it’s about the friends. So now I’m back playing Baldur’s Gate 3 (for the nth time) and Overwatch with friends that I used to play with. It’s been really nice, and the social interaction really fuels oneself.
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Feb 20, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? As someone who has lived in two countries paying tax and going through medical systems in a foreign language with no support systems in place, I can not emphasize more on how difficult and stressful it is on one’s daily life. That is partly why I had it in the US amidst COVID and visa issues with my employer and HR being useless in terms of support.
My rule of thumb now is, unless you have family, partner, or close friends in the different country you aim to uproot your life to (close enough that you can let them decide legal matters—so legal professionals you can afford would count too), expect a very hard transition and ongoing stress.
I see so many Americans acting like surprised Pikachu when they realize being an immigrant is hard when they finally trial it. And their attempt isn’t even on hard (level); Treating these moves as an extended stay and easily reversible. I am talking about navigating language and cultural difference, tax implications, different government bureaucracies.
Respect immigrants!
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Feb 19, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Reposting this from last year, on the uncertainty of the basis of many atheists’ belief of free will’s non-existence.
The Neuroscience of Free Will by Dr. Aaron Schurger.
I am so much more a tech bro than many.
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Feb 17, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Having an Internet’s town square is wild. For the longest time I just feel weird about not liking conversations with strangers online… but then I realized I also hate having conversations with strangers offline.
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Feb 15, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I’ve finally fixed the image uploads! Expect photo dumps!
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Feb 14, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? I’ll say the really awful part now: For the first time in my life, I’m suddenly wary of meeting other "computer programmers" in the wild. I feel like there’s a decent chance we won’t actually have much in common, let alone values or morality.
(I’m even more wary of "technology enthusiasts". There’s plenty of technology I’m enthusiastic about, but I need to make sure we’re talking about the same things.)
A programmer’s loss of identity by David Gauer
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Feb 5, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? A friend told me to use LLM for something… and said it’s often correct in a particular area. Idk. I just asked one to rank some classic designs of flip clocks and it got things wrong and misattributed designers multiple times, then double down when I pointed it out.
I think LLMs are most correct in the things we don’t know the answer to. Sure, whatever you outputted must be true.
I also met up with a friend who works at one of the big LLM companies and he told me their product is getting so much better at coding at an incredible speed. So I asked him, is it better at x, y, and z? The things that made it basically unusable to me? The answer is no, and they are known issues people are still working on them. This really makes me wonder what the amazing developments were… if it continues to be incapable of doing the most basic things I can use help with?
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Feb 5, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Content warning: SI
The thing with SI though, at least for me, is fundamentally philosophical. That’s something my therapist said she really couldn’t help me on, since it’s essentially a value judgement and belief, and I’ve read a lot more philosophy than she has, in this particular niche of life and death, antinatalism (relax, I don’t like benatar), and just recognizing suffering. At the end of the day life to me is still not worth living. The only metric that tips the scale is how much I can distract myself from the suffering of existence at a given moment. I know this sounds very emoedgelord, but it is not really. To me this is really just novice level knowledge of the world—that it is full of suffering, and we do with this information what we will. And I remain firm on the stance that we all end up subscribing to a level of psychopathy, ignoring atrocities for one’s personal wellbeing, as a coping mechanism. I don’t think it’s wrong; in fact, it is necessary, but at the same time sick to the bones and ever-present.
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Feb 3, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? For those of you who worry about my mental health
I have been doing much better now, after completely getting off Venlafaxine which brought me a bunch of health complications and ER visits last March. I still have some left over issues that is compromising my physical abilities, like tachycardia, but in the grand scheme of things, that is fine.
I am sleeping a lot better, also continuing to be diligent about sleep hygiene. I haven’t had strong suicidal ideation for about 3 months, which is the longest stretch since 2022! What a feat!
Thanks to all of you who have stayed and sent me words of support. I think back on You can try harder a lot, and I wish I could have been better at receiving words with good intentions, but I know the limits of the state of me then. To be kind to myself is to recognize and accept the state of my shortcomings and limitations. I apologized to whose who had been caught in the crosshairs.
Thanks for bearing with and continue to support me.
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Jan 23, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? - overslept because I can
- mentally prepared a lovely morning schedule
- walked into the living room to find cat puked all over the couch
- proceed to clean for the next 2 hours
- now it’s 1pm let’s feed the cat some treats then feed myself
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Jan 21, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Soooo, hello. I haven’t updated things for a while; because upon upgrading my phone, all my photo uploading shortcuts disappeared.
I haven’t had much to write about—not that I ever had. I am still deeply into making dice, and I continue to further my investment in the process. The equipments are beginning to take up precious real estate that will eat into the price per 坪.
I have taken and developed photos but don’t have the brain power to rewrite those shortcuts. Perhaps I should take this chance to offload more responsibility into the GitHub actions… hmm.
okbyethx.
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Jan 11, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Guess who downloaded a dating app, went on one date, and gave up again?
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Jan 2, 2026
Liked ♥︎.Like? Honestly still don’t quite know the point of “Happy New Year.” I used to really struggle with this, but now I have accepted my part in the society that I will respond with the words reflexively. But still, I’d prefer if this isn’t said to me. Especially from those who have no idea how my year went. It just feels very phony. I don’t need phony people in my life.
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Dec 29, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025): Is there a new fascination with rich people activities (like this and Glass Onion) or have I just not noticed it before? They are incredibly dull.
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Dec 29, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Midnight Express (1978): I am angry about the cats’ parts in this.
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Dec 24, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Pluribus (Apple TV 2025)
Finished the first season, begrudgingly. It is so slow and Carol is so unlikeable I could barely stand it til the end.
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Dec 21, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Played board game with a GERMAN friend and at the start of my turn, I asked them if they want a snack I was holding onto and munching on, they said with a stone-cold face, “I want you to play.”
Traumatized me.
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Dec 18, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Someone said they’re worried because I haven’t posted in a while. I had just been busy, and now I am exhausted.
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Nov 25, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Had a dream where a man I barely know saw that I bought a valentines gift box from a very nice brand and said “What?! You should waited so I can get it for you,” as he excitedly check out what’s in the box. And in the dream I replied, “What? I bought myself apartments and diamond rings. Wait? For?”
The man was obviously not serious and was just saying things. But my response ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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Nov 25, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Being so unfamiliar with small humans I extended my hand and let my friends’ baby smell my fingers.
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Nov 24, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? My friend reconnected with her estranged father since birth recently, and apparently her father kept taps on her and had found my podcast! I interviewed her, years ago, and he’s listened to it many times. Oh my gosh.
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Nov 23, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? On my solo D&D journey—I’ve once again TPK my own players. This time it was a deadly encounter that two PCs approached without good tactics which they should have because I didn’t RP them well. One of them would have said “hey that’s a stupid idea.”
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Nov 20, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? The shape of “Oh well” has a nice arc at the top.
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Nov 17, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Content warning: SI
Brennen Lee Mulligan as Evan Kelmp in Misfits and Magic season 2 is so freaking relatable. Especially down to how Evan got killed and saw his friends trying to save him as a ghost and said “I understand the sentiment, but Evan does not want to be brought back.” I sobbed hard during this episode. Also Lou Wilson as Jammer was sooooo on point.
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Nov 13, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? I feel like more and more apps and websites are moving buttons and links around to cause misclicks to something that they want engagement in.
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Nov 11, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? 90% of my D&D “playing” time is just reading the world setting and making notes.
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Nov 11, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? I think there are points, all around us. Sometimes a man saying it, is just a man with the loudest voice stating a fairly common point.
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Nov 10, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Aabria Iyengar’s makeup in later episodes of season 2 Misfits and Magic are consistently so good. Wish I could pull them off.
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Nov 9, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Being an adult with money is so cool. I am just buying all the shiny polyhedral dice sets now.
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Nov 8, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? 社恐的我，知道睡醒貓貓就會來找我講話，所以躲在房間裡賴床。
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Nov 3, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Me: been feeling emotionally blunted and apathetic, especially towards social interactions.
Psychiatrist: do you think it’s a problem?
Me: not really, I think it seems like the drugs are working. But I might be out of friends in due time.
Psychiatrist: yeah sometimes people are just complicated and relationships turmoils rock the boat too much.
Me: yea so I see the benefits.
Psychiatrist: cool, see you in 3 months.
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Nov 3, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? I think about maybe not having a job is a mistake but then again there’s literally no work that seems interesting enough for me to be arsed.
To be fair though, I barely find games or movies interesting enough nowadays.
For the time being I am still trying to find joy in D&D.
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Oct 29, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Wrote these recs for my friend Gosha, thought I post them here too—
CRPGs I grew up loving: 金庸群俠傳 & 仙劍奇俠傳, both their DOS edition.
Movies and shows surrounding the same fiction universe about legends and fantasy:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordsman_II
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Dragon_Gate_Inn
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Condor_Heroes_95
Haven’t watched them again for maybe 20 years though. Your mileage might vary.
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Oct 29, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? LLMs do not learn. When we learn something we understand it and will be able to self-correct based on the structures of such learning.
LLMs approximate.
You all know this probably. This is a rant. I am angry about how stupid they are and I am annoyed at how my fear of not advancing with time makes me waste time on hype.
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Oct 29, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? I went to see Gustavo Dudamel with LA Philharmonic do John Adams and Stravinsky and I think going forward I should only see orchestras perform compositions I am very familiar with.
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Oct 29, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? I wish the SV tech savior types would actually find some hard problems to solve, but I know they won’t ever because they actually aren’t that competent.
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Oct 28, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? If I had a dnd table tonight they’d be served house special borscht in wooden bowls at The Wandering Pig tavern.
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Oct 28, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? I think my current obsession with DnD is simply because of an urge to escape my incredibly mundane life. Not even “doing the same thing with the same people every day” but legit a true lack of substance. There’s no things, no people, no anticipations, no expectations.
I am listening to ATCQ but the actual soundtrack to my current chapter is Fitter Happier.
Fitter, Healthier.
I consider this the depression meds working.
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Oct 26, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Sucks to need friends to play dnd. If a dnd player reads this please consider letting me join your campaign. Finding campaigns in the blind online sucks. Or I need to book a flight to Berlin soon to be with more nerds.
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Oct 25, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? The world is something that we make: Quaint little read. Let’s move ourselves to a network of communes.
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Oct 24, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Clowdward, Ho! - Outward Past Beyond has me cry-laughing multiple times.
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Oct 22, 2025
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Oct 22, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? The Gift (2015): decent premise. needless jump scares. could’ve used a stronger reveal. Jason Bateman is really more believable as a villain to me which I think tons of people disagree.
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Oct 22, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Misery (1990): Kim Jong Il kidnap story adaptation. IMO one of the most visceral on-screen violence scenes because it was so unedited and realistic.
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Oct 20, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Right, K-pop is cool, but I really don’t give a shit. If you only know how traumatizing growing up with this beauty standards is. This idol worship paired with exoticness is nauseating.
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Oct 20, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Karen Hao on Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know at 7:08 How is AI like an Empire?
This is a very accessible conversation for the non-tech-savvy. I really like this parallel between historical empires and current empires of AI/tech.
I kinda want to read her book Empire of AI, but since I typically can’t stand long non-fictions and this probably just confirm what I already think and know I’ll pass. But here’s me recommending it to you.
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Oct 20, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? One of the English-speaking countries is probably going to have an LLM-worshipping president soon.
At least in Mandarin they don't pretend nearly as well as in English.
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Oct 18, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Content warning: SI
Re: Shame the movie—It’s fucking selfish and disrespectful to "save" someone from their
suicide attemptrelief from suffering."No, come back. Suffer more."
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Oct 17, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Hero (1992): Ugh. Dustin Hoffman’s lack of lips and my impulse to punch a liar.
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Oct 17, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? New colophon page encouraged by Robb.
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Oct 17, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Der Mensch kann zwar tun, was er will, aber er kann nicht wollen, was er will. — Schopenhauer
Aber er kann wollen, dass er nicht will, was er nicht will.
Das scheint nur Logik zu sein, kein Beweis, nicht wahr?
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Oct 16, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? “Oh, they caught me” “anthropomorphizing myself”
How whimsical.
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Oct 16, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Added causes page, inspired by “favorite causes” on Rich Sutton’s website.
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Oct 16, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? If something is inaccessible then it doesn’t work well. It might work, but not well! -Toby Osbourn
So many directions I can side eye towards with this statement.
I am extremely judgmental towards “design leaders” who praise design that is not accessible. To exclude accessibility as a qualifier for good design is a sure sign of incompetency.
“Oh but they have some good takes.” I have to disagree.
I know, what have I ever done to claim such a thing? Don’t listen to me then. Move along.
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Oct 16, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? On qualia: how do we know if “the redness of red” is a natural unit of consciousness without first understanding consciousness? It’s like thinking we need to understand a slice of a lamp–What slice? Which way do you slice? Is there any value to a slice of a lamp? (No)
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Oct 14, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Shame (2011): Better than American Psycho. ⚹ 3.5
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Oct 14, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Every now and then someone would say something to me along the lines of“we can build a [insert framework name] app that…” and I’d interrupt them, “why [framework]?” And usually they’d brush it off saying “oh that’s not important, the app will…” No, it’s very important why you have this tendency to prescribe tooling before a problem appears. Put down your hammer and we will talk.
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Oct 14, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Often times computational concepts are hard to understand purely because the naming is sloppy, misleading, or completely based on personal preference. Other times really it’s just because I am bad at math.
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Oct 13, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Continuing from my previous rant on Secular Buddhism, here’s a more researched and representative argument: On radicalized secularization.
Being able to define what is secular and what is not secular… that’s all about power.
…think about for whom is power being maintained, and who is being excluded, and for whom is this exclusion being naturalized.
mindfulness is mechanized within neoliberalism to privatize some of the structural conditions effecting the society so they become our individual responsibility.
At the end, there’s an audience question about Secular Buddhism outside of the US, and Taiwan was mentioned as an example. In my opinion, culturally, MBSR is definitely an American Secular Buddhism export completely disconnected from its origin, which in turn amplifies internalized racism that is rampant here. Being aware of this and knowing religious Buddhists around me makes this phenomenon all the more uncomfortable.
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Oct 13, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? This podcast episode that I think is poorly titled, featuring Rich Sutton, Sendhil Mullainathan, Niamh Gavin, and Suzanne Gildert is very refreshing especially given the not-all-white-men lineup. I only wish it was 5 times longer.
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Oct 13, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Taxi Driver (1976): I added this to my list when looking for movies about loneliness. I am not sure what to take from this. I understand the feelings portrait, but I don’t understand what it is that motivates Travis. Perhaps it is the diagnose difference. ⚹ 3
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Oct 13, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Don’t be difficult. I mean this is obvious.
Quoting out of context. This is really what I feel when I read things that apparently tons of people have a different interpretation for (referring to The Bitter Lesson). Here the imposter syndrome is strong. “I must be wrong” I gaslit myself. Fortunately I was not wrong.
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Oct 12, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? I find it mind-boggling that people could be using commercial LLMs without noticing how it spews out nonsense on an hourly basis.
I do find LLMs incredibly useful for generating key phrases and related concepts for learning purposes. But all the reasoning and evaluations surely would have to be done by myself.
Stay away from the hype machine that gaslights and gaslights.
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Oct 12, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? 有邏輯 (logic)與很有可能(probable) 差之毫釐繆以千里。真希望這些講英文的電腦科學家買本英文字典。
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Oct 11, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Rich Sutton’s new path for AI—An excellent interview. Somewhat surprisingly this is one of the very few interviews I’ve binged this week where the interviewers are fully caught-up with what the interviewee is talking about.
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Oct 11, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? They (LLM) are not a good way to do science. So uncontrolled, so unknown.
A counterbalance to our limited control over the long-term future of humanity, should be how much control do we have over our own lives.
To the longtermists out there.
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Oct 11, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? There’s nothing general about data scraped primarily from English-speaking Western literature and internet users.
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Oct 11, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Always take into account a person’s attitude towards human rights. World view within a societal context informs everything else. Not completely, but definitely considerably.
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Oct 10, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? It really irks me that in reading more about the intersections of philosophy and AI that I continuously run into white men’s take on this so-called “secular Buddhism.” What the fuck? A religion that gets hollowed out to be so devoid of its original belief system yet still cocooned in the seemingly mysterious oriental shell.
Having grown up around traditional religions and actual devoted practitioners in Asia, this version of white buddhism that is highly individualized feels so distorted. It is such a shallow perspective akin to people fetishizing Asian women without reflecting on the societal/cultural construct that oppresses and exploits.
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Oct 9, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? The Neuroscience of Free Will by Dr. Aaron Schurger.
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Oct 9, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? I wish I knew more things. I wish to know more things.
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Oct 9, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? I have a milk jug for coffee and it pisses me off everyday because the interior marking for volume starts at an arbitrary point and the markings are circles as opposed to lines, making something that’s already approximate even less accurate. I looked at the user manual and it does not say anything about the markings. I had to check the Q&A on their website to find that each marking is approximately 75ml apart, but how much was the lowest marking? No idea. I know I can measure them with another measuring cup but like what the fuck. I am not gonna memorize this two years from now if I wasn’t making coffee daily.
I feel like I really missed my chance to go down the product design route after my degree. I think those challenges would have been less frustrating than the intersection between society and technology. But then again the me now think we don’t really need new things. Every time I find out yet another completely trash product is being produced at a massive scale I am reminded that the earth is full of physical trash. Now that we have also automated digital trash production, soon we will have no escape in either the physical or digital space. A completely blank virtual reality might have a selling point then.
Going back to the milk jug, I think I really failed myself by purchasing this terrible product last year for $40.
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Oct 8, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? I want to talk to people who specialize in neuroscience and philosophy so badly.
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Oct 7, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? I am at the level of metaethic readings that I realized all these white men philosophers are just arguing over Anglo-Germanic grammar. Learn a different language, you guys.
Once I had a friend explain what “vector” means in mathematical terms, and at one point I thought, wait, it’s called 向量 in Chinese. Zero explanation needed. It’s really telling because my professional work is almost exclusively done in English. This kind of connections are backfilled.
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Oct 7, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Out of the short list of people that I have successfully befriended and can have good fun or intellectual conversations with, 3 are named Robert. Any more Roberts want to be friends? I think I have a pretty good streak going with you guys.
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Oct 5, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Challengers (2024): I usually love movies with tennis, unfortunately this one is so stylized that the tennis is pure decorative. ⚹ 3
This was recommended to me based on the relationship complexity but honestly that is quite a let down too. Really just people cheating without any emotion depth.
Both Match Point and Wimbledon are better relationship movies with good Tennis as background.
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Oct 3, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? “OK. But why?” is my version of "yes and."
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Oct 3, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? A decade ago I was in the kitchen of our startup apartment in my early 20s talking to my coworker who gave me his copy of Animal Liberation in the hope of converting me to veganism, only to have me say “I reject the entire premise Singer laid in the first chapter and I don’t think I can finish this.” I did finish the book but was apathetic, and I remember talking about views on lives back then that led to my coworker saying that he thinks my ideas constitute as depression. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Oct 2, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? A threat model for accessibility on the web by Alice Boxhall. A must-read for all enjoyers of the internet who build on top of it as well.
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Oct 2, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Sam Hrrs on morality, essentially—I so strongly prefer this. I need it to be objectively true so I (& all who agrees) would be in the place to judge.
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Oct 2, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? It’s cool that Alex O’Connor is white, british, and highly educated so that these self absorbed men can play being civil and reasonable.
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Sep 29, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? Very much enjoying Dropout’s new D&D series Crowdward, Ho! ♥︎
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Sep 28, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? The first profession to be replaced by AI would be fortune tellers and horoscope writers, perfectly making things up with confidence.
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Sep 27, 2025
Liked ♥︎.Like? 20th Century Women (2016): Jamie’s room has many nice furniture and good decor. Annette Baning is so good here; Unfortunately I don't care for the others.
I think this starts charming and then fell really flat. It's making me want to read Sisterhood is Powerful though. Anyone in the US willing to keep an eye out for a copy for me?
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