An AI Haters Guide to Code with LLMs (Philosophy & Personal Politics)
This is going to be a little bit oblique because I view the world somewhat differently than many people: I take an ecological view of the
All Confirmation Bias, All The Time
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An AI haters guide to code with LLMs (The How-to)
This is the part of the post I started to write in part 1 but got side-t
The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (The Overview)
Introduction This is the post I don’t think
Wait, fiber optics are how cheap now?!
I ran into a video review of a spiffy little kit for retrofit-wiring a home with high speed Ethernet, invisibly. Critically, it was a fib
A fall-winter micro-calendar of breakfasts
Toast and Herbs Seas
Procedurals are our culture trying to reconcile itself
My husband watches a lot of TV procedurals, and so I end up watching a fair number with him and I spend a lot of time thinking about the
On watching Star Trek
I make no secret of the fact that my favorite TV franchise is Star Trek, though I’ve written about it very little. I spent the first bit
Sentences short and long
There is some discourse going around my corners of the Internet lately, originating from <a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xYn3CKi
This author isn't dead
I went on the North Shore Book Trail bookstore crawl yesterday with a dear friend and m
Anarchism vs Infrastructuralists
I keep my feet in two worlds politically and it is baffling how much shared value they have, and how little shared context there is.
Reading Week Ending 2/4
Yes, reading includes watching videos sometimes. […]suggests something of what it has truly meant, over the centuries
Reading January 2024
I’m off my regular routine due to travel, so I’m sparse, but here’s some interesting bits. <a href="https://pubs.aeaweb.org/
Reading Week Ending 12/30
Things I’ve been reading this week: <a href="https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/rumors-collective-sensemaking-kate-starbird/"
On queerness and representation
A writer friend of mine wrote a pretty good essay d
Less screaming into less void
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Streaming Facebook Live to a Roku (the hard way, but there is no easy way)
This recipe is horrible but it works for me. You’ll need the streamlink tool, and to k
how to survive the apocalypse^W^Wa general quarantine
We joke that it’s an apocalypse but it is one. Apocalypse means revelation, and how our world works is being revealed starkly in
Community and chat affordances
I’m struggling with a community development phenomenon that’s been going on for a while around me, particularly in tech-centered Slack gr
Cultural Zeitgeist and Names
I went to a tai chi class this morning and had a somewhat surreal experience. Right before my class was a kung fu class for young kids (a
Creating your own tiny static publishing platform
I’ve been using static publishing platforms for a while now. The output is enduring and easily archived, and reliable and robust. As an a