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Hypernormalization captures this juxtaposition of the dysfunctional and mundane. It’s “the visceral sense of waking up in an alternate timeline with a deep, bodily knowing that something isn’t right – but having no clear idea how to fix it”, Harfoush tells me. “It’s reading an article about childhood hunger and genocide, only to scroll down…

A beautiful timeline going back 4.6b years — Read on szupie.github.io/supercontinents/ With source code at https://github.com/szupie/supercontinents

fortune favors the prepared mind. If you’ve developed the habit of paying attention to the things that happen around you and to you, then, yeah, you’ll get hit by lightning. — Read on www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/20/octavia-butler-advice-on-writing/

To build LegoGPT, the Carnegie Mellon team repurposed the technology behind large language models (LLMs), similar to the kind that run ChatGPT, for “next-brick prediction” instead of next-word prediction. — Read on arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/new-ai-model-generates-buildable-lego-creations-from-text-descriptions/

I was Claude pre-Claude. I once prided myself on how quickly I could write well. Memos, strategy documents, talking points—you name it. I could churn out 2,000 words an hour. That skill is now obsolete. I can still write better than the models, but their speed far outmatches mine. And I know their quality will…

There are whole categories of coding problems that look like this, and LLMs are damn good at nearly all of them. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/May/13/luke-kanies/

It’s impressive how quickly LLM-powered features are going from being part of the top tier premium plans to almost an expected part of most per-seat software. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/May/13/end-of-ai-upsells/

When I’m not talking, just walking (which is most of the time), I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment. My rules: No news, no social media, no podcasts, no music. No “teleporting,” you could say. The phone, the great teleportation device, the…

As someone who used to wear it myself, I know this armor is 100% impersonal. Nobody likes wearing it, and I can say with absolute certainty that women would dump the armor in favor of unconditional companionship with men if doing this didn’t run the risk of actual assault. (Trust me when I say women…

The Three Types of Specialists Needed for Any Revolution – Geniuses, thought leaders, and communicators — Read on kottke.org/13/05/the-three-types-of-specialist