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How I Use #ClaudeCode
https://boristane.com/blog/how-i-use-claude-code/

The outcome of a bunch of shader tuning last night: the upsample filter (4x sin(x/x) from 20M to 80M points in this test) went from 6.55 ms to 1.5 ms.
Original: 8% of peak DRAM read BW, 31% write, 14% L2$ hit rate.
New (just changed memory access patterns to be more coalesce/cache friendly): 9% read, 37% write, 73% L2$ hit
A similar memory ordering optimization cut the PAM edge detector from about 14 to 10 ms but my SM occupancy is still crap (around 12% of warp slots used)…

“It is uncomfortable to label yourself a sell-out, and so a billionaire anti-fascist write[s] a manifesto about how, yes, they are still defending democracy, and no, they are not working for a fascist. ”
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-wants-power-without-accountability

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

"People keep coming in. Lesson learned: if you place a sign saying “Full” on the door at an event full of Leftists, it won't achieve any effect. More people join."
https://write.as/conjure-utopia/cables-of-resistance-the-numbers-dont-add-up

Cables of Resistance: the numbers don't add up
Last weekend was Cables of Resistance, a conference I've been organizing together with 20-something other people since last September. Th...

I’m a stationery fetishist, just not a calendar guy. Maybe that’s because of my tendency to consistently struggle with categories. 😶‍🌫
https://thegoodwork.blog/posts/i-love-to-write-on-paper-but-i-cant-deal-with-calendars

I love to write on paper but I can’t deal with calendars - The Good Work
After quite a few failed attempts, I’ve decided that analog calendars just aren’t a thing for me. Not for the short, medium, or long term. It’s not the calendars’ fault,...

Today we are adding the remaining eight to our “Winning The House” campaign:
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Sean McCann (MI-4)
Jamie Ager (NC-11)
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Shannon Taylor (VA-1)
Elaine Luria (VA-2)
Rececca Cooke (WI-3)
With this single link your contribution will now be split twelve ways and help all these courageous candidates win.
You can learn more about each of the eight below (I am using the DCCC’s write up…

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The God in the Wire: The Book That Began with an Empty Shelf
I did not set out to write a book about technology. I set out to understand an empty shelf. The shelf is at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, mounted on a corridor wall beneath a sign bearing the universal symbol for Deaf access. The shelf once held a TTY, one of those text telephones that gave Deaf people their first access to instantaneous distance communication.

The God in the Wire: The Book That Began with an Empty Shelf | David Boles, Blogs
I did not set out to write a book about technology. I set out to understand an empty shelf. The shelf is at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, mounted on a corridor wall benea…

Thank you @… for the "deleted files" feature! I keep things in my Nextcloud that aren't under source control - mostly write-once content things like conference talks, notes folders, etc. And I just deleted the wrong filename pattern .... oops!
If you don't know NextCloud, it's the self-hosted Dropbox alternative. And when I say self-hosted, actually I'm using it as-as-service from the excellent humans over at @… . So it's more like "choice-hosted" or something

I'm so tempted to write papers for high impact journals that basically say 'any literature review on practices in cultural heritage organisations / GLAMs that only uses scientific databases is incomplete'. After all, who has the time, energy and motivation to publish in those systems? Not practitioners!

Ah yes, #LLM for exploit development.
In other words, we’ll now spent billions on offense & prevention to achieve new equilibrium (that we already sort of had).
Good job, us. #infosec

On the Coming Industrialisation of Exploit Generation with LLMs
Recently I ran an experiment where I built agents on top of Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 and then challenged them to write exploits for a zeroday vulnerability in the QuickJS Javascript interpreter. I adde…

I have a habbit of making (too) many (small) packages for functionality that might be reused in different context. {box} might be an alternative by making scripts into modlues that can be loaded: #RStats

‘box’: Write Reusable, Composable and Modular R Code
A modern module system for R. Organise code into hierarchical, composable, reusable modules, and use it effortlessly across projects via a flexible, declarative dependency loading syntax.

Which province's universities will fail first? Here's the case for Quebec. Still, one could probably write a carbon copy of this article for all the others too.
https://www.ledevoir.com/actualites/education/957789/manque-gagner-majeu…

Un manque à gagner «majeur» qui inquiète les universités d’ici
Leur situation financière est la pire au Canada, malgré une augmentation prévue du nombre d’étudiants.

#LLM tools let you write code faster, but LOCs has NEVER been the bottleneck to value. The bottleneck is organizational coherence.
Instead of working towards that alignment, we are encouraged to "just #AI it." The result? AI makes everyone work MORE, with no real productivity gains.
Te…

Research is leadership, and code can help (but only in the right places)
Code was never the blocker in delivering customer value — and the easier writing code becomes, the more it distracts from the work we must do to unblock productivity.

macos sandbox question. I have `vscode.sb`:
```
(version 1)
(allow default)
(deny file-write* (subpath "/") )
(allow file-write*
(subpath "/dev")
(subpath "/private")
(subpath "/var/folders")
)
```
1/2

WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/wordpress-com-n…

WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more | TechCrunch
New AI agents on WordPress.com could lower barriers to publishing while increasing machine-generated content across the web.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Black Belt Eagle Scout:
🎵 I Said I Wouldn't Write This Song
#BlackBeltEagleScout
https://blackbelteaglescout.bandcamp.com/track/i-said-i-wouldnt-write-this-song
https://open.spotify.com/track/1OVdUvjXrpgCzVoLjNHHXL

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I’m curious: is dealing with local dev server ports so cumbersome that you’d give write permission on /etc/hosts to an npm package?
(context: https://port1355.dev/)

Sonnet 017 - XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd …

I was using the Python csv library for a script but decided I should dig into the pandas DataFrame stuff instead.
It was more complex, and it took me awhile to figure things out, and I had to read a bunch of web pages explaining things.
But in the end, I am 100% happy I did it that way.
I did not want to ask some AI/LLM for the answers, or to write the code for me.
Because for me, the struggle and the journey is part of creating something worthwhile.

1. Programming languages exist purely to make it easier for humans to tell computers what to do
2. Programming languages are invented by programmers who suck at making things for humans
3. Programming languages aren’t actually that easy to use
4. Coding LLMs exist purely to make it easier for humans to write code to tell computers what to do
5. Coding LLMs were invented by programmers who suck at making things for humans
6. ?

Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-are-

@…
I recently updated my iPad to iPadOS 26.3 and I’m seeing a very minor bug in Ivory where the top of the screen is smushed, like in the screen shot here. The effect goes away when I open this pane to write this. And it’s ok until I go away for a while and then it’s back,

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Several major insurance carriers have begun to back away from providing cybersecurity and other insurance to companies using AI to run internal processes, insiders say.
While there’s no standard response to customer use of AI in the insurance market,
many carriers are now quietly declining to write policies for claims related to AI-generated outputs in cybersecurity and errors and omissions (E&O) coverage, these observers say.
Other insurance carriers are jacking up pric…

Insurance carriers quietly back away from covering AI outputs
Many insurers have begun to exempt AI workloads from cybersecurity and errors and omissions coverage, saying their outputs are too unpredictable to write policies around.

Write the name of the world richest people on little pieces of people and put them in a hat.
Now the game is to randomly pick one and try to guess how many time they appear in the Epstein files

If you don’t have the resources to write and understand the code yourself, you don’t have the resources to maintain it either.
Any monkey with a keyboard can write code. Writing code has never been hard. People were churning out crappy code en masse way before generative AI and LLMs. I know because I’ve seen it, I’ve had to work with it, and I no doubt wrote (and continue to write) my share of it.
What’s never been easy, and what remains difficult, is figuring out the right probl…

Does anyone still remember how to write Applescript anymore?

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From a blog post by @…
“We’re living in this moment right now where everybody is using AI to write software.”
No. With add due respect, this is wrong. To say such a thing does harm.
I get what the author is trying to say, but I beg all authors to choose their words carefully.
As long as I continue to write software you can never say “e…

Security through irrelevance
Vibe coded bespoke apps are unlikely targets for hackers - an interesting observation about threat economics but definitely not a reason to skip security basics. (836 words)

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How Alan Dershowitz's petition to seek review of his CNN libel suit threatens NYT v. Sullivan, which Dershowitz argues should only apply to government officials (Adam Liptak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/politics/thedocket-dershow…

A Press Freedom Case in Peril, From a Lawyer Who Helped Write It
Alan Dershowitz was present at the creation of New York Times v. Sullivan. Now he is asking the Supreme Court to revise or destroy it.

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Sonnet 017 - XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd …

@… I have, but I decided to do it all myself, for the sake of the mental exercise as much as anything.
If I get to a point where it’s too tedious, I might write my own little generator.
I do however intent to write a little feed file later to enable syndication.

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Hachette cancels the US release of the novel Shy Girl and is discontinuing its UK edition after fans claimed the author relied heavily on AI to write the book (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/books/shy-girl-book-ai.html

Horror Novel ‘Shy Girl’ Canceled Over Suspected A.I. Use
Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.”

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