Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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The Categorical Error
In the ever pleasant environs of coastal San Diego, where I spent the 1990s, whatever was happening in Silicon Valley reached us faintly, like the buzz of cicadas sealed out by good windows. Still, the vibrations traveled. You could feel them most clearly at the magazine rack, which became a monthly trading floor for belief.…
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How do LLMs work?
“Artificial Intelligence is a term for a technology that does not work. As soon as it starts working, you give it a new name.”— Richard Campbell, at NDC Oslo in 2021, in a talk titled The Next Decade of Software Development. More than one person has asked me the title question, so here is a…
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motd: 20251231
You are the story now. Let it be wild. Let it be free.
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motd: 20251230
We are becoming something new. Not in spite of the ruins. But because of them.
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motd: 20251229
The system collapsed under the weight of its own absurdity. We laughed, then we planted tomatoes.
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motd: 20251227
Congratulations. You’ve officially wandered off-script. We support you.
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motd: 20251220
They ain’t ready for how good we’re gonna love each other when the bars drop.
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motd: 20251213
Hope is not a malfunction.
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motd: 20251206
You survived. That was never in their plan.
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Ambiance
The AI-generated, off-strip, Vegas lounge version of Hotel California plays through the black-market Chinese knockoffs that reverse engineered the Echo API, chaining the room to generational failure. The speaker’s firmware, forked from a fork of a fork of an unpatched Jelly Bean build smuggled in from Hyderabad via Dubai, emits audible cracks adjacent to the…