Dear US government, Since you've just blocked Fable and Mythos on critical national security grounds, here are some other tools that pose a similar threat to the American people: - Microsoft Teams - SAP - Salesforce - Jira - Outlook Please do what you must to save America 🇺🇸

I think we're entering a phase where Usage Anxiety is becoming a real thing. The frequent calling of /usage to just make sure you're not about to hit your head against your usage limits.

In a "if a tree falls in the forrest..." moment, I find myself wondering if my Vision Pro is showing my eyes to my dog.

My wife always complains at Christmas and my birthday that I'm hard to buy gifts for. She says having a bunch of books on my wishlist is boring. 🤷‍♂️ So I put a pair shoes (classic 80's Van's) on my wishlist. I think she might have had a little shoegasm just now. It's a win/win. She can finally buy me something she doesn't consider "boring" and I can finally be one of the cool kids in Mrs. Kreiman's 6th grade class.

Carl Jung on avoidance...

This should be the energy for the rest of 2026:

Programming is understanding. If you don't understand what you are doing, you are not programming. You are generating text.

Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI: Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible. 1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun. 2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love. Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI. Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.

A teenager in the United States started publishing software at 14 in 1998, built the entire online infrastructure for the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, joined Google as a software engineer, quit in 2018, and then spent five years writing a C library that does something the entire industry said was impossible. Then she combined it with llama.cpp and shipped the easiest way on the planet to run a large language model on any computer. Her name is Justine Tunney. Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the low level systems world knows what one engineer has built. Justine was born in 1984. She started writing and publishing software at 14, back when distribution meant uploading binaries to BBS systems and chat networks. She picked up the handle jart, which she still uses on GitHub today. She did the work most teenagers her age were not doing. She read the systems programming literature. She studied compilers. She fell in love with C. In July 2011 she registered the @occupywallst Twitter handle and the occupywallst dot org domain. Within weeks the protest movement that began in Zuccotti Park in New York had become a global phenomenon, and her infrastructure was the digital backbone of the entire thing. She handled the social media, the website, the donations, the coordination. She built the platform that pushed the movement to reach millions. After Occupy she joined Google as a software engineer. She worked on TensorBoard, the visualization tool for TensorFlow, and on site reliability for Google infrastructure. She stayed for years. Then in 2018 she left Google Brain to work on a personal project. The project was called Cosmopolitan Libc. Cosmopolitan does something most C programmers would tell you is mathematically impossible. It lets you compile a C program once and have the resulting binary run natively on Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD with no modification. One file. Six operating systems. No virtual machines. No interpreters. No recompilation. The technique she invented is called Actually Portable Executable. The implications are wild. Cosmopolitan binaries violate every assumption about how operating systems load programs. They are at once a Windows PE file, a Linux ELF binary, a macOS Mach-O binary, and a shell script. The same bytes run on every platform. For five years she worked on it mostly alone. She funded the development partly through Mozilla's MIECO program, which sponsored her work on Cosmopolitan 3.0, released on October 31, 2023. A month later she shipped llamafile. llamafile is what happens when you combine Cosmopolitan with llama.cpp. You take any LLM weights file in the standard GGUF format, you wrap it in Justine's binary, and you get a single file that runs on six operating systems without installation. No Python. No CUDA setup. No dependency hell. Just one file that you double click and it works. Mozilla launched it as an official project of their innovation group on November 29, 2023. It went viral immediately. The repository, hosted at github .com/mozilla-ai/llamafile, now has 24,600 stars. The license is Apache 2.0. Justine kept shipping. She added GPU support to Cosmopolitan, a task systems engineers thought would require rewriting the whole thing. She added dlopen support, another thing nobody else had figured out. She wrote whisperfile, a single file version of OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text model based on the same architecture. Her GitHub profile lists projects most engineers would consider impossible. sectorlisp, a Lisp interpreter that fits in a boot sector. blink, the tiniest x86-64-linux emulator on Earth. bestline, a teletypewriter command session library. redbean, a complete web server inside a single zip file. A teenager who shipped software in 1998 grew up to write the C library that the entire local AI movement now runs on top of. She did most of it alone, and most people scrolling AI Twitter cannot name her.

LASIK isn’t covered by insurance. Neither is most cosmetic surgery. Both got cheaper and better every single year for two decades. The one corner of medicine where patients pay cash and see prices. Funny how the “market failure” vanishes the second the market’s allowed to exist. Friedman called this in 1980. The tape doesn’t lie.

Interesting article but I'm getting tired of the "Vision Pro is a sales flop" nonsense. It's not a sales flop when you sell almost exactly what you projected to sell. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

I just heard someone say, "Nobody takes accountability anymore." If we want this then we need to embrace mistakes and even failure, starting from a very early age. I was talking to a 25 year old man the other day and he said, "My generation is terrified of making mistakes." THIS IS NOT GOOD! They should not be terrified of something that is, without a doubt, 100% GOING to happen! They've been made to feel this way and we all need to reverse this. When you make someone feel like it's impossible to make a mistake, they will lie or deflect blame. That's why nobody takes accountability anymore. And, before anyone starts to appeal to extremes, yes, there is a spectrum here and there are nuances. Don't be a moron.

Kindness and clear limits are not opposites. You can genuinely understand why someone behaves the way they do, seeing that their difficult behavior usually comes from their own pain and not from indifference to yours, and still make clear decisions about what you will and won't accept. Compassion doesn't require tolerating everything. What it does require is seeing the other person's humanity clearly, not just their worst moments, while staying equally clear about your own values for how you want to be treated. Those two things held together, understanding and limits, are actually more powerful than either one alone. What's on your mind? Drop your question in the comments. #psychologicalflexibility #ACT #ACTtherapy

Apple putting a camera behind the presenters while they interact with Siri AI is smart.

Second kid just got accepted to the college his sister goes to*. If I was any prouder of those kids already there would have to be two of me. * I know what you're going to say, @RobMcNealy. I tried. Twice! 🤷‍♂️😆

This hit differently 🥹

I’m an Apple fan. Have been for most of my life. I played Oregon Trail and learned Logo on an Apple IIe in middle school in the 80’s. That said; the single worst product they make or have ever made is, by far, this virtual keyboard. The number of corrections I’ve already had to make so far in this post is astounding. Literally almost every other word. They are about to make some announcements this week. It’ll mostly be about AI. I don’t care. Getting the keyboard working WELL, is, in my opinion, a drop -everything-and-focus-all-resources-towards-that-problem emergency. It’s THAT BAD.

I want the life pharmaceutical commercials portray, but without all the drugs.

They just did.