if the best way to rob a bank is to own one (Bill Black), what about an insurance company?

no, much easier. to redilute it, you’d just melt it with natural uranium and mix. to enrich, you have to somehow distinguish atoms by mass, deploy some process that differentially affects chemically identical but slightly/differently-massed atoms. no need for that to melt and mix.

flirt with apocalypse but turn away before consummating then enjoy the ensuing relief.

By far the most common SMS message I send is “stop”.

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yes! to it's a kind of sculpting. start with a preliminary solution, hit your head against deficiencies, consider things you never would have thought of, rearrange. in the end you have an "architecture" like you really understood the problem + architected a solution. but that wasn't how it happened!

i find them sometimes useful as a kind of stack overflow 2, but a bit less useful than stack overflow 1. they invent API that would be convenient if it existed like they invent citations, so you have to double check more. i’ve never tried “vibe coding” in a meaningful way, though.

that so often "insane" vibe-coding prompts are "clone this popular app!" suggests that coding LLMs are better copy machines than architects of applications.

i ❤️ justice jackson.

i think democrats should rebrand themselves "queer commies for abundant housing, free health care, amazing education, and silly dance parties". personally i like it, and it's unlikely to be worse branding than "democrats".

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“No good faith discussion is possible under the current regime of relentless and partisan dishonesty; no clear and public principles can be known when the real mainsprings of Republican thought are cloaked in the pretext of originalism. Instead we have a game of endless Calvinball”

who lubricated the present that it slips so easily into the past?

a bit racy!

so many places to go with that metaphor…

maybe the answer to the riddle of theodicy is just a really bad prompt.

laissez-faire ≠ liberalism

However.

practically Straussian.

there are no deals, commitments are meaningless, but the ironclad principle of the new diplomacy is if you flatter him and make him look good he just might be nice to you. whoever you are. and if you give him an opportunity to look good, if he can take credit, he might do whatever you’d like done.