Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

Would you watch a stream where I try to use vibe coding tools?

Nat, do not work for Meta. Build your own. Be your own person. Under no circumstances should you ever join their cult of hot or not. Nat, call me. I'll work with you.

@noplasticshower "Lone star ticks are aggressive and can speedily follow a human target if they detect them. “They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” said Sharon Pitcairn Forsyth, a conservationist who lives in the Washington DC area."
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You see, optical fiber is a kind of a very, very long catwalk. You drop the cat in New York, and it walks all the way to Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And single-mode fiber works exactly the same way: you send the signal here, and it arrives there. The only difference is, the catwalk is so narrow the cat has to squeeze into a very specific posture to fit in - called the mode.

A town that's proud of its home grown game designers #nocturnal2 #lausanne

I'm really impressed by the new Gemma 3n

I tried a 7.5GB model from Ollama and a 15GB model through mlx-vlm - they seem very capable, and this is the first model of that size I've tried that can handle both image AND audio input in addition to text! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/26/gemma-3n/

My notes on Gemini CLI, including poking around in their system prompt which I've extracted into a more readable rendered Gist https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/25/gemini-cli/

Learning about the first Contraption

On the heels of @bcantrill’s blog post about the similarities between aspiring college athletes finding a team and entrepreneurs raising a round of capital, Robert Bogart joined us to discuss his own experiences with both, and the life lesson accrued along the way. https://youtu.be/3z_TQxe9jx4

I’m angry. But I went through considerably more agony in 2003, because I still identified with the country then and a war of aggression was still shocking to me. In 2025 I’m already aware that I’m living in a rogue nation well on its way to police state.

Holy fucking shit I have just spent fifteen minutes reading social media reactions to that "chatgpt rots your brain" paper and absolutely no one understands brains or has read this paper

Rolling the ladder up behind us

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

Ganz ehrlich, wer auch nur einen völkerrechtliche oder moralische Rechtfertigung für die Position des gesamten Westens findet, die möge sich melden! Wir haben hier gerade 80 Jahre sog. Nachkriegsordnung mit ihrer zumindest pro forma Regelbasiertheit und Gewaltenteennung, mit internationalen Verträgen und Normen ohne Not durch das schiere Recht des situativ je Stärkeren ersetzt.

Die Idee, dass zwischen Kombattanten und Nichtkombattanten zu unterscheiden ist, dass es universale Menschenrechte gibt, dass medizinisches Personal und Einrichtungen sakrosankt sind etc. etc.

Welches Argument hatten wir nochmal gegen den russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine? Genau!

#MightMakesRight #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #USA #EU #Germany #France #UK #Israel #Genocide

Like Stephen, I suspect that ubiquitous screens have some negative effects. But Protestants and Catholics would probably *still* characterize the effects of the printing press a bit differently. So it doesn't surprise me that we currently disagree about smartphones.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/post/3lrqua4pauk24

In general I think we should be very cautious about sweeping claims about human intelligence and impairment of cognition. From "cellphones make you stupid" to "LLMs make you stupid", from "coding makes you a genius" to "knowing math makes you a genius." Pushing for absolutisms about human intelligence and human cognition is a toxic pattern that is also so baked into our history and cultural patterns and it plays right into dehumanization for either extreme

Financial shenanigans: yes; a modern Mechanical Turk: not quite. But the truth never got in the way of a viral story fueled by racial stereotypes ("700 Indian engineers pose as AI" etc.).

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/builder-ai-did-not-fake-ai/

"Wir kritisieren in aller Deutlichkeit die offen ausgestellte Bereitschaft des Kanzlers und von weiteren Mitgliedern der Bundesregierung, angekündigt und bewusst Recht zu brechen und Entscheidungen von Gerichten zu ignorieren. Die Angriffe aus den Reihen von CDU und CSU sowie der DPolG auf Anwält*innen und Menschenrechtsorganisationen erinnern an ähnliche Diffamierungen und Kriminalisierungen in Staaten wie Ungarn oder Italien."

Danke, @fiff_de, @NeueRichter & Co 🤝

https://blog.fiff.de/gegen-rechtsbruch-und-angriffe-auf-die-zivilgesellschaft/