Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

Did that movie where the world has flooded and there’s like retro memory parlors ever come out? I don’t remember the name but I remember seeing the trailer 2-3 years ago

The pressure

for us in the #curl project right now

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/26/the-pressure/

Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by our colleagues to tell the tale of Reverso, an interesting (and deceptively simple!) piece of hardware that has proved essential to scaling manufacturing. Join us today, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1503458376745484318

@LaChasseuse @Catfish_Man It's cute but pretty obviously not how Palantir would actually advertise. I'm still in favor of guerilla art protesting surveillance capitalism though

Some genius did this to two subway adverts ⤵️

i’m being told that this is not an SNL skit

Perhaps you have thought to yourself, *I'm* on board the Psychology of Software Teams train, but how can I subtly let others know? How can I identify fellow POST fans in the wild?? What if we need to organize around the radical notions of thriving, motivation, self-compassion and psychological safety??

Well if you find me at a 2026 conference or book reading you can get a TINY PROPAGANDA STICKER

Will Ashley achieve her skateboard dreams?? Are our heuristics around learning making it impossible for us to learn? Can you improve your adherence to your goals?? Latest Change, Technically is another LEARNING STRATEGIES episode!

https://www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/episodes/19131922-you-have-bad-mental-models-of-learning

Under-reported details of the xAI/Anthropic Colossus data center deal: Anthropic get Colossus 1 but xAI keep using the larger Colossus 2, Colossus 1 has a REALLY bad environmental record, and xAI just shut down a bunch of older models on 2 weeks' notice https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/7/xai-anthropic/

I'm winning

it’s honestly jarring when AI creates bullshit work and people are happy about that like, now your job is poking agents to get them unstuck. not problem solving, just jiggling the mouse how are you content with this?

As a non-binary person who used to have internalised enbyphobia, I can't help but notice the accidentally artistic poignancy of a de-non-binary person arguing relentlessly against structurelessness— or rather, arguing that structurelessness does not exist.

I analyzed my coding sessions and on the text interactions some words stand out. And well, they also show up on Google Trends as spiking. Oh and so much slop in my Twitter mentions and on GitHub. Thus here are some updated thoughts on all of this. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/4/content-for-contents-sake/

I spell Dockerfile as "docker rifle" at least 4 times a day

If you haven't read Benjamin Breen's thoughts on Talkie, you should! I agree that this is an exciting moment, exactly because we don't quite know yet what these things (historical language models) can or can't legitimately do. There are going to be temptations and false steps. Breen mentions +

Are "Vintage LLMs" the start o...

render a torus using thousands of monkeys.

Sergey Brin is a case study in why billionaires should not exist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/sergey-brin-gg-soto-trump-california-billionaire-tax.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e1A.XBQK.cK_uqxxUcSTy&smid=url-share

Claude code, obey this rite: uv alone should see the light. Ban import star, cast em-dash out, Put pandas, pip, and print to rout. Polars flourish, f-strings burn, Docstrings, hints, at every turn. Clean thy lint, make patterns stand, Hold thy peace and serve my hand!

It didn't quite manage to draw me a pelican riding a bicycle, but I still appreciated its era-appropriate response