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another good one: Andrew Liptak's Transfer Orbit "My favorite reads of 2025: 15 outstanding books" https://www.andrewliptak.com/science-fiction-fantasy-horror-best-books-2025/ Knew about half of these names, whatever that means

where I cast from = Q

First the moonrise… then the moonlight reflecting off the snow in through the window No wonder didn’t sleep much last night

good thought to carry to your next sitspot

winter high ground /sitspot don’t know why phone camera still can’t handle sun highlights without making weird artifacts

tl serendipity moment just now gm @know @teleyinex.eth 🙏🏽

a wave to wash the year away

another good one: Dan Hon . makes a telling point about for all the good uses of llms the bad uses will be far more broadspread . doing a good enough job vs doing a very good job and what are the incentives for both/either https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s20e09-an-end-of-year-opinion-about-ai-because/

been watching a friend fly around the world all day periodic Flighty appreciation cast surveillance can be fun! 📡

looking forward to Simon’s too https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/

looking forward to Dan Wang’s too https://danwang.co/2025-letter/

really good book review also @vt coded bc "wine scores" the lead example https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/149a9ea8-b85f-4fc2-899c-ff3ae03df22a

long read for today “…we are on the cusp of a ‘Post-American Internet,’ a new digital nervous system for the 21st century.” https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/

ice storm aftermath every branch you see covered in ice it’s tough out there happy new year 😅

new Kafka Protocol case study “Kuhdorf” https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapped-by-deutsche-bahn/ (cattle transport on German trains has all kinds of bad echoes)

Watching a documentary about Yoshida Kaban - the Japanese factory behind PORTER bags. The opposite of fast fashion. https://youtube.com/watch?v=5oResKkgpGM

got this running just now ama hahahah https://github.com/karpathy/llm-council quite like being able to ask a chosen set of llms the same question and compare their answers. anyone else tried it out? first test on the reading from today's @yak study group, the HuggingFace smol training playbook doc https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/smol-training-playbook I'm not getting any smarter but am hoping to keep the little gray cells active and useful

I can see why it’s fun for them I can’t see how they sleep at night