KisseMjölk
@kissemjolk.bsky.social
I do programming, and languages, but I’m a bit of a sponge for random knowledge, so I know a little bit about a lot more than just those two things.
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i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:
October 7, 2026 at 11:07 PM
i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:
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I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
I don't want to make civic arguments about history. I don't want to make instrumentalist arguments about history. I want engineers to understand my discipline is rigorous too and if not I want to be able to make fun of them forever because no historian ever built a bridge that broke in the wind.
September 28, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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We don't vote on where/how to operate on my body on equal/any footing with surgeons.
"the closer people are to real problems, the better their ideas for solutions [because] as LLMs democratize coding, existing developers need to evolve into architects who curate the structure of a codebase."
1/n 🧵
"the closer people are to real problems, the better their ideas for solutions [because] as LLMs democratize coding, existing developers need to evolve into architects who curate the structure of a codebase."
1/n 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We don't vote on where/how to operate on my body on equal/any footing with surgeons.
"the closer people are to real problems, the better their ideas for solutions [because] as LLMs democratize coding, existing developers need to evolve into architects who curate the structure of a codebase."
1/n 🧵
"the closer people are to real problems, the better their ideas for solutions [because] as LLMs democratize coding, existing developers need to evolve into architects who curate the structure of a codebase."
1/n 🧵
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Always worth reading. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
How AI tempts the lazy mind
The real risk of generative artificial intelligence is not that we will trust it completely, but that we will stop caring enough to check
giftarticle.ft.com
October 7, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Always worth reading. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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"Software developers are not okay"
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...
The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech.
Direct link to the essay: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...
The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech.
Direct link to the essay: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...
Software developers are not okay
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
www.baldurbjarnason.com
October 6, 2026 at 11:26 AM
"Software developers are not okay"
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...
The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech.
Direct link to the essay: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...
www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...
The software industry is becoming increasingly hostile to those who work in it. The uncertainty is affecting even those who believe in the promises of tech.
Direct link to the essay: www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...
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every single one of these linked processes stems from thinking of education in general, & higher ed in particular, as a resource frontier: a virgin territory or untapped resource of as-yet uncaptured potential wealth that now must be harvested / optimized / extracted. this mindset is our true target
Down with the data-harvesting-edtech-private-equitization of education.
What if educational spaces worked to become one of the few places in life our students are not constantly surveilled under constant threat conditions?
October 6, 2026 at 1:14 PM
every single one of these linked processes stems from thinking of education in general, & higher ed in particular, as a resource frontier: a virgin territory or untapped resource of as-yet uncaptured potential wealth that now must be harvested / optimized / extracted. this mindset is our true target
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a smiling DoD official Emil Michael dismisses the obvious conflicts of interest involved in Project Meridian: "There's really nothing to see here"
October 6, 2026 at 3:26 PM
a smiling DoD official Emil Michael dismisses the obvious conflicts of interest involved in Project Meridian: "There's really nothing to see here"
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'A strike ballot has been opened at the University of Glasgow over planned job cuts, with the University and College Union (UCU) urging the institution to rule out compulsory redundancies.' Move responds to voluntary redundancy scheme and organisational change project. Promotions paused for 2026-27.
University of Glasgow UCU opens strike ballot over cuts
Union calls on institution to rule out compulsory redundancies as fears grow over state of Scottish sector
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
'A strike ballot has been opened at the University of Glasgow over planned job cuts, with the University and College Union (UCU) urging the institution to rule out compulsory redundancies.' Move responds to voluntary redundancy scheme and organisational change project. Promotions paused for 2026-27.
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there’s one true answer but it’s the correct one
five minutes after game of thrones - the last true monoculture show - ended, we all collectively agreed not to talk about it again, and house of the dragon/knight of the seven kingdoms haven’t recaptured a fraction of that cultural presence
five minutes after game of thrones - the last true monoculture show - ended, we all collectively agreed not to talk about it again, and house of the dragon/knight of the seven kingdoms haven’t recaptured a fraction of that cultural presence
What TV show got so bad it effectively destroyed your appreciation for the show when it was was good?
October 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM
there’s one true answer but it’s the correct one
five minutes after game of thrones - the last true monoculture show - ended, we all collectively agreed not to talk about it again, and house of the dragon/knight of the seven kingdoms haven’t recaptured a fraction of that cultural presence
five minutes after game of thrones - the last true monoculture show - ended, we all collectively agreed not to talk about it again, and house of the dragon/knight of the seven kingdoms haven’t recaptured a fraction of that cultural presence
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THAT IS NOT THE ONLY THING EDUCATION IS FOR! IT ISN’T EVEN THE MAIN THING!
'Amanda Spielman, who previously led education watchdog Ofsted from 2017 to 2023, warned too many people are being misled by the allure of university courses that fail to result in improved economic and life outcomes.'
Ofsted has such a sterling reputation.
Ofsted has such a sterling reputation.
Bad degrees ‘eating up’ young people’s lives – shadow minister
Students left underoccupied and ‘kicking their heels’ at university, according to former Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 6, 2026 at 3:45 PM
THAT IS NOT THE ONLY THING EDUCATION IS FOR! IT ISN’T EVEN THE MAIN THING!
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Too bad no one funded a sex cult focused on climate change! The different media dynamics between the very real threat of global warming (aloofness) and the imagined AI machine apocalypse (alarm) should be studied in great depth.
October 6, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Too bad no one funded a sex cult focused on climate change! The different media dynamics between the very real threat of global warming (aloofness) and the imagined AI machine apocalypse (alarm) should be studied in great depth.
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“AbDuL eL sAyEd M.D. DPhil iSn’T a ReAl dOcTor” scream the people who trust RFK’s zero medical degree, zero medical training, and literal brain worms.
October 3, 2026 at 2:32 AM
“AbDuL eL sAyEd M.D. DPhil iSn’T a ReAl dOcTor” scream the people who trust RFK’s zero medical degree, zero medical training, and literal brain worms.
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i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed
October 6, 2026 at 12:06 PM
i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed
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Had a big long thread, but the jist was that these people are learning in faster-than-real-time that pedagogy and management are hard because we fundamentally don't understand why people... people.
Because of that, "human-like" or even "superhuman" intelligence will aways be an impossible target.
Because of that, "human-like" or even "superhuman" intelligence will aways be an impossible target.
new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"
Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices
A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...
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October 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Had a big long thread, but the jist was that these people are learning in faster-than-real-time that pedagogy and management are hard because we fundamentally don't understand why people... people.
Because of that, "human-like" or even "superhuman" intelligence will aways be an impossible target.
Because of that, "human-like" or even "superhuman" intelligence will aways be an impossible target.
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lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
October 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
So nice to have a doom scroll session, but like… nothing was so bad that I needed to comment on it. 😌
October 3, 2026 at 2:26 AM
So nice to have a doom scroll session, but like… nothing was so bad that I needed to comment on it. 😌
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While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content.
I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.
I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.
October 2, 2026 at 11:39 PM
While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content.
I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.
I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.
ich, Amerikanerin mit Deutsch als zweite Sprache: [öfter als nicht aufrechtes Deutsch]
jeder Deutsche in der Nähe: Was geht ab?
ich, metaphorisch: ich wünsche mir in Gallien zu wohnen… aber ich muss immer noch in Rom leben.
jeder Deutsche in der Nähe: Was geht ab?
ich, metaphorisch: ich wünsche mir in Gallien zu wohnen… aber ich muss immer noch in Rom leben.
September 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM
ich, Amerikanerin mit Deutsch als zweite Sprache: [öfter als nicht aufrechtes Deutsch]
jeder Deutsche in der Nähe: Was geht ab?
ich, metaphorisch: ich wünsche mir in Gallien zu wohnen… aber ich muss immer noch in Rom leben.
jeder Deutsche in der Nähe: Was geht ab?
ich, metaphorisch: ich wünsche mir in Gallien zu wohnen… aber ich muss immer noch in Rom leben.
Find your niche.
If you don't like hiking, don't just to have the experience.
If you don't especially care about seeing historical landmarks, cool, see the convenient ones.
Like trying new foods and dishes? Hit up the restaurants, and find acceptable ways to chill at them.
If you don't like hiking, don't just to have the experience.
If you don't especially care about seeing historical landmarks, cool, see the convenient ones.
Like trying new foods and dishes? Hit up the restaurants, and find acceptable ways to chill at them.
14. What traveling advice would you give to someone who is just starting?
September 29, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Find your niche.
If you don't like hiking, don't just to have the experience.
If you don't especially care about seeing historical landmarks, cool, see the convenient ones.
Like trying new foods and dishes? Hit up the restaurants, and find acceptable ways to chill at them.
If you don't like hiking, don't just to have the experience.
If you don't especially care about seeing historical landmarks, cool, see the convenient ones.
Like trying new foods and dishes? Hit up the restaurants, and find acceptable ways to chill at them.
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You mustn't trust police. They will betray you.
A Vancouver cop told DULF’s founders he would personally advocate for them.
2 years later, he approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes.
www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
2 years later, he approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes.
www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
www.defactomedia.ca
September 29, 2026 at 4:48 PM
You mustn't trust police. They will betray you.
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BASH: Trump is using taxpayer funds for White House campaign ads. Do you think that's an appropriate use of tax money?
RICKETTS: Well I haven't seen the ad. I can't speak to it
RICKETTS: Well I haven't seen the ad. I can't speak to it
September 29, 2026 at 4:53 PM
BASH: Trump is using taxpayer funds for White House campaign ads. Do you think that's an appropriate use of tax money?
RICKETTS: Well I haven't seen the ad. I can't speak to it
RICKETTS: Well I haven't seen the ad. I can't speak to it
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Coding solved is
Per Reuters, Anthropic has $252 billion in non-cancelable compute obligations across Microsoft, Google and Amazon, and $161.2 billion in Broadcom TPU lease obligations that are "largely non-cancelable". Truly insane. $413 billion in non-cancelable contracts.
www.reuters.com/business/ant...
www.reuters.com/business/ant...
September 29, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Coding solved is
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Fraternity Under Investigation After Forcing Pledges To Volunteer At Soup Kitchen
September 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Fraternity Under Investigation After Forcing Pledges To Volunteer At Soup Kitchen