Oh you want to use a nice app? Privately??!!!!

I want open source models to win, but worth being realistic. Today the US closed frontier models are MUCH better when looking at more realistic metrics like task time horizon. For example, while other benchmarks show Kimi K2 and Opus 4.5 (both released November 2025) as being quite close on some indexes, the task length they can complete correctly 50% of the time is very different. 1 hour for Kimi, but 5 hours for Opus. Some of this may be due to better harnesses for the US closed models, but that's material edge.

My daughter chose a random packet of annuals at the garden centre, so we planted them a couple of months ago. Now they're all flowering 🌼🪻 #bloomstr

Imposing export controls on Anthropic is just an opening move in the USG's process to nationalise it. "Look what we can easily do with a mere phone call and blog post. You're going to give us the terms we want or we'll impose them."

Just listened to an episode of the All In podcast for the first (and last probably) time. These guys are insufferable. Absolutely hyperbolic about everything, but accuse others of being so. Actually incredible levels of hypocrisy - talking about needing freedom and open source AI, but demanding KYC and supporting Bernie Sanders 50% AI tax on the basis of not liking Dario from Anthropic (who's writing they freely criticise but haven't actually read or understood - often literally making his arguments but thinking they're disagreeing). Then they have a weird discussion about Jake Paul's fancy watch and which dish they liked at some expensive restaurant. They want to signal they're better than you, but are somehow also common sense smart business people who aren't insane like those dummies who've built trillions dollar companies. Also at one point a presenter (they all sound the same) obsequiously thanks DJT for growing jobs in the economy - a naked attempt at ensuring he's in line to be nominated to run a sovereign wealth fund. Feeling a bit dirty now. No wonder lefties call these people fascists.

Lots of companies hopefully realising that they need to at least assess using open source models in their systems, unless they want their entire business rugged by the government.

Didn't even get a chance to use Fable properly. I once asked it to analyse a file and give me a summary but it caused my Claude account to hit its limit, so that was that.

An observation when running in London: female runners almost always have expensive kit and a water pack, but male runners often look like they've just found some swimming trunks and a pair of old shoes. Not quite sure what to make of it.

Finally got round to upgrading bitcoin core, and manually setting datacarriersize

It's sad that gen z and gen alpha will never have their own Darude Sandstorm

You can own one of two things: 1. Unconfiscateable hard money. 2. Shares in an AI company that are currently pumping, but carries the highest rug pull risk (by government) of any equity ever.

Be an AI company. Talk up the risks of AI for unemployment. Make the government panic. Present a solution: Government buys you for trillions and distributes shares as "universal basic capital" (while also facilitating fraud at a scale never seen before). Be super rich.

If you talk to someone in real life but it's not recorded, and eventually fades from both of your memories, did it ever happen? Yes, obviously. Likewise, it still matters if you share something on #nostr and only a few people see it. It's actually healthier. You can just say stuff even if you don't have an audience and want likes or zaps.

AI company founders think you should get a liberal arts education - how convenient that results in people being more reliant on AI for critical technical work

My AI-enhanced productivity is significantly mitigated by how much I get distracted while Claude works. It might be net negative for some tasks 😅

I would give lots of tips to a nostr bot that converted YouTube videos into native nostr content that I could actually watch

Not only are there too many prominent paedophiles, but actually quite a lot of paedophobes too - consistently pushing policies and practices harmful to, and designed to limit the number of, children.

Best way to end the day surveying all my plants #bloomstr

Buffet is right: Bitcoin is rat poison. But fiat is the rat infestation, currently dying under the floorboards making an ungodly stench.

The national deification of David Attenborough is fully underway.