Reposted by Scott BurtonDaniel Zenon Klein @danielzklein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026To steal a line from a recent Kai Lentit video, "please stop anthropomorphizing LLMs! They hate that." 21245
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 02/10/2026This is a bit of a strawman, isn't it? The question is less how the words appear in a certain order and more are the models useful? 010
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 02/10/2026Claude is *exceptional* at filing 8 or 10 follow-up tickets for things I don't need or want 020
Reposted by Scott BurtonTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 40119073093
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 02/10/2026A lot of people have pointed out that the word "Hawks" doesn't appear in the weird sign Schmitt's staffers displayed. Maybe it appeared in other texts, we don't know, but in his cleanup tour Schmitt said "who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?" as if that were the unlikeliest thing possible 000
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 02/10/2026According to Chris Hayes' reporting, Schmitt thought the Atlanta game was the only NBA game that night (wrong), and hadn't considered that Smith would be interested in a basketball game played by women. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOPI...youtube.comMS NOW report reveals WARNING behind Schmitt’s botched Jack Smith ‘gotcha’YouTube video by MS NOW 100
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 02/10/2026It seems like at least a possibility that the whole Hawks/Hawkeyes thing might have been a canard and a coincidence. 100
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 01/10/2026When he said fighting communists he means Operation Barbarossa 000
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 30/09/2026Give me a fucking break man. Even Ezra did a hour long podcast about it. 000
Reposted by Scott BurtonArgellaStone @argellastone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Edgy socialists decided to help kill millions of people globally because they convinced themselves this guy was Bibi's best friend. 724960
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 27/09/2026The "tech industry" guys that people are mad studied humanities, and engineers do learn history in undergrad, god why is everyone so stupid now 000
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 27/09/2026You would still need dozens of credit cards to hold the bookings. 100
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 27/09/2026Which is actually not all that different from the status quo ante 000
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 26/09/2026In ancient China there were these guys whose whole job was to roast giant tortoise shells until they cracked and then read the secret messages in the cracks. They filed away the cracked shells for future reference in case they needed to be reinterpreted. 000
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 25/09/2026The first time didn't work but that was because it wasn't led by the dumbest and most corrupt people in modern world history 000
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 25/09/2026And the thing about agile is that the pace and irregularity of software development threatened its relevance - anything could throw a wrench in the gears and screw up the numbers. Now we need process less for stakeholder legibility and more for basic comprehension of the system. 000
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 25/09/2026States impose uniformity on self-organizing structures to create legibility 000
Reposted by Scott Burtonpleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A new NYT focus group is out, and it's bound to be full of the same morons that are present in every NYT focus group, but because I love making fun of the median voter I'm going to be posting my thoughts on itnytimes.comOpinion | Paxton, Talarico and the Senate Race in Texas: 12 Voters DiscussThe group discusses the economy, the president and the U.S. Senate race in Texas. 1630458
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 24/09/2026I have said again and again that white Texans will not vote for a Democrat even if Jesus did a campaign ad for him and this is what I mean 022
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 24/09/2026Reading between the lines, she's saying "my kids haven't visited since November 2024" 010
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 24/09/2026That last part is my main takeaway. I think a lot of people can, you know, discount a little civilian-led misadventure, but expect the military to be well-provisioned and effective. But we just demonstrated to everyone that's not true! WTF man! 010
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 24/09/2026I think it's a mistake whenever @npr.org invites Republicans to lie on air to their listeners, as they did with Tucker Carlson today, even if it comes with some mild pushback from Steve Inskeep. 000
Reposted by Scott Burtonthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Republicans don't sprint to the center like this! They double down. Unless that's not working anymore, even with their own voters, and they are flailing for answers. 6566
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 24/09/2026So I'm really intrigued to find out what game Fielder is playing this time around. My theory is the film isn't really about Holmes at all. 010
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 24/09/2026I think I view Fielder primarily as a magician. His project is misdirection. Where Cohen's Borat works deceives a mark into revealing something we can laugh at, Fielder deceives us into revealing more than we would like about ourselves. 100
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 24/09/2026Fielder apparently decided to do the film during a meeting at the Magic Castle. How on the nose is that. 100
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 24/09/2026I'm still not sure what to make of this because I view both Fielder and Holmes as people whose careers are elaborate deception projects. 110
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 23/09/2026They've all been in the category of expediency. "Fixing" things superficially/in the wrong layer, pattern failure, sloppy categorization. Or maybe it's just effort resetting to medium... 000
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 23/09/2026I've barely needed to make PR comments for the past month and was considering taking the safety off. But since 5.5 dropped I'm catching all kinds of mistakes large and small. 100
Reposted by Scott BurtonRoss Weistroffer @libraryofbabble.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Bass is an old-school 90s Dem coalition-builder, as you would expect of an experienced legislator. She focused on building coalitions with the leaders of LA’s power structure (including LAPD, NIMBYs, and Labor), and protecting them by resisting attempts by to address said citywide problems. 171
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 22/09/2026at my kid's school "volunteer" means "mandatory background check" 000
Reposted by Scott BurtonSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026People all seem convinced this is clearly intentionally such a dogwhistle. Anything's possible, I guess, but, I don't know. This isn't far from schizoposting. Why would they use a K-pop star in a Korean ad for Koreans to do that? You're saying it's wrong to carry shoes in your hand? 8998146
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 18/09/2026The problem though is that his fans and their media ecosystem are also ignorant 010
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 18/09/2026Like, you're not defrauding the bank, your dad failed to secure his credit card. 010
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 18/09/2026It's weird that people refer to the Huggingface incident as a "hack." A closer analog would be partying with your dad's credit card. 111
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 17/09/2026"SaaS replacement" is one of the themes for my non-dev teammates. The product does maybe 60% of what they need it to do - getting to 100% was a capital expense before but is now approachable by a single non-tech person. Picture a dashboard that staples two different products together. 000
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 17/09/2026Yeah I get what you're saying. And now everyone has a camera on their smartphone but some don't take many photos. But in at least two of your examples - landscaper and nurse - you could imagine opportunities for team organization, job quoting, design etc that would otherwise have been SaaS. 100
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 17/09/2026I think for maybe the same reasons people use spreadsheets who are not accountants - they're useful, even not in the ways they were designed to be. Non-developers on my team are building things that are useful to them that were desirable but would have been cost-prohibitive to build. 220
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 17/09/2026I mean this gently, so please don't take it the wrong way, but I don't personally do gene editing in my daily life. It's not for me! But I'm really glad the technology exists for those who do. AI doesn't need to be something you, personally, use. Maybe it's not for you! That's fine! 110
Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 16/09/2026I'm thinking that perceived job status is playing a huge role here. 050
