Mark

@mrkwlsn
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Former autonomy researcher, creating digital delights
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I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world’s population.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

One of the government's attorneys in the CFTC's lawsuit against the states who've sued Kalshi was a lawyer for Kalshi in its lawsuit against the CFTC in 2023. He joined the DOJ in February 2025.
holy shit there's another entire fallback tree before this one, that's actually an astounding twenty two times it's possible to compress an image across nine independent conditional legs of code in a single api call. i can't even screenshot this, the spaghetti is too powerful
omg guys sometimes when I flip a coin and say "land on heads", it lands on heads! am I magic? is the coin conscious? guys this is going to be revolutionary

"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."

https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html

Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.

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Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.

Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

Psychology Today
Blame the *people* who did this, who set up this system and executed based on it, who started this objectiveless war, who removed guardrails and judgement, and hold them responsible for their war crimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

The Guardian
this is real documentation for a real product. "a full-fledged bean factory based on bean definition metadata"