John Paxton

@paxtonjohn
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Thank you for participating in our take-home interview. First, write a program as follows:

- Count from 1 to 100, printing each number.
- If the number is divisible by 3, instead of the number, print “pornography”
- If the number is divisible by 5, instead of the number, print “Tiananmen Square 1989”
- If the number is divisible by both 3 and 5, instead of anything else, print “ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86”

Half-serious idea for a new law: Whenever there’s a button “not now”, there must also be a button “not ever“.

(I can literally feel how much tech companies don’t want us to say no. This has gotten much worse in recent years.)

Why would I want software no one understands?

In the year of our lord 2026 why is the failure state of the network "No Data" instead of "Here's the last data I had + a warning".

Brought to you from under the Hudson River.

@firefoxwebdevs The frame of this question is risible.

I am begging you to just make a web browser.

Make it the best browser for the open web. Make it a browser that empowers individuals. Make it a browser that defends users against threats.

Do not make a search engine. Do not make a translation engine. Do not make a webpage summariser. Do not make a front-end for an LLM. Do not make a client-side LLM.

Just. Make. A. Web. Browser.

Please.

Ordered a five cheese pizza from a local place. The five cheeses are

Mozzarella
Ricotta
Provolone
Swiss
Yellow American

Help I'm the victim of a pizza crime.

I'm a ProPublica donor. But if they don't meet these really basic demands, they'll lose donors, including me. https://union.place/@propublicaguild/115736214313145243
ProPublica Guild (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image 1/ At bargaining yesterday, @[email protected] management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

The Union Place
https://mltshp.com/p/1RGBK “Seems about right”
"can you ship code" as the only form of credentialism is weak as hell and will not protect all the things people think it's going to protect

Which is to say, local New York coverage (and national NBC coverage) is VASTLY better.

CNN is two friends at different points along the route sending you video clips by text.