Mastodawn

OpenAI is buying Astral https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/

1. I'm happy Astral got their exit (which we all knew was the end goal)
2. I'm glad no one will accuse me of trying to kill the company anymore by working on standards or saying there are other workflow tools
3. I'm taking a wait-and-see view (e.g. Astral already said more AI is coming to their tools https://blog.pamelafox.org/2026/03/learnings-from-pyai-conference.html#:~:text=Astral%20is%20also%20re%2Dprioritizing%20based%20off%20the%20move%20towards%20100%25%20agentic%20coding%2C%20with%20less%20emphasis%20on%20tools%20that%20would%20be%20used%20solely%20by%20a%20developer%20who%20is%20manually%20typing.)
4. I'm going to continue to work on standards for a baseline workflow experience to make my kid happy someday

OpenAI to acquire Astral

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

Robert Roskam 5d ago

OH: "In today's AI rich env...."

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Robert Roskam 6d ago

I know these are vibes, not facts.

The challenge is whenever I start to try to pin down exactly what feels off.

It's no longer there when I get back to it.

It feels like I'm being actively gaslit.

So this is mostly just me being like, am I actually the only one feeling this way?

Robert Roskam 6d ago

I feel like various websites have gotten markedly worse over the past 2 months.

Like over the weekend, I was trying to buy something from Ikea, and I was finding like 15 second wait times in trying to nav the site.

And I'm not picking on Ikea specifically, because every site I've been engaging with feels for w/e reason a little extra glitchy.

Robert Roskam Mar 15

been listening this new John Butler song on loop for 3 days now.

If you slave away for dollars and your dollars they don’t grow,
maybe you’re the wrong equation or the algorithm broke
And the screens yelling out with the great big ROAR,
you should try a little harder, you could do a little more,
you could have a piece of the pie, get what you are destined for,
you can be that 1 percentile with that 99 below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVO8LytsLcc

John Butler - The Way Back - Official Music Video #alternativerock #modernrock #musictok #guitar

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Robert Roskam Mar 14

✨ Mia’s Simulacrum 🏳️‍⚧️✨Mar 13

Reddit seems to have deleted a post with 7400 upvotes and the title:

"I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age‑verification bills"

.... US Corpos do not want us to see this but luckily we still have this github repo.

Here the relevant reddit post that was removed:

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/?sort=new

And here the github repo

https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

#reddit #ageVerification #corpos #cencorship

Robert Roskam Mar 14

😂🤣😭💀

https://youtube.com/shorts/GQmNNYkqnoo

Meanwhile at the Pentagon

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Robert Roskam Mar 12

WAT

"The agents claim that we are now in the 10,205th generation of the code base, in any case no one could tell if that's right or wrong as the "code" is now a self-modifying binary that has grown beyond human comprehension. This repo is the story of how it all began. -@karpathy, March 2026"

src: https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch