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Sitting in on Storm’s trial, I can’t help but feel violated in getting an up close experience of how the government can cherry pick information that’s been collected on you (e.g., transactions, messages, IP address activity) and paint any picture of you that they want. Just

Asked Figma CFO earlier today about how he views a stock pop. His answer: Most of the shares were secondary, with the primary to cover RSU tax implications. So even big pop doesn't mean co left much $$ on the table. Both true and also a lie he tells himself.

Call me crazy, but I don't think prospective employers should require you to spend $$ for a software subscription just to interviewing with them.

Textbook example of the Law of Unintended Consequences where Intended use ≠ Actual use + Human error → Unintended risk

what’s that smell … no, it couldn’t be … is that the big model smell?

ChatGPT quietly scrubbed today nearly 50,000 shared conversations from Google's index after our investigation. They thought they'd solved the problem. They were wrong. (1/5)

Figma CEO Dylan Field was responding to product feedback on X on IPO day

Lina Khan doing a victory lap on the success of the Figma IPO is peak comedy

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And Lina Khan is best equipped to decide this better than founders, employees and investors? Colossal stupidity to not understand retrospective predictability!

New paper: Since the rise of large language models, there's been a huge shift in academic writing. In 2024, the word "delves" appeared 2,700% more than its historical average, by one account. The analysis suggests that 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs.

The idea that being evil is a personality trait is (a) hilarious (b) terribly mistaken. Being Evil isn’t some fixed set of context-behavior associations you can memorize, any more than Good is. The personality they named Evil is actually Cartoon Villain.

more fun than ever to be a software engineer

Considering the technology and the pace of progress, I think this is quite sane.

entering the fast fashion era of SaaS very soon

High taste testers only

I wrote about what went wrong with ChatGPT's sharing dialog, and why I think it's reasonable for people to be confused by what looks at first glance like a very clear checkbox description simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/pri…