Absolutely devastating 💔 https://www.comicsands.com/slc-ah-loo-project-runway?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Trump says he can’t allow Iran to make a nuclear weapon. But Tulsi Gabbard addressed this last quarter, so which of them is lying?

This is a most unusual conversation. First that there are people who come to MIT who have never programmed. Second how unexpected her presentation is for anyone from MIT.

https://www.mit.edu/~anabell/
https://www.manning.com/books/get-programming
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Get_Programming/czgzEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=get+programming&printsec=frontcover

#mit #programming #python #learning #unusual #video #podcast #good #gender #book #wishlist

(I’m trying this post again to see what happens when I use hashtags)

MIT Programmer on GenAI, Growth Mindset, and Rubber Ducks?: https://mshook.micro.blog/2025/06/16/mit-programmer-on-genai-growth.html

On June 10, ICE raided a meat plant in Omaha—detaining around 75 workers, many of them immigrants. The plant was left operating at 30% capacity. Families were torn apart. Lives disrupted. These are hardworking people, not criminals!

#civilRights #persist #usa #resist

No Kings in Petaluma.

“I have decided to stick with love.” — MLK

Incredible things are happening in China. It appears they have reinvented Alabama from first principles.

This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-skeets-and-giggles-61425?r=1zr8b

Officials Fear 'Tiananmen Square Moment' at Military Parade.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/u-s-officials-fear-tiananmen-square-moment-at-trumps-military-parade/

A joint project of @freedomofpress and @eff: Journalists have been asking us about how to prepare devices for travel. We put together a checklist of things you can do. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/border-security/

Stop Looking for Red Lines. You no Longer Live in a Full Democracy (Ryan Enos/Social Notes)

https://ryandenos.substack.com/p/stop-looking-for-red-lines-you-no
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p136#a250613p136

Can https://puter.com replace https://glitch.com

I've been working on this for a while...

llm --functions '
def multiply(x: int, y: int) -> int:
"""Multiply two numbers."""
return x * y
' 'what is 34234 * 213345' -m o4-mini

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/14/llm-adds-support-for-tools/

I built a tool to help create these which lets you drop in the slide images, OCR the initial alt text and then edit the alt text and annotations

I wrote it with GPT-4 a couple of years ago, today I gave it a design refresh with Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking) https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/annotated-presentation-creator/

If you're at #PyConUS I would LOVE to talk to you about my various projects - I'll be stood next to my poster in Hall A tomorrow from 10am to 1pm, please drop by and say hi

My poster is the one with the "teenage bedroom" aesthetic, I decided to fill all available space with photos of things I like https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/17/pycon-poster/

I built a new LLM plugin that can turn a PDF into an image-per-page for feeding into vision models, and in testing it found that GPT-4.1 mini hallucinates WILDLY if you feed it a blank white rectangle followed by a blank black rectangle https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/llm-pdf-to-images/

sometimes you have to choose a book by its cover. found this one while reshelving at the library this morning and greatly looking forward to reading it.

#bookstodon #amreading

Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

#bookstodon