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It was a pleasure to talk to @jacob_luetzow on the Elixir Mentor podcast this week. We discussed agentic engineering, my time at @gauntletai, the future of software and why no matter what happens I'm still bullish on Elixir.
You can watch/listen here: piped.video/watch?v=XXD1Q2OdâŠ
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âThe politburo determined the results of the free electionâ
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âThe Simpsonsâ was a beloved animated sitcom that ran for ten legendary seasons and concluded in 1999. The show was celebrated for what was widely perceived as a near perfect run that wrapped before it wore out its concept and overstayed its welcome.
Creator Matt Groening and showrunner James L. Brooks famously decided to bring the show to a conclusion after experiencing the negative audience reaction to the season 9 episode âThe Principal and the Pauper,â in which it was revealed that the schoolâs principal was actually an impostor who had stolen the real Seymour Skinnerâs identity. Brooks did not want to sully the showâs legacy by doing a bunch of weird episodes as the franchise slid into mediocrity and cultural irrelevance, so the writers and cast decided instead to go out on top and end things on a high note.
However, because of its centrality in 90s pop culture, a long-running Internet joke is to pretend âThe Simpsonsâ is still on the air, a premise that gets more absurd and deranged with each passing year. If this show were still producing new episodes, it would be in its 38th season now, and most of the voice cast would be in their 80s.
The joke is to imagine how distorted this charming show would have become if it had been stretched out to more than 800 episodes. Comedy posters on âweird Twitterâ used to try to top each other by making up terrible ideas for what modern episodes of the show might be like.
For example, a viral 2012 tweet imagined an episode where Lady Gaga helps Lisa Simpson with her self esteem. In 2019, popular shitposter Megan Amram originated the premise of Bart Simpson becoming a menâs rights activist to protest a gender-swapped reboot of âItchy and Scratchy.â
But perhaps the most elaborate Internet âSimpsonsâ joke was a 2017 YouTube mockumentary âThe Problem With Apu,â in which the comedian Hari Kondabolu ironically pretended to be offended by the charming and innocuous convenience store owner character Apu.
Everyone thought this was hilarious, especially since the show had been off the air for nearly two decades when the mockumentary was released. So, Twitter ran with the joke by pretending to âcancelâ Apu, and the viral gag memorably resulted in the characterâs voice actor, Hank Azaria, recognizing the meme by promising never to perform the character again, which everybody thought was really funny since Azaria had been retired for years.
Now, nearly a decade later, fans are pretending that the show â which has now been off the air longer than most people tweeting about it have been aliveâ has brought back the âcancelledâ character with a new racially-appropriate voice actor.
I actually donât think this is that funny, and I kind of think the gag of pretending âThe Simpsonsâ is still airing new episodes has overstayed its welcome, a mistake the actual show âThe Simpsonsâ would never have made.
If you havenât seen this 1990s classic, which â and I cannot emphasize this enough â ended after 10 seasons in 1999, you can watch all the episodes on Disney+ (except the one with Michael Jackson that got pulled from streaming).
Apu has returned to The Simpsons.
The character got a speaking appearance tonight for the first time in almost a decade, with Sunil Malhotra taking over the role.
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Of course maths is inherently elegant. If the elegance we see was only because humans are naturally biased towards elegant solutions, we'd end up stuck using weird, inelegant numbers like (picking totally at random here) 3.14159, or 2.71828. Obviously that doesn't happen.
People are surprised that AI is finding weird unelegant maths results like this. I think there is a plausible explanation.
Maths (and adjacent disciplines like physics and comp sci) had elegant results so far because humans are biased towards elegant solutions. I think this bias is due to how human minds work. We have a pretty small context window, and we are only able to find solutions that are relatively elegant.
This gave us the impression that maths and the universe are elegant. Maybe they are not, and we are now finding out because we have intelligences that can work with much more complex solutions.
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Conversely, most Europeans massively underestimate the extent to which Americans are richer than us.
Go spend some time in suburbia and witness normal American middle-class existence. Youâll feel like you escaped the Eastern Bloc
I was 38 when I first installed a dishwasher in my kitchen.
Most Americans massively underestimate the extent to which Europeans are simply much poorer.
We're ageing, racking up welfare costs, but without the productivity to pay for it, thus borrowing more, on adverse terms.
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Oh this story is delicious. Some choice parts for you:
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isnât free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
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The sanctity of contracts in England played a huge role in its pre-eminence and helped underpin a high-trust society. Eroding that principle will lead people to retreat to dealing with only those they know and trust, where agreements can be enforced through informal sanctions.
So basically, you can accept any rent a landlord asks for and then retrospectively claim you were desperate, and a tribunal will change your rent because some properties that aren't the same size or even in the same building are being advertised at a lower price.
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No dystopian sci-fi movie ever came close to predicting the sci-fi dystopia that we ended up with
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Yes. CA high-speed rail has spent ~$15.7B as of July 2026 on incomplete Central Valley guideway with no high-speed track or service yet. SpaceX disclosed investing over $15B in Starship (per 2026 IPO filings), and it has now reached orbit while deploying Starlink satellites.
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Itâs as if Macron doesnât want to win the next election.
Itâs as if he has a big fancy job waiting for him with more pay, more perks and less stress - which of course he does.
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When people talk about âlow trust societiesâ this is the kind of thing they mean. Itâs not just about safety. Itâs about things working as advertised, businesses doing what they say theyâll do â for example, you can hop in a rickshaw and be taken where you expect to go, youâll pay the agreed price and thereâll be no trouble, and you never have any reason to think twice.
If you grew up in a rich, safe, homogenous Western country then the above may be all youâve ever known, but most of the world is not like this at all.
The thirdworldification of Britain continues.
Yet another London failure.
I am a member of a group who advises people about what to do and where to go in London.
A young American woman in the group had an appalling experience at the weekend. She went to the theatre to see a musical.
Her friends wanted to go out afterwards but she preferred to go back to the hotel.
She could not get a black cab and did not want to risk a minicab. So she took a rickshaw. You know the type: lit up like Blackpool illuminations and blaring out music.
She thought they were licensed. They are not: the mayor has been talking about that for years but it wonât be in place until 2027.
Anyway, just her and one ânot Englishâ guy cycling.
As they came closer to the hotel she said they ended up in a really quiet alley. He stopped and suggested taking her photo using her phone. She refused. She did not want to hand over her phone and did not feel safe. They had quite an argument about it. She said she would just pay and walk the rest of the way.
Then two other men appeared. Now she really was scared and offered the ÂŁ30 agreed fare cash. The driver (and the two men) insisted that she pay by credit card.
They started to say that she had to pay double if she paid in cash.
At that point, a couple turned the corner and instantly the two men vanished, the driver took the ÂŁ30 and she was left alone.
If that couple had not turned up I donât know what would have happened.
She had a photo from inside the rickshaw and is submitting it to the police today but it is not easy to identify the driver.
This is not the first time I have heard of such a scam. One tourist was told the fare came to ÂŁ200 because it was âa tourâ and not a ride to the restaurant. Despite it being no such thing.
London scammers in plain sight.
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One of my favourite pieces of pedantic trivia is that this trope is historically inaccurate. Oil was way too expensive to waste by throwing it over someone! To defend your castle you threw boiling water.
History appears to be repeating itself.
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Someone who looks at this and thinks
âBurn itâ
Doesnât belong in Western civilisation.
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Your "civilization" is the one that enables your present lifestyle as a raving, ungrateful fantasist for whom the destruction of property is the equivalent of a child throwing his toys out of a pram because he knows mother will pick them up for him
We want to destroy what our enemies call "civilization". Your "civilization" is based on alienation and exploitation. You're probably not even a part of the bourgeois civilization. You only passively consume it.
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Traveling in the EU makes me remember the great freedoms the UK has reclaimed with Brexit.
Like that annoying EU cookie pop-up requirement. The UK is now free to abolish it and reclaim billions of unnecessary mouse clicks every year.
Of course, we havenât actually removed it. But I sleep soundly in the knowledge that we could do so if we liked.
Thatâs real freedom.
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The best thing about the flying Roadster isnât that itâs cool, impressive, or a reason to be excited for the future. Itâs that it gave all the usual suspects yet another opportunity to out themselves as pathetic, whiney, hateful losers who contribute nothing and can only feel good about themselves by tearing down other peopleâs accomplishments.
Itâs useful to know who you can safely ignore.
Unveiling the Roadster with out-of-this-world technology reiterated that Musk has given up designing cars for regular people to drive. on.wsj.com/3UvugrS
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Reminder: just yesterday we learned that:
A) a former ISIS guard for a beheading squad came to yookay illegally on a boat, obviously because of the ECHR/HRA he can't be jailed or deported, living freely;
B) SAS guys sent on missions to deal with ISIS beheaders were then arrested for MURDER for dealing with them; they were lied to by the military police; they have been told they can never be clear of the charges (because the ECHR/HRA means any time some lawyer like Jolyon or Hermer wants to team up with nutters on a ECHR case, the government will be forced to investigate again and remember Hermer's friend *invented* war crimes to bring cases against British soldiers, but obviously wasn't jailed, triples all round in the Inner Temple).
So we're importing the jihadis at scale while prosecuting for murder SAS we rely on to defend us from the jihadis - and if you don't like this you're fascist and it's a reason to ban X in yookay.
No you will not see Kemi-kasi campaign on these issues because the Tories agreed with Labour for 25 years that this combination is 'defending civilisation'. The Tories imported many of the jihadis now in the news, and the Tories approved all the worst officials and lawyers in SW1 bringing the lawfare cases, including against those who were given medals by the Queen for stopping IRA terrorist attacks - they now have to beg for cash for lawyers in their 70s/80s.
And because Reform is a bin fire which can't maintain focus on anything for 2 minutes -- like Kemi-kasi -- you probably won't see anything sustained from them either.
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