hey i'm winston. i read a lot for fun and to help me better understand and interrogate our world. this web-blog is where i chronicle some of my learning. i work as a technical product manager.

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  • Notes From the Twin Cities

    I'm struggling to capture what it feels like in Minnesota, but here is a small attempt.

  • Poem: time to kill god again

    i used to believe it was required of me / to look every horror in its face

  • I Am Once Again Sitting by a River

    a poem

  • Feral Tech

    I think the shitty pedagogy and false assumptions that underly the LLM boosters' beliefs about how human knowledge operates will have similar risk profiles to unleashing a preschool class without supervision in Times Square. Lots of people will be harmed, in ways that we can't even imagine, because those little fuckers are creative, fast, and have no idea what dangers they should be watching out for.

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