The trio over at Yellow Cherry Jam are making some really awesome no AI background focus music... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_17...

It’s that time of year

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

Police just detained two protesters. One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

Several schools see a majority of students walking and rolling. It's clear what those schools have in common: -Nearby relatively dense housing (9+ DU/acre) -Adjacent protected bike infrastructure -Very little parking/auto circulation

Thanks in large part to Safe Routes to School (a program created in Marin before it was rolled out nationwide), Marin County sees 3x the rate of kids walking or rolling to school. Over the past 15 years we've gone from 1 in 4 kids to 1 in 3 kids. This compares to 1 in 9(!) nationally.

Honestly, who wouldn't want this? Link includes pic of great child-sized park benches installed in the 20th. Kids also want to sit and visit

As a person who cares about reading and human thinking, I’d like to share the simmering rage I feel knowing that opening a 4+ page essay in Adobe Acrobat automatically prompts this message: “This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant."

wizard frog is insane

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

@jackbern.bsky.social regarding your attempt to get rid of your mice in the most efficient way possible… TaskMouster. That is all.

“Pain only hurts”

This is the kind of activity Meta spy glasses were made for. The potential negatives FAR outweigh any positives, as I’m sure they’re well aware. There were probably many discussions about it. However, it could make them a lot of money. Also, they don’t give a fuck. So there’s that, too.

Fascism is fine, but jokes are cancelled. Ask the FCC, which now stands for Fucking Christian Christofascists, BTW.

Yes, everything’s terrible, but still be kind

CABLE NEWS ROTS YOUR BRAIN. Seriously. It does. Stop watching as a form of self-care.

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Get fucked, Google AI. Tone police my entire ass.

I know it’s the most cliched thing in the world to point at something and say it’s dystopian but for fucks sake we are all living in a Paul Verhoeven film

Tour dates for the Shout/GKids Hong Kong Cinema Classics series of Golden Princess restorations. gkids.com/golden-princ...

“What’s your design goal?” “To utilize an OLAP datastore with the maximum capacity for being typo’ed, coupled with the largest potential hilarious or obscene consequences.” “Ahhh. DuckDB it is then!”

a thing I learned to today: Mexico had personnel on site to assist in the Texas flood aftermath before FEMA did

One Weird Trick cut in-town new-house prices in these three growing cities by $200,000. What was it? Zoning, of course. Read more in @ggwash.org:

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Yes, yes, and no. Thanks for asking. Let’s rebuild the party that has consistently failed at everything for the last 12+ years.

It's happening. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Incredibly chaotic scene here in downtown Los Angeles where LAPD have just charged protesters with horses while others fire munitions.

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

My Data Council talk on Instant SQL is up on YouTube! Instant SQL is MotherDuck's new realtime ad hoc querying and data debugging mode. I go into details, but the talk itself is really about designing tools that both require mastery AND enable joyful flow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSeB...

Of course anybody who has done anything ever at any level of competency learns quickly that work is the entire point. The experience is key. Failure is learning. Effort is execution. AI shortcuts all of that. It's for people who care nothing for journey and everything for destination. It's empty.

The only thing we’re putting on his gravestone is a fastpass scanner so people can pay extra to skip the 4 hour line waiting to piss on his grave All funds raised will go to trans folk aid organizations

Earlier this month my role was eliminated. I’ve been having a hard time getting interviews in this market. So I’m rebuilding my consulting business from nothing. It would help to circulate my free newsletter with AI-curious business leaders. groktop.us

You ever look at your kids and think to yourself, "I'm real fucking sorry this is the world you're inheriting"?

Merrick Garland is proof that accountability can die of natural causes.

My startup, @feldera.bsky.social, is looking for a remote #rust, Kubernetes, cloud engineer! Our founders are in the US but we have employees in Europe and Asia as well. See jobs.ashbyhq.com/feldera/9754... for details. You can apply there; feel free to post or DM questions. #rustlang

This is still a thing. I'm hiring 2 engineers. DM me or Email your CV at manish.gill [at] clickhouse [dot] com.

Optimal use of AI to code involves treating the AI like a reasonably smart senior engineer to pair with, who is also stoned out of their mind…

*hellpit noises* Those who scan their eyes at a World orb will receive 16 WLD

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

Feel like there's a market opportunity in opening a luddite appliance store: non-smart refridgerators, watches that tell you the time, a themostat that you set by htting buttons, a regular lock for your door, a toaster that just pops the toast after a minute. Maybe you expand into cars with buttons.

I've now written enough Rust to know that (a) Rust is a great language, (b) Async in rust is a flaming dumpster and (c) that fire has spread so far that it makes the whole language incredibly frustrating to use on a day-to-day basis...

True facts are true

Your occasional reminder, if you needed one, that RFK Jr can fuck himself gently with a cetacean-laden chainsaw

the atlantic ocean has the opportunity to do the funniest fucking thing

Are there Senior/Staff+ Engineers on my timeline who want to work on the intersection of #Databases, #Caches, #Infra, Kubernetes/Operators and #Scaling #Algorithms (think time series, predictive scaling etc)? If so, please drop me a DM. Our small but mighty team at ClickHouse is growing!