Staring at a method name in a review: addAAndAAAARecords There's a devil on my shoulder that want's it to be "aadd" at the start, just to mess with people.

Are you taking notes!

Amazing. Amazon shuts down leaderboard designed to incentivize employees to use AI because employees used AI to cheat in the contest www.404media.co/amazon-shuts...

I want to believe

oh, haha! This will entertain my dev group

Damning interview with a former top official at USAID. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...

The way to understand why the U.S. (and also G.B.) are basket cases about economics is Milton Friedman. Friedman was a fantastic salesman and the product that he sold was that totally unregulated markets would auto-magically improve themselves. One small problem: this is bollocks.

Respect.

I understand this is a rhetorical question, but it brings to mind a question my father likes to wheel out when the idiotically inexplicable occurs: "Were there people involved?"

We’re dinosaurs, man

Weaponization fund candidates!

“and the big red E lights up on the Rheungold scoreboard”

As one does

Be careful what you ask for. VAT sucks.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Save the Eagles. They are American!

We may be some time

My idea of vintage computing

Efficiency FTW!

I think it was $1.17, through the school district in 1967, so it shows up in my social security report earnings report.

u never see this on a tradlife mood board

I talked to 10 of the most successful men in American business and they all had this one trick in common: lying their asses off.

Why does he have to quit? Because he'll take orders from the Pope?

Attn @devincow.bsky.social Nice to see you out and about.

Ah, it’s Windows three boots update Monday

Who-ever went got their money’s worth

I am feeling 600% more American than 10 minutes ago!

Ready for an afternoon of Rehabilitation!

New guest post up on the ‘ol blog. Grateful for people who have the energy to write when I do not angrystaffofficer.com/2026/04/16/c...

Hey, I have a solution! Immigration. Maybe we should try it.

Thread

Not a Costco shopper:

The current moment in tech is loosely understood as software guys getting so evil they made hardware guys discover Marxism from first principles.

was an optimist

Current me thanks past me for putting this in with unions and a local shutoff valve

Folks, I give you the New York Times

Christ, what an asshole.

Did anybody else get annoyed with how bad the official video feed of the artemis launch was? camera changes for no reason, missing key moments to show nothing interesting?

Add to a long list of Reasons:

There’s your problem

Fantasy Lisbon, ND

not ideal. nfs D state blockage

I really don’t understand the grief Stancil gets from those who ought to be in the same coalition.

Ralphie’s dad has a relationship with Clinkers as I do with (a) Alligators; (b) Snow shovels; (c) Sprinklers; (d) Burritos

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

There is a set of polls that is about to be cancelled as an unnecessary waste of taxpayer money and do not increase lethality.

Goes nicely as a bookend to modern “prediction markets”

Christ, what an asshole

OK, but they should probably be emulated A-IIs on cheap tablets that are completely kiosk locked down.

Rule 34 still applies