⭕️ NEW: An Al Jazeera investigation finds that Israel has used U.S.-supplied thermal & thermobaric weapons in Gaza that burn at up to 3,500°C, leaving no remains of victims. Gaza’s Civil Defence documented 2,842 Palestinians who effectively “evaporated” since Oct 2023, identified through forensic...

‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE

This is the same tech that all the software engineering influencers on X are telling you to use to open PRs to your codebase without reviewing the diffs.

Fascinating overview of the symbolism and meaning from Bad Bunny’s halftime show

We had really been hoping the plant people were gonna dance but alas, they were there in lieu of trucks

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Relatedly, if you "like" web performance and want to give a talk at @nywebperf.com, or just want to learn more, feel free to DM me. Or, just head right to bit.ly/speak-at-nyw... ⚡️

Meta now forcing all employees to use AI tools and tying it to employee performance, according to @theinformation.com. HR said "this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter" That's a fun way to rebrand workplace surveillance.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job

Had a shower thought yesterday that c-suite ai true believers / magical thinkers have convinced themselves that AI will somehow allow them to pick all three from the adage “pick two: good, fast, or cheap“

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

It is a lot more complicated to add keyboard shortcuts to your web app than you might initially think, featuring a big honkin' table. #a11ty ericwbailey.website/published/ho...

Since Oct 7th 2023 only one Congressperson has been censured in Congress for their rhetoric and it was literally the only Palestinian in either chamber. Meanwhile dozens of Republicans trot out each day and say Hitler-level things about Muslims like Ilhan Omar and absolutely nothing is done.

square up on the dude, call him a fuckin' asshole on a live mic, back to work. absolute maximum respect

Highly recommend Laura’s book as a primer on accessibility. it’s free so you have no excuse *not* to read it

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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

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In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

The more I have AI agents write all my code, the more I feel that us devs will be alright (and possibly more in-demand for important stuff) Hard for me to imagine anyone building *reliable* software without an understanding of how to do this (either via experience or study)

I haven’t been posting a ton about tech & coding lately because I’ve been working on spending more time offline, practicing painting. Here are a few recent gouache studies I’m feeling proud of!

🆕 npx unbarrelify At last, an easy way get rid of barrel files! Rewrites consumers to import directly from source, then deletes the barrels. Safe and fully automated, read all about it at github.com/webpro/unbar...

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

Can you imagine being the software engineers, engineering managers, product managers, designers, QA testers, and devops that built and run this? Cashing out your palantir equity for "deportation targets"? Accomplices and ghouls, all of them

thinking a lot lately about the very broken state of technical interviewing and it strikes me that reading code is a lot more valuable than writing code especially in the age of AI, so if you have any influence please try to push the scale that direction

at this juncture if you still actively use Twitter I assume you either a) are a pedophile or b) are cool with pedophilia

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

living through 2025 and having to wake up, go to work, handle responsibilities etc feels like this

I met @borderless.bsky.social at a Web Perf conference in 2019, and I was so impressed with the work he and @distributeaid.org do, so I started donating. When I feel helpless to affect positive change, Taylor jumps into action and *does the work*. Your donations will be well spent

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New year, new web performance mystery (and it's a huge one): calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/the-cur...

Loose Ends in 60 Seconds 🩷

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Really interesting results here, makes sense that full css-in-js would slow down SSR

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I just want to once again congratulate every business and media outlet who tripped over their own dicks to take right-wing outrage in uncritical good faith and ruin peoples’ careers over extremely tame internet comments about Charlie Kirk 48 hours before immediately forgetting he ever existed.

TGIF: I'm having some guests join me on Wednesday Dec 3rd to talk about Core Web Vitals. I revealed the 1st set of presenters today, and will reveal the others on Cyber Monday. Nonetheless, join us, @stoyan.me @cdaveross.bsky.social + a few more... 📆 Wed Dec 3rd ⏰ 11a EST 5p CET 🔗 bit.ly/cwv-summit

The job market is pretty bad right now but I think we'll see a bounce back within the next few years. With seniors retiring and no trained juniors / mids available to be promoted, there will be a massive skill gap that needs to be filled.

THIS IS A GOOD HEADLINE.

Yep. I don’t promote mine and I even don’t like to bring it up when men explain databases to me (yes that still happens) High Performance MySQL 4th edition learning.oreilly.com/library/view...

next: Oh Shit, Git! This was a collab with the amazing Katie Sylor-Miller (@ksylor.bsky.social), the author of ohshitgit.com It's a reference for what to do to git out of a git mess wizardzines.com/zines/oh-shi... (5/16)