AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

every time an amazon linux update shows me this I get a little heartburn

I was told the people of Italy were going to be paying these tariffs.

Watching the Star Trek TOS episode "Patterns of Force" and there's a bit where Kirk is shaking a sleeping old man. "Professor! You've got to speak!" he says, trying to get him to take a stand against literal Nazis. A little too on the nose for the current day.

The short version: We must unite with people with whom we do not agree 100% on anything but preserving democracy. The only thing that will overcome the authoritarian regime is people - many people - people of good will. They are all our allies. Act like it.

So apparently CM Strauss is asking for feedback about neighborhood center expansions in the comprehensive plan. This kind of thing typically puts a finger on the NIMBY side of the scale, but he's doing it, so let's make sure this is circulated to pro-housing people in D6.

I'm sure google interprets "Ending their browsing session" as "Got what they were looking for from the AI summary". For me, whenever I accidentally use google search on my phone (frequent), seeing the AI summary is a quick and easy reminder that I should have used @kagi.com

The bosses all understood this is what voting for Trump was voting for. If youre a worker and you thought it was for cheaper groceries or lower rent or access to burrito taxis or whatever you got conned

The Wrath of Khan is great but I do wonder why Chekov didn't think to mention "oh I know a guy on Ceti Alpha V" when they went to survey the Ceti Alpha system

Me who liked plain, boiled Brussels sprouts as a kid in the 80s: "whither the bitter fruit of my childhood longing?"

TIL "kan ye" is mandarin for "look at me", but like with an especially arrogant, slangy way of saying "me"

@capitolpolitics.news took over some other account with over 30k followers. When I asked this in response to their sus "sorry bluesky doesn't let us limit our posts reach", they blocked me so other people they tricked into following them wouldn't see it.

Perhaps the greatest casualty of the AI bubble so far is the death of "grok". Perfectly cromulent word for decades, now means "was willfully naive enough to believe Elon Musk".

Saw this on LinkedIn, and learned that Amazon measures "developer experience" as "number of developers we can fire or avoid hiring".

Replace Find with Find and Replace tickled that I got to write a commit with that message for rowzero.io

Turns out C-3PO is just an LLM with the system prompt "talk like C-3PO from Star Wars"

I have gazed too long into the abyss (Excel) gregat.es/excel-numeri...

The Republic as we knew it is over. We are living through a culmination of a) an 80-year movement to undo the New Deal's reconstruction of the United States as a modern state, b) a 60-year movement to reverse the Second Reconstruction, and c) a 50-year movement to undo post-Watergate reforms [1]

New, from me: The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...

DOGE is about more than destroying state capacity, setting up a panopticon, and granting no-bid contracts to corrupt billionaires. It's also about probing the limits of "how many alert banners can we add to government websites?"

less timidating sith lords: Darth Candescent Darth Ferior Darth Telligent Darth Nocent Darth Tern

Row Zero finally announced our $10M funding round! It's been a real whirlwind since we officially launched. I think we've already seen that people and businesses really respond to the product, and I'm very excited about where we're going.

Expecting the Schumer strategy of letting Trump wreck the country and hoping Republicans do something about it eventually to pay off right about now!

for me personally, the best feature of ripgrep is that it's much easier to type rg than greg greg dammit! greg $%#! grep

When you're looking for a reference implementation for a spreadsheet feature and • Excel doesn't even have it; • Google sheets does, • but you immediately find a variety of very perplexing bugs!

PMTUD: an AWS debugging story gregat.es/pmtud/

I see this sentiment a lot. Heck, I even agree with the sentiment if you s/Excel/spreadsheets. But I happen to be in a position to know that many companies are, in fact, already replacing Excel!

As an adolescent, I had a bit of a misanthropic phase. I thought most people were stupid and nobody understood me. Eventually, I grew out of it. But what if I hadn't? What if instead I had gone on to become a billionaire and buy the presidency?

"Cybertruck. GRLBOS. Buyer's Remorse." has Hemingway beat by two

Who knew that the world's first actual supervillain monologue would be "I planned to seed the world with my male progeny but one of them transitioned to a woman so now the world will pay!" Truly broken person.

I wonder if one reason ultra-rich guys can't see the limitations of LLMs is because they're already used to only hearing from people who will agree with whatever they say and make shit up to please them.

I started using WhatsApp because my daughter's school has a parents group that's on there. It is quite literally the single worst messaging app I have ever experienced.

eventually voting against Tanya Woo will become an annual Seattle tradition, like SeaFair

#databs Anyone going to be at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit this year? I'll be there showing off Row Zero.

Wrote to @pattymurray.bsky.social tonight. As the Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, she's in a unique position to apply what little leverage we have in negotiations for a continuing budget resolution. I hope she'll use it to end the lawlessness in the Capitol.

#databs Anyone going to be at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit this year? I'll be there showing off Row Zero.

Had some trouble with measurement overhead in criterion benchmarks for some fast #RustLang fns, so I made a little crate to measure that overhead using different patterns for separating setup from the fn you want to measure.

I find that disabling video/audio auto-play, and never ever clicking on video content I didn't deliberately seek out, has been as crucial for using the modern Internet as ad-block.

Posted a version of my pivot tables explainer to the Row Zero blog. I've gotten some good feedback on the earlier version of this post here on bluesky, so thought I'd share the new version. #databs

What's wild is when (if) constitutional rule of law is regained, federal IT folks are going to need to include "Republicans win elections" in their threat model for securing data and computing systems.

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

Can LLMs know things?

I didn't intend to use this account to talk about national politics. But if anyone isn't aware, last night Trump declared that the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution — the first thing you learn about U.S. gov in school — is over. The worst crisis for the U.S. since the Civil War.

Trump is unconstitutionally freezing federal funds that Congress sent our constituents and dismantling the democratic system. This isn't business as usual—Congress needs to stop it. I will not support any Trump nominee who will do his illegal bidding. I urge my colleagues to join.

Strombonly, n.: a stromboli that is also the only thing one eats during the course of an entire day

Does anyone know of an example of someone writing honestly about using AI tools in their software development workflow who isn't also trying to sell you one of those tools? This is not a rhetorical question; I would actually like to read such a thing.

Well, that and they don't know where they can park.

I sometimes think the biggest problem with people is this: Understanding something is gratifying, but usually very hard. But deceiving oneself into believing one understands is easy, and also gratifying.

"Chinese people are not boiling water" uh, do you know any Chinese people?