"We do not and will not change at the speed of technology. You and I, human beings that we are, will change slowly. This is part of what makes us actual people, unlike the 'AI people' with whom we'll supposedly share our planet very soon" www.leahreich.com/guy-with-a-...

👀 replaceyourboss.ai

Me when I'm on the second draft of a book

"Vaccines do not cause autism" is actually the null hypothesis that we accept in light of the fact that we do not have evidence to support the hypothesis that vaccines cause autism. This is how science works—and why it's so enormously important that we invest in, among other things, K-12 education.

Unfortunately I can’t help but feel like this is all theatrical distraction. The Speaker can bring the release of the files to a vote at any time; the discharge petition is specifically because he refuses to do just that.

So the strategy is to trust that the Speaker—who is currently refusing to swear in an elected congresswoman, and who openly said he will not promise anything regarding the ACA—will bring to the floor a bill that will not pass and give democrats a favorable media advantage?

A fantastic read from start to finish. I have deep respect for anyone willing to put their values in front of their “career”, as I can empathize deeply with having to make choices with long-term effects in the name of community mutuality and respect for a future we can only gestate together.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

There was no evidence? There was nothing indicating that the responsibility for this shutdown was falling squarely on the political party in control of all three branches of government? Are we living in the same reality? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

It's been a wild year indeed. So much of what we were worried about this time last year has come to pass, with the trajectory of things looking so much like an increasingly obfuscated and painful process of... well... whatever it is our nation is going through right now. I have some thoughts.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

“Republican house leader refuses to hold session because he would have to swear in someone who said they support releasing the Epstein files.” There you go Dems: free PR strategy. You don’t have to fund the government to hold a session. You can literally just call a session.

How on earth do we get people to read more books.

Driving home from the hospital early this morning, and I tune into local talk radio. The guy is YELLING that Democrats shut down the government to save Schumer’s senate seat and that’s it. He is YELLING that Democrats only care about themselves and want working class families to suffer.

When the internet was young it seemed that many of us engaged with curiosity, and a minority engaged with contempt. Now it feels flipped. Or maybe I am reminiscing through rose-colored nostalgia. Or maybe there’s something to the Eternal September effect after all.

I'm increasingly convinced that the moral arc of "artificial intelligence" bends inevitably toward sex slavery

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible. Their very existence is toxic to the social fabric.” -- @hypervisible.blacksky.app absofuckinglutely

Cranks used to be easier to identify now they show up next to pictures of your niece. Facebook’s lowest common denominator design made it possible for the NYT and Gateway Pundit to achieve a kind of aesthetic credibility. AI is supercharging this.

Good thread from @signal.org CEO, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social underscoring our critical dependencies on a few key orgs, and an increasing challenge in organizational and national resilience. We have a lot of work to do. cc @gate15.bsky.social

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

Concerning, bc it indicates that the extent of the concentration of power in the hands of a few hyperscalers is way less widely understood than I’d assumed. Which bodes poorly for our ability to craft reality-based strategies capable of contesting this concentration & solving the real problem. 2/

We have battle-tested two versions of @teamlanes.com — one built around the message as a primary artifact, and the other built around threads as a primary artifact. I’ve watched and listened to people using the “messenger-like experience” as well as the “forum-like experience”. Here’s what I think:

Point 13 in "How Complex Systems Fail" is "human expertise in complex systems is constantly changing." AWS brain drain directly and predictably leads to more frequent and severe outages. how.complexsystems.fail

“Ultimately, work that’s too easy is no fun, and it’s not the basis of a rewarding career. All you’re doing is selling time, and as you get a little older you’ll come to realize that time is a non-renewable resource.” bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/when-i...

In higher dimensions, intuition is the first casualty.

Going to go out on a limb and assume that my testing system has a bug:

people are using ai to create mass hysteria nostalgia that will in turn be used to turn them into reactionaries. they’re very subtly associating change with bad and that is used to enforce fascism

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Every hundred years or so we deal with something like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Agreed. The work of journalism is reporting facts—& whether facts are uncomfortable or happen to benefit a particular agenda is not relevant to the *work* of journalism. But more often than not, factual reporting is replaced with subjective engagement bait to sell online ads. Now look where we are:

Many twenty-something people are in my store throughout the weekend sharing ideas for games and apps. They know my background in tech so they ask for my feedback. One common attribute of these ideas is a fundamental reliance on a nebulous notion of "AI"; "use AI to X" or "it's X but with AI".

It's not that I'm uninterested in getting back to full-time work in the technology sector, it's that I'm having a hard time finding the kind of systems & services that motivate me to commit to helping them flourish. The enshittification of all things is real, and it's disorienting.

Been a long time since I posted here! Ended up taking over for a struggling local game store that specialized in Magic: The Gathering, and have been working hard every day to keep this focal point of the neurodivergent community in my small town alive. I'm very slowly getting back to my code editor.

Some thoughts about Tasty (a WIP API testing tool) and how user ergonomics are front and center in CLI design (or at least they ought to be):

Gonna mute this thread. Not really looking to engage in discussion around this right now. This was an abysmal failure by the Democrats and I hope every one of them that voted for this and is running for reelection gets primaried and loses.

If you hold Charity’s perspectives on management up to the light, you can see the semblances of authenticity that heteronormative patriarchy tries to imitate in masculine rhetoric at the workplace. When empathetic people talk about messy feelings, I guarantee they do not mean “disrespectful”, but:

Somewhere between “optimal solution” and “soonest deliverable” there’s someone writing an API server in Rust.

I'll be speaking at the Cal Poly Pomona Tech Symposium on April 12th, with a talk titled "Memory Safety and the Future of Vulnerabilities." Very excited for this one! It's a conference organized by SWIFT, Cal Poly's student club for InfoSec and CompSci. techsymposium.calpolyswift.org

Declining investment on principle from a firm ready to give me an enormous amount of money to test out an idea (in exchange for a simple agreement for future equity) has been one of the most emotionally challenging and intrinsically rewarding endeavors I’ve had the opportunity to experience.

This is all part of a budget reconciliation process centered around ensuring everyone forgets the $1.8 trillion in permanent corporate tax cuts that were passed in 2017. They HAVE to cut government services and programs, because the only alternative is raising taxes. And taxes are for poor people.

St. Jude Children's Hospital is hiring a Senior Staff / Principal-level Rust engineer for genomic research. Job listing: talent.stjude.org/careers/jobs... The (free, online) book they wrote about genome research through the lens of software engineering: learngenomics.dev

The Rust team is hiring a Program Manager: hackmd.io/VGauVVEyTN2M...

Free speech doesn’t mean I get to say the r-word on Twitter, it means I get to say to the U.S. government I fucking hate you and everything you stand for and the government is only allowed to reply ok thank you for sharing your feelings.

Did he just say “it’s probably lonely over there on Rigor Island” lol