Microsoft has laid off more than 15k people this year

I don't usually do this, anyway... stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you joy

“Let’s go, girls” and “hell yeah, brother” are both gender neutral statements

Scathing, but all too obviously accurate, take on the AWS outage by @quinnypig.com. You're engaging in professional malpractice if you don't share this with your stakeholders. Corey may be an engineer, but he communicates about the issues in an accessible manner. www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

This frog is your FRIEND He fights for FREEDOM

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

There is so much unknown about how ICE intends to use Paragon's terrifying no-click surveillance spyware. We appreciate members of the House Oversight Committee for sending this letter and trying to find out how this spyware will be used.

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Recovery is a constant journey, and I don't really even know what the final destination is... but at least I'm still putting one foot in front of the other, small progress day-by-day. Still, I don't know what it means, to be human... a real human being. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM8T...

Never been afraid of getting older I'm much more nervous about these public servants Kill the lights and shut the curtains You ain't a real lion if you love the circus www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4PS...

I wish ours was a different world.

don't give up yet don't give up yet don't give up yet don't give up now www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjNy...

oh no, i'm considering going back on the dating apps

What exactly does this change? This is gross surveillance state shit and we shouldn't be encouraging it. Get a hobby, freak.

“No,” said Frog.

I’ve always been anti-fascist. I’ll always be anti-fascist.

Well, that was easy.

I usually believe in "slow news" and tend to write about things the next day, but this Kimmel shit is such a mess, I put this together quickly. Key points: 1. Most people are pretending Kimmel said stuff he didn't. 2. SCOTUS just last year said that you can't do shit like this.

Do. Not. RSVP. To. A. Protest. It. Is. Not. Brunch.

A revival of HBO’s Silicon Valley would go hard right about now.

I had an older Italian communist friend stay with me last year. In our late night chats, we got to talking about historical precedent for the phase the US seemed to be entering. He made a very good case for the Years of Lead being a fitting comparator.

I'm in a really weird mood, and have been for a week or so now... anyway, here's some songs I'm using to process emotions or whatever, bipolar depression sucks www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC8M...

The hypocrisy of the old "gun community" is beyond comprehension. Transrights, which is just really another way of saying human rights & bodily autonomy, are not negotiable.

I don't even care if saying this gets me banned from this service... One day, people who care about this country will start shooting these nazis (he's wearing an actual white power mask there) and I will have to try REALLY hard to feel the least bit bad when I see footage of them dead in the street.

This is about the USMNT. But it could also apply to the Colorado Rapids.

There are many reasons why you never see Cyble in my newsletter... and this is one of them Now taking down security research on behalf of big corps

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Steam and Xbox accounts created over 18 years ago still require age verification. More proof that this is about data collection, not “protecting children”

Not like this... #Rapids96

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

To be what I would define a competent professional in my field, you need to have a pretty solid binder of fuck ups and the insight retained from root cause to mitigation. You may be the reason a colleague doesn't make the same mistake.

What they said. Like SoS here, I've got the battle scars troubleshooting the odd failures that no LLMs will ever solve. That's not slamming LLMs. But the reality is that they can only regurgitate what's in their training data, which does nothing for unprecedented failures.

The idea of getting textual advice that's complete bullshit premised on a misunderstanding written by something that sounds like a human and you can chat with forever and doesn't get smarter is not new to me. That's called a tech support forum. I grew up on those. Maybe that is my vaccine.

Suddenly right wing gun people are against ChatGPT when it presents data they don't like. Which is why I used it for my recent post. I'd love for these people to be intellectually consistent on...anything.

Saw a headline that our country's latest and greatest high speed rail train just completed its first run from Boston to "Union Station" in 7 hours and got really excited because that could mean so many places! Like LA! (or Denver!) But no, it was to the Union Station in DC (a 7-8 hour drive). 😭

“The updated subscription pricing reflects the significant added AI value” First of all, fuck off

Kerberos is an authentication protocol that we bolted authorization in to. OAUTH is an authorization protocol we built authentication in to. There's a lesson that can be learned from that but damned if I know what it is.

Very "1936 Olympics" vibes...

Can't help but get super hype when Yapi scores. Yes I know they CONCEDED just now but still

"the left is simply too mean these days!!" meanwhile 100 years ago a pottsville woman is howling for blood in rhyme

This is crazy.

idk i think he's innocent

What counts as crime is determined by those in power. Politicians always talk about "crime" in order to pave the way for more state violence. When we let them frame the discourse about crime and simply debate how much of it there is, we speed the arrival of autocracy. crimethinc.com/abovethelaw

Jen Easterly was a non-partisan military vet securing some of the nations' most critical infrastructure and enabling critical cybersecurity programs. It's not a shock she's facing this after the same disgusting treatment of Chris Krebs, but it's absurd and unacceptable.