DTNS for Thursday March 19, 2026 with Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao Google Updates Stitch and Introduces “Vibe Design” Listen here: shows.acast.com/dtns/episode...

I'm still here. And I did this. But yes, constant state of existential dread. Still love y'all.

Apparently, I'm not good at using Bluesky and didn't realize the card it attached wasn't my talk from @kotlinconf.com. Here is the actual link. youtu.be/sDA28kH6AIc?...

If you missed @kotlinconf.com 2025, you can catch talks on kotlinconf.com, including mine, where I deep-dive into a couple of relatively recent features to learn about Kotlin specifically and find general takeaways for software development and practice.

半分はできた！

I will forever hold in my heart the awkward pause reaction that @tommerritt.com and I had to one of the stories in today's Briefing and that we just let that break our flow for a minute while we processed. And I further love that we left it in. Real AF. dailytechnewsshow.com/2025/04/25/i...

Was curious to check out the IG "Edits" app but they make you agree to let Meta use your work for AI training before you can use it.. with no opt out option. Yeah Nah.

Is Microsoft Recall safe to use now? @queencodemonkey.dev Plus bookish alternatives to Amazon with @breagrant.bsky.social and @malloryomeara.bsky.social dailytechnewsshow.com/2025/04/11/i...

Letterkenny and the Laser Eyes. Can this please happen?

SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED.

A while back I mentioned I helped to build a government AI tool. DOGE "deleted" (fired) my whole org (@alt18f.bsky.social) and took the tool to become their "AI-first strategy." But what is the strategy? What are they actually planning to do? I’m trying to piece it together. Here’s what I think 🧵

日本語でマイクピックアップパターン説明ができまして嬉しかった。説明の日本語が完璧じゃなかったけどできた！状況による使ったほうがいいパータンもおすすめた。

Nobody likes waste. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that, in many ways, government is *designed* to be inefficient. It’s structured with redundancy and complexity both for audit and control purposes and because it tries to satisfy multiple competing societal goals. 1/2

See y'all in Copenhagen. 🇩🇰💜

Hey! Finish of your week with a lively, laugh-filled, and slightly loquacious DTNS Briefing. @tommerritt.com is indeed fun. He happened to find several stories that I was having a happy Friday with.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

There might be an assumption that DOGE is bringing in incredible coders to replace bureaucrats. But that is not the case. Some DOGE members applied to the US Digital Service before Trump took office. None of them got very far, because they lacked basic skills. From a founding member of USDS.

Ok also AOC and Elon Musk are not in a “tit-for-tat feud.” AOC is a duly elected member of Congress who operates under an oath to our constitution and Elon Musk is an unelected Nazi billionaire whose wealth makes him think he’s above the law and empowered to illegally torch our government.

It’s just fucking corruption. It’s just capture of spending to line his pockets. Crony spending lining the pockets of glorious ruler’s buddies is the hallmark of any strongman authoritarian government and ours is no exception.

Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

Want to do something for Ukraine? Screenshot a donation to Liberty Ukraine and I’ll match it.

I worked at 18F once. We would start projects with a discovery sprint where we would come in and talk to users in an agency and listen to what they actually needed and then build it. Totally antithetical to arrogance of DOGE. No wonder they’d destroy it, they want to make it impossible to rebuild

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)

RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore

I think about this headline all of the time.

Elon Musk’s first month of destroying America will cost us decades

DTNS Briefing for Thursday February 20, 2025 with Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao - Dr. Niki talks about quantum pigeon guidance, and the new Oppo Find N5 inspires us to talk about other cool phones from across the world. Listen here: shows.acast.com/dtns/episode...

The return of @queencodemonkey.dev to the show in time for the OnePlus Watch 3 launch and the OnePlus Open 2 News along with a deep dive into Android 16 Beta 2! #android LIVE today at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT: YouTube: https://buff.ly/3X5u5S4 Twitch: https://buff.ly/4h0KwGS

A top Social Security Administration official resigned after clashing with Musk staffers over access to sensitive personal records. They sought entry into an internal system containing Americans’ private data. Thank you, Michelle, for resisting—and for your 30 years of service.

DTNS Briefing for Friday February 14, 2025 with Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao - Arm plans to make its own chips this summer and Tom explains why that’s such a big change. Plus, TikTok is back in US app stores. Listen here: shows.acast.com/dtns/episode...

Whelp. I have to say I'm a bit disappointed, but I'm glad we have proper confirmation. There will be no OnePlus Open 2 foldable phone in 2025. I have some thoughts to share about that... somegadgetguy.com/b/4Gv #tech #technology #oneplus #android #gadgets #geek

Hey, it's me and @jasonhowell.bsky.social! After vacation, I'm back on DTNS Briefing today and tomorrow!

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

'No excuse': Mississippi is failing to prevent the most preventable cancer in Black women, report says

On Monday, USAID's IG warned that Trump's agency cuts have made it harder to root out fraud and abuse — and that nearly $500M in food was about to spoil due to Trump's foreign aid freeze. On Tuesday, Trump fired him. So much for transparency.

And now is the time when we see what companies REALLY gots women’s backs,,, the world is watching 👀

Simple as this. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/d...

If only we could get this on mobile game stores. Valve Bans Forced In-Game Ads From All Steam Titles kotaku.com/valve-steam-...

Ughhhhh another AI hallucination from Google. Homosexuality was definitely not legal in New York in the 1960s! State Penal Law 130.08 explicitly banned "deviate sexual intercourse" and was used almost exclusively to go after gays. Stop using Google for research.

I’d just like to shout out humans for at least seeing through NFTs as the most idiotic idea possible.

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

Woke up at 04:45 to watch NFC Championship from Tokyo. Rough end to a great season but good game to Philly. Bright side: damn is the Washington future bright.

✨ First video out now! Learn how to create delightful mesh gradients in #JetpackCompose Works on Android and #KotlinMultiplatform If you like the video, you can check out the code that made it, fully open source on GitHub (aka tell me how bad my code is, 😅). youtu.be/C7iq8m2dQOo

Costco shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal as other U.S. companies retreat from their diversity policies