webdevs will do anything to avoid writing a proper api

LLM spew out mid content. Literally mid: it's meant to be average. People doing exceptional or novel things will not be replaced

San Francisco car break-ins were *lowest" when the city had a DA that promoted anti-racism. 🙂🙃 He took a pair of binoculars, sat in his car where he knew car break-ins would happen, and then followed the car to see where it went to fence the stolen goods. Then he arrested the fence.

Looks like the AI and corporate surveillance problem is going to be solved pretty quick. Nothing like a little solar flare to wipe out all of humanity's digital tech in one go

The "S" in vibecoding stands for Security

Love when politicians actually serve their community

BREAKING: 8 more U.S. Attorneys in MN resign from Trump’s DOJ in protest as backlash grows. This isn’t normal; isn’t routine reshuffling. It’s a rebellion. Last month, 6 veteran prosecutors quit in protest. Normal staffing for the MN DOJ’s office is around 50 attorneys. They’re down to just 9.

New As the Structure Falls album is so prime. "Drawing me out of the sand / into the eyes of Osiris / don't bother lending a hand / I'd rather spiral down

Getting six hours of sleep for two weeks straight impairs your cognition as much as pulling several all-nighters. But you don't even realize it after the 3rd day... You feel rested. The 9-9-6 crowd is dumbing themselves down and they don't even realize it. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12683469/

"we used our words we used what words we had to weld, what words we had we wielded, kneeled, we knelt. & wept we wrung the wet the sweat..." – Franny Choi www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

They're on a diet mainly of saliva

Bandcamp and other platforms' blanket bans on AI lack the nuance needed. Artists can use AI creatively to explore novel forms. Spammers can use AI to create derivative slop. The distinction should be creative vs spam, not human vs AI pitchfork.com/thepitch/unp...

When Georgia instituted work requirements for Medicaid, they ended up spending $25 million on administrative costs, compared to just $7 million actually spent on covering people's healthcare.

the rizz of these is off the tracks

one flower fell but the whole garden will grow

YouTube is starting to mark AI videos as "synthetic or altered content" using the C2PA metadata standard. But they're doing it backwards. They should be marking *real* content as coming from a physical camera of real life. You can remove the AI metadata, but you can't fake the "reality" metadata.

Literally, Oakland Police Department spends $55 million just in overtime per year. That is more than what the school district needs to keep its teachers and schools open oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...

Wow the Oakland School District is kinda screwed. We're spending all our money on police instead of teachers gamma.app/docs/Whats-g...

just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas

Pro tip: when researching a new product to buy, don't just read the reviews of the product; go to the app store and read the reviews of their app. That's where you'll find the real dirt

can someone please invent vibe-QAing? because none of your shit works.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

This is the real promise of the Atmosphere: a seamlessly interconnected network of social apps working together. Look out for Streamplace's integrations with @smokesignal.events and @leaflet.pub, landing soon!

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

"It’s strange to realize that the work people can do aboveground is harass federal agents, but the work that people have to do in secret is… feed people."

TikTok is starting to implement fascism. Comments are suddenly "not working". My feed is a weird mix of videos in Spanish and ads... no sight of protests. Ellison is mucking with the algorithm but not doing it well

"Defund and prosecute." - Seth Moulton, US Representative, Combat Veteran.

Men don't go after children. These are not men; they are cowards and monsters

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

inescapable conclusion is we have no laws, just cops

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

I've found the same thing within domains I'm an expert in: the AI produces "meh" mid-ass content. However, sometimes that's all you need. And if you're not an expert in it, it looks good enough, and in many cases is better than not having it at all www.garbageday.email/p/generative...

Charging per token is going to incentivize AI companies to make longer responses, and make incomplete ones that keep you prompting to fix it

well well well if it isn't the consequences of their own actions

If you look at the updates to macOS in reverse order, it looks like Apple is getting better at design rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-but...

My favorite ambient and industrial artists on @bandcamp.com bandcamp.com/phreakhead/p...

When I say we need AI in healthcare, I mean to replace the ridiculous administration and billing costs that take up a third of the $6 trillion budget. open.substack.com/pub/americas...

Iran is protesting because inflation is out of control there: "food prices surged 72 percent and health and medical goods rose 50 percent year on year." Not looking good for the US since we're on the same trajectory www.noahpinion.blog/p/roundup-75...

soon it will be a bag with a single chip in it

Your voice enabled kids toy could be spying on you. Yet another fun thing to worry about in this IoT hellscape www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

Iran is hunting down Starlink users and confiscating users' terminals

AI is like a freight train barreling towards you. You're not going to be able to push back against it. The best thing you can do is try to build the train tracks in time to guide it where you want to go.

Advice for software engineers (aspiring, junior, and senior) on how to navigate the AI paradigm shift without feeling hopeless addyosmani.com/blog/next-tw...

There's one bugfix I really wanted to upgrade to Tahoe for (chrome restoring windows to the correct spaces), but now I'm scared

megaman game but you can combine powers to create new weapons. like wind+fire=firestorm. what others?

If you have an encounter with an ICE agent, your life is in danger because you don’t know what they will do. You can do everything right and they still may decide to take your life.

Evals are so important to anyone writing an AI agent or feature. You wouldn't write code without tests, so why would you write a prompt without an eval? www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

New source of income for a business: just sell off all your corporate documents, emails, etc as training data to the highest bidder

"Surprise is their best weapon, victory their best bargaining tool." – Larry Niven