AI is useful, but 40% more output per engineer at a mature company is using it as a firehose of tech debt. Giving engineers small doses of meth would have a similar short-term effect and long-term outcome.

Searches for "James Talarico" hit an all-time high in Texas this morning per Google Trends. The Streisand Effect is alive and well.

Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon discover Black Hat & @defcon.bsky.social (2018): www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year theonion.com/cia-realizes...

Surprised they didn't pick a font by Eric Gill, the designer most similar to Trump.

Go home YouTube Recap, you're drunk.

I mean, I wasn't going to say "monstrous"... 😂 I get a kick out of some of the roasts you get when you start a comment with "TODO: Refactor " with AI auto-complete on.

Oof... Signalgate was so much worse than I thought. We spend $15B/year on the NSA, but why trust them over this random app that pops up on Google?

@mercoglianos.bsky.social any guesses what the $450M for "application of autonomy and artificial intelligence to naval shipbuilding" buys?

In 1795, 4 companies bribed all but 2 Georgia state legislators to sell most of GA's public land (present-day MS and AL) for 1¢/acre. GA citizens tried to undo the sale, but SCOTUS ruled that the Constitution prohibited voiding the contracts, even when secured through bribery. History often rhymes

FYI: Uranium hexafluoride (the gas used in the enrichment centrifuges) venting is more of a chemical hazard than a radiological one. It reacts with water and water vapor to form corrosive hydrofluoric acid and HF gas, but it's not *that* radioactive. tl;dr: No fallout; no hot fission byproducts.

Don't start watching @deviantollam.bsky.social's new talk at 2:00 am if you've got work in the morning. Fascinating talk.

Title: "Responses of turkey vultures to [drones] vary by platform." This paper explores using drones to keep turkey vultures, which pose a bird strike risk to airliners, away from airports. Useful science sometimes requires unusual research.

Polish Presidential candidate orders another candidate to "kneel before Zod" during debate. (I know nothing about this guy other than him looking like he escaped the Phantom Zone.)

Google Search is lost...

Good news, everyone! The 'gold card' design was revealed!

Universities are using AI to read names at commencement. Here's how the one UCSD is using pronounces "Sean": www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfnQ... (Students can give a phonetic spelling if it doesn't get it right, but I still find it hilarious that this AI gets wrong what even 1983's DECtalk got right.)

ChatGPT's new image generation feature apparently has rather inconsistent restrictions.

(TS//SI//NOFORN) 🤦

"I will do all we can to enforce 100% OPSEC", said SecDef Pete Hegseth while planning a war over Signal in a group chat that accidentally included Chief Editor of The Atlantic.

Google has disabled many ad blockers in Chrome for very dubious reasons. Mac users can buy a few more months to give time to switch to another browser by running: defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist ExtensionManifestV2Availability -int 2 (Reminder: Don't run commands without verifying.)

If you've ever wondered why HTTP, SMTP, Telnet, etc use Windows-style CR LF line endings despite being developed on UNIX (which normally uses LF), this explains it: www.rfc-editor.org/old/EOLstory...

What a dark day in American history. Slava Ukraini.

For anyone else wondering whether Monty Python and the Holy Grail was referencing the rabbit incident: No, it was prophetic. It hit theaters in April 1975, and the Jimmy Carter rabbit incident was 4 years later in April 1979.

The 6th circle of hell is reserved for engineers who disable the scrubber in video players.

Google searches for "jury nullification" have spiked to a possible all-time peak. Wild.