do you ever read news headlines and ask yourself, "am I having a stroke? would a stroke feel any different than this?" Yeah, me neither.

“The way people treat those who are most vulnerable says the most about who they really are.”

I thought this was a joke. It’s real. And I’m over here like 😱

After much research, the US State Department has determined this insidious anti US propaganda push is centered around “paying attention to US actions”

WTF, Education? Are you even trying? I know pedagogy got hands, but you gotta reproduce at least once. Good Lord.

In case you thought that everything that could possibly happen today has happened, nope, there's one more thing: Eugene Mirman crashed his car into a toll plaza in New Hampshire and was pulled out of the wreck by the state's governor, Kelly Ayotte.

My county 911 operator helped talk a neighbor through labor as they waited for local EMTs to arrive. I mention this because it’s easy to forget real folk are out here just helping folks out and taking care of babies.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

Clearly a dad.

Loblolly pines only do one thing. And it’s disgusting. And it’s everywhere

I’ve eaten sushi at an aquarium venue. My only objection was, they didn’t match the species of sushi to the tank it was in front of. I want to look at a salmon in the eye while I eat their cousin raw.

If we all do our part we can bring “chucklefucks” into the popular vernacular. I’m doing my part. Are you?

Yeah I was thinking about this very thing as I priced solar panels this week. The irony of all this bullshit is that MAGA, while explicitly pro fossil fuel, has done more than any admin to boost renewable energy. Through incompetence.

To paraphrase General James Mattis: “Be polite, be professional, buy SaaS software, but have a plan to reproduce it all in 6 months with agentic coding tools”

trying to wrap my head around the Bluesky reactionary negative response to all AI. So I looked to Jon Haidt's framework of moral intuitions and I think it makes some sense as I ponder. For many left-leaning critics, AI is not triggering just one moral taste. It is triggering a stack:

“… bless their hearts”

as a learning exercise I've been working with Claude to code up a tool that produces a personalized daily brief based on email, teams messages, etc. I've learned a lot, including that it takes some work to filter pitches out of email

I’m gonna follow this thing just to purge illiberal fundamentalism with extreme views from my timeline 😂

Databento bringing that big Monday energy with an outage for historical data. Second week in a row. I'm not so much mad as disappointed.

I made a plugin for helping claude / AI agents do any kind of numerical analysis: a workflow to improve input provenance, calculation auditability and observability, and templates for final narrative reports. github.com/bestdan/anal... @paulgp.com @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com

I am building a farm shop that would require a transformer and install fee for electricity. I’m considering solar with generator backup because solar hardware costs = transformer install costs.

I had a very incomplete mental model of drone use in Ukraine. I just updated my priors. 😳

Good. Lyme disease was the low point of last summer for me.

Meritocracy, my ass.

Hey Europe, slow down and let us have a hit off the Claude please.

Y’all know that a few dollars USD goes much further in Africa than most other places. Can you kick in a few bucks for these folks trying to start up their R conference? I am. #rstats

I just used the Microsoft text to speech API for a project and it is the worst. It told me “starting at nine colon zero zero you have a meeting” and the voice is worse than the text to speech on my Commodore Amiga in 1988.

So the GOP has the house, senate, and oval office and we haven't paid the TSA employees a penny since the start of the Iran war. Gift link.

Toad boy says what?

Gotdang. Dr Andrews is coming in hot with the trolling and the double entendres. Gobbless.

Please stop posting these ICE agents without their parents' consent.

My wife says I drag home dead things more than a dog or cat. But these aren’t dead. So much life left…

not wrong.

I'm exhausted by sales folk using acronyms that are meaningless to me as a customer. I am now interrupting them and saying, "tell me what that is" every time they use an acronym. I don't want to learn a new language to do business with them. I want them to help me solve problems.

yeah, this should be policy of all airlines.

as a CTO, the one thing I say more than I expected is, "who owns this now?" This is the flip side of rapid prototyping, even before LLMs. But now with LLMs it's a much bigger issue.

Trump doesn’t take a salary because that is chump change compared to manufacturing a crisis which tanks the stock market, buying low and then selling high once he backs down then the stock market recovers. It’s an infinite money glitch.

Look who just invented the Praetorian Guard over here.

You could train an LLM on this and name it RTFMbot.

Oh thank god.

If you’re complaining about not seeing enough news on here, have you even pinned a news feed?

Defuq? Put down the AI and take a breath. You’re European, maybe smoke a cigarette. Think this through.

If by “teleported” he means “woke up in” then I think that’s an experience that many of us at different points in our lives under varying circumstances and with differing levels of chemicals in our bloodstream may have experienced at least once or twice. I hear.

VCU is the GWAR of NCAA basketball. Sorry Europeans, I know this doesn’t make sense. Just trust me, it’s profound and humorous.

The free crippled version was a horrible go-to-market idea for msft. It wasn’t connected to email or teams so it was just a shitty chatbot that was shittier than free tier of ChatGPT. They should have turned on “real” copilot for a year for free.

I was just on an Anthropic webinar about using Claude Cowork with Excel and PowerPoint. There were 10,000 people on the call. I shit you not. 😳

Good morning. Rise and grind.

My favorite thing to say when I get aggressively passed in traffic while already going over the speed limit is, “looks like somebody is late for the wreck”

Um. So what, exactly, constitutes “the economy,” pray tell.

Sears is still a going concern? Weird.