I just rewatched Prince playing the 2007 Super Bowl halftime show. It still gives me chills. youtu.be/-WYYlRArn3g?...

As I age I’m finding the “buy it for life” ethos increasingly appealing. Maybe I have a bit more cash I’m willing to spend. Maybe I’m less attracted to novel new things. I’m not sure the cause. But I find myself often wondering, “can I replace this POS with something industrial and long lasting”

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Can confirm. 2 degrees in agriculture and a card carrying member of Block & Bridle, the fraternal order of animal science.

The dog on the left has never confused a 15/16 wrench with a 1 5/16 wrench. The dog on the right sees labor as the opponent.

Corporate Values: “We value your authentic self!” Me, old and salty af: “This is a trap, right?”

Meanwhile, Kid Rock in 2001:

In the 1980s In my 1500 person small town there was this one guy. I was in high school and we thought he was weird. He’s black and flamboyant and maybe gay? Certainly atypical. But he was utterly without guile. And sort of the town mascot; quick to yell “hey y’all” …

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

OMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used.

Underhyped feature: this helps the LLM better work with Jupyter notebooks

"we beat them with sticks, arrested their families, and brought the hammer down on their neighborhoods. what more could these people want from us?" - GOP Strategist, probably.

Control name: ETL Interface Data Validation and Null Handling – GL Feed (Key Financial Data) Control objective: Ensure that financial-reporting-relevant data loaded from source systems into the financial reporting environment is complete, accurate, and valid Control: YOLO it with ChatGPT

I think we stole some horses and were going to be hanged. Either that or we were royalty. But pretty sure it was the prior.

LLMs... they're just like us.. well me... ok me after a few drinks

I woke up this morning feeling dysregulated as hell. And I had 53 years of preparation. I feel for the kids.

He … sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

It seems obvious to anyone who thought about it that when the OBBB included $100B for ICE that this was intended to be Trump’s personal militia wrapped in law enforcement legitimacy.

This is corruption on a breathtaking level. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal nicknamed the "spy sheikh", pumped $187mn into Trump family businesses. A WSJ team has the whole story, reported here for the first time. Remember: Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

“Train Dreams” was fantastic. I went in cynical. It was a staggering work of art with amazing cinematography.

I have enjoyed Peter Attia’s writing on health for years. Kinda bummed out about this, tbh. So many others I felt like, “yeah no kidding”

Between political violence, executive lawlessness, AI progress, and my rotator cuff, it seems like things are moving insanely fast and it hurts. I’d be like, “welp I’m old” but I don’t think that’s the sole factor.

My general take on the Anthropic article is “skill issue”. I have used coding agents to delegate to and also to learn from. Really different modes of interaction.

Hitchhikers guide to the USA material:

We have a blue heron named Hank that lives behind our house. I walk Sparky down to the dock and Hank takes flight because Sparky weirds him out. I yell “dinosaur!” at Hank, and Hank yells “I’ve never had a mortgage or worked a day of my life for someone else!” Hank is viscous

Anyone in the atmosphere ducking around with openclaw and moltbook? More pointedly, has anyone in @atprotocol.dev built a skill for using PDSes and whatnot? Would be cool for each molt to have and manage its own PDS…

Remember that time OneDrive literally moved all my files to a different directory on my Mac without a warning pop up? Yeah I do… It’s fun to imagine…

my local Irish punk rock club out here doing good for the community www.axios.com/local/richmo...

Design rant: when cars move from analog shift levers to digital, they maintained the order of reverse, neutral, drive. But Park is no longer on top so you enter this trifecta in neutral effectively. as a result you push the lever forward to go backwards and pull the lever backwards to go forward.

Contrary to 2Pac’s prolific and captivating assertions, I remain unconvinced that California knows how to party.

I didn’t know Palantir hired anyone with a self reflective instinct. Interesting. Their HR screening hyperparameters must need tuning.

Really good point by Davis. LLMs can increase quality. Of course as a CTO I’m like <whynotboth.gif> 🤣

I’m seeking photos and videos of drones used by ICE, like these. Please send any you have my way - trying to better understand the patterns.

Yup. This right here.

goddam. brutal. also hilarious.

my 83 yo mom has set up a chair so her Weiner Dog mutt mix can absolutely give em hell at the birds in the feeder. See that chicken to the left? I put easter eggs in that bad bitch when I was 7.

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

welcome to the fold, kids.

sales folks: Not only is it OK to say, "I don't know" when faced with a technical question; if you don't say that and try to just talk around it or not answer the question you burn trust and frustrate the potential client. I just watched a sales call go bad bc a rep refused to say, "I don't know"

Same.

Hell yeah, Chicago!

Gov. Walz: "What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the street, or the side of a nurse for a VA hospital who died bearing witness to such government?"

We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them. This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

We need this so bad.

Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

There ya go. That’s the message.