Started reading Careless People and the witty deadpan writing got me hooked. Obviously the substance is dramatic, but the presentation has its claws right into me.

That’s the genius of the polarization narrative: It provides the language for a lament that satisfies the longing for unity – while constantly fueling it in turn! – by offering a consensual interpretation. It is a form of elite consensus re-established through the back door.

CFP for /dev/mtl 2025 is open 👉 www.papercall.io/dev-mtl-2025 If you are in Montreal, it's a great opportunity to share your knowledge with local communities! Talks are ~40min, English or French Feel free to submit multiple talks 😉 @nickyt.online @jorgevergara.co @scastiel.dev @ruyadorno.com

not to be histrionic but I kind of feel like the confluence of Trumpism, algorithmic social media, and LLMs have placed language and the fundamental proposition that words have meaning under unprecedented strain and it’s freaking me out more than a bit

whenever i hear mark zuckerberg says the research meta is funding says social media isn’t bad for people, i think of tobacco execs saying smoking isn’t bad for your health

ECMAScript Excitement 🎉 Today, TC39 advanced these proposals: 2️⃣ export defer 1️⃣ Compare Strings by Codepoint

i love when the tech ceos confirm what i’ve been saying for years yes, the US is worried about its geopolitical position, but the tech industry has seized on that fear and amplified it to protect its own power by trying to stifle regulations and antitrust cases

"Why is CSS-in-JS terrible for performance?" is a great interview question, actually.

> in an era marked by those in positions of power telling shameless, blatantly self-promotional lies, that sort of selfless truth telling is more admirable and important than ever. Thank you @agreenberg.bsky.social for an amazing book. Now onto 'Tracers in the Dark'

I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus." www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...

🚨🇳🇿 Join me in Auckland on April 10 where I’ll be talking about countering the Trump threat and escaping the dominance Silicon Valley has over our lives. Now more than ever, we need digital sovereignty — and we’ll need to work together to build it. Register here: digitalsovereignty.lilregie.com

My heart is warm

Mike Myers, Canadian legend, SNL, March 1st, 2025. #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong

New Android update lets us install a native Linux terminal.

Highly recommend 'Tech won't save us' for its political & tech commentary. It serves as a great reality check.

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

Damn this HorizontalScrollView and I have a lot in common

Belle suprise au micro de @niedesrochers.bsky.social mardi à l'émission radio Le 15-18 : @parismarx.com pour parler (en français) des géants de la tech : « Voir les milliardaires de Silicon Valley prendre le contrôle du gouvernement des États-Unis, je n’avais pas vu ça arriver » 🔉🎧⤵️

new blog post: atproto by example part 1 in which I cover how to use the full potential of lexicon for building atproto apps

This is simply awesome. I'm betting big on atProto, this is why.

Incredible presentation by @gbj.dev I strongly believe in wasm-based interactivity.

Some AI engineers, in their delusional arrogance, think of themselves as the epitome of human genius on the brink of reaching the singularity, elevating themselves to godhood and 'saving humanity' from whatever their hubris dreads. But, garbage in, garbage out, and their snake might devour itself.

Started to feed long form articles into bsky.app/profile/elev... and it's so good. Articles become compartmentalized podcasts with excellent audio.

Incredible tech.

Having the biggest army in the world shift right creates an immense power imbalance where democracies will be overwhelmed by dictators. It's not looking good for the world order.

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

Hey @frontpage.fyi ! Could you have links open new tabs - much like hacker news? I usually close my news tab by habit, and forget that frontpage was the referrer.

📊Complete federal update coming on Sunday. Something is happening. See all the latest 🇨🇦 polls here → 338canada.com/polls.htm

Aaaand it's live! Loooots of stuff went into that release. Next up: ViteJS in production mode.

For motivation purposes, just tell the Dems in Congress to imagine that Elon Musk is Bernie Sanders on the verge of winning a presidential primary

Next week is our rollout of my @vite.dev -powered framework (only in dev mode for now). It's been a year of hard work, from myself and the team. We're so excited to share the results here. Preliminary results showed >50% speed up in cold start, and upwards of 90% in hot start. The future is vite

> someone says something funny on the group call > unmute > laugh > mute

I've been a pretty pessimist/nihilist towards AI and all its derivative. But tonight I pulled and ran locally Deepseek R1. I'm still pessimistic, and I do believe AI is overall a bad outcome for civilization, but it did work on my machine and it was pretty cool.

> Le jeu que joue l’extrême droite américaine, c’est précisément de poser un maximum de gestes illégaux dans la plus grande impunité, de garder les institutions dans les cordes avant de leur faire un chokeslam sous les applaudissements et les huées. 👏👏

All those VC-funded, AI-powered IDE make me quite happy I have a stable helix setup. How do people cope with all that churn in their editor environment? I've been on hx for well over a year and still learning tricks. How do you all stay effective?

AtProto in full display of force

Incredible journalism by Andy.

I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK.

🎄 New article! 🎁 "Catching up with async Rust" is sponsor-exclusive for six months as an article, and available now as a video: fasterthanli.me/articles/cat...

Le PQ est un parti réactionnaire du 20e siècle. On mérite mieux.

"i give up" I say as I continue to fiddle with things until it works

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Got this comment on my IG and thought it was worth sharing. The mask is off with Pierre. He's bragging he will vote against a GST Holiday for working class Canadians. This is the same guy who voted for massive corporate handouts - $60 billion and counting.

My Spotify audio minutes ended 30 minutes before the end of the book 😭 Need to wait 10 days before the reset

EDITO | Notre média cesse immédiatement ses activités sur X (anciennement Twitter), rejoignant un mouvement que plusieurs nomment « X-ode ». Nos explications dans ce thread! #bluesky #x #media #xode Pour l'édito complet, rendez-vous sur Pivot 👇 pivot.quebec/2024/11...#bluesky#x#media#xode

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I'm halfway through the book and it's FILLED with frightening details. Highly recommend anyone remotely interested in the social media landscape to read it.

Some lists of bad actors to block (click subscribe, then select block). Didn't create these, but I block 'em all! Up to you how you want to handle! MAGA Right Wing Propaganda Far right NFT/AI/Crypto More NFT/AI/Crypto British Bigots Nazis Content Scrapers

Big corporations own a lot of Canadian Media Here's a Starter Pack of independent Canadian media outlets go.bsky.app/7ce9PDR Some of my favourites in here include @thenarwhal.ca @nationalobserver.bsky.social @canadaland.com @canadahealthwatch.bsky.social , @thehilltimes.bsky.social

I'm so done with JS. Gonna be coding a @tauri.app + Leptos app next. Need something to refresh my desire to code.