I missed the call last week, but since he scheduled another town hall for tonight I'm guessing it got spicy? Same link to join in: schneider.house.gov/live

This post is doing the opposite of breaking containment so tl;dr: This project is more popular than ever, but with heavy LLM use people aren't reading its docs, which had been the way people learned about their paid services, which were funding the project.

LLMs are developing new ways to eliminate jobs github.com/tailwindlabs...

Truly do not get how people who seem to understand that these guys are fascists also seem to be stuck on the "distraction" explanation for every geopolitical nightmare the fascists are unleashing. They wanna be evil on like 100 different fronts simultaneously. That's what they do.

I guess it could be considered funny that Trump created a new isolationist branch of right-wing politics based on the unpopularity of US involvement in foreign wars, and then a year into his term decided to Do An Imperialism in the most blatant, undisguised fashion ever seen

Meeting expectations

As the MTV situation is not a shutdown, Jello's work is not done www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqw...

Just published this year's version of my "Ruby Changes" project: a full annotated changelog for Ruby 4.0: rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/... Goals: Full, comprehensive, concise, well-structured. Examples, explanations of reasons, links to docs, all of it.

Ranking bass: 5. Smallmouth 4. Striped 3. Guadalupe 2. Largemouth 1. Spotted

Werner Herzog holiday anecdote

Greetings from Shermerville

That reminds me that it’s almost time for another cherished Christmas tradition youtu.be/LC1qW45geDk?...

if i were a ceo I would simply say “for those of you who want the power boost of ai, we are building that into the browser - and for those of you who are best left alone from ai, we will give you a single, easy action to turn it all off. we are approaching ai like we approach ads and ad blockers…”

we have a really good dev rel engineer here throwing himself to (i would say) a small number of very loud, hungry wolves because the new ceo did (i would also say) a very weird announcement that sounded like it was written in 2024 by an ai startup

PROFESSIONAL NEWS: This Friday (Dec. 19) will be the final episode of Indiecast for the foreseeable future. Uproxx has discontinued production of the podcast I’ve hosted w/ Ian Cohen for just over five years as part of an overall downsizing of my role with the company. (1/2)

Re: the guy saying his MAGAness is preventing his getting a dev job. I lookup up his github. He joined this year, and only has one public repo and it's a single python script.

Today's my birthday BTW www.hemmings.com/auction/1989...

bailterspace.bandcamp.com/album/concret RIP Brent McLachlan

deepest condolences to family, friends and bandmates of the stupendous Brent McLachlan (bailterspace, The Gordons) pic - 9/1/22, Mercury Lounge

When we were buying our house some of the emails from the lawyer's office were in papyrus. It took some of the edge off what was at times a stressful situation.

"This is the ultimate example of the industry solving a problem for the people in the industry, and assuming everyone else will understand it and feel the same way about it. Because why wouldn't you? How can you not get it? How can you not think the same way?" www.leahreich.com/maybe-the-a-...

If i could go back in time and see one musical performance, i might pick Just Ducky ruining a prom in Hot Springs MT over Hendrix at Cafe Wha

What's up, meta devs

This machine funds fascists

Which of these is getting a special 40th anniversary reissue next year?

I thought there would be more than 2 podcasts called "Breaking Character"

(James Murphy voice) EZRA! JACK! KEATS!

Happy Thanksgiving from the black squirrel in my back yard #shermerville #fauna

Or you can make soap like my grandma used to, if you're feeling ambitious

"Tori Atmos"

I once set my Mac's hostname to "12XU" and it definitely broke some things

Henry Hyde of Hyde Amendment fame had an older brother also named Henry Hyde

I'm watching this one. Laura Fine is (was?) the establishment pick but hasn't been nearly as visible as DB or KA.

It bugs me they put the eye hole over the "Y" when there's an "O" right there. Too obvious? "We can't put a knot where 2 boards meet!"

Forget perfect albums. I'm posting deeply flawed and/or misguided albums from the year I turned 16:

Aurora borealis from Crestwood Park #northbrook @shermerville.bsky.social

Northbrook Plastic Card Company was at 1441 Shermer, which would put it just south of the train station, where the Citadel condos are today bsky.app/profile/oldi...

It's now official that the next version of Ruby is going to be 4.0 github.com/ruby/ruby/co... We're working to get a beta of Programming Ruby 4.0 available about the time of the release with up-to-the minute changes for the new version.

Yes, it's a substack link but this is an important recounting danielbiss.substack.com/p/daniel-bis...

Hate to sound like a broken record, but I'm not sure people outside Chicago are really getting their minds around what's happening here. Every decent human needs to watch this. substack.com/@danielbiss/...

Grammy nominations for Best Rock Album: • Turnstile - What If Hardcore But Boring • Eric Clapton - The Vaccine Stole M'Trousers, Innit? • Bon Iver - SM∞K∑D S@LM◊N 4 SₐL∑∑∑∑∑ • Haim - Millennial Music Your Dad Will Like • Bono's audiobook • Black Pumas - Album That Definitely Exists

Stone. Cold. Knotts.

RIP, Joe Byrd, mastermind behind two mind-bending classics: The United States Of America (1968) + Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies' The American Metaphysical Circus (1969). Get 'em both in all formats. He was true one-off, loved by Broadcast, Portishead, & many others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYAk...

Rock and/or roll news:

If you want to hear a band covering songs by 3 different artists whose names start with "B" and end with "les", the #aadamjacobsaudioarchive has something for you archive.org/details/ajc0...

Just burned a copy of LOVELESS for my daughter to play in the car

ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

Melville Dewey has the same initials as Milkshake Duck

You really need to start here and scroll back. I won't link to it directly.

This is a fantastic joke/reference, but I encourage everyone to click through to discover what precisely the joke is about.