a good thing about sports gambling and various illegal "prediction" apps (compared to crypto) is, we won't have to see a TED talk on "bringing apps to the non-gambling population" or hear from a VC about how the future of oppressed-group wealth is sports betting or the numbers racket

perhaps the LLM generated spam bots are better because with the human zombie meatswarm I have to wonder whether a stroke is communicable via electronic text

yep. spin those agents. Adversarial review ftw

Google a decade ago was internally crowing about how they had solved the "scaling problem" and that the block was a lack of SWEs. Then they hired way too many empire-building managers and chased dead products under a monopolist umbrella, so last year "SWE was dead." Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Remember, this weekend is - No Kings - Palm Sunday - geriatric president's end of the month heavy-med days Nonzero chance we see the caudillo declare himself God-King

github.com/sarahmaeve/p... wherein I attempt to download and refresh Python interview skills like the freakin' Matrix (generated info and programming practice frameworks) h/t @dollspace.gay , @thebadcode.com , and others for ideas

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

amazing.

@ryleecoyote.bsky.social In the grim darkness of our near future, Warhammer minis are not only a retirement project but retirement savings

correct, or in fancy terms: "LLMs will allow more non-traditional entrants to the tech field, without the need for previous educational structures like coding bootcamps."

Work in progress: GW Avatar of Khaine (Iyanden) the plastic 2022 model #warhammer40k #minipainting

I expect this conflict to end with the regime awarding the caudillo the Medal of Honor by October possibly also awards of achievement, like the Eagle, Globe and Anchor, Ranger tab, jump wings, or an "honorary" CIB "as C-in-C, you're the one who deserves my awards" while he sits at his desk

if you're wondering about the timing of the US side of this war remember that the President is trying to declare himself the Prince of Peace during Easter

Story: In 2016 I worked for a company that used tmux windows to monitor a bunch of batch script deployments. I had to scale the frontend services and added four nodes to the existing nine. This, unfortunately, turned the screen from The Brady Bunch to The Matrix.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdPI... only a dream in 2007 shipped a few months ago

small depth charges dropped from disposable drones to kill UDT teams operating at Draeger depth (20') who are trying to disable larger naval mines that anything? or just call it a Cormorant drone that dives below the water to .5 ATM and detonates

Gotta run opus for agent orchestration. Sonnet is great at raw execution but putting it in charge is like coding with a hangover

Tech layoffs are due to the Fed ending ZIRP in Nov 2021, overhiring during a generationally hot Internet economy during early COVID, and tax changes in Jan 2022. Now we're in stagflation (at least) and these companies must fire people in order to pay for LLM capex and stock buybacks. #tech

OK we're up! My proof of concept for generated language learning materials: www.rusty-french.com Currently two B1-level sections available, but as this is generated based on my educational guesses and needs, more to come!

Claude reviewing a translation it produced. I don't think this depth was possible 6-12 months ago.

Ooh I had fun with this experiment! Inspired by @dollspace.gay and @renice.bsky.social as well as The Diamond Age (35 years ago!) Here's the start of a French language textbook based on prompts for specific skills and dialogs. github.com/sarahmaeve/f... Some have generated audio! (see thread)

Inspired by @dollspace.gay , @thebadcode.com , as well as fiction like Count Zero and The Diamond Age, I wondered if I could instruct Claude Opus to instruct me, by creating defined learning materials and challenges for Rust. Here's the start of it. github.com/sarahmaeve/r...

The Skaven heroes from the Skaventide box (7/24). I painted the mounted hero on the right, early airbrush (largely on the mount and base) and TMM. Grey Seer on the left finished yesterday (airbrush ink priming some time ago then brushwork and NMM). Progress! #minipainting #warhammer #ageofsigmar

My career in tech started forever ago, coding Internet text-based games, and I spent years doing service jobs until the early Web economy caught up. I'm _absolutely_ hoping that LLMs allow anyone with non-traditional backgrounds or other impediments to find satisfying jobs in tech.

@thebadcode.com wow who coulda called it (technical and operations methods move very quickly between conflict areas in this century)

This is a SEER. He thinks you should mine some more WARPSTONE. With your HANDS. Got inspired and finished him! This model's experiments: yellow zenithal, purple anti-zenithal. A more limited palette. #warhammer #ageofsigmar #minipainting #skaven

This is a SKAVEN. He does not care about your PODCAST. #warhammer #ageofsigmar #minipainting (GW Skaven Grey Seer, work in progress: not sure how much warpstone and green glowy effects I want to do)

Springtime approaches in San Francisco

OK, I've switched the character sprites and animation over to this female character I found on itch. Happiness!

1) LLM use in programming has a hedonic element. Folks in different positions in tech enjoy the same product in different ways and for different reasons. Here are wild-ass scenarios: ...

International Women's Day: 8M women march in Latin America against femicide, shouting the straightforward demand: STOP KILLING US (El País: ES) elpais.com/america/2026...

A legion of transgender witches hoarded gasoline in Iowa

we're going to find out that Epstein was murdered not by some ninja cabal but because some prison guards decided to add to their torture and murder and cover-it-up routine, aren't we

2026 tech SAAS pitches "It just works, and it works today."

bsky discussions on Iran have the tenor of: "Have me killed and Trantor will fall not within three centuries but within fifty years and you, yourself, within a single year." (Asimov, Foundation)

Claude LLM coding using Rust and bevy: door logic and a lantern

Impossible Mission Two: isometric dungeon in Rust. Claude code generation, kenney.nl assets displayed.

I did my very small part to get us to a future of universal information networking and communication which allows people to learn most things for almost free, fulfilling some of my dreams as a 16-year-old kid reading Neuromancer Revanchist voters made the rest of the dystopia reality

Collapsing the AI bubble and whatever remains of a gambling / crypto bubble are as valid ways to coerce US behavior as raising the prices of oil and gas with media praising the use of LLM-generated military analysis and strike selection, everything AWS / Palantir / etc is a valid military target

A skill or specialty that vanished faster than the printed books which told you how to optimize a Google search

I will not reread The Guns of August I will not reread The Guns of August I will not reread The Guns of August

@ryleecoyote.bsky.social and I watching the new "Young Sherlock" that's great, why aren't they kissing yet

we live in times where some of the population is writing incantations to get daemons to do their work for them, and another part is impeaching the angels to end the world while they worship a wannabe corpse emperor so let's wizard / mythos this shit

wonder if that Kuwaiti pilot is thinking 'just two more for ace'

what atrocity do they have planned for after market close

this era is 10x more annoying than the early cloud or early linux days because everyone with a middle school diploma can be an armchair expert in anything. this isn't new, it's just accelerated. trick is, as always, to ignore the bullshitters and keep learning & building new stuff

I am old, so using LLMs and linters and autocomplete and compiler-time checks for code generation and verification doesn't seem awful, it's like sending Bishop to crawl through the access pipe to pilot the dropship like hell yeah man, Bishop should go!

OK, dallying with Claude and Rust and I believe I have a fair mockup of a multiplayer version of Asteroids here

Apropos of nothing here are some of my snapshots of Najaf. December 2003

I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner recently and I strongly resonated with the sentiment that being an intelligent person in America today is like being awake during a surgery.