I have been screaming some variant of “writing code is the least important part of your job” to engineers for YEARS and the last 2 years of LLM ramp up have only increased this mania

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Can this be a solution?

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

a priest so progressive he's got he/hymn in bio

it's still fucking nice out

One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.

There's also the fact that Rowling has been fairly explicit that the money she earns through Harry Potter she's putting into anti-trans lobbying efforts. There's a difference, IMHO, between an artist with a shitty private life, and an artist using their money to fund regressive social change.

release more epstein files to distract from Iran to distract from the epstein files to distract from Venezuela to distract from the epstein files to distract from Minneapolis with aggressive to distract from the epstein files to distract from…

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

*enters the faraday cage room, unwraps and turns on a fresh laptop, opens tor to duckduckgo* when did cereal lose its balls, which cereals used to have balls, when i ate cereal as a kid was i eating balls, where did the balls go

”you’re back early” [grabs gun] “cereal got its balls back”

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

this was me until 5 minutes ago WTF are we doing

art of the deal, baby

Matt Bruenig built a claude skill that tempts people to waive attorney client privilege in anything they write to it

for folks who are active on x, threads, etc and feel bad about it bc of its stewards but have a hard time letting go: sometimes your behaviors overpower your values online because tech companies hire psychologists & sociologists to come up with ways to put you in that position

Girl, where’d you get those shoes?

This guy gets it.

certainly makes me feel less than enthused about the US hockey team but I continue to hold that Kash treating the FBI director job as an extended make-a-wish trip is the absolute least damaging thing he could do with the position given this administration's goals

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Finally a W to lord over my Cal friends

I got a great question on my Ramadan thread: do Muslims also need to avoid consumption by proxy in videogames? Does consuming in-game food or drink break the fast? Basically: does your character have to go fast? The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.

"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"

Realized it’s been too long since I posted my annual @steveklabnik.com

Lucha Libre!

That only took eleven years. #opentowork

Something to keep in mind the next time the city tries to repurpose parking and drivers complain that every last car is necessary at all times. The storm was two weeks ago.

nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/w... - thanks @cassidoo.co for sending me this one from @nolanlawson.com that perfectly sums up my feeling right now. Tempted to go write this out on some ancient looking piece of fabric in cursive and hang it on the wall!

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Closing jumbotron Super Bowl Halftime Show message from Bad Bunny: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”

bad bunny delivered. but can he teach either football team how to throw for a touchdown

Peasant and Nestrobber, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568

Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny

Run The Damn Ball

how dare you use karaoke for evil

Levels of ketamine never before ingested

Green Day, who played two protest songs, one of which refers to jingoistic conservatism as American Idiocy avoided making a political statement by understanding Page Six can’t read the lyrics.

he's the forest gump of hitlers

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

I, too, hope folks will show up and caucus for anyone but Amy fucking Klobuchar.

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If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

When I said "every accusation is a confession" I _meant_ "many these accusations are probably confessions" but it turns out that I was wrong and in fact it was _every_ accusation.

“What do you miss about living in Texas?” me:

Defund ICE. Disable the grift. Disempower the Epstein class. Defy authoritarianism. Discredit Trumpism. Deconstruct MAGA. Defeat the GOP. Thank you for your attention to these matters.

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

me at 17: a secret conspiracy of billionaires shapes global events me at 35: class interest creates emergent outcomes and aligned behavior, but there’s no smoky room where plutocrats plot to shape global events me at 41: a secret conspiracy of billionaire perverts shapes global events