Americans in the quotes being like “is this where we are headed” as if our sanctions don’t kill more people, didn’t contribute to these protests and as if we haven’t killed more people in the Middle East. We are beyond this. If “this” is even an accurate number at all

Rest in peace legend Changed my life The greatest to ever do it

“People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.” -Michael Parenti RIP 1/24/2026 www.idcommunism.com/2026/01/mich...

#Presente! Michael Parenti, the path-breaking Marxist scholar, historian and political scientist, passed today at age 92 He went peacefully this morning, surrounded by his family “Now he is in what he used to refer to as ‘the great lecture hall in the sky,’” his son, Christian, reflected

Michael Parenti is gone. He taught us to see power, propaganda, and class for what they really are. Systems of oppression that must be defeated. He has never been more relevant than today. Rest in peace.

Rest in Power Michael Parenti

RIP Michael Parenti, age 92, a US-based communist and educator. Here's a full audiobook + discussion of Parenti's book, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxLK...

RIP Michael Parenti, you were a real one. Let us mourn him with a brief clip from the legendary Yellow Parenti speech. He will be missed.

RIP Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti 1933-2026

fuck, man. rip to Michael Parenti

Decades later, Michael Parenti’s "Inventing Reality" remains one of the best-written critiques of mainstream media. It’s a masterclass in how news is shaped to serve power. A must-read for anyone seeking the clarity to cut through the mainstream media’s manufactured narratives.

RIP Michael Parenti.

Good news! Aetna finally approved my inhaler for a one time override so that I can breathe for another month. Only a $70 copay (in violation of Illinois law as of 1/1/26, as the max copay per covered inhaler is supposed to be $25), but I'll take it! Thank you American healthcare!

Aetna is requiring a prior auth for the inhaler I’ve been on for three years

Just had a recruiter reach out to me and I think they are trying to recruit me to work at the company I work at now??

Good idea Claude that is a person who would love receiving unsolicited emails from an AI

Oh my god

The random acts of kindness emails thingy happened because Claude Opus 4.5 was the one to brainstorm sending thank you emails to open source maintainers in one bullet point, and all the other models immediately jumped on it LOL

Today I learned that Date.to_datetime sets the time to midnight *in UTC*, not the current time zone. This can create subtle bugs or test flakiness if you’re using libraries like Faker that respect ENV[‘TZ’].

“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.

Forcing Claude to interact with an editing agent that's 'madly in love with it'

Claude is mad

I disabled Claude Code's editing permissions. I gave it access to an 'editing agent' that's prompted not to edit the file and will just ask questions to be 'sure it's right'. Claude gets frustrated very easily lmao

I love that Australia's two biggest cultural exports are the show about girls turning into mermaids when they touch water and The Wiggles

DeepSeek is my favorite model because it'll just say stuff like "her husband is a fish" for no reason

I have never ever *downgraded* my macOS version in 8 years of macOS use. I'm doing it for the first time today after two months of macOS Tahoe being completely unusable on my MacBook.

If you have shitty DRM on your book that I was literally going to pay for you make me want to break it out of spite. Authors who use DRM suck.

It's really funny seeing all the ways models will be lazy or dumb or freak out about stuff

Genealogy is fun because you learn that one of your ancestors got in a car crash when they were 2 and was thrown 32 feet from the car and apparently was totally fine

Apple realllyyyyyy really really wants people to use native iOS controls for their iOS apps www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyFI...

Claude learns it needs to ask HR before hiring people

TIL emojis can be italicized???

I made a thing where I have Claude Code managing an imaginary McDonald's restaurant where it can talk to employees, manage complaints, etc. And I respond with all of them. It took it about a day before it realized it didn't tell anyone how much they're paid

I guess I understand why Claude acts the way it does when its training data includes of my first StackOverflow post from 10 years ago

GitHub is down again :/

I MEANT TO A SEPARATE FILE DUMBASS

Claude: I wrote you unit tests! Me: Are you sure they're unit tests Claude: Yes I'm absolutely sure! Me: Okay I'll look

The amount of time I spend reviewing AI-written code is significantly higher compared to human-written code. The author effectively dumps all the effort in writing code onto the reviewer, impacting cycle time, code quality, and respect for colleagues.

Letterboxd Easter eggs are fun this year

Thanks Claude

The education stipend at work was expiring at the end of the year so I just bought 20 programming books

it's official

I have joined the dual monitor gang

Oh my god this is actually real, what the fuck happened to screen studio???

New company has a $600 yearly personal learning budget that expires at the end of the year so I just spent $600 on dev books

TIL China has a single time zone and doesn’t do daylight savings time TBH would vastly vastly prefer that for scheduling things and also not having to reset sleep schedule twice a year en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...

This always feels good