You know you should be working on Marketing, not features. You build new features anyway because (a) it's fun and (b) you know how. Whereas the business usually needs you to learn marketing and get another customer today.

With AI you can make products no one wants faster than ever!

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...

The known cases of police stalking are almost certainly a vast underreporting of the overall abuse, because they largely include only cases in which the behavior was so egregious that it led to police officers being fired, arrested, or both. www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix this town’s housing crisis. To this day, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. A $590,000 deposit for the printer was forfeited. And the more reporter Molly Parker asked questions, the weirder things got: propub.li/4nlU1VD

Some thoughts on eating meat, which isn’t really about eating meat. jacobian.org/2026/jun/16/...

I’m sad and shaken to hear of Josh’s death. I will always be appreciative of the big role he played in my career at OIB/Return Path and connecting me and many others to community in the Austin tech scene. My sincerest condolences go to Amy, their kids, and Josh’s current and past teams. 😢

it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.

“AI does not own outcomes. The engineer whose name is on the pull request owns the outcome, regardless of how much of the code an AI wrote. “Reducing the team does not reduce the number of things that can go wrong. It reduces the number of people available to own them.” codegood.co/writing/ai-shr…

Max (@max.io) walks us through using agentic retrieval to improve search results relevancy via SID. Next-level search quality! bonsai.io/blog/agent-s...

"We need truth more than ever", stress Margaret Sullivan (@[email protected]) in her blog: therefore she explains "how to find it amid political lies and AI slop". A very useful read for everyone! https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/we-need-truth-more-than-ever-how

The new bluesky account wide adult content label thing is horrendous, indiscriminately hiding all posts from a person just bc they've posted adult content - they need to reverse this so badly

“If we are going to do a third Reconstruction we need politicians who conceive of themselves as working on behalf of a constituency, rather than would-be-saviors…And, like the people of Minnesota, we need to do the work to be that constituency…” www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...

“study of around 8,000 respondents concludes that women’s lower uptake of generative AI tools has little to do w/ skills or access. Instead, it is driven largely by how women perceive the broader societal risks associated w/ the new technology.”🧪 @josiecox.bsky.social

since apparently JKR is spouting nonsense about "gametes" again, here is my in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become so obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

A perspective on naturism from a woman who found it more recently: berrimansbareall.substack.com/p/levelling-th…

We could all use some more authenticity and thoughtful engagement at times like this. www.planetnude.co/p/advocating-f…

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://bit.ly/44aNdkq

Trans people: we're about to be genocided by the US government GOP: Awesome, can't wait Centrists: Thoughts and prayers Liberals: It's your fault because you are a wedge issue and support Palestine Leftists: It's not a real genocide like Palestine is

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

This administration is engaged in an all-out war against free speech, and everyone who pretended that conservatives were "pro-free speech" needs to take several seats and reflect on why they were so easily duped (or complicit). www.science.org/content/arti...

I think this deserves a better title. Maybe “What happens when an entire industry eats their young?” www.stvn.sh/writing/prog...

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

HAPPENING NOW: Tim Heidecker delivers an update on the future of InfoWars and takes calls from viewers including President Donald J. Trump.

Purposeful erosion of truth and facts is the last and worst battle of this current war for a society based on reason. Wikipedia can be one of our greatest tools and artifacts, or a symbol of our deepest failure. open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...

@tangled.org Boo, no 3-character usernames? 😞

Society profits from your shame. They sell you clothes to hide, products to "fix", and standards to chase. But what happens when you simply refuse to be ashamed? The entire system of control begins to crumble. Naturism isn't just a lifestyle; it’s a radical act of self-ownership.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

It bothers me far too much that @notion.com and a few other apps use “Move to Trash” as an action in some places and “Delete” in others. Just use “Delete” everywhere. Everyone knows that there’s a “Trash” for recovery.

📝 The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life... daverupert.com/2026/04/clau...

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

"The press, because of its own conventions and time-honored practices, normalizes him, and thus fails to get across the extreme nature of this president’s behavior. Ten years of sane-washing have had their effect. He remains in power, reelected, undeterred." Truth from @sulliview.bsky.social

We sure are off the rails.

Can we just agree that “Less Than a Cup of Coffee” is no longer a good marketing hook? K, thanks. <3

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

Code is no longer your moat. Know-how for basic & medium-complexity products isn’t either. They’re both being rapidly commoditized by LLMs. Defensible territory in software: regulated markets, unique data access, unique distribution. Others?

Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all. This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.

“When the very rich so controlled the means of communication that it would be almost impossible for ordinary people to make informed decisions and so democracy would then be broken…” - attributed to Albert Einstein We have been here before, and we know what to do. RESIST!

You’ve tried VR and AR but next is the latest innovation in tech: R.

I just released gemfile-rss.com an RSS feed generator for your Ruby gem dependencies. Hope you all like it!

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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

Someone suggested that AI coding agent prompts should spark joy. We’re answering in realtime the question of what a dim group of 6-year-olds would do with the reigns on world power. And there is still such a thing as a “style reporter,” apparently. Only art seems able to bridge these gaps.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org