En route to umpire my fifth little league playoff game in four days this evening, I endured traffic leading to the World Cup and passed by Nvidia, ServiceNow and Intel headquarters. Silicon Valley may have the juice.

Pathetic cowards and bigots.

Joe Rogan looks like a box turtle with a glandular problem, making it unable to fully retract its head.

Just so we are clear, Putin is richer than Elon. And Elon is not going to stay out of prison forever

Today is a great day to remind people that while Elon Musk is a trillionaire now, he's also directed DOGE to cut USAID resulting in a projected 780K deaths due to curable or preventable diseases so far. www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Thanks to the kind soul who uploaded this compilation of our inexcusable old “Artie Kendall the Ghost Crooner” sketches from “Late Night with Conan”. My apologies again to everyone. #FlashbackFriday youtube.com/watch?v=zetA...

This supposed campaign didn't have a footstool to stand on. Meth Scandal Rocks Nascent Greg Bovino 2028 Campaign www.thebulwark.com/p/meth-scand...

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

I need to know how many people added @masnick.com, @darthbluesky.bsky.social and @bencollins.bsky.social to their Google+ circle today.

Really enjoyed this interview with Bob Odenkirk, worth adding to your PL for sure www.youtube.com/watch?v=u50v...

One lesser known side benefit of having been historically unpopular in college is that you can use the last four digits of the phone number you had in your freshman dorm room as your ATM pin code for a generation and still nobody will figure it out.

communities are coming to Bluesky this year. today, Bluesky is one big space. communities will be smaller spaces inside that where you can go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff.

Seeking a cool reader question for my Backchannel/WIRED newsletter. Lately I've been getting better responses from X than Bluesky. Folks, you can do better. Ask me anything!

🚨Earnest post alert🚨. My book came out a year ago today. To everyone who bought a copy (or 7, like my mother-in-law), read it, sent me a note about it, reviewed it: I love you more than a cold beer on a hot Christmas morning. Oh, and it's still for sale. bookshop.org/p/books/stup...

What is in the models is a reflection of the web that was and not the web that is. I think this is a huge challenge for the ecosystem and something we can solve with tools until the models cut-off date is today and not 6 months ago aifoc.us/please-mind-...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said it is time for the Democrats to ignore party leaders, embrace a “new vision,” and call for the abolishment of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

This is what DEI looks like. When women (and POC) are given opportunities, they excel, and are very often held to a higher standard just to get an opportunity. Jen is a fantastic umpire. We have the data to prove it. She raises the bar for everyone else. More like this please!

Scott Knaster remembers Bill Atkinson who died one year ago today.

# Kids Status (Today) high_schoolers = 3 college_freshmen = 0 # Kids Status (This Evening) high_schoolers -= 2 college_freshmen += 2 print(f"HS Kids: {high_schoolers} | College Kids: {college_freshmen}") # Result: HS Kids: 1 | College Kids: 2 ++ 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 🎉🎉

Matt Mahan currently has 11% of all votes in Santa Clara County for governor -- his home county. If Mahan and Porter combine to keep Steyer out of the top 2 in favor of Hilton, that's going to be incredibly frustrating. Thanks for nothing, Matt. www.cnn.com/election/202...

It's cool to vote. It's even cooler to vote at a ballot box at the Computer History Museum right next to Google's Mountain View campus.

My hobby: Finding neighbors and relatives of friends to block on Facebook due to their comments on Pride Month posts.

To be fair, he threw him under the short bus.

"LLMs are calculators for words. Calculators... opened up new frontiers of what we could do, now that arithmetic was cheap and easy. The level of difficulty people can tackle goes way up with LLMs. The stuff that was hard is now easy (and what) was impossible is now hard." -- @komorama.bsky.social

The A's were up 3-0 on the Yankees after two innings, but have given up 13 in the top of the 3rd and now trail by 10. It's the first time in at least 43 years they've given up this many runs in a single inning. Prepostorous.

Nearly 300 miles range for the top model of this EV, starting under $10k. The US has no answer for this and our policies are intentionally making it more impossible.

Remember scrobbling? It's back. In Pog form.

Good morning from Stan on Google's Mountain View campus. Perfect weather as always.

Congrats to Bluesky for getting another excellent hire. This is great news.

Nothing quite like the look of freshly cleaned solar panels on the roof. Last month, I paid nothing in electricity. Don't plan on paying this whole summer either.

I thought it looked like she was thinking of leaving. She said no. She was just bye curious.

Being able to build apps faster than ever has helped me realize that building the apps was never the hard part. Marketing. Marketing is hard.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live: Underworld Depeche Mode Royksopp Caribou Orbital Above & Beyond Sextile Kraftwerk She Past Away Molchat Doma

EDC Las Vegas 2026 recordings are out! Armin van Buuren: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Mh... Above & Beyond: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI02... Gareth Emery: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psc-... Tinlicker: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyMR... Underworld: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzy...

Every single day, another reminder that our current President is an infinitely corrupt, glaringly incompetent, willfully ignorant fascist thug, completely devoid of empathy, class, principles, or integrity. At best, he’ll be remembered only as a deeply depressing cautionary tale

Little League tweet: Saturday I umpired a 9-10 year olds game and it went 7 innings after being tied 12-12 after six. Final score was 14-13 or something. The winner played an elimination game today, which I also umpired, and prevailed 12-11 in a walk off in six innings. Baseball is the best.

"Google has created a workflow where I don’t have to choose between doing the work myself and letting the AI take over." I used Claude Code, Google Antigravity, and Codex for a month and I have a clear winner for you www.xda-developers.com/used-claude-... /by @xdasocial.bsky.social

Sunday status: Driving down Highway 1 with my daughter to Cal Poly SLO in our Polestar, which is a fantastic car for this route. She's driven the entire way. California cliffs and beaches are undefeated.

The long awaited Underworld and Ki/Ki collab debuted at midnight this morning: Arpeggio 12 (Arp12 for short) YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSk1... Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/7Co7HP... I saw Underworld perform this track live with @dataandpolitics.net in Denver last year! See live music!

I would once again like to be designated as having the ability to edit any posts -- starting with mutuals, but expanding to include @jcsalterego.bsky.social. In fact, I suggest everyone can edit Jerry's posts.

Here's another video we made! More features coming to Android 17 that you might have missed, stuff we couldn't fit into The Android Show, I/O Edition. Sometimes the little things are my favorite things 🥰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utmu...

Henry Bolte just hit a single in his first major league at bat for the A's. He's batting 1.000. This is what dreams are made of. So cool to see this Palo Alto High School product get to the MLB level so quickly.

@therealfitz.com I just had to replace my kids' EV with another EV, and the dealer gave me all my records on a branded USB stick. Even worse, it's USB-A.

For this Mother's Day, give her what she's always wanted: A set of tracking numbers to indicate where the thing you ordered might be. And if that's not your style, print out a QR code. Moms love QR codes as gifts.

MARKED SAFE FROM MAKING AN UNFORCED PR BLUNDER, CALLING ATTENTION TO NEGATIVE PRESS AND GETTING RATIOED ON BLUESKY TODAY.

This is Mika. She's the best looking three legged husky with heterochromia you will ever meet. She looks deep into your soul @darthbluesky.bsky.social.

Some (insert pejorative) who is not an excellent driver crashed into my kids' 2023 Polestar, which was parked on the street, and mind you, fully paid for. The car, and theirs, are basically totaled. Luckily, they are insured, and so am I, and I have video. Nobody was hurt. But I'm not pleased.

Live your life in such a way that when you're a little league umpire, the player's moms bring you homemade baklava after the game, and tell you they defend your calls when at home if their kid didn't like them.

@mollyknight.bsky.social I got to umpire another Little League game today with the kid who wrote why he should get to throw out the first pitch to Ohtani, and then got to do it. You'd be proud of him.

the narrative around electric cars is that is that is nerd shit. the reality is that you pay for gas while i pay for nothing. lol ge recked