Welcome to the stupid shit future, where technology promises to do great things and instead provides false, easily disprovable information. This game doesn't start for hours. The Google news screen has become increasingly useless.

Sometimes, I get the urge to just randomly message the local breakfast spot. "Two words: breakfast tacos." Why must we be plagued with terrible "breakfast wraps"? Sigh.

absolutely love this about listening to @wfmu.bsky.social - beyond the weirdos and whatever awesome shit they play, there's the 90s looking website that's actually quite useful and fun. the only things automatically updating are the chat and the playlist, and neither is by algorithm.

New concrete pylons with chains between them at entrances to farnam drive through East Rock Park. No room for bikes, wheelchairs, walkers or anyone. Womp womp.

i really loved playing 'the last of us' and i just realized something abou that: i don't necessarily want an open world in my off time. i loved the story line, the upending of expectations, and that i didn't have much, if any, choice in where things were going. it kept the pace - and my interest.

Are my speakers busted or is it just neutral milk hotel?

I'm now "that cop looks like a child" old.

My podcasts are all news and current events or AI and tech. I'd love some more deep journalism or storytelling. Got any suggestions out of the ordinary?

A white SUV with fully tinted windows and flashers inside just went speeding up Waite St. in Hamden. I imagine I'm not imagining things.

Well, I definitely saw this coming.

so the new model is the "we dont want you to talk about which gpt it is anymore"-GPT?

The TV show 'Silicon Valley' is a documentary.

This from the guy who pardoned a bunch of dudes who beat up the police, huh? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

well, I'm happy to have made it to a point in life where I have a 401k and it's a thing I pay any attention to, but....all the money I've put in this year at 20% of my salary is all gone currently. in three days. so that's fun

Tried to get to the riverwalk in Hartford yesterday only to find that the only ramp down to the trail was chained off for no reason, while all the stairs were open. Why??? There's literally no other way to access the trail from downtown that I could find, with I95 cutting it off completely.

None of this is normal

I wrote a blog post about wikipedia as a breaking news source at SXSW 2010. I'm curious about its process and role these days...how it's doing amidst <waves hands> all this. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

I’m hoping that when people watch this film that they get energized to make sure that we don’t lose these hard one rights and accessibility to lives that everyone else takes for granted. I co-directed Crip Camp with @nicolenewnham.bsky.social

I don't even know how to use social media anymore. Used to feel so natural to share random thoughts. I came to talk about my phone woes...but we're watching all the parts of the government that protect people be dismantled.

lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye

Woke up to my Pixel phone in a boot loop. shit.

Reading "Ministry for the future" and it sure does ring true.

A group of 17 states have sued the United States government. The states are asking the court to get rid of Section 504 and its new rules that protect people with disabilities from discrimination in health care and human services. dredf.org/protect-504/

I'm scraping doge.gov - they're all about "transparency" so it was a little annoying that Cloudflare was blocking my scraper when it ran unassisted on GitHub Actions Here's my git scraping repo: github.com/simonw/scrap...

Alt text is very important. Add it to your graphics and photos. Why deny a cross section of our society the benefit of your wisdom?

Thank you for inviting me to tell my story, @kevinpowell.co! The main message: you never know when this might happen to you.

Not that it's a surprise, but Musk/Trump have now fired folks who worked on *securing elections*, including combatting foreign interference (they falsely claim this team was censoring conservatives, which is a lie). www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

The other shoe. Is dropped. Like I said, this is coordinated.

Open source scientific journal now shutting its doors as USAID dries up 🧪

Is there such a thing as "DOGE personnel"?

I already feel bad calling and asking about wait times, but to be the one who had Google call? I couldn't.

@mmasnick.bsky.social is on point: "Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening: A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions." www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

everything is very normal. www.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...

What's the first open source contribution you remember making? Do you remember your very first? I'm curious - let's hear the story! #opensource #oss

stratechery.com/2025/deepsee... An interesting read. I especially enjoyed the part about why DeepSeek is OSS.

After seeing Elon's nazi solute the other day, I decided I'd truly had enough of X and resolved to delete my account, as I'd copied everything over to my Bluesky. I pushed forward, clicking and trying not to second guess... ...and deftly deleted by Bluesky by accident. So here I am again! 🤣