good morning friends 💚✨

I hold a lot of fringe, radical beliefs. Like: – Kids shouldn’t go hungry – Healthcare shouldn’t bankrupt you – Teachers shouldn’t have to work a second job I know. Unhinged.

One of my small joys in life is to inform people that the majestic sea eagles that make the PNW their home have a cry that sounds like a slightly drunk chicken.

Here’s “Basket Case” except it’s about why you shouldn’t use Face ID or a thumbprint to unlock your phone

When I was a child, the computers were the ones who would scream when we got online

The party of tax cuts just enthusiastically endorsed the highest sales tax increase in the country’s history to own the libs.

virginia tech's ETD repository has been crashing so often from being scraped by so many bots that they've had to close off external, non-university access. In case you needed more evidence of how LLM training hurts open access.

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First spring ride! 💐

this is one of those timeless tips that still works today, btw

@schumer.senate.gov don’t be a Nazi, vote no on cloture. Or step aside and let someone lead who has a spine and a conscience.

Primary @schumer.senate.gov Like let this be over. We need to be done with people who care more about elections and playing 3d space chess vs actually representing the will and needs of the people they were elected to represent. And we need people with actual spines

I hate DRM on ebooks so much. No one is a bigger hater I assure you

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

OH from a non-computer person: “my coworkers don’t know how to use computers at all so I get to save the day by suggesting they make sure everything is firmly plugged in, and if that fails, restarting the computer.” They never believe me when I say that’s all computers, for everyone

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

if anyone sees this post, it's gonna be really unpopular but I wish we got as serious about road safety as we do about airplane safety every week, ~800 people, about two planes' worth, die in traffic in the U.S.

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

Amid these plane crashes and derailments (not a coincidence), I’m reposting my public transportation thread from the bird app: Now that we’re in the middle of a plane Armageddon™️, it’s a good time to remember how public transportation is *purposely* underfunded across the ENTIRE United States.

retailers should line-itemize the tariffs instead of just raising prices

I think one of my most controversial hot takes is that private school should be largely illegal. I might be convinced that there's a few scenarios where it's needed, but on the whole, people should just not be allowed to send their kids to private schools.

If you don't want to be accused of racism, don't vote for a fucking racist, this isn't exactly rocket science my dudes thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Anyone who says React adds structure and prevents spaghetti code is lying (to you or themselves). You know what stops spaghetti code? Good docs and developer discipline. That's bigger than tooling. Stop throwing tech at people problems.

I'm gonna need all of my typey friends to use their typey fingers and their clackety-clack devices to ACTUALLY TYPE OUT VARIABLE NAMES THAT ARE HUMAN READABLE

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

Anxious Nation Waits For Democratic Party To Do Something, Anything In Face of Republican Assault On Life And Liberty

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

OpenAI: China stole our tech!! Luddites: Oh weird how'd you make your tech in the first place OpenAI: 😡

It’s not just the 7.5 hour work day. It’s the hour of house and child admin in the morning and the 2.5 hours of child and house admin in the evening and then there’s just 3 hours until bedtime. And then there’s all the jobs and house and child admin at the weekend. Rinse and repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

The reason A.I. is being shoved down our throats is shareholders want a return on their investment. Every company that integrates this crappy tech into their products knows you don't want it, but they've sunk too much money into it and don't care. Turn it off, don't use it, don't look back.

me: must…resist..throwing more compute at it…it’s the coward‘s way out (days pass) My pipeline : ya should’ve thrown more compute at it

He's not wrong.

No fucking shit. I don't want to wait for an overworked salesperson to let me buy LAUNDRY DETERGENT.

Reading @kvlly.com’s newsletter this morning has me thinking some: What are the things you think orgs miss when they are deciding on what constitutes a minimum viable product? Personally I think many miss on factoring in the operational/support burden, which has MANY long term consequences.

I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!

Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past

Someone said something a while ago about how they had always kinda been mentally prepared for the apocalypse, but they weren’t expecting to have to do it on top of normal shit like Having A Job, and I think about that often.

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? #SuggestedRead #devopsish celestemdavis.substa...

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wild that people who definitely got bullied in high school are still desperate for the approval of bullies. it would be hilarious that the bullied nerds turned billionaires of this world were living out movie tropes if that weren’t about to be a major factor in the downfall of the united states.

cannot overstate the degree to which i am negatively polarized against nimbys. like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically

me, shopping for linen clothing because linen is breathable and wicks sweat linen clothing: fully lined with 100% cotton WHY THOUGH

nothing beats a fingernail moon. The best kind.