welp.

I would really like people to not go chicken little about hantavirus before we have more information. Nothing we know thus far suggests that it's more transmissible outside of close contact than previously thought, and catastrophizing is just going to make people tune everything out.

For posterity: I asked @anthropic.com what was happening with the 5m cache TTL issue. Here's what their response was: github.com/anthropics/c... I view the matter as resolved, and think the tooling is now in place for devs to be able to control TTL going forward.

I think that shuls don't need to vet every exhibitor at an exhibition in space rented by a third party, but that shuls holding real estate events should probably have a "no settlement properties" policy

someone even wrote a bot that enumerates all deactivated DIDs that can no longer be resolved, imputing they were banned... and then that account got banned, in classic Aaron fashion

and not only that, I'm not sure how writing into moderation@ would actually work given *they cannot give you info on someone else's account* and how do you prove you own an account that's been appview locked, and is on another PDS? clownshoes all the way down

every time I or other professionals post about how we find carefully managed AI tools useful - whether journalists, historians, coders, whatever - , a bunch of people show up to insist that we must be wrong about our own workflow.

This is a very good question which I suspect has no good answer right now, but will need to have one sooner or later…

I really fucking needed this. Not as bad as my client, who's been locked up by ICE for over a year. But his case really hurt and I needed to win it for him and for me.

Lmao

how are non-bsky PDS users notified? this is an obvious protocol problem that bsky pbllc still has not addressed.

Now here’s a good use of (the semantic embedding models from) LLMs

hey, remember all the people who cited METR as a sign that AI was unreliable and offered no time savings for the median dev a year ago? well, guess what METR is saying now? now is a great opportunity to revise priors rather than cherry-picking science. either METR is reliable or it isn't. Pick.

nyoom

There's actually a lot of ways Trump could wind down the conflict with Iran that could save him a modicum of face but virtually all of them would require doing a total 180 on the raison d'etre of American policymaking in the region e.g to enshrine Israeli and Emirati hegemony over the barbarians.

Are you following Tim?! You should be if you wanna see gorgeous photos of our stunning city.

If you have suddenly unlocked a superpower that allows everyone you employ to be 2x (4x, 10x, whatever) more efficient and your response is to lay off a bunch of people instead of *doing more stuff*, why do you even run a company?

In other words, the three hostages were killed by Israeli soldiers because the official policy being sent down was to shoot any male they encountered. (Reposted because two of the hostages were killed by sniper fire, not at point blank)

Israeli television news investigation confirms what we already knew, which is that the 3 hostages who were shot and executed by Israeli soldiers were killed because the overarching rules of engagement in Gaza were such that "a man, no matter the age, you kill him straight away".

I need white people in hella white states to think about what they are saying when they insist redistricting blue states will solve the problem that Black people in Memphis just got disenfranchised. Redistricting Colorado is not gonna solve the problem. There's like 16 Black people in Colorado.

if you build more housing, you no longer have "well we can't house all the new arrivals" also guess who builds that housing? that's right, immigrants!

you don't want to miss this!!!

I was recently in a group discussion where 50% of the people had been laid off in the last two months. I'm sure that's not representative but still. It was a moment where we all were like "oh shit."

Labour crushed by the Greens in Hackney

the constant drama (and it truly is Drama) with the bsky team really puts a damper on my enthusiasm for building on atproto. I can't put it into words but it just really grosses me out. yeah they're clownshoes amateurs but the level of straight up harassment that gets directed at them is out of hand

last piece of free corporate critique/advice i will give today: you must have shareable development branches of your blog/newsletter just like your products! you need to see what the entire page will look like before you publish. this is trivial in 2026, especially for *literal content deliverers*

closing a layoffs announcement post with “If you're looking for a new career direction, check out our open positions“ is…a choice. the cloudflare choice at least

(publicly posting a correction: no one is *directing* this campaign, I owe it to correct on what my understanding is. it is emergent out of peoples' collective anger and willingness to disregard truth when it comes to an Enemy. that does not make it any less dangerous)

so I'm guessing my company picked a bad moment to launch a product called Canvas, eh?

that's fair enough, yeah. I view that as a *form of coordination* to spread that particular message, but yeah, I can see the imputation that it was people in a discord going tee hee hee which is not the accusation I'm making

I don't know "co-ordinated campaign" is wording that would lead a bystander to have an accurate impression of what it was. The "co-ordination" I experienced amounted to seeing a meme post on my feed, thinking it was funny, and repeating it.

So you know how I talk A LOT about how Asian women are associated with submissive robotics bc of Asianification of non human objects to perpetuate the sexualization and fetihsization of Asian fems? I guess we aren’t being subtle about it anymore 🤷🏻‍♀️

can someone please do the gymnastics meme with "aaron is bad because stancil and singal are here", vs "aaron is bad, because he liked porn posts, therefore he is a pedo, therefore he is bad"?

Today, at work at @honeycomb.io, our teams achieved something truly momentous, by successfully completing the final migration of a large-scale, multi-month migration project. A project that @lizthegrey.com and I are eager to share more with you about soon. I cannot wait to tell this project's story.

oh my god it literally is just gamergate shit. fucking degenerates www.thegamer.com/slay-the-spi...

what the fuck

1M context is fucking wild. the entire book that @charity.wtf @gmiranda23.bsky.social, @aparker.io, and I wrote together just... fits (when converted to .txt or .md) into context, and an agent can pull out needles from the haystack, can non-exhaustively enumerate typoes/errors...

muting people who are not engaging in good faith, rather than continuing to argue with them, has made my life so much more pleasant.

if you hit 17 strikes atproto self-destructs

look, if you want to accuse someone of being a pedo, say it with your chest, don't do this cute motte bailey thing with "well I was just joking" or "well I was just pointing out a fact"

Not all, but many, of the people involved in this situation are retelling the truth as they understand it. I do not think they are "lying" if they don't have all the facts that exist, especially when those facts are not easily accessible or widely circulated.

this is true but I would also argue that the role of the head of T&S is not just to set policy but also to lead effort on tooling If Aaron isn't properly resourced with engineering talent or roadmap prioritization - or if he doesn't know he needs to fix Ozone - that's as big a problem

Now is the time. Transit users in Metro Vancouver need a low-income transit pass before a five per cent fare hike takes effect in July. 🚏🚍 Advocates Aman Chandi and Sacia Burton write. #vanpoli

I literally just saw an account that only received 2 strikes & called the infraction “moderate” for straight up calling him a pedo, but just saying the fact of what happened with no additional commentary has gotten people hit with a “severe” infraction & 4 strikes There’s no consistency w/anything!

can someone please do the gymnastics meme with "aaron is bad because stancil and singal are here", vs "aaron is bad, because he liked porn posts, therefore he is a pedo, therefore he is bad"?

It's a bit surreal to check the calendar and realize we are still basically only 6 months into "agentic software dev goes mainstream". The old world barely feels memorable. And I'm already very judgy. If you cannot figure out how to use it to produce _better_ code than you did before: skill. issue.

ugh I worked 12+ hours in a row today I really shouldn't have done that. good night lol

That also creates this belief that to get attention you must scream and yell, amplified by the belief that to get any attention on social media you must make the most extreme version of any argument you’re going to make.