The reflecting pool is actually a great metaphor for tough civic problems that evade easy fixes, the risks of ignoring experts, and the allure and hazards of contracting out a fix and calling it a day.

Yeah sure. Snacks will do it. Throw in a $5 Starbucks gift card while you're at it, nobody will be insulted by that, definitely

Please check your pop tarts because there is clearly an issue with the quality control lately. It couldn’t possibly be a dog. Not at all. First we had shrinkflation, now BITES out of our tarts?

There is complete industry consensus on this. Every reputable cryptographer on the planet agrees: Signal’s cryptographic protocols are the most secure in class. Period. Just because your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate told you otherwise doesn’t make it true

One more time for the people in the back: I will always hate your real names proposal. I will always hate your backdooring crypto proposal. I will always hate your hack back proposal. These ideas are bad and you cannot dress them up in any way that will change that.

Hello, yes, I’d like to report a crime. The local oldies station was playing Paradise City by GnR and they CUT THE SOLO

Hello security researchers @grabyourpitchforks.bsky.social has published some security docs about .NET considers vulnerabilities and what we do not, along with the baseline assumptions we make.

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

RIP to one of my favorite fantasy writers of my youth. I loved the Pit Dragon series growing up

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

1) When the service is free, the product is often you. 2) I always try to figure out what the hook is with free apps. Gameplay loop skips via monetization is the big one. When there isn't a loop skip, the product is definitely you. 3) What the actual fuck.

this looks like the list for one of the old poker games i used to play in a lot. "Game's still going from last night. Did you hear Irish Gary, Crackhead Larry, and Crazy Willie played 3-handed from 4am until noon the next day when more players showed up?"

So, lemme see if I can get this right. Mavs and Stars are arguing over their perfectly nice 25 year old stadium, so now they're both taking their ball moving to the suburbs, building two more stadiums nearly the same size in areas already snarled by traffic and leaving a revitalized downtown?

Oh yeah news about NTLM techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially: “people are hurting.” “ceos are fine.”

Two years ago... My 20th Pearl Jam show was one for the ages 🤘

The pope understands AI better than many in Silicon Valley seem to (the latter having a financial incentive to pretend it is something other than what it is)

“Bubble” is just the word you use to say “community” when you don’t like the people in the community.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

"Having compassion for other human beings is not a crime."

Good morning

Quote post with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap.

Here's a pup who seems to be on the fence about something haha no but seriously someone help her. 13/10

Active Directory is so back! 💪🤘

Cliff Edges is innocent!

This is not wrong.

Not gonna say zero Day Quest bounties got paid, or that we've unleashed internal msresearch agents that look down into the darkest depths of our most private code & can poc¦¦GTFO at scales previously unseen, but that's all I'm gonna say other than patch your shit now. cyberscoop.com/microsoft-pa...

QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood

A mahjong Hallmark movie releasing during AAPI Heritage month with absolutely zero Asian people on the cover, or seemingly involved, and a hackjob appropriation of a tile set. Are we really still doing this shit?

Passing on this message from Camilla, a PM on @github.com ’s Maintainer Love team: If you could wave a magic wand, what is the #1 feature you'd want us to ship? No idea is too tiny - the smallest changes often have the biggest impact.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

‘You Didn’t See Shit,’ Local Says to California Tourist Witnessing Sunny Seattle Spring: tinyurl.com/2wc2b6de

This is so, so well-articulated.

CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/

GREAT NEWS EVERYONE DARTH IS BAAAAAACK!

Ampersadness (noun) - The state of feeling profound sadness when one must replace one or more instances of the word “and” with ampersands in order to meet some character limit for text input.

heard you was talkin shit

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Occasionally the timeline lines up two posts perfectly and you just have to capture it. @eljefe.social @cheriepriest.com

A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes "because it plays better"; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles (Gautam Mukunda/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Oh, the establishment candidates in this race are SCARED scared. Good

love the wildly varied ways enthusiasts use to describe difficulty. i'm reading reddit threads on taking apart a Japanese trackball mouse & they say "it's pretty easy to tear apart" before detailing a process requiring a heat gun for melting adhesive & removal of 13 torx screws of varying sizes(1/2)

Everyone stop what you're doing, the Mariners are selling fries, nachos, and fish and chips in ferries now. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...

"Let's double click on that"

looksmaxxing has gone WAY too far

Signal is a great method for secure comms, but it doesn't prevent you from getting phished! Don't fall for it...