Every so often I remember I haven't listened to any Philip Glass in a while and put some on while working and

This whole thing is great, but the arrangement of Aquaman really rips in particular

Oh god, connecting this through to the PTSD of "Smart Home" and "Quantified Self" really resonates (and makes the old wounds sting). Feeling deep in my bones how inevitable Smart Home felt back in the 2010's and how uselessly fragmented and broken those systems remain to this day.

Juicy..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKG...

God, this was such a well-needed salve

"I just let the hungry ghosts in jars multiply without number and produce what they tell me is valuable contributions to society, I have never been more productive" the hungry ghosts razor never misses huh lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

Like everything I've seen from Oxide, this is very well done.

Just when I thought the timeline couldn't get fucking stupider

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia on.ft.com/4hdts1U

This to me has been one of the stupidest and most dangerous parts of our current timeline, that so much vital logic with LLM systems lives within imprecise human language. It's a house of cards built and trained on other houses of cards...

Cool cool cool, my son is due to get his last shot in a month 🤞

They'll all get extorted for carve-outs. The rest of the little guys will be the ones getting slammed.

God, I'm already tired enough of this - so if all the expensive items on my BOM go up by 100%, but the import cost of a finished good is 20-40% from an Asian country with good PCBA expertise, why again would I being that production onshore?

I switched back to Chrome because on the day I was set to return back to work from a lengthy leave, Firefox (on wayland+sway via regolith) decided to render menus and tab text invisible. My current toddler situation doesn't give me the time to debug this, even if I might have 100% caused it somehow

I continue to be sad that Mozilla has forever shunned WebUSB, among many other reasons because it locks people out from this feeling of exuberance when talking to hardware in fun new ways.

Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.

No no no, THIS is The Body: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-FO...

How else is anyone expected to crack open a cold one with the boys and talk about the size of the shit they just took?

For some reason my sleep deprived brain read this as Tool, the band

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

Sheeeeeit, I've been waiting for Novavax to drop. Would love the reduction in reaction symptoms

This remains the anthem of the times open.spotify.com/track/3P1kFc...

It's pretty wild how thorough and systematic the GOP playbook for disassembling the government is in contrast to the democrats. At this point it's a smoothly oiled machine: force way into building and systems, fire probationary employees, bully leaders out, wipe out rest with a RIF. Over and over.

A nonsensical threat to: One of the most important advances in biotechnology of our time, already being used to successfully treat refractory cancers, enable genome editing, develop vaccines for infectious diseases for which there are none, treat autoimmune diseases, and more.

Used Claude's new CLI for a simple coding task (writing python docstrings). It only processed 4/21 files, and erroneously tried to refactor two functions. Not taking over anytime soon.

Chilling details from a lawsuit against DOGE by USADF about how much of a lie DOGE's "IT modernization" is (the best way to describe it is if someone comes from the cable company and then says because he's in your house, he's allowed to do a home invasion) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I hate to say it, but "flood the zone" is really quite effective terrorism of the electorate, most effectively against the left. My social media feeds are undoubtedly stressful and demoralizing.

BOO! This strip of open streets rules, it's really idyllic, It should be re-extended through Sunday

The struggle to preserve American democracy is still undecided. Neither despair nor complacency is warranted. weeklysift.com/2025/02/24/h...

Last month, Streetsblog published a massive feature on a rogue e-bike company, Fly. The MSM failed to follow up. So we did, exposing oversight and contracting flaws that now make Fly the go-to company for a new NYC DOT bike-swap program. Read it here: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/13/d...

"here’s what I believe happened: In the process of accumulating enormous wealth, the tech-oligarchs created the conditions for their loss of social power and, when they realized this, they got a big dose of class consciousness and turned furiously reactionary."

I hadn't fully digested the alignment between the e/acc crowd and MAGA. In retrospect it makes sense, just didn't see it coming. Somehow it's become the least tolerable thing about my X feed. Pretty breathtaking reaction to think of "lifting people out of suffering and poverty" at this time.

Pretty F*ing wild that this had to come from NY Times Magazine, and not the newsroom. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/m... Isn't this the much-fawned-over high quality independent journalism that Times brass seem obsessed with?

He changed music AND posted this like 24 hours before he left Earth. Legend is too weak a word

As ever, @polgreen.bsky.social gets the moral balance precisely right; while this is an op-ed, it contains real reporting that punctures some of the reactionary mythologising about these protests. Her final words are haunting.

Gosh, really not looking forward to more AI companies thinking they can apply the Apple model of beta testing clearly underdeveloped products on early adopters. They don't have nearly enough clout, nor do I want more very expensive junk.

t's been a while since i've seen a truly terrible kickstarter product, but I remain on a few mailing lists just in case, and I think this could be the one: www.kickstarter.com/projects/114...

So... NYC tuned their chatbot to simply say No more often?

"Worse, after the May bankruptcy, almost $20 million in executive headcount was left on the budget, one source told me. (“False. This grossly exaggerated figure is off by several million dollars,” said Sorzano.) " Ah, so $17 million -> $20 million is the gross exaggeration <Chef's kiss>

UGH for the last time, chatbots are not some easy effort-free replacement for accurately curated information

Couldn't agree more "This isn't a situation where these automated tools are giving life to new forms of art or interesting new concepts, but regurgitations of an increasingly less unique internet, because these models are trained on data drawn from the internet."

A.G. on editorial judgement: "Use an 'independent process' to get to what is worthy of attention" After his lecture about misinformation and facts on both sides, I wasn't satisfied on him ducking the impact of editorial decisions / curation on "independence".

Seriously? After weeks of skepticism and backlash about age, NYT is still pushing this shit? I'm honestly a little surprised

The term that resonates on fully generative AI is "masturbatory". Sure, there's the literal sense (revenge porn 🤮), but for all other uses as replacement for human artists/writers: It's artificially inflating demand for low-value content that we didn't want in the first place. A big circle-jerk.

these people will not rest until they've placed us all under the heel of property and wealth

Something about the way bluesky does threads isn't working for me. At times my feed is full of thread replies. When context to the topmost post is missing, it's a much higher cognitive burden to keep track of what's what while scrolling. It's... more tiresome?

Yup, time to listen to this album on repeat the next few days

Finally weening off twitter means that i'm spread across at least three different platforms, which is really wrecking my focus... It begs the question: Is there a single application to merge Mastodon, Threads and Bluesky into one single timeline? That's free and not for a social media professional?

"Nationalism of Despair" is a pretty powerful crux

Lets find out if I can power through this post-COVID-booster fatigue with gargantuan amounts of coffee This will go great, yes