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Change in Abstract

I remember how good it felt when I read /Pattern Recognition/ – @greatdismal.bsky.social had precisely captured the zeitgeist of my world. Now that we're living through the Jackpot, /The Peripheral/ feels even more prophetic, but Jesus Christ, would someone please stop the ride? I'd like to get off.

100k a year for an H1B is bananas. But at this point, I think the writing is kind of on the wall for the best and brightest wanting to come here anyway.

How long before it becomes a crime to post pictures of Winnie the Pooh?

Am I the only one who sees @cstross.bsky.social's Merchant Princes in all these fake ChatGPT apps? blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/mac-app...

@pfrazee.com Are you any relation to a one "Crazy James Frazee" who's credited for sound engineering on my favorite band's latest reissue? (toomuchjoy.bandcamp.com/album/son-of...)

my two guesses for the 2 PM announcement: 1) Powerball results 2) A two word speech: “The Aristocrats”

and they wonder why we don’t Google anymore.

Parenting in the Bay Area in 2025: Mr 8 is blasting /Everybody Wants To Rule The World/ on the stereo. A couple hours ago, he asked me to explain vesting to him.

Yeah. WS2812b still gives nightmares. Who marks pin 3?

Truly the stupidest timeline.

Does macos 26' termcap have xterm-ghostty?

@dens.nyc How plausible would "Hey Siri, Tell Beebot I'm grabbing a sandwich at <awesome sandwich place>" be? It'd get me to check in ...a lot more often.

If only this was how people used ChatGPT for writing.

Midas Touch was the original Torment Nexus.

www.politico.com/news/2025/08... Well, at least they're teeing it up for Gordo and Tracy to be heros.

Everywhere at the TWA hotel is retro, down to the USB ports on the wireless charger.

Wheels down JFK. Now to walk to the hotel.

Boarded B6 216 SFO-JFK

*sob* The Mekons are playing in SF next week and I’m going to be out of town.

Dear SEO Spammer: LOL

Just had our first case of FedEx holding one of our customers fully duty-prepaid shipments to the US because "Keyboardio Model 100 Computer keyboard" with the correct HS code is "insufficiently specific to properly classify the shipment"

I’ve had this five dollar pocket kite kicking around for at least six months. Today we finally ended up on a kite hill. this thing is absolutely amazing. I think it’s gonna go in my business travel kit.

We're visiting my parents' cabin and Mr 8. wanted to watch a movie. There's DVD player here. He..asked us to "download a disk into the player" and I feel like I'm a million years old.

I love all these posts by engineers unwilling to use LLMs because complex code built with AI agents is going to have subtle bugs. Because, in my 30+ years programming, there's absolutely been at least a single week when I haven't seen a subtle bug in complicated code written by a skilled engineer.

I don’t know what happened because I haven’t been online much today. But I can tell that I’m supposed to cancel my New York Times subscription.

Dollyrots and Go Betty Go at Music City SF.

Is Surf music coming back soon?

I've been having a look at Google's new agentic coding CLI. Parts of the system prompt seem a lot like Claude Code's. blog.fsck.com/2025/06/26/s...

Ugh. Testing negative for COVID, but still feel like I got hit by a truck.

Make America the Great Satan Again?

Made Nong's KMG sauce today. Yum.

Wait. Is the MIGA thing just leaning into TACO?

Kissinger’s still dead, right?

First they ruin Hawaiian Shirts. Now they're ruining raves.

Turtles all the way down

Well that’s a blast from the past. Yesterday was the first day of camp. Camp just sent a COVID exposure notification.

@therealfitz.com Saw this on threads and...it's for you.

I made a tiny coding agent. It is 986 bytes. It has readline support and tool use (and no guardrails) It managed to take itself down from about 1.5k to 986 bytes over the course of about 20 minutes. github.com/obra/tiny-ag...

Yikes. Someone is impersonating me to Kickstarter creators, offering marketing support & trying to get them to sign a weird "Collaboration Terms & Understanding" agreement. If someone claiming to me reaches out to you about your campaign, please check in with me here or email me at [email protected]

They're making *WHAT*‽ (Image made by the evil robot using liberated intellectual property.)

It’s one banana, Michael.

earthquake

Apropos of nothing.

Some pix from last night's amazing @dancehallcrashers.bsky.social show in SF.

Ok. Finally. The NYT has embraced the shitpost listicle. And it might just help save democracy.