tbh this is the most google thing ever

When there is no ballistic evidence, no damage from gunfire, no injuries, & DHS isn’t providing video evidence of the claim from their agents that someone fired shots, then I am going to call bullshit based on the 2 months of fabricated stories by federal officials that have been debunked by videos.

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

America in a single tweet

Me: Do the thing. But right this time. Claude Code: 'This was a great example of why you asked "What evidence do you have?" - it forced me to dig deeper and find the actual root cause! 🎯' Me: OK, but you still did it wrong. Ask your boss for help.

Through the looking glass stuff

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

The ability to move freely without ID is the bellwether of a truly free society. “Papers please” is the antithesis of freedom IMHO. We (in the US) allowed this to be eroded, mostly for controlling alcohol sales. Europeans have been very resistant to this, I guess they understand the consequences.

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

What @notalawyer.bsky.social said.

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor. This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi... Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Kirk waged a national campaign to tarnish MLK's legacy. This was last year.

It's finally happening!

This is owned by a LANlord

This Brit nails it. #Immigration

And every year, Apple employees have to sit through mandatory compliance training only to watch the CEO publicly violate it. www.apple.com/compliance/p...

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

The best thing the US could do right now -- for its economy or for decarbonization -- is make electricity cheaper. Here's how:

Note the very top priority: 1. Get as much electricity as you can from local solar. This has two components… a. Make rooftop solar the cheapest form of energy anywhere & do as much as possible. b. Get as much as you can from local commercial and public-space solar that is within the “community.”

And that, kids, is why it’s called “cray cray”

This is an absolutely fascinating article about a very bizarre event. Obviously from my perspective the most interesting angle here is the fact that ChatGPT is clearly just spinning SCP-esque containment documentation at Lewis

MIT Technology Review wrote about my dystopian backup plan USB stick

How great is it that we invented programs that think* and the best way we can control them is to: be very very careful about what they learn and ask them nicely not to think bad things. So great! *I know

It’s funny that ai has reproduced the Colbert “facts have a liberal bias” bit

New post up, with a bunch of thoughts on what drives me personally, and my own 40-year career (h/t @lethain.com). I have a pretty unusual life story. But one of the reasons I love the tech industry so much is how common unusual stories like mine have historically been. charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...

I find Vercel's "verifying your browser" interstitial so rage inducing. Like WTF? This is the web - just serve the page!

Deleting the Google app from the iOS devices from older relatives has taken the place of removing Windows toolbars 20 years ago. Surprising that Apple allows this since it degrades the whole device experience.

I really do not need a text, email, and mobile alert every time I sign in to anything. Make it stop. 😞

I had fun as always on @catalyst-pod.bsky.social this week. There's just so much power sector information to wrassle with these days, some of it deeply useful, some of it silly, all of it public and accessible if you can apply technology to it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Awesome!! 😎

How good is Claude Code? I upgraded to the $100/mth Max plan rather than wait 3 hours for my token limit to reset. QED. nb: I have not hit the token limit on Max yet but I will keep trying.

It’s amazing how many things I find absolutely fascinating when I don’t feel like working

Oof. Feel this in my bones.

Find joy in the small things. 😎

Just seeing this: Elasticsearch has gotten support for query time joins (more specifically lookup joins: left outer joins, targeting a one-shard index with 2B docs max). There should be a law of sorts that every query language is bound to converge on SQL semantics. www.elastic.co/blog/esql-lo...

I know this runs counter to a lot of advice but… Do not try to improve on the things you’re awful at. You’re probably always going to be bad at them. Instead focus on the things you’re good at. Rise to the absolute top at those things. The rest either doesn’t matter or can be outsourced.

I'd love to read this but Medium won't let me. 🤷‍♂️

“Zima Blue” is also my favorite episode of this series. Exquisite.

If Florida is prioritizing the wellbeing of students they’ve an amazing opportunity to end commercial contracts with junk food vendors, promote gun reforms, improve mental health programs, and introduce more books into schools. Just kidding, they don’t care about any of that, only shitting on DEI.

Let's get Pedro Pascal for a David Moyes biopic #Everton #EFC

Not quite as haggard as you'd imagine.

The best dashboard is a notebook

I mean, it's making a pretty good showing already...

Ouch