so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

NEW: Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era. Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Today, at Law Dork:

wrote a quick one about the tech companies settling lawsuits with Trump. Yes, it’s cowardice. But it’s also an excuse to behave the way they’ve always wanted to (irresponsibly, with no regard for the consequences of their actions). Which, actually makes them a perfect part of the MAGA coalition

Son (10yo, two days ago): Daddy, is Jane Goodall still alive? Me: Yes, I believe so. <today> Me: Remember you were asking about Jane Goodall? Sad news, she passed away today. Son: Did I jinx her!??

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Monday on The Five Jessica Tarlov mentioned charts and photographs when she discussed politically motivated violence. I've added the visuals she brought up to this clip. The sources are included on the screen - Axios, Cato Institute, The Guardian, Independent (UK), Time Magazine

This article should have come from The Onion. Should have. Much to real, sad.

The essential failure of LLMs in the smart home - where natural language processing should shine - is the best evidence that LLMs as a technology simply may not be able to do the things they’re promised www.theverge.com/report/78717...

I’ve seen the trajectory of “start w/ Datadog & then bring o11y in-house” at 3 of my workplaces. The issue is that in-house solutions usually suck. OTEL is a mess, & the LGTM stack turns into a tooling palooza. I’m sure there are better in-house impls out there, but I have yet to encounter one.

New from 404 Media: here is the story of how Ruby went off the rails. 3000 words on developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

For every Covid vax, RFK's brain worm takes a bite. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, but I'm not throwing away my shot. #vaccinated

We should wait to learn more, given troubling signs that there may be a causal link between patching security vulnerabilities and autism. DO YOU SEE HOW INSANE THAT SOUNDS?!

When governments have cowed the press and flooded social platforms with viral propaganda, Wikipedia has become the next target, and a more stubborn one. Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Some of the worst gun control you will ever see. ICE agent carelessly tries to appendix carry sticking a hand gun in his belt, freaks out when it inevitably dumps on the pavement, points it at civilians, then does a surroundings scan like Bubba told him to on the range that one time.

Months after the Department of Government Efficiency's attack on the federal government began, WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.

Link timestamped to the "Brendan Carr is a dummy" segment. @davidpierce.xyz and @reckless.bsky.social, see if @jimmykimmel.com will sponsor the lightning round www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Conservatives were so angry when Biden tried to forgive student loans (bootstraps something something). These ICE sociopaths are getting their loans forgiven in exchange for terrorizing 5 year old little girls.

welp, only one thing to do, engage in a little shopping therapy #antifa

Nvidia had the best deal in corporate history: selling the pickaxes to corporations in the middle of an illusionary goldrush. And now they've decided to invest in a fake mine!

404 Media are doing journalism the right way. This is why I subscribe.

Fun fact: The Good Son (Macaulay Culkin) is a true story based on Stephen Miller's childhood.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

yes and tech companies definitely knew this was coming aaron

Mango Mussolini's H-1B $100,000/yr policy is just more idiocy that will hurt the US tech industry. But for all the tech Bros and VCs getting on the MAGA train the last year, I love this for you.

Joshua Moshier's theme music for Serious Trouble seriously slaps. And I wish it were on iTunes. That is all. @kenwhite.bsky.social

Stephen Colbert: "FCC Chair and individually wrapped hard-boiled egg that they sell at the airport, Brendan Carr...is telling [ABC] to punish Kimmel or else. It feels to me like shutting down this kind of speech represents a serious threat to our freedoms."

Book I'm reading "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45" by Milton Mayer

My beautiful, sweet five year old girl is telling us all about their school "Mr Green" drill and the places they are supposed to hide. And I'm sick. Angry and sick that these malignant MAGA authoritarians won't do a thing to make my children actually safer ... except hand out more guns like candy.

et tu, @1password.bsky.social?

"antifa" June 6, 1944

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

The milquetoast monologue that outraged MAGA and got Kimmel suspended after government pressure. RIP #1A www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3Y...

did not have @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social creating safe spaces for the Klan on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are.

New from 404 Media: the DOJ quietly deleted a study that showed domestic terrorists are most often right wing. Unclear why deleted, but comes after Kirk assassination. One of the study's co-authors declined to comment. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Next from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social "bullying the free press the right way"

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were. But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk." www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

I wish I could put this in front of every single Trump supporter and friend of mine grieving over the Charlie Kirk murder. This [dramatic pause trying to be polite] president, DOES NOT CARE about you, the things you care about or the people you care about. At all.

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

Why take all the time to examine and refine Ai output when you can quickly do the search yourself? The whole "oh, you anti-Ai people don't know prompt engineering" response is getting very, very thin after all this time...

To be fair, an Azure/AWS peering connection went down in Chicago last week and Microsoft couldn't tell either (without help).

Making percent of generated code a target will result in verbose, sub-optimal solutions. Upside is, Brian Armstrong is a consistent antidote for imposter syndrome. Feeling bad? Read a coinbase CEO tweet. You'll feel better about your own capabilities. Guaranteed.

ICE really just rolling up and grabbing every non-white face they see.

publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi... While I've used LLMs to write some code in targeted cases, I intuitively refused to use LLMs to write for exactly this reason. Writing is thinking.

Zuckerberg, Nadella, Pichai, Altman, Cook - these spineless weasels will never get the orange off their nose.

As long as we're gonna have authoritarian government, why can't they ever be for good things like mandating vim mode in all text boxes, markdown formatting support on all social platforms? That Joseph Goebbels wanna-be Stephen Miller just _looks_ like a Confluence loving Cursor user.

Cache line dev 👋