This (OP) is kind of horseshit you can only spew from a career in managing and not doing either the craft of software or the profession of soldiering. While we’re in a moral panic about the decline of “real jobs” we’re also busy kicking out the legs of how we develop and nurture skilled labor.

A lot of folks equate the work output of AI as equivalent to interns while missing the point that productive output is the waste heat of an internship. It’s nice if they are a net positive on work output for the time you put into it, but that’s not the calculus!

You know what's funny is the Army has an actual unit in Colorado Springs comprised of high level athletes who train for the Olympics and shit but Pete will never do PT with them because a ton of them are African immigrants who have insanely fast run times.

We are speed running the 20th century. This business will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.

In Montreal for IETF. Looking forward to game 7 from Canada.

The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten. Go look for them now.

The author of the piece screen-shotted below is a U.S. army officer. I would contend that an officer planning for a 'post-liberal' military has betrayed their oath to "support and defend the Constitution," perjuring themselves before God and men and is as a result, unfit to serve.

DHS / ICE appears to have rolled out their new cell phone tracking platform in DC. I'm getting these every 5-10 minutes on my phone. Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, and Pam Bondi need to be jailed for life.

BREAKING: Not actually Carmy’s cousin

People will say illegal immigration is obviously a problem and then struggle to name what the actual problem they have with it is in ways that aren't just xenophobia. "Oh, some people aren't legible to the state? Why do you, not the state, care?"

Update: andruril apparently uploaded private keys to GitHub. x.com/intcyberdige...

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

Slept a night in 17, had a meal in 19. 5 of them were home at one point.

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

Also included thoughts on how awesome Blue Jays fans are for donating to Seattle Children's Hospital after they defeated the Mariners in the ALCS, and for donating to Dodgers charities now to rally around Vesia. Thinking I may belong in Canada.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov We’ve been under siege from ICE’s unlawful actions in LA since June, where is California’s justice department in seeking accountability? ilac.illinois.gov ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

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As a consumer, deeply annoyed by this. Love the Chevy Bolt, not enough to run GM’s software platform. GM hired three services execs from Apple to run software and platforms. Not sure how that colored their decision, but sure feels like a dig at CarPlay driver Eddy Cue.

Beyond any aesthetic and restorative justice reasons, they’re going to have to tear down the ballroom just to get all the listening devices out.

Considering the rates of Military Sexual Trauma among service members, I don't really find the excuse "well he did four tours of duty" to be super comforting when it comes to his "women should just not get drunk if they don't want to be raped" opinions.

The Marines running for office have been a pretty sorry lot. Not a Glenn among them. Not a one who lives up to Tammy Duckworth, though Seth Moulton has been better of late.

Does calling them “the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere” mean that we’ll pursue wasteful, destructive and stupid policies going after them?

They put on a fucking air show. Even the recruiting commercials correctly show assault support coming over the beach, not flying parallel to it begging for a MANPAD up the tailpipe.

These investigations are lengthy and thorough and result in a written report that will go to the commanding general. It's definitely not done yet and I wouldn't expect the Marine Corps to say anything about it until it's done. 11th Marines is not having a good time right now.

Found the risk assessment sheet from the CONOPs

It gets worse! They did a an unannounced test fire over I-5 the night before, while cars drove by underneath. Fucking clownshow.

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

And one other thing, this is supposedly for a Marine 250th anniversary celebration Given that the USMC birthday is not for another month we don't need to pretend this is for any other pretense than JD and Pete want to be big shooty bang bang mans on the same day as No Kings

Waking up my husband on a Saturday morning with a "hey sweetie, you were in artillery for a few years, is this safe and I'm overthinking it or is this as insane as it sounds?" and him just staring at me in horror

I for one do not believe 1 MEF has routinely blasted rounds over an interstate and think Congress should enquire with one each Eric Smith why one of his PAOs is blatantly lying for partisan purposes

How to give all the CI agents in your command a heart attack in one easy sentence

Chicago, LA, etc. have already become something that to me is more worrying than Trump’s “training ground for the military”: training grounds for a rapidly expanding parallel domestic paramilitary force—CBP—that lacks the military’s guardrails and is eager to do what the military is reluctant to.

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

Oh look they shipped the “unsolicited messages from businesses” feature I objected to year after year and it is entirely as annoying and useless as I thought it would be. Meanwhile I scheduled a new dentist consultation entirely over RCS, a delightful way to skip phone tag.

New code from CTO

Always worth revisiting, @edyong209.bsky.social talking about his reckoning with The Atlantic and why he left, including a nod to @prisonculture.bsky.social. (And skip back to 13:15 or so for a very satisfying truth-telling about Jesse Singal) youtu.be/ddy5uMdzZB8?...

Home run derby between Big Dumper and Barry Carpenter when both teams run out of pitchers. Three swings each.

I had forgotten where I picked this up, I know I did not come up with it, and I found it! It seems to have originated in the .NET era: ricomariani.medium.com/the-pit-of-s... And CodingHorror had also a nice post on it: blog.codinghorror.com/falling-into...

I have been strong armed into finally enabling Apple Intelligence (for live translation, which i have not yet tested). The result is a Sisyphean hunt for every intelligence feature’s off toggle in each app. No, I don’t want you to summarize Bob’s “running late” email to “Bob is running late”.

Foundation Season 3 (2025) Showrunner David S. Goyer on Brother Dusk: "I think it’s truly a guy who, the center obviously cannot hold and he knows he can’t fix things, but he can burn everything down. And I would argue that there are people like that operating in power on Earth today that have..."

“The types of apps you use will be shared with your carrier” Default on with a notification. This is some kind of bullshit

Bari Weiss going from firebrand individual contributor to directly-accountable manager of a huge bureaucratic organization facing secular decline… gosh has anyone ever seen this movie before

Other news sources, unlike the @nytimes.com, covered this as a racist state assault on children rather than a gee-whiz look at military tech accompanied uncritically by dubious authoritarian talking points

I post a lot about Hegseth. I do so because I believe as a veteran I have both the credibility and an obligation to call him out. Because apparently even ABC is too afraid to draw a connection between his macho posturing and the awful environment of harassment that has been so hard to reform.

‘The appeal to the mystical image of the “warfighter” is that it avoids having to discuss war in concrete terms. It sells the attractive myth that by doing more of the parts of war that look cool and really make you feel like a man, you can actually win wars.‘ www.deadcarl.com/p/clausewitz...

so the 747 wasn’t free

Uh what??

As ALL our senior military leaders meet with our Secretary of War today...just a reminder that THIS is the guy in charge of the most powerful military on the planet.