It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

The more we say to young people "everything that needs to be known is already available to you via this convenient chatbot" the more we signal to them that their brains are vestigial...no need to work on your reading, thinking, or writing skills, machines can do that better. Go scroll.

This was already a huge problem at the enterprise level. I saw many a project almost immediately go KTLO when something shinier came along that required more headcount. A whole army of dependabots won't fix this, but I could see code maintainability making a comeback this year.

Local advocacy is more important than ever. It's overwhelming to think about how to fix [motions to everything] but I can make it safer for seniors to cross the street, for kids to bike to school, for people to have places to meet in public space... all of which build and strengthen our democracy.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

A thing I think about a lot is how the hyper powerful and tech billionaires want to be seen as people saving humanity, which is why they create space companies to send us to Mars and invest in gen AI to render us more "productive" And yet, not a single one is working to solve climate change.

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

This is so sad and also explains so, so much

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My favorites of the year: 1. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki 2. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 3. Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton Favorite guilty pleasure: the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman (currently on book 4)

So, so close (probably not going to make it, though)

"Here’s the main problem I’ve found with generative AI, and with 'vibe coding' in general: it completely sucks out the joy of software development for me." Hard same, and it's a reason I was so unsatisfied with my job this past year. Great piece by @nolanlawson.com nolanlawson.com/2025/04/02/a...

“Everything is more expensive, and every tech product has gotten worse, all so that every company can “do AI,” whatever the fuck that means.” Ed Zitron nailing the moment again.

I've seen so much of this in just coding AIs, not to mention more general models, that it's great to have a framework to explain how we humans tend to assign blame or praise in this context

I was eight. EIGHT.

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How I'm walking out of 2025

Left Amazon 🎉 Landed my first actual developer advocate role 🎉🎉🎉 Started playing music with other people again 😊

I finally watched this (best part of funemployment - catching up on my 32489723948 open Brave tabs) and damn, did it resonate. This is one of the most heartfelt talks I've ever heard about tech, and reminded me why I've gravitated towards it since childhood too.

This is an incredibly illuminating video on what we're up against.

Just a reminder “the radical left scum” took down the empire.

Agree with this, but with a bit of nuance. In the right hands, said chatbot (or better yet agent) can produce useful and maintainable code when it is scoped to a single, well-defined task. It's still up to the programmer to think about how said code fits into the larger codebase and adjust as needed

perfect metaphors don’t exis—

They are about to understand the Streisand Effect: the more you try to hide something from the public, the bigger the story gets.

Thank god we can say Merry Christmas again. When I said it last year, Biden’s woke police arrested me and had me deported.

Radio Free Canada

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Favorite Christmas movie, deep cuts only. Go!

PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.

We can only assume this delay is for a good and normal reason

told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime

I wish to laugh— yet I must weep.

This is the most true statement I’ve read on here

Read this thread. It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on. Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.

I've been lucky to have two careers that span the spectrum of creative and technical, which is my sweet spot. I've been unlucky to have two careers that were either freshly disrupted or in the process of being disrupted. So I wrote about that here: dev.to/annaspies/on...

You know your cat is a legend when the brand new vet has already been warned about her from the rest of the staff

I can probably now share how I resigned from AWS. I originally tried to do it via gif, but my (wonderful) manager said my resignation needed to be in a word doc format, so…

My main takeaway from this post is someone calling me a “best employee”

Become ungovernable

This year on Bluesky I wrote 151 posts and 351 replies. I received 2,091 likes, whereas 107 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "its" and 😭! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Oh no. www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Now that I'm out, I can say that I absolutely lost any semblance of trust I had in AWS the moment the first 3-day RTO mandate came down (and it has only gotten worse since).

For anyone who thinks resistance is futile, I would like to bring your attention to just how much less ambitious the administration’s domestic crackdown goals have become in recent months. They’re unpopular, fighting on all fronts, and on the retreat.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

In my opinion the president shouldn't constantly be like "Holy shit did you guys see this?" and repeating a thing he kinda heard on TV. I don't think that should be mostly what the president does.

girls make games is a great org and tbh with all the work they've done over the last 10+ years this is super well deserved. i love these girls, i love that they're on stage, and this would've been huge for me to see when i was little www.girlsmakegames.com

This is 'let's circle back in the new year' o'clock.