It seems the crypto community has found a new way to extract money from people. They are creating tokens for popular open source projects and inviting maintainers to get in on the scheme. Here is the email I got earlier today.

I think I just made a really cool chart but I don't wanna be that guy posting in work slack about my cool chart at 8:30 am in my first month on Xmas morning. That's kind of a year 2 move imo.

Jerome Powell just straight up said the U.S. government is publishing fake jobs numbers. Things will really go off the rails when Trump replaces him next year.

Hashicorp, an IBM Company

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Stories leaking about how unqualified people in the Trump admin think Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth are seem silly in context. This is exactly what you get putting podcasters and Fox News hosts in serious life or death situations

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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID. I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

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While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

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I've asked the team behind Cue to come prepared to discuss the limits of configuration management when dealing with different configuration systems, for example, using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions to manage a single project, something that occurs more often than you would think.

“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

Nothing feels worse than a botched handshake.

Corporate training videos be like: "Ugh, guys, remember when I did some insider trading? Well it turns out that's a crime!! *Sigh* now I might have to go to prison and I'm gonna miss my besties wedding that weekend! This really wasn't worth it, guys ://///"

More free ideas for @googlesheets.bsky.social: Split pane sheets where I can have two tabs open at once in the same sheet. Yes, I can have multiple browsers open. No, that isn't what I want. I want split pane tabs.

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic. "Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

If I don't reply to your unsolicited emails to buy your product, why do you think calling me on the phone is the move?

"It's the weirdest job market in my 15 years in tech" -- from a Big Tech recruiter. But why is the job market so weird? Talking to 30+ hiring managers and recruiters, it doesn't seem like AI. It seems more like.. interest rates. My longer analysis: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-t...

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

DHH is what techno-fascism looks like in the little leagues: A now-wealthy immigrant whose life's story embodies the promise of open societies now writes as though openness is cultural suicide. Same for Musk & Thiel. An open and accepting society made them who they are. They'd be nothing otherwise.

NEW: A prolific English-speaking hacking and extortion group has published a data leak site claiming the theft of 1 billion records from companies who store their customer data in Salesforce databases. The hackers claim to have stolen data Qantas, Stellantis, FedEx, Hulu, and others.

Remember "mashups"? We were all so hopeful then.

Journalism and teaching are some of the most valuable yet thankless jobs in our society. I want to thank everyone who wakes up in the morning excited to teach others or inform their fellow humans for terrible pay.

A new sign of how much America has declined as a destination for international talent. China has announced a new visa to attract foreign workers and Chinese students are freaking out over increased competition for jobs. This story would have sounded like an AI hallucinations a year ago.

When will Cater2Me finally get with the times and offer an mcp server?!?!?!?! I'm sitting here clicking through an app like an idiot! Why can't I yell my lunch order into my phone?!?????!!

Why are so many dogs named Whiskey, what's going on there?

One thing I did not anticipate as an outcome of getting older was the complete 180 I did on carrots. They went from boring to delicious in a way I cannot explain. Got some raw carrots with a little hummus dip? I'm all over it now.

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

If these facts are accurate, in my layperson's opinion, I believe Ruby Central has violated their obligations as a 501c3 charity. It appears they are acting in the interest of a significant donor and not towards a charitable purpose. joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-t...

The Secret Service isn't claiming it foiled any plot targeting the UN General Assembly. Just that a big collection of SIMs (probably used for fraud) could have *potentially* disrupted NYC cell service. The SIMs were in a *35 MILE* radius of the UN. These headlines are all pretty egregiously wrong:

Quadrant has been pay2play slop for years. I remember a company all hands where in the same presentation, we didn't place in one square (explanation: we all know it's pay2play), and placed well in another (explanation: we're truly leading xyz in the space). All within a 15 minute window of time.

A *lot* about this story doesn't make sense, but not least, how do the authorities know (or think they know) that they have all of the malicious cell sites in question?

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath. Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it. It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

Reminds me of the time I had to schedule an internal tech talk and wanted to be inclusive of our folks in London, so I asked that team how they colloquially describe their own time zone in natural language (ex: eastern time). 87 replies and no common consensus emerged.

half of tech is people mindlessly going "ooh shiny object" at tech stacks and visual design without stopping to ask what actual problem is being solved (or created)

Here's one such account that urges everyone to ignore the Presidential Order in lieu of these details on social media So, what should one trust? A signed presidential order, or a social media post like this? What chaotic regulation and comms x.com/RapidRespons...

What a hot mess. Official US social media accounts are now contradicting the published predidential order, saying it doesn't apply to existing H1B holders (the execive order says it does) and existing H1Bs would no be turned back on the border (the order says they would)

The official USCIS Twitter account has confirmed that the new policy will NOT affect existing visa holders x.com/uscis/status...

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Lemme be absolutely clear *every* H-1B visa employee at my (large cap) US firm was summoned back to the office from wherever they were in the world today for this crap. For some, it was utter panic. Appalling.

Every statistic about how bad the economy is getting is going to be buried or cooked by the end of the year. Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad. One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

Huge opportunity for countries like UK to build an even stronger tech workforce (provided we can remind people that immigration can be beneficial for an economy) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Besides the effects on the tech industry, right now there are H-1B holders—people—who built a life in the US. If they are traveling, they have 17 hours to get back to the US, or the life they built will be shattered and taken from them. Can you imagine constantly living with this uncertainty?

Microsoft’s guidance to H-1B employees following the $100K visa fee executive order is essentially to not leave the country and return before Sunday if you’re abroad. Same applies to spouses and kids. The implication being not to expect them to pay your $100K ransom to enter America.