Today we learned that in June the US economy lost jobs for the first time since 2020. We haven’t seen this kind of net job loss since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.

I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make

And yet, as Jamelle notes, they don't yet actually have full control over the country. So the cosplay is a way to pretend to a more complete power than they currently possess. It's an attempt to cow the opposition but also a way to inspire followers who are enthusiastic about following a strongman.

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.

"Vibe coding is not the same as AI-assisted engineering." — @addyosmani.bsky.social While it's trendy to call any coding done with AI "vibe coding," it's critical to delineate between them because the human intentionality and ownership is what makes products reliable and great.

To put a finer point on it, Pritzker is being presidential in a way Newsom is not. Newsom is doing a decent job trolling Trump for the lulz, but Pritzker is speaking with the gravitas this situation warrants, promising real accountability, with federal, state and local leaders standing behind him.

AI isn’t going to replace coding. It’s going to replace writing code with reading code. Hope you like spelunking through someone else’s logic—because that “someone else” will increasingly be an AI.

Leadership protip: Sometimes being Kind is orthogonal to being Nice. Being Kind is giving painful but necessary feedback to help someone correct a potentially detrimental behavior or habit. Being Nice is avoiding giving feedback to avoid hurting their feelings.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Excited to see @simonwillison.net's take on the models from OpenAI... :)

Just got my annual scan results back - I've now officially been in full remission for 3 years! I did CAR-T back in July of '21 as part of a trial for refractory (resistant to treatment) disease. Thank you, science! (This is the longest remission I've had since my diagnosis in 2010).

I let a goat from my local zoo run SQL commands against prod without protection and it nuked my data The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat

Note to self: don’t dig on the beach with your kids, while wearing an Oura ring and claiming “I’m beating the ocean!” The house always wins.

🚂 I've been playing survival Minecraft for a couple of months now, I've made ae2 systems, a whole working train network, and doing a bit of building as well I just finished one of my train stations:

Is it harder to manage high performers? YES. They will give you hard feedback. They will demand excellence. You will spend more time in coaching. Take it as an opportunity, not an attack, and your org will be better for it. YOU will be better.

Quiet as kept, while everyone is terrified of killer robots, the real threat is the egotistical billionaires obsessed with AGI. But y'all not ready for that conversation 😏

I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

Young people are not inherently better people or better at politics. If they were, societies would naturally move towards putting them in power to gain an advantage over societies that don’t. There are large structural problems that shape bad outcomes in the US. Its not one generation’s fault

We are in such a weird place where caring about other people is political.

Setting aside the obvious corruption of accepting a 400m plane, the security implications are staggering. Qatar (and other interests, I’m sure) are taking phishing to a whole new level. It’s really putting the Soviets to shame with their bugging of the US Embassy in 70s…

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. ("Hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LoTR)

The fucking Magna Carta was written down in 1215. It established the principle that the monarch is NOT ABOVE THE LAW. It protected free men from ARBITRARY IMPRISONMENT. None of this shit is remotely complicated. 12 fucking 15 yo. We worked this shit out. Make Kings Powerless Again.

NEW: Fourth Circuit shoots down the Trump administration’s efforts to appeal Judge Xinis’s order requiring it to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. “We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”

Never again is now, friends. Don't look away. We have a moral obligation to EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING being detained, deported, and sent to actual concentration camps on our watch. Who were you when your government perpetuated atrocities? If you're in the US, it's in the wide-open now.

There’s no coming back from this. America’s global reputation is done for good. Perhaps in the future when we invade countries, the rest of the world will start sanctioning us and referring our politicians to the ICC. The mask is off now. Forever.

When a clown moves into the palace, he doesn't become a king. Instead, the palace becomes a circus.

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

This meme about what donut you would get...you guys don't get it. I LOVE DONUTS.

So the position of the Trump-Vance administration — and every member of Congress unless they explicitly say otherwise — is quite literally you do not have guaranteed free speech rights in America if you say things they don't like. That is the headline.

AI is great, but I'm not worried about it replacing software engineers anytime soon. Why? Because writing code is the _easy_ part of building software. The hard part is figuring out what you're building, why you're building it and who it's built for.

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Let's be real: the actual killer app for ChatGPT is figuring out how to get git to do what you want.

For all they shout about DEI, if a woman or PoC did any of this chat leaking nonsense, they would cancel us forever. Where are the arguments about “competency” now?

Once again I ask: Do you get it yet, law firms? These orders aren’t isolated threats to Covington or Perkins or Jenner. They’re existential threats to the independence of the legal profession. You’re a fool if you think you won’t be next. Say something. Do something.

And then I wondered … had Pete Hegseth really meant to text me the state secrets?

But we’re just along for the ride and watching the show unfold. The social forces that have been set into motion are too strong to be stopped now. America in the future is going to mean something different than it does now.

I don’t need to just touch grass. I want to lay on the grass, look for shapes in the clouds and listen to sound of the wind. I want to feel little pinpricks of the grass, slight dampness on my back from the soil. Until the sky darkens and the stars light my path home.

Excited to share on my first post on Bluesky our new paper in NHB examine the innate and developing aspects of the wiring of the visual system. Congratulations to @emilykubota.bsky.social and the baby MRI team on this important work

Schumer saying we’ve had rule of law since the Magna Carta is a helluva thing. How exactly does he think the US achieved independence from the British?!

Trumpism is itself a symbol of American decline. A formerly dominant ethnic group in a fading superpower. Desperately clinging to a slipping sense of superiority. The strongman bluster is merely an act, a mask to cover their fear and weakness. They’re afraid of the world that’s coming.

One of the few good things to come of this year so far...

Morning routine these days: feed cats coffee existential scream of horror contact Congresspersons and Governor about whatever apocalyptic shit is currently going on pretend to work on something

It’s wild that everyone who wants America to be “run as a business” seems to want lower taxes. That’s not what a business would do if it had a monopoly and the violence of the government behind it to set whatever price it wanted. A business would send taxes through the roof.

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

Our youngest turned 12 the other day and has an avid interest in k-pop. We got her a Stray Kids album, which came on a CD...so we had to get her a CD player as well..and teach her how to use it. It was both fun, retro and bizarre all at once. Also, I don't remember CD players being SO slow!

I wish people could, somehow, understand that a government is NOT a business, nor should it be run like one.

I really wish people would stop repurposing Trump's messages to try to oppose him. "Make America ____ Again" or "Sad!" or the like aren't clever—they are, in fact, handing it to him. It's letting them frame the discussion and working within their frame. That hasn't worked for 8+ years and won't now.

As a Jewish faculty member at one of these institutions, I am saying right now, in the clearest tones possible: not in my name. This violent exploitation of Jews as an alibi for achieving Fascist ends is itself textbook antisemitism.

I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.