You can come see me talk about unionization in tech on Thursday at 9:45. That gives you plenty of time to pester me with questions the rest of the conference on the hallway track!

I want maximum chaos. Duke upsets Virginia in the ACC title game and we get both North Texas/Tulane and James Madison in the CFB. The ACC gets shut out. 🔥

It's striking how some members of the administration want to create a worse, poorer, American ethnostate and think they need an authoritarian kleptocracy to do that and some members of the administration want an authoritarian kleptocracy and think they need white supremacists to do that.

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

Reread Slaughterhouse Five last weekend for the 6th or 7th time (I've lost count). It continues to be my favorite book of all time. Vonnegut is the perfect combination of sardonic wit with a soft underbelly that gets me every time. Willing to entertain counter arguments for Cat's Cradle though.

welp

With the Mamdani photo op today, a lot of people are learning (for apparently the first time), that Trump has no ideological compass except strength and charisma. Politics do not matter. Mamdani is charismatic and operating from a position of strength right now. That is what Trump admires.

The Onion continuing to offer easy truths couched in satirical headlines. theonion.com/shedeur-sand...

Socialism won! Join DSA: dsausa.us/join-zohran 🌹

Season 4 of The Witcher has been very bad, but episode 5 is a new low. You haven't done the work to make me care about any of these characters and now you want to give them half-assed back stories? Everything about this show is phoned in. Cash those checks everybody.

“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”

Today, Starbucks workers in 40+ cities began a historic ULP strike. But we’re NOT finished. We're prepared to escalate with more stores striking if we don’t see substantial progress toward finalizing contracts that address pay, hours/staffing, and the resolution of 100s of ULPs.

What a great few weeks it’s been for people once pardoned by Trump. @nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Student: Teacher, why do we learn? Socrates: For life! Freire: For liberation! Dewey: For democracy! Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!

I'm speaking at @codemash.bsky.social again this year, but this time on a very different topic. Let's talk about unionization in the tech industry! Do you have questions about organized labor in tech that you want answered in a talk like this? Let me know and I'll try to provide answers in January.

You can’t be racist against AI. AI does not have a race. It doesn’t have a body to be racialized. It doesn’t have a perspective which can experience racism “An AI” is not a person. It’s a fuckload of floating point numbers wrapped in a function that accepts input and returns outputs. That is all

I both get this and do not. Because the bands I listen to peak at eaking out a middle class existence. Even if said band releases a middling album, if I’ve liked them in the past, I want their new album to help them scrape by without day jobs. That’s peak in the modern #metal world.

The fact that Clair Obscur continues to ask me if I want to spend more time with Esquie implies that there are monsters that do not want to spend more time with Esquie.

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

Excited to be speaking at #CodeMash for the 3rd time in January. I haven't checked sessions for previous years, but I'm reasonably confident that I'm giving the first ever talk on unionization in the software industry that CodeMash has ever had. I have no idea what kind of reception awaits me. 😅

I'll be speaking on Tuesday at 6PM ET as part of the Global Elixir Meetup (GEM) week. If you're in the Cincinnati area, join us in person at the Launch Scout office. If you can't make it, the event will be streamed. Details at globalelixirmeetups.com/event/cincin... #elixirlang

Weekly Gloomhaven sessions have quickly become the favorite part of my week. Looking forward to every Sunday session right now. Give it a few more weeks and we'll even cleared up most of the rule snafus!

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

I refuse to deplore "political violence" when it is made so explicit that it is the adjective, not the noun, that troubles the people so openly weeping and rending their garments right now. Either we all have a ticket in the Victim of Gun Violence Lotto or none of us do.

Come join us for our Global Elixir Meetup! The Ohio edition will be on Tuesday, September 23rd at 6pm (EDT) with in person and online options. @brianmeeker.bsky.social will be sharing how to "Refurbish Your Creaky Test Suite"! Visit www.ohioelixir.com to signup. #ElixirLang #GlobalElixirMeetups

If they are so proud of who that dude was and what he stood for, why are they are trying to get people fired for posting verbatim things that he said? They’re more: “How dare you post that!” than “Damn right Gay people should be stoned/MLK was evil/Black women are unintelligent”etc. Worth asking.

Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard. The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.

Just spent three hours reading Gloomhaven rules and slowly going through the training scenario to prep for a campaign starting next weekend. I *think* I know what I’m doing to run this well enough. 🤞

The surest sign of college football season starting is that I’m already considering muting Gus Johnson.

Had to leave #ElixirConf before closing remarks. Any announcement on location for next year @elixirconf.bsky.social? #ElixirLang

realistic Star Trek

The remaining flash cards at #ElixirConf are out for anybody to take

Anybody at #ElixirConf have experience with automated accessibility testing of LiveView apps? I would to chat with you about what can and can’t be done in CI tooling. #ElixirLang

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

For anybody at #ElixirConf, I have a full set of Elixir flashcards to give away. Would love to give them to somebody learning #ElixirLang or somebody with a co-located team that will use them.

The good news is that I know way more about the internals of ExUnit, process ownership, and the Ecto sandbox. The bad news is that this tangent means I have made zero tangible progress on my talk today. #ElixirLang

Vinyl albums with absoutely no labeling of sides is quickly moving up my list of pet peeves. I shouldn't have to guess which sides are A and B. Even worse for double albums. Woe to the owner who mixes up records on a double album.

By some miracle, The Onion is incredibly close to becoming one of the ten biggest print newspapers by circulation in America. It’s because it’s fucking great. I mean, look at this thing.

It becomes blindingly obvious what parts of a talk do and do not work once you start rehearsing it. Makes me think I should put less effort into the initial writing and just start rehearsing what I know is bad. Then I can mold it into something better. You know, be agile about it and iterate.

Every time I see an interview with Zuckerberg, I have to ask myself how a man can run a social media company for two decades and not understand the least bit about how people work.

I cannot help but feel we're hitting peak AI hype, when investors are willingly being take for a ride: A mattress company raising funding to use AI to "fix sleep" A startup to add AI inside jewelry Two examples that both sound ridiculous but raised funding. Not my money...

Scheduled an appointment to get my left arm sleeve started. I waited almost ten years between finishing my back and starting my right arm. Only taking ~1.5 years this time around. #tattoo

ICE or kidnappers? How to tell.

LLMs show that almost nobody understands the economics of internet companies up until now. Most consumer facing software products have zero marginal cost. It doesn't cost the company any more money to serve another customer. Google is the poster child for this.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Put the toothpaste with the toothbrushes and the antibiotic ointment with the bandaids. Things you use together go together. Group your code by feature. What changes together goes together. Not shape.

Today's newsletter contains this quote which is an absolute thing of beauty "By comparison, the Cincinnati Reds is a great business, with a net monthly income of $29 million, all to provide a service that upsets and humiliates millions of people from Ohio every year for the pleasure of America."

Instead, Google is *starting* from the premise that it wants you to use an LLM, then the feature (generating a message based on summary and tone). The actual use case is added after-the-fact, begrudgingly, because real human beings looked at the feature and shrugged. That's why it's shit.

200 straight days of journaling. It’s mostly typed morning pages. I keep meaning to get back into long hand journaling on a regular basis, but I haven’t been able to make that part of the habit stick.