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.

Finally organized my notes for my next tattoo. Have a consult in a couple of weeks to get started on my left arm sleeve. Going for a nature arm to complement my mechanical arm sleeve. I'm already very easy to find in crowds, but I'm going to be even more colorful once this is done.

I have learned in the past 24 hours that many people in tech have no idea there is an entire social science around access to education & access to opportunity. You may not follow every half baked post I make but I'm saying nothing remotely controversial. Access is a thing with social features!!

Elixir and @gleam.run have both landed in the top 3 most admired languages in the 2025 @stackoverflow.com.web.brid.gy Developer Survey. 👏 According to devs worldwide, Gleam is turning heads while Elixir continues to impress.

Haven't given this serious thought yet, but the new Puteraeon is likely to end up on my end of the year #metal list. Haven't listened to any of their older albums, but my understanding is that it's a huge jump for them. The art alone justifies a vinyl purchase. puteraeon.bandcamp.com/album/mounta...

Starting to accept the fact that I can’t consistently be productive with music on anymore. For years, I could work with various forms of metal as long as I couldn’t understand the lyrics. The good news is that @mynoise.bsky.social is still awesome after all these years. I’ve been floating all day.

Nothing like insomnia to get you up and working at five in the morning

AI "Artists" getting upset when you say their slop sucks is funny, because you can be like "why do you even care, it's not like you actually made it" and get them more wet and red.

what this is, above all else, is the biggest green light we’ve ever seen for Dem primary challenges the Dem base is deeply, deeply angry at the party for not doing more to oppose Trump and the door is wide open for anyone who is serious about doing more on that front

We're in the Orbanization of our media system now. It's happening. CNN's Brian Stelter drew this assessment from Gábor Scheiring, "who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

Tired Dad Core is my new favorite genre. youtu.be/VN3r85TWpH8?... Seriously though. Kardashev is fantastic and you should listen to them, even when not cooking.

while the current official number is hotly debated, there are actually far more tags in HTML than the ~150 commonly cited! that number merely represents the ones we’ve discovered and domesticated — there are potentially thousands more in the creeping unexplored corners of the deep web & dark net

stack overflow considered harmful. caravelle here makes an excellent point: stack overflow’s rules halted the spread of craft. if you can’t write 2 paragraphs of background before your answer, you can’t spread actual knowledge, understanding, or cultural history.

so, when I was doing trust and safety work, way back in 2023, there was already data from pre-LLM chatbots that men use AI to practice abusive behavior and construct authoritarian identities that they then inflict on human women (and children)

Finally tried Cuphead last night with my brother. We got trashed repeatedly and loved every minute of it. Never felt like the game was cheating us. It’s just hard. Very different games, but it felt like Celeste in that respect. Difficult, but fair. It feels like an accomplishment when you succeed.

Reached room 46 last night in Blue Prince. Now I need to decide how completionist I'm going. I'm surrounded by puzzles I don't know the answers to yet.