Actual criminal rackets have to be at least a little bit clever because they don't want to get busted. This one is dumb because they're not worried about that but that doesn't mean it isn't a racket

Dutifully reducing my carbon footprint while Godzilla prepares to step on my house.

Pop quiz! The winner of the 2025 International Cheese Competition award for best ricotta is from: a) Torino b) Taranto c) Toronto d) Togliatti

I just talked to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes. He listened patiently while I explained all my Witch Hat Atelier fan theories. Didn't interrupt a single time, or try to change the subject, or pretend he had another thing to go to and walk out the door.

It used to take us days to accumulate tech debt; now we can do it in minutes. By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings. 😒

The NYC Deportation Defense Hotline is back up after some downtime—hmu if you’re local and want some hand-stamped cards to save or share nychotline.net

We still suffer under this delusion that design, and I include all sufficiently novel interventions, is the work of lone geniuses or "individual contributors". Systems of any complexity require the sustained attention and interaction of several-many people to and with each other.

Why did the Congressman invest in Apple? He was trying to make money in cider trading

The Pfizer tower is buckling? Don't they make a pill for exactly that problem??

it's funny, like the last two months of work i just finished, i was trying to imagine doing it in claude code, and the strong vibe i get is that it would have just gotten in the way because the bulk of the work was just determining what i wanted the code to say, which i'd have had to do either way

Do this instead of drinking whatever Soylent is:

The C in C.S. Lewis stands for 'Cascading'

i am reminded of this classic: ics.uci.edu/~corps/phase... tl;dr "computer-supported collaborative work" applications fail because they do not eliminate work but rather transfer work from managers (who buy the products) to their reports

This is the issue I've been bringing up at work: setting aside the claims of "moving faster" towards a prototype, who is going to be responsible for integration into the product, and the maintenance of the thing? It's certainly not going to be the vibe coder.

The monkey JPEG in my attic accumulates my sins and infirmities in my stead

Why did the Congressman invest in Apple? He was trying to make money in cider trading

“Help me move I have beer” and it builds the some of the largest stone structures (by volume) in the premodern world.

they call it "single sign on" because you have to sign on every single time

This is just to say I have spoken to Mitch recovering in the hospital About the unfolding situation in Maine Believe me He was alive So lucid and so warm

ALL of this and ESPECIALLY fuck the people knowingly supporting crowdfunds for AI "art" or "writing." There is nothing worse than a voluntary slopsucker! Giving the grifters your actual money! (And it's often a lot of money!) You suck, you're worthless, I hate you, AND ALSO you suck. :D

i blocked all social media on my phone, so i just lay in bed and do chess puzzles now i call it chessrotting

Every stagnation era Soviet joke is applicable to the present day United States

Happy 504 Gateway Timeout to every website users

I marvel at just how many communists on here are simultaneously capable of being diehard centrists

Love that Bsky still hasn't fixed the block/follow interaction after 3 years, so an account can be blocked & following at the same time.

The rain in Maine falls plainly on the Spain

Historians: at work, so I can't properly search for this, but there was a history of the civil rights movement that was all about this - does anyone have the title offhand?

she cogito on my ergo til i sum

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US data center unknowingly infecting town water with rare and deadly bacteria www.uniladtech.com/news/us-data...

Much of AI "productivity gains" come from managers implicitly trusting an LLM to do a good job, and suspending the onerous micromanagement that humans employees get subjected to. You can do that without paying Anthropic a single penny. It just requires letting the experts you hired do their jobs.

We've tried everything else at this point, why NOT tax incentives for lesbian adoption

This is what's happening in Canada. Our leaders, federally & provincially, are forcing us to subsidize the very industry/tech that is killing us. We're being forced to help undermine use of the vast and freely available sun & wind we could be investing in to preserve life on Earth. #CdnPoli #CanPoli

The Maillard Reaction is/was a: - reactionary movement during the French Revolution - chemical interaction between amino acids and sugars - alternative rock group from northern Vermont

Much of AI "productivity gains" come from managers implicitly trusting an LLM to do a good job, and suspending the onerous micromanagement that humans employees get subjected to. You can do that without paying Anthropic a single penny. It just requires letting the experts you hired do their jobs.

Same as it ever was: long weekend means I was away doing something fun so the newsletter is late. Finally finished it this morning.

Liquid Glass looks like a cheap imitation next to the real thing:

We're so used to automation deskilling workers that we can't fit a form of automation that can *only* be used by very skilled workers into our mental models And so bosses try to run the deskilling playbook anyway, over and over.

Some people have been saying.

So on the farm, The Heat Stupids are our yellow flag. The Heat Clumsies are our red flag. Don't be a hero. Stop what you're doing & take a break NOW. And if you put cool water on your skin and it feels bad, that's also a "Take a break NOW" sign.

Mnemonics are known to be powerful but have you considered shitty mnemonics For example, to remember my door code (3097) I thought oh that's easy because 3000 - 3 is uhh wait that's too low by 100 Except somehow that still helped me remember the code

Ai ai ai I'm a little butterfly Circumference of circle equals 2𝑟π

“Women’s hesitancy to use AI is instead a rational response to a competency penalty that women face when using AI in the workplace.” I think there is probably more to it than just this issue, but I do believe this penalty is real.

Ever get such bad mana screw that you have to tap the wall art?

If you're good enough apparently you can do the Akira motorcycle slide without a motorcycle

They call it the Holland Tunnel because it takes as long to go through it as it would to drive to Holland

My favorite genre of thinkpiece is "the way you use AI is roasting your brain right inside your tiny baby head; however the way I use AI actually makes me brilliant and powerful, kind of like a god or maybe even stronger than the gods"

Good for them for attempting to unionize, and at some point the technology caste needs to recognize that the socially positive reasons they might want AI systems to come into existence are not shared by the people paying for and organizing the building of AI, and this isn’t an error or accident.

Every UX designer knows how much users LOVE when all their shit moves around for no reason

Incidentally, I delight in the fact that there was somebody in Bonn whose job was to count the Counts, and somebody whose job was to check whether each Count counted as a Count.