"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

Chemical tanks are having quite a week.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

This memorial day I remember my brothers 1LT Naqvi, Mohsin A. - 9-17-2008 SGT Mena, Ralph - 5-04-2010 SGT Ristau, Michael E. - 7-13-2012 SGT Nena, Sapuro B. - 9-16-2012 SPC Nelson, Joshua N. - 9-16-2012 PFC Bedoy, Genaro - 9-16-2012 PFC Townsend, Jon R. - 9-16-2012 SGT Smith, Matthew 11-14-2016

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Why is gaming hard as a parent? I had 30 mins to play Forza Horizon 6, but I had to finish installing, install an update, unpack a compressed file, fail that unpacking because it needed more disk space, find games to delete, then update my NVIDIA driver. I have 5 minutes left

HOT TAKE: Gas *should* be expensive. We should have infrastructure that makes it not matter that gas is expensive.

My dad has become a really good luthier in his retirement years and has made a thing of picking young musicians trying to make it and just giving them a beautiful hand made guitar, fully custom, woods, design, setup of their choice. It's wonderful, giving people a beautiful gift just because.

Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some states are finally turning things around. n.pr/4wspadU

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

had a debate last night about the definitive millennial song. some contenders: mgmt’s “kids,” yeah yeah yeah’s “maps,” kanye’s “all of the lights,” arcade fire’s “wake up,” postal service’s “such great heights,” animal collective’s “my girls,” lcd soundsystem’s “all my friends,” stroke’s “last nite”

It's a bold strategy to point out how long the wars in the neighboring countries in this century, with pretty much the Army you have today, mostly against a lot of Iranian proxies, took.

Trump promised his ballroom wouldn’t cost you a penny. Now, Senate Republicans are asking taxpayers to foot a $1 BILLION bill for it.

A fine demonstration of why officers should have visible, names, faces and badge numbers. It provides accountability for bad behavior.

The problem with raising completely unchurched heathen children, is that they don't understand that the proper response to "may the fourth be with you" is "and also with you". #maythefourth

The AI coding revolution has moved the point of constraint from writing code to all of the systems that build, test, and review code. Which is literally right next door. surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/04/28/l...

This is a big walk back from saying he directly fired a shotgun to the agents chest to "we found a single pellet of buckshot in the fibers of his vest."

If a restaurant asks for your ID, they are checking your age, not your citizenship. Very different.

1/ The world faces a catastrophic cliff-edge shortage of oil due to the Strait of Hormuz blockade in the next four weeks, analysts warn. This will cause a deep recession, fuel rationing, the shutdown of entire industries, and oil prices potentially as high as $370 per barrel. ⬇️

I've signed up to host the #indieweb fiction carnival for May 2026. Write a story during the month of May, publish it on your own site, and we'll create a mini-anthology roundup post at the end of the month. All good fun. Here's this month's prompt and instructions: werd.io/indieweb-fic...

Product Management thought: it has always been hard to say no, with AI there will be so many more ideas that have working prototypes, to say no to. Shipping features that aren't valuable to the company or the customer, just because they were easy to build, doesn't make them good features.

Trump and Co are incompetent at just about everything they do, I struggle to believe that they managed an effective setup of a fake attacker. Instead I believe that it's another day in America and a person with unchecked access to weapons chose violence.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

@onthemedia.bsky.social 's breaking news handbook is always worth refreshing. An old cav scout's truism is that the first report is always wrong. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

What's the best way to get my kids (6 and 9) into Star Trek? we've had a mixed uptake of Star Wars.

80 year olds should be doting in their grandchildren not dying in Congress of old age. Fucking retire. This advice is also redeemable for Supreme Court Justices and Presidents.

I love the flowers on my Taylor's Sunburst Lodgepole Pine. You don't think of fine flowering, but every year this one puts on bright pink flowers that turn into cones by the end of the season. #trees #bonsai

#ICYMI: Yesterday's "One First" took a deep dive into Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop on the behind-the-scenes machinations in the February 2016 Clean Power Plan ruling—and what the memos tell us about how #SCOTUS handles emergency applications in general, & about Chief Justice Roberts, in particular:

My second child was born, and I have never felt so isolated by not having the support of our family. My inlaws were an hour away and we visited outdoors rather than my mother in law probably spending a massive amount of time with us. My parents didn't come meet their grandson for months.

In case you were wondering, the snowstorms last week did NOT end the drought. Snowpack is a key water supply source in WA and unfortunately, only a few days last week were cool enough for any new snowpack. This was nowhere near enough to make up for the snow we didn’t get over the warm winter.

IDK man, this sounds fishy as hell in the "let's gin up a conspiracy" kind of way. WA GOP leader says he has box of ballots found next to Renton dumpster www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... #wa #wapol #elections #voting

Tech billionaires saying UBI is coming is hilarious because c’mon, how have they acted the last 5 years in response to the prospect of higher taxes on the rich and corporations to fund social programs?

We built a FedRAMP product this year that needs FIPS certified MFA, which in practice is a fancy YubiKey or a passkey, most people have struggled with passkeys to the point I recommended giving customers yubikeys on the house.

I feel like we have lots of evidence of Trump and co front running the stock market, wouldn't there also be incentives for Iran to pump and dump the stock market to fund themselves? They can control the straight, their announcements about the straight, and can bet on the sure thing.

I've done a lot of time in the field in 8 year in the Army and 2 deployments, never have I ever been served shit like this.

Product Management first today, I wrote acceptance criteria that we needed to solve a problem in a way that would be resistant to an LLM Agent running straight past our safeguards against really bad shit. Also it is also a good position against hackers. #productmanagement

Had to make this a post. www.hipcrimevocab.net/the-sword-an...

The MMR vaccine is your best defense against measles. Those who have received the full series of MMR vaccines are 97% protected and are unlikely to get #measles. Contact your health care provider or go to www.myirmobile.com to verify your and your family's vaccination status.

My least favorite thing about AI chat interfaces, is that you never know if "Enter" will submit your prompt, go to a new line, or do something else entirely. I have no idea how many tokens have been wasted by accidentally submitting half a sentence because I accidentally hit enter.

a criminal conviction isn’t required to say someone does not have the moral character to run for office and i don’t understand why this needs to be said over and over and over again.

Besides being...horrifying?, this is the absolute bullseye of the AI grift. Take something that's free and has always been free -- faith -- and put a price tag on it. If you use any of these tools, you are a sucker, and are being suckered, and the people who make this slop are laughing at you.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

All of Trump's policies have been--to one degree or another--inflationary War: inflationary Deficit: inflationary Tariffs: inflationary Politicizing the Fed/loose money advocacy: inflationary Immigration: inflationary Cuts to renewables: inflationary Corruption: inflationary

I suspect the Pope saw my post asking if he was eligible to be president and it’s stirred some thoughts in him. He’ll deny it of course

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

Gonna take a second and plug @99pi.org's amazing Service Request episode on 311 because infrastructure rocks. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/serv... #infrastructure #beautifulnerds

Just made my first attempt at a self approach graft, and I think it might be a shit job. But we'll find out in like 6 months. It was a lot harder to get things in place and put in the grafting nails. #bonsai #grafting