Listen, and this is a real question: why do we indicate gender on driver's licenses anyway?

Joy is an act of resistance. And this is that:

Browsing Google groups at work and finding one that shows activity of "less than 280 messages per day"

Watch as Gemini adds more and more commas as it progresses through this answer

Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

A career update! This week I joined @yugabytedb.bsky.social as Sr Dir of PM for the Core Database. Happy to be working on OSS and data again :)

Macbeth: SHIT

Seahawks 🏈

Ok well.played Life360

How many dogs do you have to find to offset selling out your neighbors to ICE?

No kings but Bad Bunny

Did Microsoft just run a Superbowl ad implying using Copilot to make hiring decisions?

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Trying to help kiddo set up VR link with Meta Quest and it's buggy as shit. Companies are laying off workers and just letting products rot in full view.

Pinterest says "there's a clear line between constructive debate and behavior that's obstructionist." .... obstructing what, exactly?

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Online search logic is all "I see you are looking for a bass clarinet to rent, so maybe you would like a French horn to purchase?"

i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine

"[...] having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down [...] The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I'm sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see."

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

No matter how many times I tell LinkedIn to stop, it keeps showing me recruitment ads for CBP.

Microsoft has confirmed it will hand over BitLocker encryption recovery keys to the FBI. You definitely should not be accepting Microsoft’s default of storing BitLocker keys in the cloud when signing into Windows with an MS account www.theverge.com/news/867244/...

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

I don't know how I would navigate these uncertain times without the Schwab Investing Insights newsletter.

We are collectively getting to enjoy the experience of software after companies get rid of those pesky PMs, which is probably why my grocery app just interrupted me after I had finished a search and was about to add something to my cart. It was a modal dialog to tell me I could have used AI earlier.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣

Meanwhile it feels like their search functionality has regressed 10 years. I was looking for my museum of flight membership information and it was like "Oh you mean your Costco membership? How about this flight confirmation your brother forwarded you? Here's a Seattle Times morning brief from 2019."

I was mentally making a grocery list and offhandedly remarked to my spouse "you don't really care for yogurt, do you?" We looked at each other for a beat with dawning realization before their response: "....it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth..."

Every local arts calendar: - 10 events per page - Takes 5 seconds to load next page - Infinite page count because it includes recurring events - Series events repeated on page (nightly for 14 nights? That's a page and a half right there) - Pages include noise like rehearsals and donor galas

IOT device makers need to get a grip. This is a *meat thermometer.* Why would I need to log in?

When I was younger I was a serious ballet dancer and performed in The Nutcracker 5 years in a row, and did stage management for another 5 years when I was no longer dancing. Even after hearing the entirety of the ballet literally hundreds of times, the music still gives me a thrill of frisson.

Every private equity firm upon acquiring a company: "Ah, see, the problem is that you employ people and sell products and/or services. Let's put a stop to that."

I understand not wanting to use email for certain private data, but most website "secure message" implementations are equivalent to just not telling me anything at all, really.

In 25 years in tech I have met and worked with so many good people, but it is also the case that *almost* everything I have ever worked on has in the end been either stolen or destroyed by one of the bad actors in tech. And none of those good people ever seem to be in a position to prevent it.

I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.

Email dumps like these make it really clear why rich guys are losing their minds in awe of LLMs.

Watched the pilot of Pluribus and it was.... fine? It kind of felt like a good 30 minute anthology piece, but it was 50 minutes long and the pilot of a whole series.

Any Rock Band 2 fans out there? I have had Jagged Gorgeous Winter stuck in my head for like 6 days now.

It's a special subset of geekery when you are in a group chat with the rest of your community orchestra and people are taking sides on Ravel's Bolero

There are no words for how evil this is

These companies are engaging in disgusting corruption and graft

Walgreens called with an automated message to follow up from a text exactly as I was reading this

OH in orchestra rehearsal: "Why would Tchaikovsky DO that?!"

I don't play hard to get, I AM hard to get.

I wish companies would just build commodities markets like they used to instead of relying on consumer oriented bubbles all the time.

Years ago I was testing to see if some security software could detect data exfiltration over USB. I defeated it by using a firmware writer to commit a text file to an external multi touch device as a custom gesture. It was a text file that just said "blah blah blah" for 256 characters or so.

I ordered something from a manufacturer that is a 2.5 hour drive from here, in Canada. It would be here already except that with the de minimus exception gone, I get to wait an unknown extra time and pay extra tax for a clarinet mouthpiece no one in the US manufactures in the first place. So stupid.