Is a PG&E blackout even an edge case?

Driving through SF during a power outage is like navigating a Waymo obstacle course.

Hackers have stolen PornHub analytics data from ~2021 and before: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... What bothers me is that PH / Mixpanel chose to store user data for that long. Data is toxic. Delete it when it's not serving a business need! Why keep marketing analytics for 4+ years?!

Anybody else keeps getting booted out of their Netflix account? Error when trying to stream any show -- and then signed out on refresh. #netflix #outage

Incredibly smart PR tactic from ICE to continue assaulting very handsome priests

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Any competent judge would find that gender *is* germane to the job of providing a safe ride. It's like gender-specific airport pat downs. Or massage.

Public Works Administration but it's all forensic accountants, security engineers and attorneys.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

So I hear there was some kind of interestingly boring baseball game... Where a *lot* of nothing happened, even more than ordinary baseball games?

The focus on employment policies applied under lawyer-coordinated time pressure (seemingly very CYA) on a project that has a vast gradient of volunteer and paid work is interesting. It explains a lot of RC missteps. Not all of them.. but the initial ones smell exactly like lawyer-induced panic.

Every time I get a Ruby Central update in my inbox, I wonder how they're going to butcher community management this time. Weekly updates may have been a mistake.

Nazi symbolism has been creeping into hyper masculinity for decades. Because there is nothing more toxicly masc than mass murder and being the violent bad guy. It was normalized in many sub-cultures including militaries and tattoo parlors. It's also what has helped far right parties surge...

Musing on SOA: Object Oriented programming has fallen out of fashion, but it hasn't actually gone away at all. It just moved to the cloud. Data + Behavior is just no longer constrained to a single class. It's database tables + APIs. But like in classic OO, naming your domain is everything.

"Sometimes the best improvement is no improvement." Claude LLM, the wise.

are you a trans person who has decided against participating in the DFL or attending DFL events due to fear of transphobia? if so please DM me your story or reply here!

It's like politicians haven't heard of the term "narrative frame".

Key idea for recommendation engines like Netflix: provide a free entry text for describing the _why_ behind a thumbs down. (process with machine) This show: too much gore. That show: just boring. Altered Carbon: TERF writer. Makes it much easier to develop the heuristics for great algo suggestions.

The Cybertruck at this point seems like mostly a way for women to escape unhappy marriages without the need for divorce

Yes, LLMs are fancy word-guessing machines. But what detractors seem to miss is how useful that can be.

JUDGE! HELP! MY CRYPTO IS WORKING AS DESIGNED!!!!!

Evolution, probably:

I think a lot of people conceive of something like food stamps as allowing employers to lower wages (because employees can survive on less) when really they raise wages (because employees can survive without the boss). Good old post from the Bruenig archives: web.archive.org/web/20180102...

I did see a good comment about it though, describing him as "the gyro we needed"

Just: completely clean house.

The meme of going to protests to get laid has been around since at least the 60s (I assume old news even then). Newsflash: those protests are left leaning. Just show up for women and minorities, JFC. It's not that hard; guys.

Once again Svelte is the most 'admired' JavaScript framework according to this year's Stack Overflow Survey: survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technol...

Good plants. Now do plastics!

if what you want to ask is "will the AI spit out bomb recipes/racism/porn", then instead describe the specific behaviour you want to avert. "AI alignment" is a cultist term and should always be avoided.

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

4 - That’s why I’m focused on the massacres that occurred in March in Syria’s coastal region, because this is all part of a cycle. The underlying issue hasn’t gone away, and those responsible aren’t just the ones who pulled the trigger. It is a mindset that chooses revenge over reconciliation, ..

I love using LLMs for code-generation @ work. After a day of it, I feel *SO* much more productive by coming back to coding by hand.

The transgender “issue” is not a distraction for Democrats. It’s an opportunity to speak clearly about human rights and morality, and the path is simple: Follow the facts and the Golden Rule. My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/transgende...

i don't know who needs to hear this but You, yes You, can say you're a woman if you want to be. yes it is scary accepting that, but you do not have to do anything to "earn" being a woman. in fact as a woman i'm giving you the Woman Card. you can redeem it for one free womanhood at your local gender.

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Ok, too cute not to retoot. You got me.

What the fuck is a comptroller and why is he going so hard (complimentary)

ACAB includes antivirus

Honestly, this made me laugh out loud (maybe it was more of a horrified cynical rattle). Points for honesty!

Iran not having nukes is good. How they got to not having nukes -- is likely to lead to more rather than less nukes down the road. Especially if there isn't a regime change in favor of highly democratic forces that suddenly stabilizes everything (a very unlikely outcome).

In national elections, liberals like me ask leftists to be coalition partners — hold their noses and vote for a candidate they don't love to beat someone truly terrible. In New York, the shoe is on the other foot. And we should be clear that we're willing to do what we ask of our partners.

For all the evil and bad and deeply unwise the Iraq invasion was, the people making the choices cared about maintaining the illusion of there being adults in the room. They cared about keeping up appearances around decision-makers (or at least their cabinet) being informed & educated on the issue.

Does it have the ability?

The lyrics seem... appropriate.

The reason you don't have time to write unit tests is because you didn't write unit tests.

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

#nokings #savannah And here’s a lady getting arrested for wearing a medical mask