"Doing bad things" and "failing to do what you can to prevent others from doing those things" are both not-good things. However, the first is (in the technical sense) categorically worse than the second, and failure to realize this is kind of an Internet disease right now.

The activity menu on @dropbox.com has been broken since at least 2021. Their AI support chatbot is offensive. If a former CTO is boosting Claude, Anthropic is doomed. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

They're going to hand a huge pile of cash to a bunch of mafia goons on the promise that they peel off a couple of $20s for an anger-management class.

"If you don't buy that thing you don't want, we won't be able to afford to make it" is quite the sales pitch. Very compelling. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Strong "suicide is a crime punishable by death" vibes here.

Anyone who thinks of Larry Summers, now or in the past, as on "our team" needs to seriously reconsider the team membership criteria. He has always been, publicly and obviously, a horrible person. on.ft.com/49nkoWe

There are no words for how evil this is

One of the great things about this modern world is that a statement can be both something a technologist actually said in all seriousness, and at the same time technobabble in that it really isn't meaningful in any serious sense, it's just what people say to each other to sound like they're smart.

FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy

Ah, yes, Mississippi, that cerulean-blue state.

how about no

"We are completely in favor of measures to end racism so long as they are time limited and [checks watch] that time ended about 15 minutes ago. What are the odds?" -- Five Supreme Court justices. (I hate Thomas with the heat of a thousand suns, but at least he's honest about what he's doing.)

I mean, I'm not a Christian, but the one thing I know about Jesus is his consistent policy of, "Fuck the poor, they're getting what's coming to them."

As gently as I can say this, “the kind of people who go to No Kings are not the kind of people who would ever do anything real like direct action in an ICE raid” is not a sentiment with its finger on the pulse of the American pissed-off normie

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

I saw a post that claimed they saw a post, but I couldn't find a citation. The post was: Every programming language has one of two flaws: * it has macros * it doesn't have macros

If you want an idea of how dumb quoting GPU capacity in "gigawatts" is, imagine: * "In August 2025, Ford Motor Company shipped 7600 gallons per mile of gasoline-powered vehicles." * "British Airways announced adding an addition 230,000 liters of aviation fuel per month of new routes in July."

OK, there are so many things bad about the AI business model that this one is pretty petty, but: I hate that GPU capacity is now measured in "gigawatts."It feels like they are finally making it clear that the only purpose of the technology is to consume electricity.

It's amazing how many decisions like this are just petty inter-departmental politics, with the Teams and OneDrive product managers trying to juice their "SKUs shipped" numbers.

Even as a young nerd, I was seriously bugged by Tron. I mean: The Great Programmer, The Hero: Writes some video games. The Bad Programmer, The Villain: Writes an operating system that becomes sentient. Wait, what?

Hi, @bitsight.bsky.social. I was very surprised that you have adopted a marketing tactic of just creating accounts on your service for people and sending them welcome messages. Of course, I would never do business with a company that shady, but you do you.

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community! gem.coop I am *super* excited about this!

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I don't have good adjectives to describe how pathetic this is. This is designing a military for photo ops rather than winning conflicts. This is a racist, sexist masturbation fantasy. The United States has become an embarrassment.

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

A question for #lawsky… who holds the copyright on a court filing (on the US)? The client? The law firm? Public domain?

Given the intensity of the state-enforced "De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est" for Kirk, can you imagine what it is going to be like when Trump dies?

"It turns out that the shooter killed Charlie Kirk because of leftist gender ideology and woke. Honestly, we were as surprised as anyone."

"The man suspected of killing Charlie Kirk turned out to be a white cis MAGA guy, but *if the killer had been* trans, here's what it would mean about the left's rhetoric." — WSJ editorial, tomorrow

Hey, Dinesh? I think we found where Tyler was radicalized.

Hi, @rackspacetech.bsky.social. I have a comment on how you are living up to your "fanatical support promise." I will be happy to tell you in 6.4 hours when I reach the front of the queue.

Debate works when both parties have a basic respect for each other, have some set of shared values that they are both attempting to defend in their own ways, and are willing to listen to the other side. None of these applied to Kirk.

We should be able to hold that what happened to Charlie Kirk is horrible AND that Charlie Kirk was a horrible person. Both are true, and acknowledging one doesn’t negate the other.

I do not wish the death of any other person, but if certain people were crushed by a falling piano, my thoughts and prayers would be with the piano.

Guideline-22.

I would love for the Democratic national leadership to treat Trump as even 1/10th the threat that they are treating Mamdani as.

You and I are richer than Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. because we can afford not to polish the boots of the authoritarian clown.

“Having a smallpox vaccine scar is like walking around with the moon landing and the Sistine Chapel on your upper arm.” — @angus.bsky.social, once on Twitter.

Meanwhile, the US is banning vaccines and removing health checks on food.

All of the Democrats who are making sententious noises about how we have to throw trans people under the bus in order to win elections were homophobes all along. The last election just gave them the opportunity to rip the mask off.

Bluesky seems to think that my home IP address, very much in California (MaxMind agrees), is in Mississippi.

FEDERAL AGENT PULLED FROM THE FINAL STAGES OF A TEN YEAR INVESTIGATION TO CAPTURE THE KILLER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE "HOUSTON HATCHETMAN" SERIAL MURDERS TO PATROL TOURISTS ON THE NATIONAL MALL: hey. you can't vape there

It is a bit wild to me that when something unexpected happens in #PostgreSQL, some users' first reaction is, "PostgreSQL's equality operator is broken!" I assure you, it is not.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Please, I am begging you, do not use LLMs as a source of technical information. If you do, well, you may end up writing an article like the one I describe here: thebuild.com/blog/2025/08...

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This is absolutely the correct position. Ds should be planning the most gerrymandered map they possibly could be. I double-dare California to draw a map with no R districts.

When I was 11 a cast-iron pot fell from storage in the rafters of the garage onto my head, causing substantial bleeding and a bump. I attribute all my success in life to that.