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!

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

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.

It's incredible how awful Perplexity is, their response to cloudflare was basically to insult the report and question their credibility. I reported on this through gritted teeth tonight. appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

Just once, I would love for an LLM vendor to say, "The way we are going to avoid having our LLM hallucinate is…" But, instead, they are going with the reflexive tendency in the tech industry that "of course, it'll get better over time." The only idea they've had is to throw more context at it.

“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.” — Herman Melville

Yeah OK so this is really bad and no one should do this. blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

Every single Blue state should enact the most partisan possible district maps. Go crazy. Zero R districts. Under no circumstances should the Democrats enact any kind of non-partisan redistricting system until it is nation wide. Stop bringing knives to a gun fight. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

Big reveal! You only impeach and remove officials who were elected! You don't have to do that with officials that weren't!

A fun thought experiment tie to guess what the Roberts court thinks the 15th Amendment needs to have said to make the preclearance provision constitutional. “The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation, and we really mean it”?

Is that measured in real weeks or Trump weeks?

We all know that "anarcho-capitalism" is a contradiction in terms, right? There is no definition of anarchy in which the state has the powers that capitalism requires.

I would dearly love to know what Dropbox thinks its "core product" is, because it's become wildly apparent since ~2018 that they disagree with their entire customer base on that point.

In the time it took me to drive to the airport the Democratic Party now hates Sydney Sweeney's boobs? Or something? Could someone please check to see if there's a bug-fix version of this timeline?

There is literally no handmade thing that involves craft and art that should sell for as little as $10. Anyone who expects that is simply not being realistic about what it takes to make stuff.

I'm looking forward to attending FOSSY for the first time this year! In addition to my presentation, I'll also be staffing the #postgresql Community Booth. Stop by and talk community ideas with me!

I've always been (and continue to be) in the "Gawker was stupid to publish the tape" camp, but that does not change the fact that the lawsuit was terrible for the press in the United States, for many reasons. This article is very good on that.

I guarantee you that the admissions policy could be totally merit-based and colorblind (whatever that means), and the instant Columbia admits more than a few token brown people, the administration will slam down hard on them.

This is what happens in dictatorships. We're there.

Dear #Lawyers, Get back to your clients promptly, even if the reply is just, "Message received, will research, more in x days." The number one complaint to the Cal Bar is attorneys ghosting clients, and I can see why.

This is what I mean when I say that the US is, collectively, failing the Prisoner's Dilemma on a massive scale. Worse, it's the trivial version of the Prisoner's Dilemma where the prisoners can talk with each other.

I don't it is fully appreciated how much damage the Just World Fallacy does to humanity. People are desperate, *desperate* to find a way that disability is someone's "fault" rather than a thing that (ultimately) will happen to nearly all of us.

If nothing else, it would be worth the price of admission just to hear the GOP attempt to do a character assassination on him, and him giving them a cool stare of, "Yeah, and your old boy did all that, and worse."

It turns out "Are you for or against adults sexually molesting children?" is a tough vote that Republicans prefer not to go on record for either way.

I bet they're regretting doing the JFK assassination and Area 51 already.

Part of the reason journalists freak out about using chatbots like ChatGPT to do our work is that it breaks our already fragile bargain with our audience. They trust us as long as we only say true things—but that only works if we have chain-of-custody on the evidence that supports our assertions.