4. In vibes-based orgs, the PM game is to attach oneself, barnacle-like, to whatever direction or decision is gonna happen regardless, and convincingly argue that you helped make it reality. Shame and modesty have no place in this kind of product org. In fact, they tend to make you look weak.

“bsky” isn’t mad, but your algorithm is, apparently.

ohhhh now it makes sense

Fantastic thread linking Taiwanese independence, the state of the chip market, and the stability of the US economy.

For the record:

“erm you can’t just criticize me for using AI; it’s a tool” buddy fucking watch me. you have no idea how broad i can get. the sheer array of sweeping judgment at my disposal is staggering. i can, and will, generalize about you in terms that will make your head spin

If you’re more upset about your tax dollars going to buy newborns diapers than about them being spent to bomb a girls’ school, there is something seriously wrong with you

Oh hell yes

Even though I've made this joke myself I actually really hate the "all developers have to be engineering managers now with agents" No, they all need to be tech leads, not ems. Unless you're having to deal with the agents' interpersonal issues and the PM distracting them and getting them promoted and

OH: Help, i've fallen into SRE and I can't get up

This /r/wallstreetbets letter to the SEC about scrapping quarterly reporting is everything

enjoy PROGRAMMING? why not try Haskell Job? we got: - which of these processes ate the whole connection pool - no seriously why did the db just do that - wait it's working now - no the db's still fucked - idk what happened I guess it fixed itself - monad tutorial guy

Photographer in the 60s: Here is an iconic picture of a Black person being treated poorly by white authority figures, presented as a cautionary tale Republican leadership in the 20s: At long last we have recreated the iconic picture of a Black person being treated poorly by white authority figures

in theory if you're done enough managing up then all that's left is going to twice as many meetings

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

this is the indomitable spirit of america

My fellow millennials: skinny jeans are both uncomfortable AND now instantly mark you as Ancient and Uncool. Embrace Big Pants thought.

Low Libido Beef Burrito

LT. SURGE: You challenge me? I’ll show you why they call me The Lightning American! RED: What’s an American? *2 HOURS LATER* RED: Even the babies? LT. SURGE: Smallpox doesn’t discriminate. Now, you know how Pokemon are intelligent but we own them? RED: *sobs* LT. SURGE: Just take the badge.

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Cede Maine to Canada. Let it be their problem moving forward.

The options were Fetterman and Oz. As bad as Fetterman is, it's still a good thing that he beat Oz. I know this is difficult to grasp.

PAIN

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

microsoft may actually have managed mismanage github so badly that it loses its effective monopoly despite none of its aspiring competitors being remotely prepared to replace it. incredible

tmw you forgot a meeting and scrambled to log on like 3 seconds before then waited 15 min and left because everyone else also forgot the meeting

working out if i can report the anti-anti-ai labeller on the ungrounded assumption that the moderator believes in roko's basilisk and thus the list itself is wishing harm on people, and thus against bluesky's terms of service

i've seen "it would really stick it to the devs if we left bsky" posts & no it wouldn't. they want this web site to be boring crypto idiots who cool their phones off in pools chatting with AI reply bots. instead they have to put up with us and that's deeply funny

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

That Palantir would do this is both shocking—not because this is some weird heel turn, but because it is a fully mask-off moment for tech bro fascisti—and also the least surprising thing from a company that has always been creepy as fuck.

One of my favorite things is finding gems unrelated to what I’m researching A Texas guy in the ‘70s related to a local paper that during the 1916 border mobilization, he witnessed the 1st NH Inf band play “Marching Thru Georgia,” causing a nearby GA unit to threaten to attack. Regulars intervened

“it’s not antisemitic! It doesnt mean Jews! It’s just a dogwhistle word referencing rootless educated cosmopolitans who are outside the morals of the Christian world!”

When I was in middle school our youth group leader was a relatively young priest and because this was the 90s and high D.A.R.E. time frame I used to complain to my mom that he smoked cigarettes and my mom was like "he's given up sex, let the man smoke"

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

And for the record, when we say that requests are "winding down," the thing we mean right now is "we are only sending around 25,000 whistles per week."

biden voter with an audi saying "don't increase my property tax to pay for a library" is just the average bay area resident

I didn’t think this post through and now there are a lot of questions about my driver rating

BREAKING: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian elections after 16 years in power - with opposition Tisza party on course for landslide victory.

the Hungarian super-majority margin is going to be thin enough that it is quite possible that JD Vance going there got enough people to the polls to spite him to make it possible

It’s obvious why young adult happiness has plummeted. When Millenials were young, we may have graduated into the Great Recession, but Mara Jade was canon and so was Talon Kardde. Today’s youth have no such assurances. They don’t even have Winter Celchu. And the Democrats don’t care.

The spectacle of the sweaty Secretary of State and the abstracted elderly President attending a UFC fight while a young man, totally out of his depth, failed to negotiate an end to this disastrous adventure should, in a healthy democracy, be leading to the immediate end of this administration

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

Then more things change, the more they stay the same

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

We thought we were living in a cyberpunk dystopia but this is actually straight from Warhammer 40K. The machine spirit must be appeased using the proper rituals. Blessings affixed with purity seals will keep the cogitator functioning.