new yorkers en masse have expressed their enthusiasm for democratic socialism. but these forty men surveyed in the waiting room of the coeur d’alene family court have a different perspective

Rep. AOC posts new photo on Instagram celebrating the Knicks alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani

The Knicks finally figured out how to do the right thing.

Highly recommend open.spotify.com/episode/5LfW...

How interesting that Meta called @wired.com "dishonest" and then (quietly) removed the face-recognition system it had previously (also quietly) integrated into an app downloaded onto 50 million phones. Dishonest!

@davidfrum.bsky.social I enjoyed you interview of Marty Baron as I am sure McChesney would have. One little nit. Turn your mic off when you're scribbling notes!

@caseynewton.bsky.social / @kevinroose.com / @cloudcastpod.bsky.social I'm pretty skeptical about media hype over agentic and autonomous AI (AGI 🫣 - don't get me started). I spent my Saturday recording my thoughts. I hope you take a few minutes and give it a read. mreider.com/tech/why-ai-...

@kevinroose.com a few mentions of Hard Fork's hype amplification in here. No offense. 😇

I considered entitling this blog "You're full of shit about Agentic AI, he yells at no one." mreider.com/tech/why-ai-...

Signal For New Pope Delayed While Dead Raccoon Dislodged From Sistine Chapel Chimney

I was wrong about cryptocurrency. It does have a compelling use case. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/05/...

If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

We need to save some smoke for voters. Trump was very clear during the campaign that he planned to settle Russia's war on Ukraine quickly and on Putin's terms. 77 million people voted for him anyway, and now he's following through. American voters sold out our ally.

Farrah Fawcett was born #OTD in 1947. She died of a vaccine preventable cancer in 2009, just a few years after the HPV vaccine was approved.

I've been reading biographies about Prince, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Doobie Brothers, and then listening to artists and bands at work. Much better than joining the news cycle of doom.

Sam Harris is a jackass, but this is worth reading as a window into Elon's descent into madness samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...

Must be my magnetic charm.

Nach Linz beginnst 🤠

A blog about writing, AI writing tools, story-telling, and slop. mreider.com/tech/sudowri...

IMHO good (or any) product strategy is impossible without the pain of sacrifice. mreider.com/tech/trade_o...

We live in a part of Vienna dominated by these big stark apartment buildings. Each building has a unique mosaic art piece by the entrance.

Bluesky has early Twitter vibes and uncertain prospects. mreider.com/tech/blue_sk...

Credit to @davidhaunschi.bsky.social

Another little weekend software project: a static site generator like Hugo, but simpler and easier to control. I think it went faster without ChatGPT this time around. github.com/mreider/krems

I’ve been enjoying writing these every few days, finding my blogging voice—this one’s inspired by a great podcast on ambivalence. aligned.at/posts/certai...

A short blog about egocentric product thinking, which might come off as "get off my lawn” grumbling. aligned.at/posts/making...

Last night, I wrote about @vmware.bsky.social Cloud Foundry, and #kubernetes companies / projects that shaped my career and the enterprise software landscape. Quite a few facts and people aren't mentioned - I wanted to keep it short. aligned.at/posts/vmware...

My sentiments exactly

I built a relatively sophisticayed "subscribe" app using ChatGPT and wrote about it. You can see it running in the upper right hand corner of my (new) blog. aligned.at/posts/buildi...

Count me out. go.theregister.com/feed/www.the...

Someone just showed me how to create an app from any web page. Perfect for Bluesky. youtu.be/1o9Eoy28ec8

The CEO of Perplexity if full of spin. @kevinroose.bsky.social @caseynewton.bsky.social write.as/mr-grumpy-pa...

Clearly @kevinroose.bsky.social and @caseynewton.bsky.social need a good long shower, and a stiff drink, after interviewing @aravindsrinivas.bsky.social on podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... So. Much. Bullshit.

Say more of this and louder @nytimes.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I just had my thyroid scanned (everything is fine). Compared to the USA this was an amazingly efficient process. Dozens of people getting different kinds of scans. Clean, modern, spacious, fast, and free. (I live in Vienna)

Who would have predicted NFT startups would implode like this (besides anyone rational)? https://decrypt.co/153124/nft-platform-recur-to-shut-down-despite-50-million-raise-and-big-name-backers

I just published this re: Dynatrace and Spring Micrometer. https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/best-of-breed-observability-with-spring-micrometer-and-dynatrace/

My 15 year old daughter just said "let's go hiking tomorrow," and suddenly things seem bright and beautiful.

@coindesk.com using Hanna Arendt's image for Bitcoin articles is icky. Have you read any of her writing? Her writing pre-dates Libertarianism, and contemporary libertarian-crypto-utopia, but she's clear on the importance of state government in guaranteeing "the right to have rights."

Once upon a time I taught Science with Wilson Powell's daughter. He worked with Lawrence and Oppenheimer on magnetic igniters for the bomb. I re-connected after seeing the movie. Excited to talk about it with her. I feel haunted by it - can only imagine how she's feeling.

@carnage4life.bsky.social not enough critical thinking re: Threads in the Mastodon community. So far all I see are "we'll wait and see" and "this will be net positive." I don't see it that way. https://fosstodon.org/@mdr/110694317660165896

Why is #bluesky obsessed with Grimace and what am I missing?

Four days ago Reddit blocked bots that post via APIs. Predictably - most crypto subreddits are, like Elmer Fudd, vewwy vewwy quiet.

I wonder if @bsky.app will perform when it flips from centralized to distributed. I'm sure the team wonders the same thing. And I imagine there's a possibility it never flips over at all - though the protocol is horribly inefficient in that case.

The cliff notes on what happened last week in Russia? Authoritarianism in Russia is always complete chaos. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000618853053

If you want the full Viennese experience - living in the 22nd district is a bad choice. But if you have a dog, and enjoy the outdoors, it's perfect.

@alexsuraci.bsky.social what do you think so far? Sort of like crashing a party you weren't invited to, where people know the hosts, but you don't?

Especially salient episode of Hardfork. What can #bluesky learn from the implosion of trust and safety on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034?i=1000617248257 @kevinroose.bsky.social @caseynewton.bsky.social