I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

why bother watching Americans and Brits argue over who has the best food when I could simply watch two bald men fighting over a comb instead

daaaamn london

Blue Flower, by Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918 (rotated), 📸 by @cliveROSE.bsky.social

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

The main reason I'm glad I cover energy as my main gig, and that politics is just a goofy hobby of mine, is that in the energy world, *technology and economics are resolving the arguments*. In politics, no argument is ever resolved. It's just endless identity-based wankery all the way down.

Funny (not funny but you know) that a substantial number of people in this country can't accurately assess what's going on because they can't bring themselves to believe that someone could be this stupid, let alone the president

um filme sobre o filme vai se tornando cada dia mais necessário

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

Today, I'm excited to announce our next title! "Augment" is a forthcoming book featuring a collection of essays on the future of personal computing — specifically, on the kind we’d like to see more of in the future, and the ideas that might help us get there.

Wild to see every VC funded and publicly traded tech company rebrand to being an AI company Paging company —> the platform for AI-first operations CDN —> AI Cloud Helpdesk software —> AI-powered helpdesk platform o11y —> AI-powered intelligent o11y Everywhere…

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

Conservatives hate universities because they are broke outside the club, liberals think it’s gauche to brag, and foreigners self soothe by making “100 top universities for elite reproduction” lists that ignore the fact that, like, ETH Zurich and Oxford have a lower R&D budget than UW-Madison

University of Illinois spends ~10x the research budget of Polytechnique

This obviously not Bsky's *fault* or the fault of anyone on it. (This obsession with how to apportion blame is one of the weirder aspects of this particular pile-on.) And obviously it's not going to help anything for people to go back to X! It's toxic. More people should leave it!

In other words, the exodus wasn't quite big enough to a) drain X of its malign power, or b) make Bsky big & varied enough to attract a wider array of people (esp. normies) & give it serious juice of its own. The equilibrium we've settled into is worse, IMO, than pre-Musk Twitter. Worse for everyone!

I am not enjoying my October survey having so much predictive value. The TanStack compromise was pull_request_target + not there being such a thing as a read-only or isolated GitHub Actions workflow. These are unforced shortcomings of GitHub Actions! words.filippo.io/compromise-s...

This is an S-tier, gold standard write-up of the recent TanStack supply chain attack. Extremely impressive how fast it was detected and mitigated, even if part of it was good luck. tanstack.com/blog/npm-sup...

Mensa Reddit is amazing

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

I truly can’t get over the fact that we chose YAML-interpolated shell scripts as the default CI programming language. It’s so bad that we forgot how to handle untrusted inputs! (pull_request_target and issue_comment triggers should not be that unsafe! It’s just attacker controlled input.)

2. Move past adoption metrics and measure business impact. 3. Show zero tolerance for AI slop in all artifacts from status reports and Jira tickets to PRDs and code. It’s a cancer.

AI enables product teams to produce more code, but that doesn’t automatically mean more business value or better software. To achieve that, product teams need to 1. Focus on how AI accelerates the entire dev process not just coding. Ideation, problem solving, design, testing & deployment.

People are asking a lot of questions already answered by my I'm Not Worshipping A Golden Calf tshirt

wild stuff e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

Next time you say the inanity "there are no technical solutions to social problems", look up who popularized that saying and in what context

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

fuck you

sometimes I'm talking to someone on slack and it feels like our claudes should just get in a google meet and hash it out without us

Most sensible take on AI policy in OSS PRs I've seen yet: "If you feel like some project could use LLM assistance, donate money/tokens to it, there's no reason for you to generate stuff yourself if the maintainer has to review it either way."

rant that seemed to belong here

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/peace-4 #smbc #comics

We apologize for the fault in our code, those responsible for denouncing the people who have just been denounced, have been denounced

atproto devs watching mitchellh use tangled like he's the critic in ratatouille

It’s wild that the same media that couldn’t stop talking about inflation under Biden or signs of his mental decline are quiet AF now gas prices are close to $6 in my home city and the president’s bragging about passing a test where he was asked to recognize a picture of a bear.

Can't stop thinking about the McSweeney's Sad Dad Bands, (first published January 14, 2022.) Back on Twitter, I started a thread of my own riffs on Sad Dad Bands on January 17, 2022. Here is that thread, recreated. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

You can beat the binary search https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/

[cypher voice] I don't even read the prompts anymore

Inspired by @hankgreen.bsky.social's fun new timeline of photos from the Artemis II mission, I wrote up an answer to a question that's more pertinent these days than it may seem: Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? www.anildash.com/2026/04/30/a...

this is catastrophically untrue, and the fact that it's even come close to picking up currency on the left is a complete disaster for leftist governance. if you expropriated the entire wealth of every billionaire in the country, you could pay for the federal government for one year. that's it.

Now that's a KPI

I’ve spend years of my life building IDE tooling - plugins, new features for VSCode etc I haven’t open an IDE to code for months… the only reason I open zed from time to time is to edit .env file, or read some md file.

this would fix the website

All the cautionary AI tales sound like “I let my autonomous angle grinder into my loose piles of gunpowder collection room and it went bad” and the comments are all either “angle grinders are a sin from hell” or “such is the price of progress, brother”

This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.