Opus- hard stuff Sonnet- difficult stuff Copilot/Codex- work horse because I have so much usage quota and it is almost as good as Sonnet. Gemini- Look for bugs, do the type annotations, do the lint, write basic unit tests Kilo/Opencode's free models- not using them much...

#msteams shows your status as the white circle of death while connecting to the network. The white circle of death is the "this person has been fired" status symbol. Grey (x) means offline/don't know.

The US Administration is implementing its $100,000 tax on entry by high-skill foreign workers. It's by far the largest tariff on services trade in history. A single document has emerged to make the Administration's economic case for the tax. Incredibly, it is packed with basic, large errors. 🧵—>

Well shit. Next war my neighborhood is going to get blown up, with all the data centers and all.

I don't know if agentic coding is going to fly in a corporate environment. I need to write in my AGENTS . md file `if you prefix any more variables with _ as a signal of "private", I will knife you` and not sure you can do that at the office.

"toilet go for use!" "that's one small shit for a man..."

Mission control confirms ‘toilet go for use’ after glitch sorted

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has been named a 2026 recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, to be presented in May, honoring his defense of the Fed’s independence amid intense political pressure and personal attacks.👇

Google's Gemini and Codex will do what Microsoft couldn't make me do for decades. Learn Powershell. Those bots seem to have been forced to use powershell. They keep trying to use bash syntax tho.

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The nonsensical removal of the 15th Street bike lanes has been delayed, but is still a threat. I’ll keep fighting to protect this vital DC-area transit corridor. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. bombed a drug lab in Ecuador. In fact, it was a) just a farm that b) was actually doused with fuel and burned by Ecuadorean soldiers. All that's left is a bunch of burned chicken corpses, confused hogs, and a baffled farmer. All to make Trump look like a big man.

The anti-LLM sentiment on Mastodon has gone from tepid to incendiary over the last year or two. I'm not really sold on the incendiary arguments because it just so emotionally over the top.

Most of my side projects were either python libraries or CLI tools. I'm having the LLM write tkinter GUIs for many of them because it help with the discoverability. You might still ultimately use it as a python library or part of a bash script, but the GUI shows you how it works.

I think this fixes it.

Under a Homeland Security program, police departments around the US are signing up to assist in immigration enforcement. The cops of Carroll, New Hampshire, are going all in—and they’re likely not alone.

Fix your PATH with pathkeeper - it got messed up somehow, this will try to repopulate it - backup and restore so you can keep it fixed Vibe coded, but subjected to a fairly strict build script and I did some user testing. pypi.org/project/path...

Dozens of volunteers, mostly over the age of 70, offer rides and serve as interpreters

Well, I guess I'm on backup mastodon for the day. Mastodon Social is barely standing. Probably was out drinking Ouzo all night. status.mastodon.social

This is no joke. Helium is only made slowly via radioactive decay and we use it far faster than it's produced in unusable quantities. It's critical for physics and astronomy tech as well. But kids love balloons, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Who'll to do it? I'll `make claude` ```Makefile claude: claude --allow-dangerously-skip-permissions ```

Let's Pedestrize the Beltway! Positioned to experience great benefits from the creation of a pedestrianized zone; the region would see an increase in safety, economic impact, and livability, and a decrease in pollutants, injuries, and stress. More information: jeramyolmack.com/pedestrianiz...

Cheddar cheese from California-based Raw Farm identified as ‘likely source’ of infections across multiple states

Under oath, ICE agents in Oregon revealed: -quota of eight arrests a day per team, equaling roughly 50 arrests a day in OR -agents use a special app to choose areas + ppl to surveil -agents have followed, stopped + arrested ppl without probable cause, warrants or basic info about their targets.

How to pick a model: Can it be f*ked up & stakes are high? Opus. That's it. Most frontier of frontier models. Are mistakes self revealing? gpt5/sonnet/gemini There is no right or wrong, stakes are low. Chinese model. This is an easy, repetitive task (classification, etc). Chinese model.

So where do I create value now, as a sloperator? I come up with cool slop-portmanteaus. I click approve.

wait are these the actual paid protesters

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Safari Writer 0.1.1 - I can't believe how much I've* implemented since Friday evening. I'm starting to expand scope and get too ambitious. pypi.org/project/safa... [*] the bots

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective. He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

How much impact will AI be? Well, look at the history of mathematics. We, as humans, figured out how to do advanced math 100s of yeas ago. It didn't have a huge impact for 100s of years. No way to tell if AI is going to be a sleeper technology or have a real impact now.

Hanne Daguman said she "genuinely feared for [her] health" after being denied insulin, causing her to lose vision and collapse.

Fairfax county voters: Early voting on the redistricting referendum has begun. Go to your early voting locations. Find them here In-Person Early Voting | Elections share.google/sbR3USAT6ZbZ...

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket. When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.” Video + interview with her and her daughter:

President Barack Obama released a video message urging Virginians to vote YES in the April 21 referendum, calling the measure a “responsible, temporary step” to protect fair representation at a moment when “free and fair elections are under threat.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPp8...

I don't understand why Noem was fired and Gonzales is being asked to end his reelection campaign. They're just copying the leader, this is what Republicans want, *hetero* sexual degeneracy is their brand.

UK pensioner on holiday detained by ICE for 6 weeks even though she had a valid visa. Finally home, but minus her luggage. DON'T TRAVEL TO THE US 🇺🇸 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Department of [War|Defense] is switching to ChatGPT 4o because Hegthseth et al are emotionally fragile and need constant reassurance they're the best, the smartest, America is the best and everyone else it out to get them.

Well cross that off my list of alternative career paths. DJ's actually do work www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukku...

This is our future www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9On...

It is starting to be possible to get a local model to use tools, possible as in, reasonably easy to setup with lmstudio www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UGl...

Playing around with this website The run up in IT job listings and collapse is almost entirely ever-green posts that are left up for more than 7 days. data.indeed.com#/postings

Well at least technology will never replace the tasks that can only be done by a human brain. Uh-oh. www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

NEWS: Trump will order the military to kill Dr. Evil. Just Dr. Evil. Frau Farbissina will be assuming the role afterwards.

Why NASA is important from the guy who does the best videos on exoplanets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKN6...

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28. Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier. The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

This war was an elaborate furry joke?

The guy was 86. Trump could have just waited a few years like we have to wait. Now that he's a martyr, whatever political camp he represented gets a boost in the game of thrones. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I keep trying to write clever blog entries with Deep Realizations about government tech, while failing to document the simple, fundamental truths that guide my work. So here's one of those fundamental truths: government simply has to hire people who understand how technology works.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t