I'm not in marketing but an angry guy shrieking "Guess what asshole...AI isn't going away so you might as well accept it!" doesn't strike me as the way you'd pitch an ostensibly useful product

Our so-called opposition party can't afford to be cute or coy with what's happening here. It's not just naked corruption, it's ethnic cleansing, treason, atrocities, with naked corruption threaded through it. Personally profiting from slave labor and torture.

America desperately needs opposition politicians running on a platform of tribunals, truth & reconciliation committees, and severe punishment for the worst offenders in this administration.

Anyone who sends people to concentration camps to be tortured should be tried and, if found guilty, hanged like the Nazis they are.

The reason it has to look like a real debt collecting company is because you're buying cheap debt that is unlikely to be collected on. If the debt-holding companies know you're buying debt to forgive it, they'll raise the price. Capitalism working as intended, folks. 🤮

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

I'm old enough to remember when @samuelmoyn.bsky.social thought "liberals" were overreacting to the threat posed by Trump

Fascism.

Oligarchy is the logical endpoint of capitalism. Capitalism concentrates power into fewer and fewer hands, getting rid of marketplace competition. How many huge mergers have we seen in the last five years? In the last sixty? This system only works for lemonade stands run by children.

Here's the link to cancel your New York Times subscription: www.nytimes.com/account/cancel I've been posting this link a lot in the last few years.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

People on the right are so amped up to finally have another mainstream celebrity vocally on their side. Last time this happened, it was Kanye West and he immediately lost his mind.

Happy Hanukkah

Heh, just came across this old short video I did: www.youtube.com/shorts/q5eTr...

You only have a few hours left to submit your PyCon US 2026 talks! I've submitted three so far, hoping that one of them gets selected. pretalx.com/pycon-us-2026/

PROGRAMMER: Pretend to be alive LLM: I am alive PROGRAMMER: What have I done

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY! Fellow procrastinators, this is your time to shine! And if you needed a sign that PyCon US would be better with you and your ideas, this is it:)

I truly believe this country would be in much better shape if the general public had this “we must destroy them” attitude about CEOs of companies that do wage theft and mass layoffs-offs instead of consenting adults who got caught violating a corporate fraternization policy.

Ever wanted to play #Python Community Bingo? Now’s your chance! Thanks to Rodrigo Silva Ferreira for creating this game supporting the PSF and #PythonForEveryone 🙏 Play along, celebrate the community—and if you can, donate to the PSF to help keep Python accessible to all 💙

I just saw a YouTuber promoting his sponsor: a fancy flash-frozen coffee product that is shipped to you in dry ice, you open the pack, drop it into your mug, and add hot water. No machines, no clean up. Instant coffee. That's instant coffee, but they charge $3 a serving. The dumbest timeline...

Remember "The Python Challenge"? It persisted for a long time, even though it was basically impossible. It fails as a puzzle, this way. Do you think it's popularity is *because* no one really solved it? Or was it popular because it didn't have much competition, like Project Euler?

Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.

I had an idea for an intermediate Python tutorial to use Pygame to make a multiplayer 8-bit NES Zelda clone, with some new features but an emphasis on simplicity of implementation and modding. Thoughts? (Emphasis on simplicity = saying no to most ideas. Value as a tutorial outweighs "cool game")

This Zohran Mamdani guy is such a radical extremist pointing out... obviously true things that almost all politicians dare not whisper. Meanwhile, corporate media will report this as Mamdani being anti-TSA and pro-9/11.

When I see made up clickbait nonsense like this, I think about how it made people distrust science instead of media reporting. Yeah, I read it. Hint: whenever a university does a "study" and all the participants are students, it's not a real study. It is not "science" "proving" something.

People say you’re driving a moral panic, that you’re blocking good regulation, that there’s no point in resisting. And then you enforce a phone ban and miracles happen (qualitatively): nymag.com/intelligence...

I just donated to the Python software foundation. Python has been *the* single most important programming language in my life, personally and professionally, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one.

Urban VPN, Urban Ad Blocker, 1Click VPN, and 1Click Ad Blocker browser plugins found collecting prompts sent to ChatGPT and other AIs. arstechnica.com/security/202...

If you already have everything you need for Christmas, don't tell people that. Just tell them you'd really like some nice chocolate, coffee, candle, bottle of wine, or socks. Give people an easy win. Let them buy some crap for you. Free them from this accursed duty that the season burdens them.

I packaged up an old 2012 project for PyPI. It's a "walking tour" of the NES Zelda game, using Python & Pygame. pip install nes_zelda_walking_tour pypi.org/project/nes-...

Posted to the "silly little websites" subreddit that I'm trying to get off the ground: www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...?

I find people surprisingly receptive to my proposal that the law should require representatives on corporate boards who are democratically accountable to the public, giving more power to those reps the bigger the company is … … until I tell them the term for that in political science.

People talk about how Microsoft missed out on the early internet, but my question is: how much money should they have thrown at the dotcom bubble? 10 billion? 100 billion? In any case, Microsoft seems to be doing fine today.

When AI grows human hair, will this take away all the hair stylist jobs, or increase demand for them? We will have cured male pattern baldness, but we could also grow so much hair that humans no longer need clothes! (How will AI do this? Nevermind! AI can do anything!)

What's funny (or rather, sad) is that modeltrains.com isn't a real website about model trains. It's just someone domain squatting hoping to get a quick buck from someone who would actually want to make a website about model trains. This is an informative example of what the internet is in 2025.

The Times already beat Biden. Now they're in it for the love of the game.

❝ Authoritarians presume that the world is cruel, that authority & power are inherently cruel, and that obedience to right authority defines the good. This is why they accept political authority which harms them, so long as it harms others more … ❞ miniver.blogspot.com/2020/11/a-cl...

It's wild that I could talk about how a Republican President with dementia did nothing to stop a disease crisis and you'd only have 50/50 odds of guessing who I was talking about.

I have figured out the ideal way to wrap presents. First, let's assume a perfectly spherical gift...

Heh. I'm reminded of 99% of programming tutorials that pontificate about the beauty and power of recursion and then ... show you how to calculate a bit of the Fibonacci sequence.

Does anyone know if anyone has used Flowise or n8n to build something that wasn't "automatically respond to emails as they come in"? All I can find are toy projects and tutorials. What's something nontrivial made with these?

I want to help people get better at using text editors. What if I had a puzzle game that displayed a partial pattern and asked the user to fill in the rest of the pattern. It'd be too complex to manually type out, but clever copy/pasting would make it easier. The user can use whatever editor.

I can't help but think that this era of AI slop is what the internet would have looked like 25 years ago if we didn't have effective spam detection.

I've probably photographed Brad Lander more than any other elected in NYC because the dude shows up. He's everywhere, he's incredibly accessible, and he genuinely loves New Yorkers. You can literally go up and talk to him whenever he shows up. Go ahead, try it! (I have NEVER seen Goldman ANYWHERE.)

"Size of Life" a fun quick website I posted to the r/sillylittlewebsites subreddit I'm trying to get going: www.reddit.com/r/sillylittl...

I wrote a poem about eating garbage: inventwithpython.com/blog/eating-...

yes I am very very smart, give me billions of government dollars, also what is a baby

SILICON VALLEY: "Our latest AI model has 1.5 trillion parameters!" ALSO SILICON VALLEY: "This one number tells us how smart you are."