The end of the Pelican era

In other news, users will open spam emails and scan QR codes despite security training because the security training is dumb

The "Let me make me a slide deck with Office" workflow: Takes you to "m365" dot "cloud" dot "microsoft" and then shows you a chatgpt wannabe. They lost the plot.

the two outfits for men

Yesterday I tried to make a PowerPpint and forgot the web site. So I figured “it’s probably Microsoft office”. And Microsoft has really made it hard to reach their office products now. And once you login for the fourth time, you can finally open a document. A cheap AI is running PM over there.

We went from the models being the moat to the apps and services that OpenAI and Anthropic built around them being the moat. They are shallow moats - with startups and chubby companies aiming for them. Time to deploy that cash on PR, lobbying and data centers.

Arena.ai reported this. And it is open source, weights to be released on July 27th.

"Trump is a loser and he's dragging the United States down with him" sure feels like a message that would resonate.

abolish ICE is the moderate position, so is “hunt ICE down and make them wish they were never fucking born”

Come meet Jason, ask questions, and hear how this campaign is taking on Rep. Auchincloss and the donor class behind him. All events are free and open to the public — no RSVP required. Go to poulos.house/events for details.

In 2026, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle plan to spend $725 billion on data center buildout. I wonder what other things in the economy are happening at that scale. Like, how does this compare to, I dunno, all road widening projects? Or global solar installations?

In celebration of his life, the tributes were all lies.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

The US and Russia have shown the world that there is no such thing as international law - just might. That’s on top of centuries weaponizing the law to cover up injustice. When the water boils, the dispossessed use the tools they have at their disposal.

Live in such a way that when you die, people don't need to be scolded for mentioning all the horrible shit you did.

I just spoke to Mitch McConnell - he said he sat in every job recruitment interview with Tang Tan and he never witnessed any wrongdoing and that no confidential apple documents were taken to OpenAI.

A full 2D platformer, built entirely on iPad. We partnered with Marco Paoletta on a new series where he builds a full 2D platformer with Godot on iPad using Xogot. Part 1 covers the foundation: setting up the player, movement, and the first level: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mAY...

the "23 state solution" is total normalization of relations between israel and the 22 arab league states in exchange for palestinian independence, which is...the two-state solution's carrot-and-stick going on 30 years

It’s giving glute massage

📣 The moment is here. 📣 TypeScript 7 is officially released! 7️⃣ devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

Another Mexican expression I love is “lo más seguro es que quiensabe”

Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

"Not ALL the single ladies" - Nuancé

The Founders always feared the emergence of an autocrat. Now, on its 250th anniversary, the US is under the thumb of an idiot Caesar. Everyone knows it’s a betrayal, which is why the celebrations are so muted.

Happy birthday America! The United States was started 250 years ago today, but it was not finished 250 years ago today. Our story is incomplete. Our Constitution is based on ideas from the French enlightenment. But we added racism to their ideas, and corrupted it. We're still fixing that mistake.

If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.

Nico Reese discusses changes in this year’s Liquid Glass gamery.app/blog/liquid-...

Sometimes people let us know that we can safely dismiss their ideas out of hand. Klein has achieved that status.

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

The US Presbyterian Church has just voted to divest from Palantir & GE Aerospace; recognize the genocide in Gaza; and call for an arms embargo and boycott of genocide-complicit Israeli companies. Cites Palantir & GE's tech being used by human rights violators like ICE, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

Who needs Anthropic Mythos when we have the Facebook leadership? www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

The second Mac Beta was exciting, but we have not forgotten about iOS. We also brought the Asset Placer to Xogot on iOS: blog.xogot.com/better-asset... We made a video explaining how to use it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBSc...

I got this into the Associated Press.

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

A professor in Tufts University’s School of Engineering required one of his international graduate students to work an unpaid TA job this past spring semester. After she went to her union and blew the whistle, Tufts withdrew her from her program. A thread of rage. 1/

Political scientist here: this is not funny, democracies only do this when they're in extreme distress

When you are a Swift compiler contributor, every day is Xmas! forums.swift.org/t/dropping-t...

By itself, this is both impeachable and cause for radical reform. The GOP Supreme Court does not even bother to explain the majority of its decisions. It's apparently too much to ask they at least barf up dishonest, unprincipled, poorly-reasoned excuses for their arbitrary exercise of power.

Every time I see an iOS UI with uppercase letters I am left wondering whether that was a design decision or if they left enabled the localization assistance.

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Our second Mac beta is packed with small improvements. I wrote up the details on our UI changes: We did bring a new feature. We licensed a third party asset placer to help you build worlds and ported it to SwiftUI: blog.xogot.com/xogot-on-mac...

So very Meta: "let's make sure we can prove other AI tools are just as bad, rather than focusing our attention on making ours better."

I spent weeks decoding this phrase from a book on fascism: “It initiated Mussolini to a form of revolutionary socialism based not on materialism or orthodox Marxism, but on a cocktail of voluntarists and anti-rational principles derived from Pareto, Le Bon, Nietzsche, and Sorel”

I have been trying to learn Arabic with Duolingo and I am just overwhelmed by the amount of ways of writing “a” and I can’t tell them apart.

Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M+ people in Venezuela, giving them seconds or up to two minutes notice before two powerful earthquakes struck (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Found this from my time working on maps for newspapers