Why did they hire a lawyer to write their bathroom sign

The world is going to run out of oil and fertilizer long before either of these sides runs out of crazy.

Happy Pride, motherfuckers.

One thing you have to respect about the black hat infosec community is their unwavering dedication to coming up with cool names for their exploits. https://www.wiz.io/blog/miasma-supply-chain-attack-targeting-redhat-npm-packages

Computers are just Wrong By Default now.

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Shooting 13 episodes of video totaling 80 minutes takes... much longer than the 90 minutes I budgeted.

I voted for Scott Wiener for congress and with major reservations for Steyer for governor. Also some other folks.

Tiktok leads all other forms of video consumption in our house by conservatively 100:1.

"I need to create a trucking company and I'm in a huge hurry" "Sure, what's the name of the company?" "SF... uh... Services" "Done"

We scraped the bottom of the barrel, there was nothing left, so we lifted the barrel and looked under the barrel and there we found one half of Milli Vanilli and Vanilla Ice.

Does everybody get those messages on LinkedIn where they offer to pay you like $500/hour to talk about some random technology? I assume it is some kind of scam?

Claude Code just called me "ma'am".

My most common form of intervention with my coding agent is to tell it stop fucking guessing and go search for the documentation.

The experience of running Windows 11 to try and play Minecraft with the 10 year old is one of total bewilderment and frustration at all times. Just an absolute horror show of user experience.

Sealy babies.

Another old project dredged up from the depths and refreshed, my ranking of the US presidents: https://presidents.fyi/

Today Wily actually *played fetch*. She ran after a ball, picked it up in her mouth, and brought it back! I know this sounds trivial but I wasn't sure we'd ever get there! This is a breakthrough five years in the making!

Resurrected an ancient little side project; https://sfstreethistory.com is a fun little interactive history of San Francisco based on why streets have their names.

The immigration system is set up like coming to America is a privilege America bestows and applicants should grovel for, when in fact immigration is a gift that America desperately requires. We should be begging people to come here, not erecting further barriers.

My girl.

This is a huge and horrible change to the lives of thousands of completely legal immigrants for no reason. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/green-card-changes-trump.html

The thing about securing npm is that it's incredibly expensive to do. Socket does it for money. If Microsoft tried to charge for securing npm they would be criticized for not doing it for free so instead they just... don't do it, leading to our current mess.

So I guess we're invading Cuba next? When does the world retaliate against our unprovoked aggression? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgpzwkn5jko

I cannot WAIT for the lawsuits about whatever it was that Ryan Breslow was personally doing that HR kept telling him to stop doing that led to him firing his entire HR team. https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/bolt-ceo-ryan-breslow-cut-hr-department-causing-problems-fintech-startup-turn-around/

Our house is 90 minutes away from anywhere, so whenever there's a power outage (as there was this morning) I know it will always be at least 90 minutes until power comes back, because that's how long it takes the truck to get here and discover there's a squirrel on the wire or whatever.

Honestly, "you should have whined about this earlier" is a poetically perfect outcome for Musk vs Altman. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/18/technology/openai-trial-verdict-altman-musk?unlocked_article_code=1.jVA.UAI2.nFuT-ScJBy7i&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Weird it's like people hate it when you tell them they will have no chance of getting a job https://www.businessinsider.com/students-boo-eric-schmidt-google-ceo-ai-university-arizona-2026-5

Early summer.

Hey remember when we invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president? Where is that guy? Is he gonna get a trial or something?

Calling everything "load-bearing" is the "gremlins" of Anthropic's models.

The kids are alright https://www.wired.com/story/overworked-ai-agents-turn-marxist-study/

Are robots people? Not when it comes to opinion polls.

The AI era is built on a number of key decisions whose wisdom is debatable. "This process uses basically infinity memory" "That's cool, we will build computers with infinity memory"

The UK just cannot seem to keep a hold of prime ministers these days. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1e2n923v1lt

Every time there's an npm breach, which feels like every day, I feel vaguely like I should apologize.

Getting spam tweets from an account advertising a spam call blocker. Guys.

How your email finds me

What questions do you have about AI? AI users and AI haters equally welcome to reply.

Every model name of car by Dodge is also an instruction to avoid something. Dodge Ram, Dodge dart, dodge viper.

Hello internet, here is the most recent picture of my dog. I would love to see the most recent picture of your own dog.

"If you can work anywhere, why would you work for Elon Musk?" seems to be a question that belatedly occurs to all xAI staff: https://www.techmeme.com/260509/p2#a260509p2

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If you have suddenly unlocked a superpower that allows everyone you employ to be 2x (4x, 10x, whatever) more efficient and your response is to lay off a bunch of people instead of *doing more stuff*, why do you even run a company?

How many instructions can you give an LLM before it starts to forget about some of them? How long can your skill file be? How big can your prompt get? I did some actual *research*! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/models-got-order-magnitude-better-following-one-year-laurie-voss-9fymc/

I'm a person whose skin naturally has a lot of small, dark moles. I also live in an area where ticks are regularly found. These two facts sit uncomfortably with each other.