Nothing quite like taking a bite of your first meal of the day, then getting hit with a surprise embargo lifting in an hour and a half. I just want to enjoy my popcorn chicken

Not for nothing, but my lease renewal is coming up in a few months, and it's going to hit different

Unfortunately, Phoebe Bridgers is not a match for the construction sounds happening somewhere in my building

I spent almost two hours giving paperwork and my fingerprints for a visa application, reminding me that despite being a permanent resident, my passport remains 79th in the passport power ranking

I will die for Mico, but Clippy can go DIAF

Sorry, Atlas, as terrible as Chrome can be, I'm still not convinced I'd use Atlas beyond testing it for work

Airlines would make a lot of money if they offered a ticket specific for people applying for a Schengen visa. Like a special price to create dummy tickets that can be converted to real flights for an additional fee

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas, where people can "chat with the browser" venturebeat.com/ai/openai-re...

Well, the VentureBeat site is part of the AWS outage so you might've missed this story from me today venturebeat.com/ai/claude-co...

For a hot sec there, NYT Games seemed to be a casualty of the AWS outage but Connections is working again so I guess all is right in the world...oh damn, fine, I guess I'll keep writing this embargo then

The AWS outage happened too early this Monday to actually be useful aka it would've been nice to push work back a few hours

Before I buy Ghost of Yotei, I decided to at least get halfway through Ghost of Tsushima since I couldn't devote time to it last year when I started. Oh dear, a mistake has been made because I cannot stop playing now

I am so sorry for whoever is borrowing Empire of AI from QPL right after me. But I've been reading it at the same time as Moderation and I plan on not returning it on its due date today

Have you ever procrastinated so hard that the next day you're completely overwhelmed because you have three stories to write, pitch another story and eat something to stay alive? Yeah, me today

FTC seeking information on "companion AI" platforms, but interestingly, Replit isn't part of the list? www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Excited to join @oregonstate.edu and learn more how robotics and AI for robotics is advancing

While I still like the name nanobanana, it is good that we finally know that the new image model making waves on social media is actually Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and not a small banana. I want a banana sundae now venturebeat.com/ai/gemini-ex...

Sourcing request: I'm writing a story about the rise of asynchronous coding agents, and looking for people who use them. Do you like Jules or Codex? Have these helped close more tickets? Or does it feel like they're still trying to find their footing? Let's chat at [email protected]

It might be a bad idea to visit DC now, but this trip has been planned for a while now, and I didn't pay for the flexible cancellation on Amtrak. So uhhhhh gorram it

Once again, I am so sorry to my neighbors that I am blasting T Swift and singing ATWTVTMV at the top of my lungs. Blame her for never taking a break and releasing new content every six months (also sorry to my editors, it's taking twice as long to write, I take singing breaks)

Every OpenAI livestream, I get so distracted by the interior decorating choices they make. Like very beige millennial Scandi minimalism

Big week of AI model and product releases. Unfortunately, I let social media rabbit holes win these past few nights and I am very tired to keep up

How did I manage to go to an office in the Financial District when I lived in Harlem five days a week, and now struggle just going from Queens to Midtown two days in a row?

This has been my Fyre Festival this week, and the most mainstream enterprise tech has been in a while www.axios.com/2025/07/18/c...

This whole deal is a mess and a half venturebeat.com/programming-...

Pretty sure this isn't the use of Bluesky yet, but my neighbor's AC unit is dripping onto mine and the tapping sound is lowkey driving me nuts. I know I can get one of those silicon mats but that feels like a recipe for mold (also I can't really reach outside my window to add it). Any ideas?

Just helped a family get into their Waymo. Did that count as tech support?

How do I know blockchain is facing a resurgence? There were a lot more blockchain billboards in addition to the AI ones coming from SFO

Never underestimate the impact of having to change your commute on your willingness to go out and be social. For example, the 7 is down the entire weekend, and even though the plan has always been take the N to Manhattan for a party, I’m now too lazy to wait for the shuttle bus to get to the N

Note to PR people: There's been an influx of guest post spam in my Inbox so I'm about to block any subject line with the word guest post. So don't use that phrasing so you're not lumped into those scammers who want to buy a guest post/link back/SEO

For the third time in a month and a half, Spectrum is down again during work hours. I’d move to Verizon but they haven’t turned on the service they installed in my building last month. I cannot wait to remove myself from Spectrum’s stranglehold and actually get reliable ISP

Complain about the outage not affecting you and you end up assigning yourself the breaking news that literally everything AI is now affected by GCP and Cloudflare

Cloudflare and GCP seems to be down and yet, not for me because I continue to be in meetings

Oh, don't mind me, just have MHE and AVPM/AVPS on loop because I parasocially am so proud and happy Darren Criss won a Tony. Knew if from the moment I decided to buy hot pink Ray-Bans

VB Transform is almost here. I'm hosting roundtables on everyone's favorite topic (if it isn't, you're wrong), AI orchestration. There are other great speakers, but I know you want to chat about orchestration frameworks, so join me in San Francisco on June 24-25 www.vbtransform.com/vb-transform...

had a great time on a NY Tech Week panel yesterday about AI + the supply chain with @mariaaspan.bsky.social & @miyadavid.bsky.social ✨

Pump all glimpses of Witcher Ciri into my veins because it's the only true ending (also Yennifer over Triss, bite me)

I need to yell with someone about Reality War because omg what how why when WHO IS SHE NOW

Why do the clear Command hooks always fall but the opaque ones don't? Two of the clear hooks fell today and I'm too lazy to put them back up

My joy now that I can listen to Reputation and "Getaway Car" is inexplicable

Insider Union forever ✊🏼

@businessinsider union: Layoffs are due to "strategic failures" of leadership: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/u...

People yelling that season 2 of TLOU shouldn't have followed Part II of the game is like people yelling that the Titanic shouldn't have sunk at the end of the movie. The Abby conceit is the reason I prefer Part II and my god, by the time you reach Santa Barbara, you don't know who to root for

And now we have the coding agent fight venturebeat.com/ai/googles-j...

Google, have you learned nothing from Lens? Don't be putting things in front of people while walking. Imagine the number of people accidentally walking into trash cans walking around watching their glasses screens

NGL, I miss last year's I/O DJ

Fuck you Spectrum for going down in the middle of the I/O press briefing. I cannot wait to change internet providers

I bought a standing desk on Marketplace and stubbornly set it up by myself and on the Sunday before Build/IO/Everything because self-control has never met me

Honestly, with Build and I/O all happening next week, I truly do not have the bandwidth to take on any other stories for at least Monday to Tuesday. I feel like Microsoft and Google just want to see husks of tech journalists and that's why their dev conferences are within a day of each other

Friend: Oh, he’s Augustinian Me: Okay, which of the Philippine schools is that? CSA right?