Just watched the entire Fox interview with Mamdani and holy SHIT he killed it. This level of message discipline, framing the pitch to fit the priors & biases of the target audience, outflanking them on key narratives like mom-and-pop businesses — it is absolutely unbelievable to see this brilliance.

This is art.

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

Dear @americanair.bsky.social You've changed your upcoming DFW-LAX from terminal D, to C, to D, to A while my friend is trying to get home. ...you could do a REALLY funny thing right now by changing it back to terminal D. cc @dbsmasher.com

Hands up if you're actually trying to build small, discrete, cellularized services because you understand that "globally scalable multi region" backed by an overly complex data management strategy IS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO. Stop building big distributed systems when you can avoid them.

"There is also the enduring suspicion that some workers slack off at home." If you're so incompetent that you don't know how to measure the performance of your employees, just say so. Their location makes no difference to that. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too) despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2...

People who hate JIRA are like people who hate coffee or brussel sprouts. After the first time someone prepares it well for you with high quality ingredients/setup you'll never want to do without it. But getting that correct is arcane knowledge from the farthest places known to only a select few.

Me: sweet! Made a list of all the things I have to do this week! That's Monday done, right? Brain: you still have to do the actual work, dumbass. Me: 😒 stupid brain. Brain: ...I heard that.

Fellow nerds! I love playing D&D but I've struggled to be a good DM. Memorizing exact details has been a struggle for me. I needed an assistant.. so I made one. It listens on a discord channel, transcribes the chat, and uses Claude as your personal DM assistant: github.com/avleen/dnd_d...

I bet Congressman Gill would eat a New York slice with a fork and knife.

Last week Xe Iaso wrote a fantastic post on the problem AI is going to create for the next gen of engineers. History shows us that we have more reasons to be hopeful than we did in the past. The future can be bright if each of us chooses it to be. blog.silverwraith.com/2025/06/the-...

Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”

Could you use a croissant as a hot dog bun? @logik.al ?

I asked my friends if it was bedtime yet. @dbsmasher.com kindly informed my that it wasn't even 8pm in my time zone. So now we have: isitbedtimeyet.foo You can see what other time zones look like with: isitbedtimeyet.foo/tz/Asia/Seoul 30 minutes with some JS, Claude and Cloudflare workers.

A mini incident report has been published for yesterday's Google cloud outage: status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow... Summary:

All the hugs to my friends at Google Cloud today.

OH: "Factorio's worse than code bc you actually WANT to refactor it, so you do, but you don't get paid." - @esk.lol

Remember kids, women are too emotional to lead.

In today's Strands you can spell MONORAIL two ways, and neither of them are a correct answer.

Me: Empty gmail trash Gmail: All messages deleted! Me: Refresh Gmail: 1400 emails in trash! Who hurt you, Gmail? And why are you like this?

This week while on vacation, @raejinmoon.bsky.social asked for a Spotify playlist with every BTS song, including solos. I didn't have my laptop with me, just a tablet. GitHub codespaces + Claude churned out 900 lines of good code, tests and documentation for a Spotify Playlist Generator. 1/n

OH: I GOT COFFEE TODAY MOTHERFUCKERS

The Blue Report is amazing. The most clicked on articles are right here theblue.report

RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore

This is why I left Facebook.

All you PhDs, can't you see, can't you see? How AI's affecting our security? The models that you train, You can build them right, That'd be better than this shite. cybersecuritynews.com/deepseek-dat...

It turns out there's a good use for LLMs: if you go on an epic rant in Slack, you can copy and paste the whole thing to chatgpt/copilot and they can turn it into a nice, professional, detailed blog post!

J.D. Vance's lecture in Europe basically convinced every country to quietly create a new secret group chat without the US.

remember, signal is the only decent dm platform. all the others exist for sharing a signal handle, the way internet explorer is there to install chrome

I'm going to business hell for this one

Someone asked why r/welding has the progress flag and ally flag in the header of the subreddit. And I fucking *LOVE* the response from one of the mods. We need more of this energy. #pride #queer #ally

Tell your friends. Tell your kids. Tell everyone. People will want to speak up proudly about their involvement in protests, movements and activities. Tell them to SHUT THE FUCK UP.

ITS SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:

NYT and WaPo still aren't running with the names WIRED published 3 days ago

👋EU people: There's a citizen petition calling on the EU to ban "conversion therapy" to "cure" LGBTQ+ folks, a process people who've experienced it describe as "torture". It needs about 5x its current votes to be considered but is especially in need of voters from: Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, Belgium

NASA did a feature on me last year. It was up this weekend but now when you click on the link you get a 404 message.

The store is now selling "I will de-Nazify shit but I will not re-Nazify shit" tshirts and I hope they sell a million of them, lol

The CIA published a pamphlet on how individual citizens could sabotage fascist regimes during WWII, and it is now declassified and available for free on Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184 If you have been struggling to know how to resist, start here.

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Which Large Language Model do you prefer? The one that thinks trans people don’t exist or the one that doesn’t want to talk about Tianmen Square in 1989?

They set up a snitch line for DEI in the federal government. If you feel like sending your best copies of the bee movie script or some queer smut, have at it. [email protected]

I've been avoiding subbing to news because of repeated questions as to NYC/WaPo/etc's standing. After yesterday I was convinced I wanted nothing to do with any of them Wired just won my money for having the integrity to call this what it is. Support honest, real journalism. We're going to need it.

MIKE JOHNSON: "We are going to raise the flags to flatter the fake Christian and dishonor the real Christian." MOTHER NATURE: "No, you're not, you sanctimonious pixie."

Forget about the salute. What are you gonna do when your tech employer asks you to automate nazi policies?

Elon doing a Sieg Heil was not at the top of my list, and he certainly exceeded expectations 🙄 Hours. It's been hours. Do not let the media or anyone else gas light you. This act has only one meaning. No one does it just because they're "excited".