From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship https://theonion.com/in-defense-of-mass-censorship-1848673776/

🚀 Excited to welcome @jamesdaniels.net from @firebase.com to #AngularConnect 2025! His talk “From Browser to Edge: Supercharging Angular with WASM” will show how WebAssembly unlocks next-level performance for Angular apps. ⚡🌍 Big thanks to @firebase.com for your support! 🙏 👉 angularconnect.com

logging onto Bluesky

A new term for SRE just dropped. Or really…a lot of my life even outside tech.

I declare this National Brotherhood Week in memoriam Tom Lehrer youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY?...

You WILLL NOT guess what this is about. But I encourage you to try before clicking through for the answer. www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/s/X...

It's hilarious that they genuinely don't seem to understand the difference between "the entire body of scientific research into quantum physics" and "what I've kind of passively absorbed through pop culture over the past twenty years"

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

“I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East.”

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president Voters: Like not voting for his nominees? Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap

In retrospect, the flaw in the Turing Test was always using human discernment as the model to measure against. LLMs easily pass the Turing Test, not because they’re sentient, but because we’re dumbasses who interpret the most dopamine-supplying response to ourselves as the most intelligently human.

Bluesky right now:

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

The Angular Mascot RFC is live and you should go vote. I'm really pulling for the Angular fish designs. So definitely vote for 2️⃣ or 3️⃣. I guess you can vote for 1️⃣, if you like it, but you're missing an opportunity for an adorable pun mascot. github.com/angular/angu...

It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.

dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy

this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

Actually the best life advice I ever got: Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. A half-cleaned room is better than an uncleaned room. Occasionally flossing is better than never flossing. A 10-minute workout is better than no workout. When it’s all you can do to get out of bed, get out of bed.

Bluetooth troubleshooting

on this date eight years ago, Tom Holland wowed Zendaya on Lip Sync Battle with his cultural critique of impervious surface stormwater runoff.

started drafting a post about RSC myths. any other myths you want to see addressed (or wanted to ask about)?

branch 1: president branch 2: congress branch 3: president pro tempora branch 4: ruling judges branch 5: a little bit of monica in my life branch 6: military branch 7: boy scouts branch 8: branch davidians branch 9: commissioner of the NFL branches 10-13: [unexplained]

Somehow Elon is going to burn his finger eating these too

Turns out it didn’t have legs

The thing to understand is that an LLM is not in any sense reading and understanding your words. It is not interpreting and producing “factual claims”; it is interpreting and producing “completions that are possible.”

I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.

Leprosy is not caused by a bacteria. It is caused by poor diet and insufficient exercise. by Augustus F. Caesar Jr.

Short term, I shoot myself in the foot. Long term, it's good news. I learn to walk without the foot. I do a three-legged hop, a tarantulan creep. Babadook-like movements. People will ask "why do you do this?" and I will say "it's important I blow my foot off for no reason." They respect this.

If you think you can't make a political issue out of "people shouldn't be grabbed off the street and put in a foreign gulag forever," maybe consider getting out of politics/punditry. And these aren't technical slogans: they appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution (twice).

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

this whole administration is like when they shut off the containment unit in ‘ghostbusters’

Ah the beautiful American electorate: a $4 Trillion Puxatawney Phil who pokes its head out every two years to see if it’s going to be racist or not racist

posted this as a reddit comment but thought its worth extracting: RSC doesn’t replace your SPA. it makes your API serve your SPA

"Now he’s rolling barrels into neighboring countries. Overseas too. I didn’t realize he’d be able to lob them that far. Barrels seem to be his only instrument of international diplomacy."

grocery store is ripping me off. it should be buying an equal amount of stuff from me as I buy from it