1. Good to see OpenAI found some investment to help them purchase more NVIDIA graphics cards! 2. Good to see NVIDIA has found a significant new sales contract! So glad they're doing well! https://openai.com/index/openai-nvidia-systems-partnership/

We are a mixed dialect household here.

Did I mention my second talk from #pyconau about Free Software's unwillingness to think about consequences and how we might have learned a small amout from labour organising (and how corporates certainly have)? It's a good one! You should watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGailCw

It's great* to see all of the various conspiracy theories uniting to cancel each other out, while inconveniencing everyone massively in the process https://mastodon.social/@tess/115248651293738018

Since English is an Anglo-Saxon language, we refer to its speakers as "Anglophones". We missed a trick not being called "Saxophones".

In March this year I gave a talk at #monkigras about how Free Software didn't understand it had invented a labour organising movement, and the the predictable consequences of that realisation. It wasn't recorded. Here's a repeat I gave at #pyconau this week. ENJOY! […]

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem comes for everyone, including OpenAI, as it turns out. https://social.coop/@[email protected]/115241805544993578

In March this year I gave a talk at #monkigras about how Free Software didn't understand it had invented a labour organising movement, and the the predictable consequences of that realisation. It wasn't recorded. Here's a repeat I gave at #pyconau this week. ENJOY! […]

Today I got to engage with my favourite* legal fiction of being employed in the USA. My employer of record has changed from one pretend employer to another. My job has stayed the same, the people I work with are the same. I now qualify for a completely different set of work-provided benefits.

I gave a talk at #pyconau (also #pyohio) about using Python's guardrails to make your code safer. It's a good talk, also features a 5-minute digression about the development of the Armco Crash Barrier. Get into it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Ahf-KBewc

Do you have ways the PSF can solicit donations and you're wondering who to tell? Me. I will gladly accept new and innovative (and ideally ethical) ways for us to convince you to donate. Some of them, like https://wandering.shop/@phildini/115226663830809655, I will even pass on! #python

Writing a commit message and made a typo that our db needed a custom wouter, and I'm pretty sure one @Yhg1s is more than enough for this world

today in everyone-drives-their-kids-to-school-culture being godawful for the General Functioning of Society: some parent squished our garbage bins together so they could have space to park in front of our house; naturally the garbage collector could no longer collect our bins

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

I’ll keep posting this until I find a great person to come be my manager: the Monterey bay aquarium is looking for its next VP of Technology! […]

Oh! I have a new candidate for most banal celebrity interaction; also I've been in the same room as a Bond Villain!

Good morning, especially to the two new and two returning @ThePSF directors! And _especially_ good morning to the @ThePSF's moderation team. Y'all do great work and we don't thank you enough (nor could we)! #python

Just landed back in Sonoma County, and oops I think we just flew over that Mac OS wallpaper 👀

Time to head home after an excellent and exhausting #pyconau MEL 🍨 SYD LAX STS

Brisbane, August 26-30, see you next #pyconau! (That's Wednesday-Sunday with main conf Thu-Sat)

Did I mention lightning talks?

oops I accidentally a comment #pyconau

Oh look yet another talk about how we should make the costs of Open Source actually be noticeable Hooray! #pyconau @daedalus

"but I repeat myself" - me, paraphrasing @daedalus #pyconau

@benno.au I would certainly _drink_ a spinning mule. #pyconau

Oh wow, a very early quote highlighting Marc Andreessen overseeing something that doesn't take accessibility seriously?! Remarkable! #pyconau

inb4 #pyconau

OH: "who uses potato?!" #pyconau

My talk! Today! 10:40ish! Attend! https://social.coop/@chrisjrn/115195255113951310 #pyconau

due to unforeseen circumstances, I'll be presenting my absolute banger of an op-ed, "The Death of Consequences" at #pyconau this weekend. There will be commentary. https://2025.pycon.org.au/program/7XVERX/

Lightning talk signups for today are open! Submit a lighting talk or something! QR codes in the hallway are still valid-ish! #pyconau

Today Only! I'm giving a talk about safety in python! It's good! The abstract is at least 38% accurate! https://2025.pycon.org.au/program/FBY7ZR/ Today, #pyconau, Ballroom 3, 1:30pm!

It's lightning talks! #pyconau

Hello friendly* #pyconau people! Lightning talk signups are open, and close at 11:15 today! Find a QR code near rego to submit your proposal! Submit early, submit often! (*Friendly preferred, not required)

I think we had this exact subject and shape of #pyconau keynote exactly 10 years ago. It's a great talk, but what a shame that we're getting a talk with more – and more egregious – examples of AI bias. We have learned, as an industry, precisely nothing over the last decade. Now sad.

due to unforeseen circumstances, I'll be presenting my absolute banger of an op-ed, "The Death of Consequences" at #pyconau this weekend. There will be commentary. https://2025.pycon.org.au/program/7XVERX/

Successfully went to the hotel that made bids to host #pyconau three times but is not the hotel hosting #pyconau. Good thing I didn't book either of them 🫠

Ok now #pyconau for realises! BNE 🥧 MEL

The free* food is great, but obviously all the _other_ Australians who have cause to be in the Qantas First Class lounge are really hurting my notice-an-australoan-and-tune-in sense Because they are, absolutely,. unequivocally, complete fucken idiots. --- (*Free as reward for spending too much […]

Hello from Los Angeles, and good luck to whoever decided this is safe to serve in this part of the world:

Now, let's see. #pyconau this time? Yeah, I think that's right. STS 🎥 LAX BNE

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

a year ago i asked some friends 'do you know any product jobs in climate tech that aren't about greenwashing, or trading carbon credits' and it was 'uh not really' anyway, today i am very glad i ended up where i do because if i had to live through *all of this* while *hating my job* (or having […]

I might go as far as to say the vast majority of companies don’t need deeply technical leadership (outside of ‘deep tech’). They need leaders who know enough about the domain, know what they know and don’t, empower others to do their jobs well, know enough to be not a total n00b, is able to […]

It's the @ThePSF election opening day. I personally vote for as many candidates as there are seats open, and I'm prioritising board continuity – @jezdez and @simon have both been vital to the board, and we're going through a phase where we need their expertise and institutional knowledge […]

@glyph this you?

Reminds me of the relentless thought leadership we had from 💩dhh💩 and pals about organisational management when they managed a company with like nine people in it 🤡

My unkind take is that startups should refrain from posting thought leadership on any sort of business success subject because respectfully you havenae actually built a successful business yet, you've raised money... If we had a higher standard of economic knowhow this shit would raise more […]

Adding to my list of talk ideas that I would love to give but are slightly beyond my preferred venues: the history of the halting problem and what limits it sets on computer programs that write computer programs (aka: what practical limits you'll see from using generative AI for programming tasks)