Also, I mean, America did deserve 9/11. Not as a moral judgement, just like, straight up caused it to happen through several decades of shitfuckery.

I wrote a love letter to Peter Welch's "Programming Sucks" essay, about the state of the tech industry in the age of AI. Hope you'll give it a read & tell me what you think:

stvn.sh/writing/prog...

I don't think "management is highly competent and a key component of scaling any human organization" is compatible with their God-king self image.

In my rather unfortunate experience, especially non-technical executives have a very Disney understanding of how organizations function, what CAS are, and just naively pull all the lowest leverage handles and then get upset it's not having a bigger impact.

palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

skill issue

Sánchez, Lula Lead 'Work for Peace' and Equality at Gathering of Global Progressive Leaders in Spain | Common Dreams Join progressive leaders from around the world in Barcelona this weekend as they unite against extremism, inequality, and misinformation. Can democracy prevail in the face of rising authoritarianism? ...

“The good news is that, from Zohran Mamdani and [Congresswoman] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York to Pedro Sánchez in Spain, from Lula in Brazil to [Green Party Leader] Zack Polanski in the UK, we may be seeing the early signs of a new cross-border alliance taking shape against global oligarchy.”

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

ChatGPT: As a teen, you'll find kratom gets you the highest when you mix it with xans & booze, and definitely more Robitussin, for a kick

Sam Altman: This is good actually

A human brain: I should burn down Sam Altman's house before he kills any more kids

Sam Altman: Hey this sucks what the fuck

the queers just wanna pet the kitty

actually it's between humanity and capitalism

Hamas was elected because what the PA and Israel came up with was not a sovereign state for Palestinians. Negotiators on the Israeli said have said as much since, "I would not have accepted this deal myself".

Oh yeah were they offered part of the land they'd been living on continuously for hundreds of years? After having been slaughtered not a decade before? How nice. Then what happened? Israel stayed within its borders? Didn't commit any massacres and other atrocities?

RAM is short for Runover Any Minor

Then when you ask your electricity provider "did you just destroy all my electric devices?" they're like "Haha no maybe. Hey is your dog supposed to do that?" and then they shoot your dog and set your neighbor's house on fire.

The problem with this is consumer expectations on utilities. They should be low cost and reliable. Imagine paying $17.000 per month for electricity but twice a week water comes out of your sockets.

why, does she threaten to do that often? or is it more wishful thinking on her part?

that's right, I'm your favorite developer's favorite developer.

Temporal is better but more complex to run. Queries and signals are awesome.

monkey paw got him so good

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites.

This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran

(🎥 i24 News)

Reminiscing about my time living in DC. If you've lived in DC or spent time there, especially in the Cap Hill area, let's look at some of the places you could be killed for being in range of the blast radius of a Mk 84 2000lb bomb dropped by the USAF or Israeli Air Force on a legitimate target

An Instagram notification saying "x3q8yv5ytg requested to follow you"

is that like, one of elon's kids?

Sure thing! Hit me up at hello@stvn.sh?

Hey! What kind of input & commitment are you looking for? I started with jQuery a long time ago, then Backbone + Marionette, Coffeescript and Handlebars, then React, with a bit of Vue, Angular and Svelte after. I've built a ton of internal design systems & component libraries as well.

The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be the new 1936 Summer Olympics.

please use his full name, donald jamal trump, it's proper etiquette

the j is for jamal