TIL Ring camera "encryption" is a pretty neat lofi filter.

are they waiting for market close too

I have a meetings tier list cooking in my head. Standups are C tier. Presenting work to the non-C-suite teams is a low A tier. SaaS vendor calls are almost always F tier.

I feel like over the past couple months I've transitioned into a "meetings guy." Most of my day is taking meetings and preparing for upcoming meetings. I kinda hate it.

the stock market is funny because the largest global supply chain shock since a deadly worldwide pandemic is worth -0.2% but a single blog post speculating about a new technology can stone cold stunner SaaS companies -50%.

it's a pretty overloaded dangerous abstraction for the same API key to be both explicitly nonsensitive and explicitly sensitive.

Google documentation encourages you to place these API keys client side!

Your Google Maps Key Is Now a Gemini Credential - And Google Knew for Months Truffle Security found 2,863 public Google API keys that silently gained access to Gemini AI endpoints, exposing private data and racking up charges with no warning to developers.

this is really stupid shit and it's hard to imagine the Google of the past doing something this stupid, never mind what appears to be deliberate stupidity. awesomeagents.ai/news/google-...

so Theophite leaves Google and then just a few months later they have a massive Gemini related security fiasco (wrt leaky project scoped API key permission boundaries) that seems to be from poor but deliberate decisionmaking with a concerning fact pattern. Coincidence?

people love to propose bullshit they know will never happen in order to provide themselves peace of mind when oppossing things that actually can happen

I think about this @ryxcommar.bsky.social post a lot.

Pinterest started recommending me Snoopy stuff because a girl I'm flirting with likes Snoopy stuff and I pull Snoopy pics from Pinterest. But today it recommended me "Snoop Dog" [sic] and I guess I can see why it did that but that's an extremely different thing.

K-pop outperformed the vast majority of companies in the S&P 500 in 2025. You would currently be 63% richer if on January 1st 2025, you bet the house on BTS and NewJeans.

merry christmas bluesky

tenoch is good too

real anna's heads also participate in the annual christmas season arbitrage where you get $125 of anna's for $100.

It's honestly pretty good. I will say the plain chicken there is extremely mid though and I'm a carnitas guy which might explain my very different experience there than some other people. also real anna's heads know to get the quesadilla, not burrito

Lmao

Fwiw they still have an internal API endpoint that connects to the lava lamps but they don't really use it these days. It is fun to joke about though.

The Mexican Jarritos Instagram account has fewer followers per capita (1 in 2940) than the South Korean Jarritos Instagram account does (1 in 2810).

chocolate glazed

I feel like the US federal government must have better sources for inflation numbers than Doordash.

stranger on the train asked me what brand my boots are. total menswear victory

MJ Lenderman bf / Faye Webster gf

I had no idea what Fiserv does until I looked up their website. Their website says that they offer "insights" and "solutions" to "move businesses forward." So I guess that's what they do.

The main discourse drivers on liberal twitter are media people because a lot of the normies are on blusky. The article's writing style is great if a bit navel-gazing, but there's not much to say about it except to announce to everyone that you are a reader of highfalutin culture pervert writing.

Today is the 10 year anniversary of Joanna Newsom's latest album, Divers.

Yeah I'm trying to lower my bar a little bit for this one because the thoughts keep sticking around, and I still feel like they're useful enough even in an inchoate form.

I will once I figure out where gamma distributions come from!

(There will also be PCA!)

This is fueled a little bit by arrogance perhaps, or maybe because there's a soft ceiling to the audience I attract, but my general feeling is "if I don't understand this, I bet 95%+ of my audience won't," and it's not fair to pretend like I do understand it. It's tricky stuff!