“I think the pope is weak on crime” is an all time banger shitpost.

Tag yourself, I’m “5 CANADIAN PRODUCTS”

I earnestly thought this was quite a funny joke. I did not for one second consider the possibility that anyone thought Claude would be upstream of bluesky feed loading.

From the rust community on Reddit: Unreasonable AI content moderation policy Posted by dorianlistens - 0 votes and 0 comments

This seems like a wildly unreasonable standard.

www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/0cj...

“Tainted software list”-ass moderation decision

This is the best April fools joke I’ve ever heard

This Is a Historic Opportunity for Democrats to Get Immigration Right As the public turns against Trump and the Republicans on immigration, the Democrats can seize the moment with a new, positive vision. Here’s what that might look like.

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

You can never be too careful!

BIG urbanist wins !!!

Today, Austin City Council voted for resolutions to:
- Unbundle the cost of parking from rent
- Explore parking maximums near transit
- Create new "missing middle" zoning districts to allow more density in neighborhoods
- Legalize small-scale neighborhood commercial uses

Am I losing my mind or did the font for GitHub PR titles in the list view change in the last ~2 hours?

Hook ‘em!

Hook ‘em

It turns out: you can have a little treat!

“Claude’s down” is the new “GitHub’s down”

A screenshot of the Claude status dashboard, displaying a distressing number of outages in the past several weeks.

This is why I still have a job

One thing I’m thinking about: when using Claude for software, a significant factor in success is “automated verification” to steer the agentic loop (tests, type checking, linting, etc). Do other forms of knowledge work have similar systems that can be applied as rapidly/iteratively?

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

whoops

It’s truly awe inspiring how completely broken large cross-platform group chats are on iOS.

I did an impromptu lightning talk last night at Austin Systems, it was really fun! It’s a great meetup, @adamchalmers.com has done an amazing job of building a community.

Attached are a representative sample of my slides.

This is also what human babies are like.

To be clear: fuck Newsom, I wouldn’t vote for him.

(But like, I probably would, though. Or would I? Hmmmm, probably not. But maybe? Do you really want to take that chance?)

Three obviously true things:

- the two party system is bad.
- threatening not to vote for a candidate you don’t like is an entirely reasonable form of political discourse and persuasion.
- it is highly unlikely even the worst dem nominee would be remotely comparable to Vance. Fascism sucks!

If she runs, I would strongly consider quitting my job to volunteer full time for the campaign.

To elaborate further here:

In from the cold is the thesis statement. If you don’t like it, go find a different author.

You need to see the circus be effective before the Karla trilogy, and definitely before the looking glass war.

You need some imperfect spies before you see the perfect one.

Favorites:
- a perfect spy
- the looking glass war
- smiley’s people

Suggested order:
- the spy who came in from the cold
- call for the dead
- tinker tailor soldier spy

Oddly, this is a case where the order of “how good I think they are” and “the order I think you should read them in” could not be more different.

I’ve read a whole stack of Le Carré novels, and 200 pages in, A Perfect Spy is _by far_ my favorite

Vegas really is the America of America

It’s a good bridge! And a good trail!

Yummmm!

Say more about the marinade, what recipe are you following?