Hell yes

Denver is renovating its council room to improve accessibility, but didn't seek input from member in wheelchair

This is very on brand for Denver, unfortunately

My dog Jasper when I’m just trying to sit down and grab a snack

The GWG from Nathan MacKinnon 🚨

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch: Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

What is the worst software that you use on a daily basis, and why is it iMessage?

James Dobson, Godfather of Child Abuse, Finally Dies The radical cleric leaves behind a legacy of sanctified torture, destroyed children and broken families.

This was like lancing a boil.

Yo-Yo Ma Finally Works Up Courage To Tell Parents He Quitting Cello CAMBRIDGE, MA—Taking a deep breath and straightening his back, Yo-Yo Ma finally worked up the courage to tell his parents that he was quitting cello, sources confirmed Friday. “Mom, Dad, this is it—I quit,” said Ma, who exhaled and then winced as his parents immediately reacted to the consequential words by simultaneously exclaiming “But you […]

Yo-Yo Ma Finally Works Up Courage To Tell Parents He Quitting Cello
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This seems pretty damn sloppy for Google tbh… status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow... Google Cloud Service Health

👀 maybe they aren’t being ironic?

xkcd comic 2347 "All modern digital infrastructure" with one small important block near the bottom replaced with an inclusive pride flag

Yeah, it's hard to justify a position that any tool is just categorically not useful. Personally, I find them to be useful as an editor/reviewer for both business writing and coding.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

It isn’t easy to explain, but this is absolutely wild. If I had done anything similar to this while working on public sector systems I would have immediately been fired and I would need counsel for the inevitable lawsuit.

Trump plans AI data center on NREL land near Boulder A private data center and power plant could be put near Boulder, as the U.S. government eyes metro Denver in a push to supercharge AI infrastructure.

I cannot understate how dumb this site selection is. A data center this size could easily use around 1 million gallons of water *per day*, not an easy thing to get in CO

Scalia: Internment could happen again Scalia was responding to a question about the court's 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States.

This is from a while back. Has the AEA ever been used without egregious violations of constitutional rights? In the words of Scalia: “…you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again”

I’d like to say that the plot line of the richest man of (a) world acquiring control over the galaxy’s (literal) hellsites is a bit on the nose, but this was written 15 years ago…

Surface Detail (Culture, #9) It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still …

Rereading Surface Detail, which has a very familiar oligarchic villain… www.goodreads.com/book/show/79...

FAQs - Iain Banks Frequently Asked Questions. If you have a question, you might find your answer here.

“Why did the Estate approve SpaceX using Iain’s [Culture] ship names for their drone ships?”

“We didn’t.”

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Let’s be clear: “dems” didn’t flip a damn thing here. Someone recognized and rose to the moment despite dead weight of their party

Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."

Elon Musk is the Reason Social Security is "Running Out of Money" Before we dive in, let’s get one thing straight.

Absolutely, and we have 10+ years to figure out how to fix it. There’s a nice explanation of how it works, and what the problems are here stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

The hardest working font in Manhattan A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

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I’ve been using Google’s Gemini lately to help write some documents from an outline and for general programming reference. It has performed really, really poorly so far.

Sometimes I just put it directly in the air fryer without defrosting. It’s not as good, but still decent.

Next time someone mentions that the ssa database is not “deduplicated”, ask them what their preferred method is for handling slowly changing dimensions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_...

The US Government Is Not a Startup Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

One thing to add from my (limited) experience working with public sector tech: you need more than people with software engineering skills to modify these systems, you also need legal experts because many of these programs are essentially a living, operationalized version of statutory law.

Cynically, I think it's because they've realized "only people with iPhones get invited to parties" is a natural extension to "only people with iPhones can be part of the group thread"

Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...

The thing with public sector payment systems is that they integrate with hundreds, if not thousands of other systems, some of which might only be used once or twice a year. Even if you are replicating existing functionality, it's easy to break things and not be aware they are broken for months.

Chinese Ai vs US Ai - feels like an appropriate time to share this scene from the show (2018)

I think a lot of folks essentially crowdsource fact checking by vibe checking 1) who is talking about it (distribution on the social graph) and 2) how much it's being talked about (intensity). Not a very reliable method for sure.