All if them are if you don’t care about your coworkers.

I guess that means that education is also vulnerable to the AI work problem of “you build this simulacrum and you don’t know how it works and it’s going to fall apart as soon as you try to use it”

I think this is roughly true, but puts a lot onto the finer points of what it means to get the thing done. Is “The house doesn’t fall over in a year” part of the job? Is “you will be able to do similar problems easier next time”?

There’s something to this, but I also think the reality of policing in America puts people in situations with no good options, so when they pick the least-bad one — tolerating antisocial behavior rather than potentially getting somebody killed by a cop — they convince themselves it’s good, actually.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Instead of saying a cat or dog year is 7 years, we should just celebrate their birthdays every 8 weeks.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

one thing worth observing here is that so many of these pundits aren't earnestly trying to understand what happened in the world as much as they are shadowboxing with people they don't like on the internet. stringinamaze.net/p/the-pundit...

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

I’m pretty sure all of the Ruby Central drama traces back to someone telling dhh that he didn’t tweet enough.

Hoot Pursuit by Jon Daniel Escape the Witch!

Happy Halloween! My studio's first game, a spooky mini-game, is available now. Name your own price or play for free. jondaniel.itch.io/hoot-pursuit #indiegame #gamedev #halloween

The Witches of Ashkelon YouTube video by Miriam Anzovin

Shalom, friends,
#Halloween is a time for our darkest stories. Gather ‘round the phone screen and I’ll retell a classic tale of terror from the #Talmud. A cautionary tale about fear, forbidden power, and femicide.
Welcome to The Witches of Ashkelon
#JewishHorrorStories

youtu.be/Z7KMS_jfVbc

20% rye, 75% hydration sourdough. Pretty happy with it, except for the missed score.

it’s not a nazi tattoo, but if it is, he didn’t know it, and if he did know, he didn’t mean it, and if he meant it, he’s grown since then

no, fuck you

A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.

Freedom, another member of the Ruby Central Board, wrote this post, but it closely aligns with my feelings and experiences as well.

apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...

And you can get a cup of tea in a real glass!

We used to put one person’s phone on speakerphone or video call the other persons and leave it behind.

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

www.404media.co/the-open-sou...

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Doing ok, Jon?

Counterpoint: Module#const_missing

In the past week I’ve had two people make PRs that had not-quite-wrong but super weird and unnecessary code that “cursor told them to do”. If we’re going to use these things, we’re going to have to be a bit more clear-eyed about it.

a frequently useful guideline in 2025 is “if a billionaire says something that might have a reasonable interpretation you agree with, they don’t mean the reasonable version you’re thinking of”

Jamelle Bouie for senate

Every tech company* has platform teams trying to build:

1. Heroku, except hand-rolled
2. One giant shared database, so engineers can ignore analytics without consequence
3. If they have a monolith, microservices. If microservices, a monolith
4. A solution to the halting problem

* Hyperbole. I hope

Millennials are a goldilocks generation raised in the narrow window between leaded gasoline and social media and hooooo boy is that showing these days

reactionary centrism is best understood as a media establishment which attempts to expand Democrats' ideological responsibility as broadly as possible while diminishing the Republicans' as much as possible