Man this is great. Hope y’all are having a blast. Gonna give that 1996 classic album a spin tonight 🍻

I’d like to say that you can at least do some sort of risk assessment (i.e. likelihood x impact) but I can’t argue that such a forecast would ever actually be verifiable *before* the next bad things happen.

Significant overlap between folks who used Reader a dozen-plus years ago and folks in a position to influence corporate technology choices today. Forgive? Maybe. Forget? No.

Take the fictional character quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

Time to start ordering better snacks for the break room, bossman.

Horse ebooks tried to tell us

The key difference is that the principal will *usually* have the decency to feel some guilt over the ever-widening gulf between their own day to day and the lived experience of front-line programmers.

a man with a beard is crying and saying `` he can 't keep getting away with it ! '' Alt: a man with a beard is crying and saying `` he can 't keep getting away with it ! ''

Programmers across Bluesky wincing as they realize they’ve found themselves contemplating a Big O(r^2) problem on a weekend.

Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History YouTube video by Defunctland

My teen found this on YouTube and it was *fascinating*. youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE?...

Lots of PEOPLE are LOOKING at your profile 🙌🏻

Did he at least turn in a rockstar performance once y’all got moving?

Looking forward to the blameless post mortem

Cousin, is Abby a plant?

Is this lady secretly bankrolled by Big Aromatics?

Tree man, on the property walk, next to the stomach bug? It’s more likely than you think.

Do you ever worry that you’re actually a sock puppet operated by a dozen bsky staffers working follow-the-sun shifts, Weird Twitter style?

Makes a ton of sense! What I don’t get is how few programmers approach their work with the same mindset. If you don’t have a million personal scripts and custom configs what are you even doing?

There’s also an ego-preserving misdirection going on: if people don’t like someone’s AI-generated “writing” it must mean that the LLM did it wrong, not that the operator himself is a bad writer

New headcanon here is that Elon has a personal text box on his phone he can use to stuff Grok’s global context window with whatever he’s most excited about today

Big Ditch DJ Icey · Catalysts of the Catalog · Song · 2020

Big Ditch at it again open.spotify.com/track/2Ua8fk...

My current theory is that LLMs are extra fun for people who think of themselves as too busy to write… or read

@gork is this true

On a lighter note I regularly revise my work chat posts from “seven thoughts separated by semicolons and em dashes” down to a few Real Sentences.

We gotta nuke this thread before HHS catches on

Some sort of “I’ll never bother to learn how to do this trivial thing and I mistrust anyone who does” energy

Yeah people are scared of anything with even the slightest bit of effort put into presentation nowadays, assuming it’s AI slop bsky.app/profile/dpri...

Sounds like the kind of guy who’d be super motivated to improve the lives of all the little people out there by trimming federal budgets with a magic wand

Maybe he asked the students to provide written instructions for doing something highly illegal.

It’s on Wikipedia now guy, keep up

The dialog below his exes says “Would you like to see more from this poster? [yes] ”

40 year old white dad in a hunter orange cap, snug fitting work overalls, and a knit pullover. Moderately fit. Not quite six feet tall. Everything’s dim and beige. This is a bathroom selfie in a rural South Dakota hotel. Dude’s appears to be having a good day.