My very senior dog is always by my hip (I work at home). She sleeps a lot (and also barks a lot).

Her snoring is soooo adorable. Make me always want to take a nap.

Gabe plays "We Won't Be Fooled Again" in response...

Ghetto Defendant by the Clash. I had heard Rock the Casbah, of course, but this other song off Combat Rock... it was ... the opposite? Small, almost quiet, sad, but man it grabbed my attention.

I was coming to this years after Combat Rock, but this is what opened my ears to the Clash beyond RtC.

Gabapentin helps the hoomans as much as the doggo... At least for us.

Far less demand barking!

We are ruled by morons and it makes me want to light my law degree on fire

ProTip: If you have AI write up a white paper, or any high level document, and it sounds... a little too enthusiastic, marketing-speak, or hyperbolic...

Ask the AI to rewrite it with a "cynical" and "crunchy" voice and prepare to spend the next hour rolling on the floor laughing. So good.

#AI #LLM

I can only take half-credit for this.

Q: How do you become a millionaire?

A: Start with a billion dollars and ask Claude to test the halting problem on itself!

#AI #Nerd #ComputerScience #Claude #LLM #KeysToWealth

The crowds would have been even larger if we hadn't been told how large the crowds would have been ;) (also, life got in the way).

I will experience crosslink soon, my friends, soon!!!

Speaking of furries but not those kind of furries.. I'm so excited that I can take my (new to me) doggo on the link! I can go visit my daughter in Seattle and bring the doggo! That's just freaking amazing. Without a carrier!

My doggo's so sweet, she would do great.

Did anyone plan a #Crosslake #NoKings rally?

Like literally just ride it back and forth for the cause(s)?

I am stuck at home today with a dog and some urgent matters but I would have done that!

There is now a train that goes into Seattle from the Eastside - I don't think people realize how much this is a big deal for the Eastside - people going into Seattle are gonna find it ... easy. And cheap. And fast (at least it's predictable).

Might even help drivers too...

#Crosslake #Seattle #PNW

Ryan Coogler rebooting X-Files, and Stephen Colbert writing the next Lord of the Rings.

What an awesome timeline we are living in. At least *this* part of it.

WTAF?

Does Marco understand how ridiculous he sounds? I think he does.

He is one of those folks who I think knows exactly what he's doing sitting next to Trump. Rubio gets to execute on his blood-thirsty foreign policies desires, in exchange for looking like an utter fool. It's his bargain.

How do I know if this is doing the right thing? Should I have ChatGPT review it before I file?

(Almost-serious question...)

Hard to be passively aggressively drunk.

#DeepThoughts

Passive aggressive Seattle drama, though...

I was just out in the backyard and I told my wife "man, it's so nice here, it's a little brisk but it's almost warm, and it's so refreshing".

Turns out it is 39F outside. I must be a true #pnw person now...

#DuvallWA

#ThisAintTheBay

we just had to deal with this on our new-to-us doggo after she had the majority of her teeth removed.

The donut was 100x better, after trying the cone. Could get into smaller spaces, but almost entirely prevented the kind of mouth use we were trying to prevent.

She used it like a portable pillow!

The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Fi Router Models Made Outside US The surprising order means any new Wi-Fi router models sold in the country must be US-made, or receive an exemption from the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department.

This is just bonkers. Xenophobia gone wild.

www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-jus...

Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left

When Trump comes out saying this when Mueller died today, Trump's giving us all license to say the same thing when he goes.

Trump is happy that the remnants of FBI leadership that actually cared about enforcing the law are gone. Relieved.

“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead.”

We had a full-on winter wonderland here one week ago!!

River flood water covering a path and small park near the normal path of water.

Another view of a small park near the river edge covered in water, with trees poking up through the water and brush in the foreground.

A park area covered in feet of water. A water height pole (for measuring flood heights) is largely underwater, in the distance.

Man, the hits keep coming. The Snoqualmie river here in #DuvallWA is at about 41.2 feet (the epic flood in December 2025 was about 45 feet).

#pnw #wawx #flood

Of course these LLMs are trained to be agreeable and so it's not like talking to AI is gonna really uncover something (at this level of discussion)

Also it's cute that Bernie thanks Claude for the conversation...

Does he realize he's burning energy merely by saying thanks and please? :) :)

I spoke to AI agent Claude YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

This looks like it should be super corny (old man shouts at the sky) but it's actually really effective because it's AI criticizing itself... Which is kind of profound.

#AI #BernieSanders #Claude

youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0?...

Yah, --force is scary and harmful unless you *know* you are the only person working on a branch.

www.atlassian.com/blog/it-team...

I was today years old when I discovered 'git push --force-with-lease'

I use 'git push --force' all the time when working on branches (alone) that have to be rebased (typically on main/master) and almost never *need* the safety of --force-with-lease but its interesting knowing its there...

#git

Here we go again... Flooding in the snoqualmie valley. Sounds like 124th is gonna be flooded again, one of the two roads across the river from #DuvallWA

#wawx

share.google/C7S5UMCGMztm...

Nvidia CEO says 'of course' engineers will get a new form of compensation "It is now one of the recruiting tools in Silicon Valley," Huang said.

What on earth is he talking about? As an employee, compensation pays for my rent. Tokens are for ... doing work, right? Or is it something I can sell?

These people are weird. Or, possibly, this article is completely misleading. Probably both.

www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Same on YouTube TV (and Hulu).