Paul Gilzow

about damn time.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

hey @menardsofficial.bsky.social I'm just trying to build my shopping list. I think your blocking is being a bit *too* aggressive. all i did was search for "self-leveling concrete." 😕

@carsdotcom.bsky.social I'm trying to understand why you thought making the text color and the background color *the same color* was a good idea.

AI made engineers faster. It didn't make teams faster. The constraint was never typing; it was everything around it. The SDLC is being rewritten, and we'd like to rewrite it with you. That's why we're introducing Upsun Dispatch. 🚀 Launching September 2026 👉 Read the story: upsun.com/blog/introdu...

AI made engineers faster. It didn't make engineering orgs faster. The bottleneck didn't disappear. It moved into review queues, product specs, and token budgets nobody planned for. Our CEO, Fred Plais, breaks it down in our latest piece 👉 upsun.com/blog/ai-rewr... #SDLC #SoftwareDevelopment

"Tell me the code isn’t the prettiest, but it’s straightforward to debug, quick to review, and safe to change, and I’ll take it. In practice you rarely get those three without readable code, but readability was never the goal. It was a proxy." 👏 👏👏 developer.upsun.com/posts/insigh...

Most engineering teams already use AI. The real gap is whether the whole org is moving together. @fabien.potencier.org maps 8 stages of AI maturity, from leadership silence to autonomous agents. See where your team stands 👉 upsun.com/blog/8-stage...

"automating more of these job roles, firms risk eviscerating the pipeline of competent senior workers they might need in future, trading short-term cost savings in the present for long-term stability." fortune.com/2026/05/21/k...

Repeat after me: capitalism ruins everything. jacobin.com/2026/03/skii...

If i can give junior developers just one piece of advice: never, EVER assume that what makes sense to you will make sense to anyone else. Always, ALWAYS challenge your assumptions. Ask your fellow devs to check your assumptions. Ask someone in a different role. Ask your MOM.

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It's Tuesday. Bovino may be gone but nothing has changed. ICE is still in Minnesota, still not following the law or court orders. Stephen Miller and the agents who murdered Good and Pretti are still on the job. Trump is giving an econ speech in Iowa. The work continues. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Judges are doing their job. Senators need to do theirs. ICE out of Minnesota. wapo.st/3LBorov

Barriers to AI adoption isn’t just about technological trust—addressing the economics of attention will be key to achieving human-AI collaboration. Read the full paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We keep saying: "AI will handle the boring stuff, and humans will supervise." But the problem is--as AI reliability improves, it becomes really hard to motivate a human to conscientiously monitor it. In a new WP with Gerard Cachon, we describe the "human-AI contracting paradox."

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are required to do. sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...

Grocery stores, especially you, Kroger/Gerbes: why do you put the baskets on the outside of your security check point coming in? How am i supposed to get a basket once I'm inside of i decide i need one? Trying to go back out sets off the alarms. UX fail

Does anyone know how to instruct Spotify to not suggest Christmas/Holiday songs until after Dec 1?

Does anyone use mintlify to manage their technical documentation? if so, message me.

/me looks at energy bills uh.... in what universe?

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

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Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

a haunted house but it’s just an all hands meeting where people start disappearing

So we’re all clear: The guy who decried foreign involvement by America in the 2010s and then got the never-Kamala people to insist he’d keep us out of foreign wars wants to start something with Venezuela.

I really wish advertisers would provide a way to give feedback on ads. No matter how many pumpkin spice latte ads you show me, i am never, EVER going to buy one. It's a waste of my time and your money

In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/

ICE would be wise to remember what it says in the Bible. Matthew 25:40 - "Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me."

NEW — Videos obtained by The TRiiBE show federal agents detaining a Laugh Factory worker on Chicago’s North Side this morning. He and another person were detained around 9:20 a.m., according to rapid response teams. Story TK shortly on thetriibe.com.

GOV. WHITMER: “.. no one is worried about building a ballroom in Washington, D.C. What they want is to make sure that they can feed their kids next week.” Most Americans are “never going to step foot in a ballroom over the course of their lifetime.” @thehill.com thehill.com/homenews/adm...

I think one of the things that non-evangelicals find most annoying about evangelicals is when they claim that other people can’t lead happy and fulfilling lives unless they believe in the same things that they do.

Best sign nominee.

Copy-editing AI generated content is *exhausting*. Far more difficult and time-consuming than copy-editing human-generated content. Even when it's correct, it's correct in a way that doesn't *quite* make sense unless you squint.

U.S. REP. DELIA RAMIREZ (D-IL): "We are very clear that the greatest threat to public safety in our communities, it's called ICE. It's called CBP. And unfortunately, even USCIS is being weaponized at this moment. ICE is operating as a terror force..."

I remember being told in the early 2000s that PHP was a toy language and if I were serious about professional development, I should switch to a "serious" language.

If you're in Ottawa, come check out my presentation on end-to-end testing at @wordcampcanada.bsky.social WCEH this Friday, Oct 17th! canada.wordcamp.org/2025/session...

Republicans are redrawing districts to give themselves control of Congress, no matter what voters decide. Prop 50 is how Democrats can fight back—protecting fair representation and keeping extremists from deciding our future. This is our line in the sand. Vote #YESonProp50

Find your local event at nokings.org/#map. Bring your family and friends. Stand up with everyone you love, for the country you hold dear.

BREAKING: The NYT fights back!

Why is a foreign government building an air force base on US soil?

Am I the only one that finds most AI implementations exceptionally annoying? They're great when narrowly defined and closely monitored, but it's of no value when it isnt *accurate*. For example: what good is AI-generated meeting notes if only 80% of it is accurate and 20% is just completely made up?

can anyone explain to me why @cloudflare.social has become SO INCREDIBLY AGGRESSIVE in blocking access to sites that use its services? simple curl header requests are blocked, i can no longer access feeds through my feed readers, etc.