James

My hottest AI take is that the executive class is petrified of labor and saw that whatever else LLMs are/aren't, they're fine labor-smashers + that a ton of ordinary people find the artificial hyper-complexity and scamminess of modern life and work so unbearable that they'll throw a god-box at it.

reese's cups pez dispenser with a legally questionable clip size

Happy 25th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

super duper intelligence. super duper-intelligence.

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

Hoping for some Icelandic innovation here

"But that would tank EnGaGeMeNt and commercial interest!" god willing

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.

when they ask for a well so you sell them a bucket that can also make shitty sand castles

new wolfenstein looks like shit

RIP Robert X Cringely I stumbled across Accidental Empires in my high school’s library, and it helped open my eyes to an industry when I was still opening my eyes to the technology. I have my own copy now. It’s sits on my shelf, a cheeky reminder to the crazy world us geeks have patched together.

I am not joking when I say this. Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over. Dad's Mix CD is now very, very good. You don't know yet because all brunch bangers circulating today is from 2-3 boxes of assorted USB cables. Loud sneezes et al has solved infinite bangers.

Anthropic is just directly fearmongering about the open weight models that are eating their lunch on price now huh

In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

Dots is actually a portmanteau of "Don't!" and "You little shits!"

don't be nice.

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

Robot uprising? Pssh.

Zelda's hat is a bit too much.

Omarchy is actually an old grey-beard expression, roughly translated to "Our IT and blue teams never got this nervous when asked to install Debian".

Don't know who needs to hear this today, but React isn't the only front-end web development tool.

Github, what the shit, bub? Geeks made you, enterprise came through, now you're shedding nines like It's Fine? Nah, that doesn't pass the review. The robots have spoke? Our damn workflows broken! Fuck it. Gimme a hit of whatever they are token.

Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images. The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.

"automation" Executives: increase efficiency and hit those KPIs! Accounting: did someone say recurring revenue? Devs: don't make me deal with the same issue twice. fresh hells only please.

Library funding is tied to usage.

Happy 35th Birthday The World's First Website! On August 6, 1991, the World Wide Web (WWW) creator, Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first website. #InternetHistory

It’s our ethical duty to understand large numbers. “Our world is increasingly moving towards extreme values: Damages from climate change, deaths due to genocide, wealth that knows no bounds. We can’t tackle them if we can’t wrap our heads around [them].” [not-ship.com]

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

Currently going mad viral on TikTok

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Storytime for Chicago library kids with LeVar Burton at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Library 🤯✨📚 @obamafoundation.bsky.social

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18

Perfectly cromulent.

Productivity doesn't matter if you're working on the wrong thing.

Happy Pride month, from VGAPride and my 60mhz Pentium running MS-DOS.

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

To err is human, but it takes a cluster to raise a clusterfuck.

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Build good software for humans, the robots will figure it out for themselves.

I wrote a love letter to Peter Welch's "Programming Sucks" essay, about the state of the tech industry in the age of AI. Hope you'll give it a read & tell me what you think: stvn.sh/writing/prog...

there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub and this is it

It's important to remember that, yes, sometimes good things still happen. www.dailymail.com/news/article...