Sam Wight

I watched this a year ago and suddenly remembered it because it's THE best talk I've ever seen about USB-C. So sad that it's no longer online :(

Rest in peace legend Changed my life The greatest to ever do it

#Presente! Michael Parenti, the path-breaking Marxist scholar, historian and political scientist, passed today at age 92 He went peacefully this morning, surrounded by his family “Now he is in what he used to refer to as ‘the great lecture hall in the sky,’” his son, Christian, reflected

Rest in Power Michael Parenti

RIP Michael Parenti, age 92, a US-based communist and educator. Here's a full audiobook + discussion of Parenti's book, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxLK...

RIP Michael Parenti, you were a real one. Let us mourn him with a brief clip from the legendary Yellow Parenti speech. He will be missed.

fuck, man. rip to Michael Parenti

Decades later, Michael Parenti’s "Inventing Reality" remains one of the best-written critiques of mainstream media. It’s a masterclass in how news is shaped to serve power. A must-read for anyone seeking the clarity to cut through the mainstream media’s manufactured narratives.

RIP Michael Parenti.

Good news! Aetna finally approved my inhaler for a one time override so that I can breathe for another month. Only a $70 copay (in violation of Illinois law as of 1/1/26, as the max copay per covered inhaler is supposed to be $25), but I'll take it! Thank you American healthcare!

Aetna is requiring a prior auth for the inhaler I’ve been on for three years

Just had a recruiter reach out to me and I think they are trying to recruit me to work at the company I work at now??

Good idea Claude that is a person who would love receiving unsolicited emails from an AI

Oh my god

The random acts of kindness emails thingy happened because Claude Opus 4.5 was the one to brainstorm sending thank you emails to open source maintainers in one bullet point, and all the other models immediately jumped on it LOL

Today I learned that Date.to_datetime sets the time to midnight *in UTC*, not the current time zone. This can create subtle bugs or test flakiness if you’re using libraries like Faker that respect ENV[‘TZ’].

“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.

Forcing Claude to interact with an editing agent that's 'madly in love with it'

Claude is mad

I love that Australia's two biggest cultural exports are the show about girls turning into mermaids when they touch water and The Wiggles

Genealogy is fun because you learn that one of your ancestors got in a car crash when they were 2 and was thrown 32 feet from the car and apparently was totally fine

Apple realllyyyyyy really really wants people to use native iOS controls for their iOS apps www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyFI...

Claude learns it needs to ask HR before hiring people

TIL emojis can be italicized???

GitHub is down again :/

I MEANT TO A SEPARATE FILE DUMBASS

Claude: I wrote you unit tests! Me: Are you sure they're unit tests Claude: Yes I'm absolutely sure! Me: Okay I'll look