Scott Cranfill

OK, since this thread has blown up a bit, I think it's worth clarifying in a new thread to what extent the 'GenAI is asbestos for the mind' analogy might hold up, and where it breaks down (as even useful analogies always do): 1/n

Hey, that's me! Looking forward to sharing about one of Compiler's major projects next month at DjangoCon.

Pretty deranged to be wanding the other team coming in on a team bus.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

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It's Easter, and at A Boy and His Beans our abbreviated season comes to a close with this year's most unorthodox offering: KFC Colonel's Favorite Jelly Beans! jellybeans.lol/kfc-colonels...

Today on A Boy and His Beans, all the way from Canada, McCormick's Speckled Jelly Beans! jellybeans.lol/mccormicks-s...

This is that same amazing view, but with camera settings set that really show this is a backlit photo of Earth—only a thin sliver of it illuminated by the Sun. Source: www.nasa.gov/image-detail... Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Today on A Boy and His Beans: Dunkin’ is back with a packaged based on their Refreshers line of beverages. jellybeans.lol/dunkin-refre...

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Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

They're only meteors if they come from the meteo region of space. These are just Cleveland rocks.

@vincenzzzo.bsky.social Did you feel the meteor??

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

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wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Not as important as the substance, but I have to say that the typography on this is dreadful. Nearly unreadable.

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Even still, we’re raising the flag early: the PSF has only ~6 months of runway and needs your support to sustain essential #Python & #PyPI infrastructure, #PyConUS, and, hopefully, to reopen our Grants Program.

The greatest trick the devil (Bill Gates) ever played was choosing backslash for the path separator in Windows and infecting the collective consciousness with that term.

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“oh here, i have it queued up on this tablet for you already” how i expect reporters to reply to the “havent seen it” replies from republicans

if the president does something so awful it would be indecent to describe and ask about then you very obviously need to describe and ask about it, thats the entire job

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

We had a great Wagtail meetup today at DjangoConUS! So glad we got to meet new folks, connect with old friends, and get everyone's feedback on Wagtail! 💜✨

That's a good line! But more importantly, this is sure to be a good course. I had the privilege of receiving some live JavaScript training from Mat and his colleagues about a decade ago, and he's a great teacher.

The DC Cir majority lifts the ban on firing CFPB staff bc there was “no…statement, written or oral, purporting to shut down the CFPB” & noting the gov’t “does not claim the power to ‘shut down’ the CFPB.” But then AG Bondi tweets out: actually, that’s been the plan all along! x.com/agpambondi/s...

Apropos of… something :)

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Please enjoy this turtle being given the gift of speed, and immediately using it to chase a kitty

Happy 20th birthday Django! I'm celebrating by publishing an annotated version of the talk I gave about Django's Origins ten years ago at Django's 10th birthday party in Lawrence, Kansas https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/13/django-birthday/

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This is an overt cash bribe to a sitting president, and we’ve apparently sunk so far that nobody involved feels any shame or questions whether they’ll get away with it.

Seems like most people quoting/replying to this are missing that he said the showers are for the STAFF. "And then, of course, you also have stuff for the staff that work here. So, we've got laundry facilities, we've got showers … there you see the shower and bath facilities."

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in dissent, on the Court's ruling on universal injunctions and birthright citizenship: "The Court’s decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law."

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

Say what? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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