Laurie Voss

And now back to my full time job, texting the word "stop" to every living Democrat.

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Considering adding LinkedIn support to https://alpaca.blue with a small, LLM-powered "is this a shitpost?" judge that decides whether things I post an BlueSky should also go to LinkedIn.

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

*when a dem is in power* The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants *when a republican is in power* criticizing the government is treason actually

I wonder if that BBC cybersecurity expert who'd never heard of PHP will ever appear on tv again.

Walking the dog I overheard two guys on the street in San Francisco. One was explaining to the other, extremely inaccurately, what PHP is.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

These people can all die in a fire.

But they will not do that because they are democrats and instead they will send him a sternly worded letter that he will ignore.

Coincidentally it was just last month that I finally vibe-migrated my last website off the PHP host where I'd had everything since 2002.

Please, please, there are like 300 actively exploited zero days going on right now, I am not in an emotional place where I can process a Glee reboot.

If you're some sort of masochist who enjoys watching me give tech talks, I recently collected nearly every talk I've given since 2014 in one place, many with video: https://seldo.com/talks

I know this has been said many times, but people who block the boarding lane before their group is called should die slow painful deaths.

This PHP vulnerability is going to make tomorrow a very rough day for the internet.

I have been using https://Slides.com (best web app ever written!) since 2014 so my talks have always been HTML and now in a world of Claude-created HTML one-off decks the rest of you have at long last caught up to the superiority of this solution.

What happened to all those folks who had .eth at the end of their name, how are things for them?

I have been to a ton of conferences this year and every keynote is the same: a desperate search for what humans are supposed to do now that robots can do nearly everything we used to do.

The "but the fundamentals!" people are having a REALLY hard time now that LLM assistance has kicked the legs out of a whole pile of shit we thought was pretty fundamental.

Do I know anybody who saw You Can See Everything and can explain to me what the fuss is about?

White nationalists are all about European culture until Europeans do things like protest against runaway capitalism, which they do every summer.

Carry yourself with the boldness and confidence of this flower shop's marketing email trying to convince me that Halloween bouquets are a thing.

I need a blanket, OS-level preference setting that tells websites and apps that I am never, ever going to want them to suggest what I should reply to a message. This is not a thing anyone wants.

Heading to AllThingsOpen 2026, anybody I know going to be there?

whoever the replacement ends up is going to really be something. we are at the bottom of this particular pickle barrel.

Anybody who buys a Roadster because they believe it can fly deserves the worst fate imaginable, which is coincidentally to have to drive a Tesla.

TFW you go to write a talk with an imminent deadline and you realize you have already written the talk.

The outcome of California's prop 40 seems to be either we get more healthcare or all the billionaires leave the state and I am okay with either outcome.

JetBlue sent me an email saying "the traffic is going to be insane, consider getting there any other way" and I did not listen and I have REGRETS.

Tesla: for when you really want the build quality of a disposable baking tray and the braking and acceleration profile guaranteed to give you whiplash.

The biggest takeaway I get from the Anthropic version control thing is that megarepos are still crap.

I did not dream about having a job, did you?

Scene: New York, corner of 52nd and Broadway. Wife, pointing east: "that way is downtown" Husband: "no, that's uptown" I have decided not to get involved.

It is really depressing having conversations with people in denial about the impact AI is having on their jobs. Like I realize it sucks and it's scary but pretending it's not happening is not going to work for very long.

Delighted by the social and educational distinctions revealed by how people think the agent called "Hermes" is pronounced.

so cheerful and inclusive!!!

The media has had over a decade to learn that Trump just says things, that if he says something is true you need two other sources, and yet they breathlessly reported the imaginary ceasefire as if it was real. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/12/zelenskyy-vows-retaliate-russia-strikes-ukra

Straight white man goes on X and can't see what everyone else is complaining about, film at 11.

Tasting at ice cream shops should not be allowed. Getting the wrong flavor of ice cream is not a high stakes enough decision to justify multiple swings at it. Pick a flavor.

the tech industry is about to invent books