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I mean I can't have much sympathy here, it's Texas. They voted for this.

Did Arko ever explain why he was trying to sell access to Rubygem's web access logs?

And some things always are malicious, like "prediction markets", which is just gambling reworded to sound like something else. This was never, ever going to end well. There is no g…

Which is a people problem! The Internet is already a decentralized network. Anyone can hook up a computer to the Internet and others can immediately access it. Centralization comes…

The state of the Internet today is a people problem, not a tech problem, and trying to throw more tech at it won't solve anything.

Same thing happened the last time we went through this circus. I'm only surprised it took this long for them to shut off access.

My personal photo backup S3 account, with a budget limit of $10, now going to cost me .... $1,299,988,247,332.56! That was a fun set of emails to wake up to, figured they had to be…

If you're ever asking "Is it just me?", the answer is "no".

It isn't and never has been about the children.

Bitcoiners pivoted to AI so hard when they saw actual money to be made. Now AI is turning into as bad of a bet as Bitcoin, so not surprised that the "Bitcoin Policy Institute" woul…

Don't ever let a Republican, and especially a Trump voter, complain about the current state of affairs. They voted for this, and have been voting for this for decades. They have tw…

Or how he was mailed a box of Calvin and Hobbes plushies to try to get sign-off on the quality of the toys. He mailed back a picture of the box on fire. IMO Calvin and Hobbes will …

There is nothing more evil in this world than the pursuit of power and wealth.

After a certain size, one of my favorite Civilization quotes kicks in: "The bureaucracy is expanding to fill the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." This burned me right out, and …

> At Anthropic, we build AI to serve humanity’s long-term well-being. If Anthropic actually cared about humans, they would have the best customer support (staffed by humans, for hu…

A reminder that every line of code written is a liability, not an asset. If I had any inkling of giving GitLab a try, this killed it.

Flock is pure cruelty. All justice, no mercy. It needs to go away.

Nice, they have availability numbers now on their status page, but they aren't aggregating. If you multiply all current numbers together (as of Apr 28), you find out that GitHub ha…

Never underestimate the lengths and depths people will go in the name of a salary.

As the American Justice system is fundamentally broken now, if Interpol decides to "disappear" Trump to the Hague next time he's in Europe it would be greatly appreciated.

Why do you think Melania started talking about Epstein again when she did?

We are in a really bad situation, of our own making no doubt. We actually have no idea who's in charge of Iran (the stated ruler has yet to be seen and probably was severely injure…

Are you expecting "mentally sound behavior" or "strategic coherence" from today's administration?

Why would you go to LinkedIn to play puzzle games? There's thousands of other places to do so.

Folks are getting dangerously attached to [political parties/candidates/news sources/social networks] that always tell them they're right. It's really nothing new. It takes signifi…