Joel Uckelman

I make open source software because I want:
- agency
- correctness
- transparency
- trustworthiness
- longevity-by-replicability
- collective self-sovereignty

A majority can still fail to be quorate if not everybody shows up. Forcing everybody to show up all the time exhausts them and can cause them to make mistakes. (There is an analogous thing that happens with the break down of pairing arrangements when you have minority governments in the UK.)

The real theorems are the proofs we made along the way.

The restaurant is Le Plomb du Cantal. It's two blocks southeast of the Tour Montparnasse.

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FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

Here you go: Henry I and Robert Curthose. Edward IV and George, Duke of Clarence.

I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent These bots supposedly need a human body to accomplish great things in meatspace.

Have these people never read/watched any sci-fi or fantasy? The answer to "Can I borrow your body to act in the corporeal world?" should always be "no".

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/i...

When I work, I create the thing in my mind and then move it from my mind to the world. It's been like this for me my whole life.

This is extremely inconvenient when I have a task for which I just cannot envision the result.

Vassal 3.7.20 Released VASSAL 3.7.20 Released The Vassal Team is happy to announce the release of Vassal 3.7.20. IMPORTANT If you are using MacOS 14, please ensure you are using 14.4 or later, to avoid a bug in MacOS whic...

Vassal 3.7.20 is released: forum.vassalengine.org/t/vassal-3-7...

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

Worth a read. Exploring outcomes isn't much use if not followed up.

It's like setting up shadow IT infrastructure because the real IT infrastructure is so bad...

I thought there was no punishment too severe for ICE goons, but I have to draw the line at Workday.

My wife and I used to work at Memorial Library. On the basis of what's reported, this is an unaccountably baffling decision.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing

They were all in love with dyin', they were doin' it in Texas.

Thank you, hardest I've laughed in weeks.

Well fuck Timothy for having an ulcer.

A lot of good businesses are closing on Friday to participate in the ICE Out General Strike. But make sure to support these places on the other days. A lost Friday is a tough thing for a restaurant or bar. Also use this as a barometer for the types of businesses you want to support.

This is a thing that once broken won't be possible to repair. We have a president who doesn't take the idea of obligation seriously. Republicans could stop him.

And we're home now.

This is day eight waiting in the hospital for my father to be able to go home. <deep breath>

On a related note, we could use some Wide Awakes about now.

I dunno, but with each day that passes the NRA loses more and more ground in their “you have to watch your kids die in mass shootings at school so we can protect you if the government goes rogue” argument 🤷‍♂️

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

The guy across the waiting room from me is swearing at his laptop, which is how I know he's a software developer.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.

Vassal 3.7.19 Released VASSAL 3.7.19 Released The Vassal Team is happy to announce the release of Vassal 3.7.19. IMPORTANT If you are using MacOS 14, please ensure you are using 14.4 or later, to avoid a bug in MacOS whic...

Vassal 3.7.19 released: forum.vassalengine.org/t/vassal-3-7...

I thought that looked familiar. Say hello to Simon, the owner, for me.