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I think people want AI to be useless, to consume huge amounts of water, etc. because that lets you find another reason for it to be bad that isn’t: it’s useful and that’s why it’s bad. The thing works and is getting better, millions have found use cases for it, and that is why it is bad.

PlanetScale now supports Postgres.

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a...

Detroit-style pizza is better than NY or Chicago-style.

Birth rates and male mental health/loneliness are both legitimate societal issues that also unfortunately have been adopted as causes by the worst people imaginable

A photo of Gretchen Whitmer in the Oval Office with Trump, hiding her face behind a folder

I would have voted for her in a 2024 Dem primary but it’s safe to say that she is toast in a 2028 primary

YouGov just dropped a poll that includes intvs from yesterday/this am and just wow - Trump's job approval is 41%-54% (-13). Economist/YouGov yesterday was just 43%-51% (-8).
- Indies 30%-61% (-31)
- 18-29 30%-65%(-35)
- Hisp 35%-61% (-26)
Dude is melting down.
(h/t @sjclermont.bsky.social)

Talking to my database: "Which [post] got more likes?" Claude generates a query that includes a join between the Post table and the LikedPosts table, followed by a GROUP BY.

MCP = Model Context Protocol, which Anthropic invented for getting LLMs to talk to the outside world. Seems like a Tron reference?

Here's an example where Claude generated a query with both LEFT JOIN and GROUP BY in it. It's pretty good at writing SQL for all the things I've tried so far.

Just talking to my databases in plain English

Directed by Lance Bangs, from Jackass

At the risk of overinterpreting an innocent coincidence, April 20th is Hitler’s birthday

asterisk because i think we look at that period of stability deeply red rose-colored glasses. when people think prosperity they don’t think “family of six sharing a 1200 sq ft home living largely on canned goods and hand me downs” but that was the reality

From Nov 7:

Allison Riggs won the election for NC Supreme Court. Changing the rules after the election to throw out the votes of tens of thousands of North Carolinians who followed all of the rules is a travesty.

/4 In my view, a movement that so transparently rejects the deal — so obviously adopts the policy “the only valid result is I win” — is not entitled to the protections of the votes-instead-of-sticks approach.

They should get the sticks.

How many of those 65,000 voters have moved (within the state or not) or died? Likely over a thousand — it’s been five months.

Those votes were perfectly legal at the time even if the voter is unreachable now.

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But also, a very bad precedent to say Republicans can just re-run any election they lose.

North Carolina Democrats WILL fight this decision. But make no mistake, the statewide court of appeals bench has cowered to political pressure and corruption from their own party. The NCGOP and RNC are trying to steal an election and test the waters for future election denial.

There are twelve streets in the Netherlands and eight more in Belgium called John F Kennedylaan.

White shoes, white flags

Most rich people understand that the candidates need their money, not their sparkling personalities. Elon may never realize how toxic he is, but the actual politicians certainly will.

Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do. As the president’s “Liberation Day” nears, it’s time to liberate ourselves from the vicious cycle of Democrats having to clean up the GOP’s messes.

One statistic for you:

→ Net jobs created under Clinton and Obama: 33.8 million.
→ Net jobs created under Bush, Bush, AND Trump: 1.9 million.

That is not a typo.

Settings > Moderation > Muted words and tags

At least on the iOS app

Went all the way to DC and I can’t find the T.Rex Moai Skull anywhere 😢

in two days the US will be imposing massive tariffs on a wide range of imports and nobody, not even senior WH officials, know what they will actually be.

Every action movie eventually has the lone hero and the lone villain setting aside their weapons for some contrived reason and having a fistfight.

Do actual wars not work that way?

PlanetScale vectors is now GA — PlanetScale You can now use vector search and storage in your PlanetScale MySQL database.

PlanetScale vectors is now GA!

We have made vectors a first-class part of MySQL - focusing on robustness to make sure vector support is as solid as every other data type MySQL supports.

pscale.link/vectors