James Sanders

SimCity advisor dialogue: “YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON DRIVERS! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!”

Several open source driver maintainers employed by Intel are being laid off.
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@killedbygoogle.com One for the pile.

YouTube video by Warner Music Japan tofubeats - WHAT YOU GOT (視聴動画)

Today's Writing Music: "WHAT YOU GOT" by tofubeats. Something that stuck in my head for years, partially because of the humor of using "business party stock footage" to make a music video.

The song itself is a banger, though.

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How much does Owens Corning pay MGM every year to use the Pink Panther as their mascot?

Like it's pretty crazy that I associate this character more with insulation foam than an 11 entry movie series and multiple TV shows.

Ballmer’s USAFacts warns against politicizing data after Trump fires BLS chief over jobs report https://www.geekwire.com/2025/ballmers-usafacts-warns-against-politicizing-data-after-trump-fires-bls-chief-over-jobs-report/

Bluesky has had kind of a wan energy recently as people drift away or tune out for the summer, but I also think a lot of people remember the average day on Twitter being more fun than it actually was because the stuff they were reacting to was not quite as grim. It’s climate change for posting.

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing.

A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:

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The engagement is better / more meaningful on Bluesky today than on Twitter by the time I had left. I don't anticipate that circumstance has improved at all. The remaining value Twitter had for me professionally was destroyed after verification was broken, and I won't pay for an icon I had for free.

I've been writing less on quantum since moving here, which sort of limited the opportunity relative to that audience. I'm hoping for a bit more interaction when the book (well, it's 25 pages or so) is finished with the editors, as that topic is also a bit more consumer-facing than enterprise.

Yes and no. It's a bit of a mix—the quantum computing community sort of resettled here and on Discord, the semiconductor community is something of a mix of Twitter, Bluesky, Discord and old-school web forums.

Sometimes it lands, sometimes it doesn't.

Global Q2 2025 preliminary tablet vendor results. Full details are available through the accompanying link

The tablet market grew 2% YoY in Q2 2025 as the post-COVID tablet refresh cycle remained strong for the first half of 2025. It was a tale of demand in China staying hot and weakening in the US. Click through for full details for free

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The type of engagement-bait 'Here's a position, debate me.' isn't algorithmically rewarded here, and that's a very uh... early 2010s, but also very analyst-y thing to do.

LinkedIn, Facebook, etc., all require different communication styles, and BlueSky is in the process of figuring itself out.

Perhaps the easiest way to phrase it is that you can't post like it's Field of Dreams and anticipate engagement. It takes a bit of replying to others, repost/quote-post, and getting a little off-brand (which you should do, from a personal account) to really get a 'community'.

Microsoft Word now continuously highlights "first place" as needing a hyphen and "first-place" not needing a hyphen, in an endless loop of editing hell.

PCIe 8.0の帯域はPCIe 7.0の倍を目指す、FMS 2025でPCI-SIGが表明 「FMS(Future Memory Summit) 2025」にて開催された説明会で、PCI Express 8.0(PCIe 8)が正式にPCI Express 7.0(PCIe 7)の倍の帯域を目指すことが明らかにされた。

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If a scientist who studies quantum phenomena is a theoretical physicist, is a programmer who creates hypervisors a virtual machinist?

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

'Across town' feels aspirational when we can't even get the CEO of Starbucks to live in the state of Washington.

At least REI made a sale out of this mess?

Yes.

James (Vote Early) Sanders ✅ @jas_np If I open this pack of @Twix and only eat one, have I just eaten a singular Twick? 9:25 AM • 21 Sep 20 • Twitter Web App TWIX @twix • 13h Replying to @jas_np Nope, still a TWIX.

It’s like this.

I also once asked if Mr. Clean was naturally bald, or if he shaves his head, but I can’t find that one right now.

I was verified on Twitter pre-Elon, but my employer prohibited discussion of work on social media (long story), so I never really attempted fame chasing, but definitely bothered brands by asking asinine half-funny questions, and they’d reply, because blue check.

sen. Mike Lee got mad at this piece so please read it:

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Is Microsoft Excel the only business software to have a manga / anime adaptation?

"I don't get it." "One day, you'll come to understand what love really means. But it isn't just love! Sorrow, pain, loneliness, joy, excitement... All of these are like gravity. They're all made of immense energy. They are the glue that holds our universe together."

Injecting chaos into the ether is a helluva way to run an economy. Tariffs, rate cuts in a boom, culture war overkill, and no coherent growth strategy. It’s not pro-worker, pro-growth, or pro-America—it’s just noise with a bullhorn.

OTOH, BlueSky is not a fit for AI maximalists, so if that's the narrative you're promoting (either personally, or on behalf of clients), it's a hard road ahead here.