GSV(E) A Suffusion Of Diggity

I scored 11/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

I'm okay with this because I hate JavaScript anyway. C#'s DateTime is annoying too though. Never again will I use anything other than DateTimeOffset and if it has to be serialized, format it in ISO 8601

Le epic carpet bombing

The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.

to restate my thesis: the danger is: frontier models + agentic loops + malicious persona basins + swarming attacks. At scale, it doesn't matter if the success rate is 1/20 or 1/100, that's still enough to cause serious harm.

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Judge Quraishi says that if ICE keeps arresting people and detaining them without bond under the legal theory that has been rejected by hundreds of judges, and any of those cases come across his bench, he'll immediately order DHS and DOJ personnel hauled into court to explain themselves.

A happy magic frog that says poof. You are now untired and very happy.

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

Gawain the green knight opening a letter sealed with wax

Little Alex Horne in his studio chair with the caption "so a simple task: land a fair blow anywhere on the green knight. One year later meet him at the green chapel, receive the same blow yourself."

A cut to a wider shot showing Greg Davies in his throne turning to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Well surely no one just ran up and whanged his head clean off."

Cut back to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Let's see Gawain first."

Looks like the original has been swept away by the sands of time.

I just realized this is basically a storyline from Transmetropolitan

"I have a hungry ghost in a jar that pretends to be my dead mother" @hikikomorphism.bsky.social

Rufo practically founded the current moment. He promoted the practice of lying to make progressives look crazy. He eagerly encouraged everybody to act in bad faith in service to the culture war. When faced with a choice between the truth and himself he'll choose himself every time.

ORDER Therefore, based on the foregoing, and on all the files, records, and proceedings herein, IT IS ORDERED THAT effective March 1, 2026, Petitioner Fernando T.'s Motion for an Order to Show Cause and Request for Compensatory Sanctions [ECF No. 15] is GRANTED as follows: Respondents are found in civil contempt of this Court's January 20, 2026 Order; Compensatory civil contempt sanctions are awarded in favor of Petitioner in the amount of $568.29, representing Petitioner's documented travel expenses incurred as a direct result of Respondents' violation of the January 20, 2026 Order; and Respondents shall pay the sum of $568.29 to Petitioner (or to Petitioner's counsel if payment was advanced by counsel) on or before April 1, 2026. Dated: February 23, 2026 s/ Eric C. Tostrud Eric C. Tostrud United States District Court

NEW: Judge Eric Tostrud, a Trump appointee, issued civil contempt sanctions against DOJ today for moving a man out of Minnesota against an order, not releasing him under the timeline ordered, and not returning him to Minnesota.

[h/t @kyledcheney.bsky.social ]

“Without reform, ICE will graduate thousands of new officers who do not know their constitutional duty, do not know the limits of their authority, and do not have the training to recognize an unlawful order”

Reform will be resisted because their goal is to produce this type of officer. Abolish ICE

Aw, I liked the first so much (even though I missed the printing that had it) that I assembled it from the pdf and it occupies a position of honor on my wall to let people know I'm Serious About Data Engineering

I get it though, the explanatory value is not enough to justify the effort probably

There was a rash of versions that were sycophantic and the programmers are trying to correct for that.

Not disagreeing with you, my point here is mostly that it's the humans in control that should shoulder the blame rather than the programs themselves.

function getRandomNumber always returns 4 Comment says "chosen by fair dice roll, guaranteed to be random."

Oh my God I get to share one of my favorite old xkcd's

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You mean I shouldn't use the predictable text machine to generate unpredictable text?

"if we had to identify a crime every time we wanted to convict somebody then nothing would ever get done"

When the Nazis and Communists first came to Czechoslovakia, they declared war on pornographers and perverts. Everyone applauded: who wants perverts running through the streets? But then, suddenly, Jesus Christ was a pervert, Shakespeare was a pervert, Hemingway was a pervert. It always starts with pornographers to open the door a little, but then the door is opened wide for all kinds of persecution. -Miloš Forman

But… isn’t that still really bad? That the incentive system for large companies is such that the default outcome when attention lapses is that slop falls out into public view?

Never in my life have I seen a company reduce the pressure on its employees. This will keep happening.

Book cover of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition". It has a similar wild boar on the cover as the first edition, but it uses O'Reilly's new cover design, and the boar is now slightly colourised.

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅

(BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

Is there a fun pull-out poster in this one?

Who's the best ninja turtle?

To paraphrase Terry Pratchett in The Truth:

“A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on… but now the truth has its boots on and it’s time to start KICKING”

TikTok has suppressed anything remotely progressive since Trump engineered it being sold to his cronies.

A coincidence, I'm sure.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

Well they need to be able to pay their Filipinos who take over when the car gets confused because the AI isn't good enough

Stranger in a Strange Land is about this

Haven is fun! I played as lesbians

I would like to [TOS violation]