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Senate Vote Count: Iran War Powers Resolution The Senate rejected on a measure to rein in the use of military force in Iran.

how could we not end this? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It seems my intuition was right that OpenAI seems to be relying on contract terms (aka Hegseth pinky swearing) to enforce the U.S. military doesn't use ChatGPT for weapons and domestic spying while Anthropic actually built safeguards into the model.

A data scientist at Cash App quite her job after Block laid off 40% of her coworkers and offered those remaining, retention packages equivalent to a 75% pay increase.

She said it’s dystopian to be forced to use AI tools that hasten the disappearance of the jobs we depend on for our livelihood.

I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patternw guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do

So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

Frozen in time

#SightseerAU #RenewMonkieKid #LMKFanart

This really is all a lot worse than I thought it would be, and I was quite pessimistic.

By Tesla's own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details | Fortune By NHTSA standards, the Tesla Robotaxis are 8x worse than human drivers.

But we were assured* that robo cars were so much safer!!

*by people who would profit from the implementation of robo cars

In my experience, the vast majority of waste in a software shop is time spent building things nobody wants on top of overly complex architectures that solve problems we don't have. Focus on that. Put solving your customer's actual (not imagined) problems first.
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A pile of 15 pearls photographed on a white ground. Each pearl had a rough rendition of Vermeer's Girl With A Pearl Earring on it

For this week's #BlueSkyArtShow

Shouldn’t this also be illegal?

America’s trade chaos is just beginning Tariff wrangling will stretch through the rest of Donald Trump’s term, and beyond

While tariff lawsuits play out, uncertainty will persist, and so will the economic drag of all the trade-warmongering

OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon hours after Trump admin bans Anthropic | CNN Business OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced late Friday that the company had signed a deal with the Pentagon for its AI tools to be used in the military’s classified systems, but with seemingly similar guardrails...

So both OpenAI and Anthropic say the U.S. military can’t use their AI models to kill or spy.

However, OpenAI now has a Pentagon deal while Anthropic is banned from government contracts. So one of these companies is lying given the very different outcomes.

Truly shocking behavior for a winner of the FIFA Peace Prize.

Get this guy out of power

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

Cybertruck is more explosive than the Ford Pinto the data proves it

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

France moves to bar US Ambassador Charles Kushner from direct government access PARIS (AP) — France's top diplomat Monday requested that U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner no longer be allowed direct access to members of the French government…

EXCELLENT
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The number of Americans who can’t comprehend the fact that voting is a constitutionally protected right and the at the other things that require a photo ID and proof of citizenship or legal residency are not is just baffling

a black and white photograph of sand dunes in the foreground with Chimney Rock in silhouette against a night sky filled with stars and the Milky Way. Shot in Monument Valley by edrabbit

Monument Valley night photograph from a few years ago that I don't think I ever posted

AI coding tools after you tell them “make no mistakes.”

The new iOS design system Liquid Glass is so confusing. Like… why did they use the old “active flashlight” icon for the inactive state here??

What could go wrong? (This seems like a terrible idea)

Yeah man it all sounds pretty fucking stupid when you put it like that, doesn't it

That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.

Schumer is so profoundly unfit for the moment that it’s impossible to overstate.

America's 250th is off to a strong start with a best of retread of our greatest hits. Regime change in South America over oil is just one of the many surprises we're getting, along with maybe some bombs dropped, and a potential war with England.

What We Know About the U.S. Operation in Venezuela

This is an appalling overreach by a lame duck president. What the hell: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

Some power seems to be back in parts of western SF at least

ONGOING: SF Muni J and N Lines Remain Switching Back at Church/Duboce. K, L and M Lines Remain Switching Back at Castro. Trains Not Stopping at the Muni Metro/Market Street Subway. Embarcadero through Van Ness Stations are Closed. Due to Power Outage. http://goo.gl/TU4ZDK

SF power outage getting worse: