Jon Udell

Since then, one red line after another has been crossed: Undocumented immigrants are called animals; civilian boats are blown out of the water; American citizens are gunned down in the streets and then accused of being domestic terrorists; universities, news organizations and law firms are being bullied and blackmailed; and refugees are deported to countries whose languages they probably don’t even speak. And that is aside from the blatant corruption of family and cronies. All this was incremental, too, but compared with 1934, everything goes much faster. And yet life continues as usual. What was unthinkable only yesterday we now take in stride, and we wait for that moment when things really have gone too far this time, when the fever breaks and things will revert to normal. But that moment probably won’t come. Things have gone too far too many times already. Hoping for better is still the right attitude, but only as long as we prepare for the worst.

It's almost like the NYT is admitting how badly they failed us and are belatedly trying to atone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/opinion/history-hope-delusion.html

NYT: More like this, please.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/opinion/andrew-arrest-epstein.html

I wonder what percent of GDP is accounted for by recurring online subscriptions that people forgot they signed up for or never intended to sign up for.

Was it Bruce Schneier who said "Biometrics: bad idea, your identity was stolen, now you need surgery." https://mastodon.social/@capitainesam/116105206541970539

https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116106037135131575Video: https://social.coop/@judell/116106848712044111

When reading Greg's explainers I have always wished I could animate them. Despite a lifetime in software my brain doesn't translate Python code expressing a CRDT algorithm into a machine I can see advance step by step. Looks like that wish is coming true.

Improve search effectiveness based on analytics from 1,272 agent sessions · Issue #5 · xmlui-org/xmlui-mcp Context I analyzed the xmlui-mcp-analytics.json log covering 1,272 tool invocations over 2 months of real agent usage across multiple XMLUI projects. The data reveals clear patterns about what agen...

They iterated a few times and now we have a much better MCP server.

#teamwork

https://github.com/xmlui-org/xmlui-mcp/issues/5

I've been collecting logs from the XMLUI MCP server for a couple of months. Today I asked Claude 1 to review them and make improvements so a user of the MCP server will have a nicer ride. Then I started Claude 2 on a task that produced new logs watched by Claude 1.

I am not very familiar with Meetup and was confused by an email from the platform.

Veteran Meetuppers, does ChatGPT's analysis hold water?

https://gist.github.com/judell/e9bda8e7c726498566d9e4bc072e57ad

#meetup #mentalmodel #ux

The US bet against the energy transition is just one of the crimes against humanity that future historians will study.

#energy

RIP Robert Tinney. This is Collector Edition #14, number 349 of 500, signed by you.

I wonder who the other 499 are.

#BYTE https://mastodon.social/@bsletten/116055333582597229

A human lifetime is not long enough to comprehend all that git and github can do, and become maximally capable of using these tools.

I don't want to live forever but I do want to wield that full capability while I'm here, and now I can.

#git #github #agents

Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.xyz) Multiple times I have seen major news outlets refer to the government violating constitutional rights as “cracking down,” a phrase normally used in the context of legitimate law enforcement [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Yes. "crackdown" is, like "vaccine skeptic", a loaded phrase that cedes legitimacy where none is warranted.

https://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3mej353teys2b

#language #framing #lazythinking

The universe is mocking me. Halfway up a long climb the 99% Invisible show I was listening to – about my beloved em dash – pivoted to AI writing because ChatGPT loves using the mark.

So of course, I realized I could be talking to ChatGPT while I ride and it reviews the repo. Must stop now! Switching to music and podcasts. Having the addictive personality that I do, I recognize the slippery slope when sliding down it.

So relatable as I drag myself away for a bike ride. I have made years of progress in days. It is exhilarating and exhausting. The ride up Los Alamos Road beckons and I am heeding the call. https://mstdn.social/@ppatel/116036976734541854

"Here's what I think the real skill of the AI era is. It's not prompt engineering. It's not knowing which model to use. It's not having the perfect workflow.

It's knowing when to stop."

As A Veteran Combat Soldier, I've Noticed 1 Especially Sinister Thing About ICE That Needs To Be Called Out "When armed agents operate beyond the reach of law, they are no longer public servants. They are something else entirely."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/combat-soldier-ice-minnesota-mercenaries_n_697a00a2e4b035e2a07a0a4a

"If the Minneapolis Police Department didn’t kill anyone in a year of active policing, and my combat unit didn’t kill anyone in over a year of war, Minnesotans — and all Americans — are right to ask why ICE and the Border Patrol have killed two people in my state in two weeks."

The next Anne Frank has been hiding with her family in a Minneapolis basement since November. To friends and neighbors who are helping the family: thank you for your service.

#ice #minnesota #humanity

Moments of bravery and cowardice in the news coverage of Alex Pretti’s killing | Press Watch Truth-telling is hard when your bosses are bootlickers

https://presswatchers.org/2026/01/moments-of-bravery-and-cowardice-in-the-news-coverage-of-alex-prettis-killing/

i was wrong! The new one does have paper pages for stamping, it's only the first pages that are laminated plastic, I hadn't looked past those.

And yes, the same G. Washington quote, so poignant under the circumstances.

old-school US passport with stamped pages

TIL I learned that newly-issued US passports no longer have pages for the rubberstamps my old ones accumulated.

The passport I just renewed was issued in March 2016, in a very different United States of America.

"It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/state-terror-has-arrived.html

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/trump-energy-china-future.html

#energy #electrification

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/trump-minneapolis-ice.html

#Resistance

On the latest Al Franken podcast, Minnesota Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan describes people so afraid to leave their homes that they aren't showing up for necessary medical procedures like dialysis.

I heard the *exact same thing* from a nurse here in Santa Rosa.

#TheCrueltyIsThePoint

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Paraphrasing: "You are playing with fire, you can use these things in a ways that help or harm your intellectual development, I can't choose for you, be aware."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESnPZ4KfYcM

#LLM #education

Exactly. I know people who are 100% pro-LLM, others 100% anti. We humans are not good at navigating two contradictory realities.

https://thenewstack.io/how-to-use-llms-for-continuous-creative-code-refactoring/ https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115917100220206490