DIANA

Miley was right, it’s a party in the USA because I’m uncomfortable and I just want to go home and hug my dog for a while

In short: bet on yourself over a technology that continues to underwhelm, continues to cause huge problems and will eventually pop.

Be ready for when it does, for the $$$

Wasabi be thy peas

An email from the Kimbel Group headhunters that has been sent to my_email_address+adobe@gmail.com

One of the neat* things about adding +companyName every time you sign up for something, is that you can tell when @adobe.com sells your info to recruiters.

Venture Capital Will Run Out At The Current Rate of Investment In Six Quarters, And OpenAI Needs More Investment Than Ever: The Information recently published some worrying data from venture capitalist Jon Sakoda — that “at today’s clip, the industry would run out of money in six quarters,” adding that the money wouldn’t run out until the end of 2028 if it wasn’t for Anthropic and OpenAI. In a very real sense, OpenAI threatens the future of available capital for the tech industry.

You should read the whole piece from @edzitron.com but if you only read one paragraph, make it this one: OpenAI has burned so much money that there is no more money.

Read that again: it's not just OpenAI that's broke. All of VC is broke.

www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

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Ah man we’re screwed

How Ruby Went Off the Rails What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday
www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

AMAZING omg. They said they'd translate 4, so hopefully we get one for the switch eventually

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Half finished cross stitch of a 1 bit Mac photoshop screen

I’M TRYING

Wow this scene is so suspenseful! When will something happen?

Ok maybe too suspenseful?

Oh I sat on the remote and paused it and I’ve been watching a still frame for two straight minutes.

Did someone come in before you and buy every single greeting card

My first Bluesky bookmark aww yiss

"This tech isn't going away!" "This is inevitable!" "Adapt or get left in the dust!" are all things we're being told by the same people who were telling us you're going to need a blockchain dingus to unlock your front door two years ago.

A sketchy drawing of a tiny light brown mouse peeking out of a bundle of white daisies, the greenery of the background forming a sort of wreath to contain the scene.

Oh, to be a tiny harvest mouse in a bundle of flowers right now 🐭🌼 #art #cuteart #mouse #mice

I don’t use genai because I lie to computers, they shouldn’t lie to me. That’s my job. The fool.

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review. A screenshot of a code editor. The line numbers are in the lefthand column, running from 121 to 125. There is a comment that says "Verify packages were created and check sizes" Then line 123 says echo Verifying Lambda packages were created... and Line 124 says echo checkmark emoji colon All Lambda packages verified successfully. There is no line in here that actually did anything.

UNLIMITED VELOCITY

My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet?
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.

Hot take: fish are weird and I’m glad they don’t live on land. They don’t have arms or legs, they do everything face first, they hug weird

Bad news, everyone

Everyone gathering around their TV screens at 2pm like it's Groundhogs day to see if we have 6 more weeks of fascism

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It's time. Amazon is pulling the plug on shared Prime accounts. I've been on my wife's for, I don't know, 15 years?

Signal of dominance (because they can) or signal of fear (because they're about to get hit hard because of Trump tariffs/depression)?

"Thank you for being a valued customer!" lol

*Looks in the mirror*

Oh no

PREDATOR PEE DOT COM I have to know more about this place we have to go to Maine

Talking to myself in my office:

WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY OLD LAPTOPS
I guess I can pull the drives out and then recycle them
But ... what if I wanted to install Linux on them or take the screens off for a project

*Heaps them back into the laptop pile*

Repeat every year. Never install Linux.

when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones

Chicken of Deceit vegan tuna fish

If you’re curious how much power genAI models take to run, I invite you to try running one locally. On your best gaming PC.

It’s not going to go well.