Sam Kottler

exhibits A and B in how lying all the time makes you stupid

many of our best soldiers have died on this hill

My “new phone, Houthis” joke was a hit on the group text, but it’s probably not Bluesky material

good morning

you read the s-1, I drove around in secaucus in 2021. we are not the same

it’s very funny that you have to go in person to renew your nyc library card, but not to renew a driver’s license

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

I do not think these people reflect all of America. But there is a rotten ugliness at our core that we have been trying to paper over and ignore for almost 200 years. A uniquely American indifference, hatred even, of our most vulnerable. And it is now running the country.

Like, this is actually somehow more unpleasant than what I was working on yesterday, which resulted in finding a bug in a widely used package around RFC 7239 behavior.

a cartoon of spongebob making a face with his hands ALT: a cartoon of spongebob making a face with his hands

dealing with python packaging and can't use uv

What's up with the narrative that people are going from procurement of commercial software to using generative tools to produce it themselves?

It has seemingly little basis in reality and the valuable part of off-the-shelf software is an approach and understanding to a specific problem domain.

I think it's kinda fun how they oversalted NYC so severely you can taste salt while crossing the street.

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oh good point, I should constrain this to homme plissé

no one looks good in issey miyake but some of you aren't ready for that conversation

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

libs of xiaohongshu

He’s huge on RedNote

watched the b*yan j*hnson documentary last night and I can't stop thinking about it. dude wants to live forever, but has nothing to live for. I literally couldn't come up with a more sad situation and it's completely changed my view on him.

this washes away any residual doubt. the real motivation behind Meta’s policy changes isn’t some misguided conception of free speech, it’s just discrimination.

this looks ideal, thanks!

anyone have a samsung airstyler or lg styler steam closet? this is my most stupid material desire and I need someone to talk me out of it

was telling my coworkers about dislocating my shoulder while jumping off a cliff this past summer. half way through I realized it was not clear it was to jump 30ft into a pit lake for fun as their eyes got progressively wider and looks more concerned

It's frustrating to see people declare victory on congestion pricing so soon. I think congestion pricing is good policy and I am excited to see its impact, but juxtaposing rolling data of this week vs. last is obviously deeply flawed as a statistical approach...

I love monorepo build tools because I want to constantly be on the verge of walking into the sea.

something awful is afoot (I'm doing frontend work)

Very excited for this! @daylightco.bsky.social

it's kind of wild how I've been getting paid to do computer stuff for like 15 years and I still think computers are extremely fucking cool

hypothesis: lots of people writing code for the first time using LLM-driven code generation is going to result in an army of people who are extremely good at debugging. and that rules