Will Iverson

Are you a #software developer feeling the pressure from an unfavorable job market due to #ai? @wiverson.com and I discuss AI as a capital market in episode 312: agilethoughts.info

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

"China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. "

www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence New “computational Turing test” reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

Sigh.

arstechnica.com/information-...

Trump Is Right: Ditch the Filibuster The tactic is a deformed anachronism. Its demise would benefit the whole country, and Democrats especially.

“If Trump’s impulsive, short-horizon leadership style is what finally does the filibuster in, then Democrats should help make it so,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues: “Its demise would benefit the whole country.”

Are you a #software developer feeling the pressure from an unfavorable job market due to #ai? @wiverson.com and I discuss: the dystopian gap in episode 311: agilethoughts.info

Are you a #software developer feeling the pressure from an unfavorable job market due to #ai? @wiverson.com and I discuss: Paradigm shifts in software development via AI: better software? More of it? Modernization?, episode 310: agilethoughts.info

Hmm. Just did some back of the envelope calcs for Shiller p/e ratios...

S&P 500 ~40
IT sector ~66 (apx 1/3 of S&P500)
Rest of S&P ~33

2000 S&P dotcom peak, 45

🤔

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Are you a #software developer feeling the pressure from an unfavorable job market due to #ai? @wiverson.com and I discuss: Are Software Development jobs GONE FOR GOOD—or just Evolving? in episode 309: agilethoughts.info

Sigh

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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Text at top: Governors Bob Ferguson, Gavin Newsom, Tina Kotek, and Josh Green announce coordinated winter virus vaccination recommendations through the West Coast Health Alliance Joint statement reading: “Our states are united in putting science, safety, and transparency first — and in protecting families with clear, credible vaccine guidance. The West Coast Health Alliance stands united in protecting public health and always putting safety before politics.”

Today, the West Coast Health Alliance issued winter virus vaccination recommendations for COVID-19, influenza, and RSV.

Robert Kennedy Jr. has aggressively weaponized the CDC, purging its vaccine advisory committee and forcing out its director.

Science is real

Startup company console edition

Blursker.co.xyz Global position #60 Server usage 0% Potential users 0% User growth 0 Next milestone rent an office building

Time to relax with something completely unrelated to work

Surprised to hear so little about this:

Section 174 is (mostly) reversed!

This is a BIG deal

The tax change that plagued US tech businesses (and handcuffed the US tech industry) since 2023 has now been reversed - mostly.

More in @pragmaticengineer.com: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-se...

YouTube video by ChangeNode Behind The Scenes With An AI Startup

New video - an interview with the company LiquidMetal.ai!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=leku...

What does it mean to have a moat? What does the future of software dev look like? LiquidMetal.ai is hiring now - what are they looking for?

Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.

the American government is effectively ending its space program.

#Nikon #Photography

When you spend your entire life looking for good locations to take amazing photographs and some rando on the ISS grabs this shot. 😢 😉

"The bamboozle has captured us.”

"Fundamental" truths about software:

- Code is liability

- The more code you have, the more bugs you tend to have

- The more complex a system, the more important architecture becomes

- Writing maintainable code is a lot more effort than just getting it to work

Reminder: Atari didn't collapse in 1983-84 because their games were bad. It was because they had such unrealistic projections that even their top-selling titles were considered flops

Atari executives peddled the "people hated the games" story to deflect blame for their mismanagement

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

Screenshot of a list of the 27 specific grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 16 of them in whole or in part, highlighted in yellow and listed below: "1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. 3. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither [Partial] 4. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. 5. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 6. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 7. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 8. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 9. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 10. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 11. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 12. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 13. [Partial], abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 14. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 15. [Partial], and destroyed the lives of our people. 16. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us [Partial]"

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump has committed at least 16 of those same offenses.

#NoKings

Wish they had gone in this direction with the new macOS Finder icon.
Still liquid glass but with the classic colors and no border.
Keeps more of its original personality. #WWDC25

Utopia (book) - Wikipedia

That and Star Trek are practically unique as utopian fiction. Even the original Utopia is depressingly horrible. I wonder if that's why so many are down on the future - our fiction is just filled with dystopia and collapse.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_...

Looking Backward (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels) Looking Backward (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels) [Edward Bellamy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Looking Backward (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

This one is just non-fiction, but tbh it's kind of just Star Trek.

The craziest philosophy + future + story I can think of off the cuff is Looking Backward by Bellamy. It's a very fun, breezy read and it absolutely broke the world. Best seller, started book clubs. Free ebook or amzn.to/4kAChDP