Mike Melanson

so the new model is the "we dont want you to talk about which gpt it is anymore"-GPT?

The TV show 'Silicon Valley' is a documentary.

Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose and

This from the guy who pardoned a bunch of dudes who beat up the police, huh? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

well, I'm happy to have made it to a point in life where I have a 401k and it's a thing I pay any attention to, but....all the money I've put in this year at 20% of my salary is all gone currently. in three days. so that's fun

the ampitheater next to the river with lots of stairs and no good way to get down to the river with a bike or wheelchair.

The ramp down to the riverwalk has a locked chain across it.

Tried to get to the riverwalk in Hartford yesterday only to find that the only ramp down to the trail was chained off for no reason, while all the stairs were open.

Why???

There's literally no other way to access the trail from downtown that I could find, with I95 cutting it off completely.

None of this is normal

"According to Pantages, by the end of the first day of the Wikipedia article's life, it had been edited more than 360 times, by 70 different editors referring to 28 separate sources from news outlets around the web."

I wrote a blog post about wikipedia as a breaking news source at SXSW 2010. I'm curious about its process and role these days...how it's doing amidst <waves hands> all this. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

I’m hoping that when people watch this film that they get energized to make sure that we don’t lose these hard one rights and accessibility to lives that everyone else takes for granted. I co-directed Crip Camp with @nicolenewnham.bsky.social

I don't even know how to use social media anymore. Used to feel so natural to share random thoughts.

I came to talk about my phone woes...but we're watching all the parts of the government that protect people be dismantled.

lol, from UK satirical magazine Private Eye

Woke up to my Pixel phone in a boot loop.

shit.

page from "ministry for the future" reading in part "You call them terrorist, but it's the people you work for who are the terrorists. How can you not see that?"

Reading "Ministry for the future" and it sure does ring true.

Texas v. Becerra: What it is and How You Can Help Stop the Attack on Section 504 | DREDF This page explains what the lawsuit Texas v. Becerra is, how Texas v. Becerra threatens Section 504, and why Section 504 is important. Learn what you can do to help protect 504.

A group of 17 states have sued the United States government. The states are asking the court to get rid of Section 504 and its new rules that protect people with disabilities from discrimination in health care and human services.

dredf.org/protect-504/

GitHub - simonw/scrape-doge-gov: Track changes to doge.gov Track changes to doge.gov. Contribute to simonw/scrape-doge-gov development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'm scraping doge.gov - they're all about "transparency" so it was a little annoying that Cloudflare was blocking my scraper when it ran unassisted on GitHub Actions

Here's my git scraping repo: github.com/simonw/scrap...

Alt text is very important. Add it to your graphics and photos. Why deny a cross section of our society the benefit of your wisdom?

How I learned to code with my voice Struggling with severe hand pain, I learned to code by voice. This is my journey with Talon and Cursorless, plus practical tips for hands-free development.

whitep4nth3r.com/blog/how-i-l...

Thank you for inviting me to tell my story, @kevinpowell.co!

The main message: you never know when this might happen to you.

Trump continues federal purge, gutting cyber workers who combat disinformation Roughly half a dozen employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who previously worked to counter election-related disinformation have been put on administrative leave.

Not that it's a surprise, but Musk/Trump have now fired folks who worked on *securing elections*, including combatting foreign interference (they falsely claim this team was censoring conservatives, which is a lie).

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

I wonder if Tom Brady will make history for the commentator who consistently didn't know it was the third, not fourth, quarter.

The other shoe. Is dropped. Like I said, this is coordinated.

Open source scientific journal now shutting its doors as USAID dries up 🧪

Is there such a thing as "DOGE personnel"?

I already feel bad calling and asking about wait times, but to be the one who had Google call? I couldn't.

Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…

@mmasnick.bsky.social is on point: "Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening: A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions."

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

Exclusive-Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of mil...

everything is very normal.
www.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...

What's the first open source contribution you remember making? Do you remember your very first?

I'm curious - let's hear the story!

#opensource #oss

DeepSeek FAQ DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?

stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...

An interesting read. I especially enjoyed the part about why DeepSeek is OSS.

GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.

www.404media.co/github-is-sh...

After seeing Elon's nazi solute the other day, I decided I'd truly had enough of X and resolved to delete my account, as I'd copied everything over to my Bluesky.

I pushed forward, clicking and trying not to second guess...

...and deftly deleted by Bluesky by accident. So here I am again! 🤣