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My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

Netflix’s website is a 10+ year old codebase, and it’s easier, safer, and faster to use today than it was years ago. Much of my most rewarding work has been helping make it that way.

Some day I’d love to give a conference talk on writing code that’s aware of its own mortality…

having to find a new house every 10 years though…

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Tooling and platform, but am also interested in your leadership style 🙏

Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab In the 1980s, the professional wrestler portrayed himself as an all-American hero—but he was really a “jabroni” the entire time.

<pssst I see dead people>

“I don’t like CSS” is coded speech for “I never learned CSS”

Starlink's connection speeds drop below the federal definition of "broadband" at a density of ~7 customers per square mile, according to recent research. The more the customers in an area, the slower everybody's connections get. Data shows that 83% of US Starlink customers get sub-broadband speeds.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

🎶 Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Write Technical Documentation With AI 🎶

Study: When experienced open-source developers used current AI tools, work took 19% longer to complete. In spite of which, the developers *thought* they were working *faster.* 



It’s one study, and they don’t claim anything beyond what they observed. Their results are not predictive. Still. (1/2)

Them: Can't you just fit the text in the [fixed height/width] box on the website?

Me:

Snippet from the linked federal register pages. While the Department cited a substantial decline in the use of section 14(c) certificates-from approximately 424,000 workers in 2001 to approximately 40,579 in 2024—this decline does not establish that no current need remains. See id. at 96473. To the contrary, the continued existence of tens of thousands of workers utilizing the section 14(c) program suggests a nonzero population for whom section 14(c) remains necessary. That inference is bolstered by comments asserting that many individuals with significant disabilities would face unemployment, underemployment, or loss of ancillary services if 14(c) options were eliminated.

The US Department of Labor is withdrawing proposed rule to end subminimum wages for disabled people — July 7, 2025.

They say it’s still needed bc 40,000 disabled people were paid less than $7.25/hr in 2024.

Too much ongoing discrimination to end discrimination???

www.govinfo.gov/app/details/...

“Only the vulnerable die of Covid”

“Genuinely disabled people won’t lose Medicaid”

“How many comorbids did they have?”

“Disabled people are stealing my tax dollars”

These are all eugenicist talking points.

Disabled people are not expendable.

They’re conditioning you to accept atrocities.

I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use

Using a hotdog as a unit of measure of processed meats.

Americans will do ANYTHING to avoid the metric system.

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

Become a jamón expert at our Ham School

TIRED: “learn to code!”
WIRED:

I still have a FB account (Indian family scattered all over) and I hate it because it’s ’come back and engage’ algorithm tried to tease me back with a notification that my mother, who died two months ago, just commented on a video.

Fuck you, Zuck.
Fuck you so much.

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

Look man, I just heard him slur out “I’m Thranduil, the Elvenking of Mirkwood!” and… well, now you know how we ended up in the back of your ambulance.

Correct. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in May 2018, he made it the policy of the United States that every country should have an active nuclear weapons program.

Today he made it clear they need to develop functional nuclear weapons as soon as possible. Nothing else can prevent a U.S. attack.

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Kotek Says Preschool for All Tax Imperiling Oregon Tax Base Kotek wrote to the Multnomah County chair this month to warn about taxpayers leaving to avoid the tax.

I don't have enough words to convey my disgust for what @tinakotek.bsky.social is trying to do to our hard-won universal preschool program on behalf of the millionaire & billionaire class of Portland (or its suburbs, more accurately). 🧵 www.wweek.com/news/schools...

Just know that once this happens (shiddd it’s probably already happening) companies will be able to have influence on what information you receive from ChatGPT, there’s already no regulation on what it feeds you, you could be getting nothing but propaganda and advertisements in every response

Are 'CSS Carousels' accessible? — The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer

Periodic reminder:

#CSS carousels are not "accessible by default" www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-car...

They are still highly experimental and there are still many open #accessibility questions & issues being discussed.
+The browser will not do everything for you—you'll still have work to do, too.

I had it at 9 or 10 and coughed so hard for three months that I broke ribs and would frequently almost pass out.
You don’t stop coughing once your ribs break, you just cough and gasp and cry.

Avoiding saying they’re democrats isn’t going to stop the right trying to defund you.
Grow a spine and meet the moment.

A panel of antivaxxers in charge of vaccine recommendations, approvals, and insurance coverage…to gatekeep vaccines from Americans. The goal has always been to take away all vaccines, and it is disgraceful that so many in the media and in power pretended it could ever be anything but that. For shame