Business idea: strip club for dancers with security clearances. Club would be called For Your Eyes Only

It's a very, very hollow and incestuous culture that lurches from one depraved cult to another. Anyone remember Effective Altruism?

Fuck the BBC. A compromised institution that has misused the licence fees of its British audience.

I'd like to talk to people on the financing side of the data center buildout, esp people at sov wealth and PE funds and anyone dealing with new esoteric instruments or forms of financing. I want to learn what all this looks like from your end. Glad to talk on background. Signal: jacobsilverman.99

This is what gerontocracy looks like.

as tech culture has gotten bro-ier over the years the shorthand cues VCs look for to decide somebody has the sTaRtUp MiNdSeT have shifted from "rumpled prodigy" to "slick business bro" to "statue avatar gym rat"; I assume a16z was ahead of the curve selecting directly on "has committed hate crimes"

The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple depe...

I'm officially a curmudgeon. Here's a rant about the Shadcn component library and how over-complicated its radio buttons are: paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shad...

(Inspired by this week's work frustrations lol)

#WebDev #CSS #HTML #JavaScript

I think this is behind the whole "whisper it" Daily Telegraph sub-genre

Number of reasons include "I want to stay at Disneyland, not in a concentration camp in the everglades"

There's this thing (also in US) where columnists seem to be wish-casting vibes in the hope that they can manifest those vibes.

Rust Adventure Rust Adventure is a collection of workshops and practical projects you can use to learn Rust.

Three new workshops are up over on Rust Adventure: www.rustadventure.dev

A Quick Start to Rust, Flappy Bird, and Block Breaker.

Why are NYT headlines like weather reports. Everything is an effect of nature; nobody has agency.

Oh god yes. Some are impossible to reason with.

The FOMO and temptations to grift are too large

I *might* go and see Melania if there is a scene where she beats Barron with a hairbrush while shrieking "NO VIRE HANKERS!"

Interesting how people are yelling at Labour & Tories : "here is a huge pool of voters who would be your natural supporters" and both parties are going "nah, the vibes are with the far-right, we got to get those guys"

Mind you, you ask a 50 something VC he'd probably give you the same answer (although "work" entails posting on X 9-9-6)

It's one of those films where the drama behind the making of the film is much more interesting than what ended up on screen.

Can we just seal off Silicon Valley from the rest of the world or something

They are for now, until it is no longer profitable for them to be so. Remember "Don't do evil"?

I have been *trying* at to argue this point with software developers who claim to be on the left, it's exhausting.

It can do. US ESTA visas are checked before boarding (at least when I flew there some years ago). They won't let you on the plane without the right passport+visa. Best to check in with the one you will use at immigration.

Plus of course there are drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.

Who was the intended audience for that speech?

Virtual reality goggles that show everyone their ideal high street. Comes with monochrome and rose tinted filters.

Reform councillors are a gift to lazy journalists. Always a batshit quote for a slow news day.

SV developer culture is just one weird cult to another. The whole place should be put under a glass dome for scientists to study.

So THAT's who bought that single ticket in the London cinema!

An older acquaintance told me of a trip with his British school. They were shuffling past the corpse & his mate whispered in his ear "he's been bloody stuffed!". The two got such a fit of giggles the whole party was immediately ejected from the mausoleum.