Rob

Screenshot of a Reddit comment with the text, "Former interviewer and bar-raiser in Uber here"

I've been saying for almost a decade that most of the complexity in software engineering is caused by resume-driven development. Here's a screenshot of someone that proudly contributed to that. (Context is re: silly interview questions.)

All these Silicon Valley tech bros want to be Steve Jobs sooo badly, but not a single one of them can see around their own ego enough to understand what made another person tick.

It's all so inauthentic and cargo-culty.

YouTube video by BrainCraft I Put ChatGPT 5’s ‘PhD Intelligence’ to the Test

While watching this video, I realized that OpenAI absolutely has the resources to have thoroughly done the same experiment -- but instead, Sam Altman decided to stand on a goofy stage and lie about his product.

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

Fortunately, I recently got local web archiving working to my satisfaction, so this is only a minor nuisance.

The next step in this game will be to periodically restart my fiber connection to get new DHCP leases, browse more from coffee shops, and wreck Google for as many other people as possible.

Pretty sure the actual cause is that I'm running adnauseam.io

Google's ReCaptcha popup on archive.today, but this time it doesn't let me click on buses, crosswalks, motorcycles, bicycles, or bridges: it's just flatly refusing me access at all, because "Your computer or network may be sending automated queries" (it's not).

Welp, I guess that's it for archive.today for me:

Shame on you.

I keep seeing this phrase used as though there haven't already been half-a-dozen constitutional crises recently.

Our collective loss of long-term memory is crippling us.

Getting pretty tired of trying to survive Republican economies, tbh.

Oops, forgot link: www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...

@textfiles.com National Park Service is looking for anyone willing to pick up books and journals from their DC HQ tomorrow. Just in case you might know anyone in the area.

The Smithsonian was one of America's great gems.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

(That's not to say you're doing anything wrong, and all of the other answers are correct for other subsets of your audience too.)

Aside from the other answers here, there are a lot of people that are immensely frustrated with all of the challenges facing them as society steers towards the Rent Economy, and seeing a lot of content for stuff that's out of reach for those people just adds to their frustration.

Piece of a screenshot from the bottom of news.ycombinator.com, where they've changed the name of their annual "Startup School" to "AI Startup School".

The number one reason I'm dragging my feet on anything AI-related is that all of the people shouting the loudest about it are the ones that have carved a wide swath of destruction through society over the last 15 years, or are unrepentant dev hype-chasers.

When I've described the risks of these services to people, it's usually been in the form of possible abuses of data. The current political *and* corporate landscapes have only made those risk scenarios more likely.

Deleting helps safeguard you, your family, and your descendants.

Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing ...

If you used 23andMe, please consider signing in and deleting your data from it ASAP:

oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

The only permissible forms of protest are the ineffective ones.

This is excellent. See also Nepenthes: zadzmo.org/code/nepenth... if you want to run something similar without routing all your traffic through Cloudflare. (I am in the process of rolling this out for all hosted sites on my network.)

Gotta agree with you here, the Democratic Party has been infuriating in this regard, and with their continued fantasy that there's such a thing as an "undecided voter" in the middle that they need to try to appeal to.

Pretty sure the only indecision among voters is whether they'll bother each time.

The Overton window explained Donald Trump and Brexit are breathing new life into an old political concept

Since I haven't seen it mentioned in the comments here yet, what you and others are describing is called the Overton Window: theweek.com/102517/the-o...

Republicans have been dragging the American Overton Window rightward for decades.

Tesla's Being Accused of Something Unbelievably Sketchy in Canada Over 200 Canadian car dealers are crying foul after Elon Musk's Tesla claimed tens of millions of dollars worth of rebates.

Yeah, there's the C$43 million that they (likely) scammed: futurism.com/tesla-sales-...

Sure is a popular stock for bagholders though.

This is a lie he's told every year for the last several years. Examples:

spaceflightnow.com/2016/04/27/s...

www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-sp...

People fall for it every time because we don't have a cultural long-term memory anymore.

[YouTube] DRM on ALL videos with `tv` (TVHTML5) client · Issue #12563 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp Checklist I'm reporting that yt-dlp is broken on a supported site I've verified that I have updated yt-dlp to nightly or master (update instructions) I've checked that all provided URLs are playabl...

Pirate archivists: YouTube is reportedly trialing a roll-out of DRM on all videos, so if you have a list of stuff you've been meaning to grab with yt-dlp, you might wanna step on it.

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dl...

Yeah, this is it. A lot of people seem fixated on little bits of pop news, but this one could have led to a very different United States.

A lot of right-wing media machine was already in place, but at least Gore could have established better educational standards.

This reply got me blocked by the person I was replying to, which means they are also no longer going to be able to broadcast info to me on issues they care about, on which we are probably 99% aligned.

This is not a good strategy for turning things around.

People can be both entirely opposed to what's happening and also frustrated with *all* of the people that have contributed to it happening, whatever their reasons.

But yeah, some more leftist vs. liberal vs. democrat infighting oughtta get us some wins.

The feynman-to-anti-woke pipeline really is one that makes you sit and go, "...huh."

See also www.masswerk.at/misc/wealth/... and physics.umd.edu/hep/drew/mat... for interactive simulations, and Peter Norvig's notebook at nbviewer.org/url/norvig.c...

Is Inequality Inevitable? Wealth naturally trickles up in free-market economies, model suggests

Excellent work, thank you for all the effort you clearly put into it.

Adding to it: there's a mathematical model that suggests that (some of) what we're experiencing is just what an unregulated economic system does over time: www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-i...