Eric Carroll

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

I wish to speak to the weather manager.

I want to complain about having cloud cover for every major astronomical event this year.

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

I stumbled across this quote from Refactoring by Martin Fowler when looking at dannorth.net/blog/cupid-f... by @tastapod.com .

15 Inspiring Photos From Northern Lights Photographer of the Year 2025 These 15 award-winning aurora shots are sure to inspire you.

Some amazing aurora pics from the past year - via @petapixel.bsky.social -
petapixel.com/2025/12/08/1...

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves

Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars

Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Defense in depth.

14. The narrative that "masks don't work" not only denies physics, but is clearly biased towards fatalism, individualism, and libertarianism. How convenient to have something you don't like rubbished by "experts"...I mean, come on folks...
15. We don't mostly need "mandates"...

A trillion dollars of investment to compress Stack Overflow, query it in a natural language, and get the wrong answer a lot.

TIRED: Copy-pasting Stack Overflow code

WIRED: Copy-pasting code by AI trained on Stack Overflow code.

What Steve said. There has never been a study in which high-quality, well-fitting masks were actually WORN that did not show a significant impact on disease transmission. Many mask studies failed to take account of post-allocation confounders (non-adherence + non-mask people choosing to mask).

I asked a bank for a loan. They said, "For a house?" I said, "No, for two sticks of 6000MHz CL30 DDR5 RAM." They hung up

John Varley (1947-2025) locusmag.com/2025/12...

Jet Fuel Coffee on Parliament.

Every time I make the mistake of visiting LinkedIn I am once again astonished by the fact that the site is effectively unusable

Family docs in Ottawa just received a plea for help from our local children’s hospital: unprecedented volumes in the Emergency Department of children testing positive for influenza. Message to parents and primary care providers: Get flu shots out to the paediatric population!@ottawapublichealth.ca

The historical relationship between the S&P 500 forward P/E ratio and subsequent 10-year annualized returns shows that investors should expect to get zero in return in the S&P 500 over the coming decade.

Torsten at Apollo

A red cargo van with the words "Free DDR5 RAM" written on the driver's side.

@pivot-to-ai.com has a very good short summary video about the wider impact of RAM price hikes (likely to last at least 2 years)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWNSPL6BRuY

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Fun fact:

No one’s going to test before your holiday gathering.

Not for Covid.
Not for Flu.
Not for RSV.

But you could. You could show them how it’s done.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙤𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙮 𝙮𝙚𝙩: 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙞𝙧—𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨, 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙮—𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣!
HT @drseanmullen.bsky.social

Combining genomic sequencing, CO₂ monitoring, and proximity sensors, most rigorous study yet!

@danielmwoodruff.bsky.social #IAQ #flu #RSV
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ambushing will commence momentarily.

Inside the breach that broke the internet: The untold story of Log4Shell Log4Shell proved that open source security isn't guaranteed and isn’t just a code problem.

I keep seeing this pop up on socials - I think we used Log4j at ${lastJob}, but dimly remember it not being a massive issue for us due to the way that we were using it. Anyway, it's a story worth remembering #EveryDevelopersWorseNightmare

Steller’s Jay. Idyllwild, CA 🪶

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Its almost like virii are not in fact benign.

Just fall backwards, I'll catch you.

I promise.🤞

I haven't seen that before, thanks.

Perfect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF...

"Software company Atlassian found that *96 percent of companies didn’t achieve significant productivity gains*, and MIT researchers showed that *95 percent of companies get zero return from their pilot programs* with generative AI." 🤪