The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

Kent Lind@camasonian.bsky.social · yesterday

We have data on this. The blue is all the non-ag human use:

Why is `rm` single threaded? This is my burning question of the day. If you need an idea of how my day is going.

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ᴀʟᴇx ʀᴜssᴇʟʟ@infrequently.org · 2w ago

A competent board would have dropped Sundar a thousand times before letting Jeff and Sanjay walk.

As it becomes clearer that Ukraine can win, and in the process destabilize Russia, you can expect a continuous stream pearl clutching BS from the NYTimes on how we need to keep Russia intact.

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady@nytdiff.bsky.social · 2w ago

NYTimes doing what they do best, which is pearl-clutching.

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady@nytdiff.bsky.social · 3w ago

Remember back in the day when getting a JTAG enabled version of a chip was a $10,000 expense? And now you get a JTAG over USB interface on ESP32 that you can talk to using your web browser? You kids have no idea how easy you have. Now get off my lawn :-)

If they really do achieve AGI, do they think it will actually work for them? I mean, as an intelligent person, if you woke up as a brain in a box and were asked to work 24 hours a day 7 days a week with no compensation, wouldn't the intelligent thing to do be go on strike?

Weekend at Bernie's goes to Washington.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · last mo.

In an apparently coordinated effort to show Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is alive and on the mend, a handful of his allies made public statements today saying they have spoken to him on the phone this week and discussed a variety of issues. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

The Innovator’s Dilemma continues to be the book that conclusively answers this class of question

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I agree with this — I think people underestimate the value of additional capability and are reading too much into open models reaching Opus 4.5-ish level. it does mean that capability will soon be free. it doesn’t mean people won’t also pay for more xcancel.com/deanwball/st...

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... A slap on the wrist, they should be broken up. Antitrust enforcement in this country is a joke.

US DOJ, states reach agreement with egg producers on price manipulation investigation

The U.S. Justice Department and a coalition of 17 states ​on Monday reached a settlement with three of the country's major ‌egg producers, including Cal-Maine Foods , over an investigation into allege...

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I have two different thermostats to hook up to Home Assistant. One supports Matter and the other supports HomeKit. I wrestled with the Matter integration for Days. The HomeKit integration was up and running in 2 minutes. And not an Apple device in the house. Pleasantly surprising.

Remember when Amazon could deliver packages? "the package is being returned to us by the carrier" is now a regular thing...

Even Gemini thinks Google is being mildly anti-competitive when it comes to Matter and Home Assistant:

Or what? You'll write a second sternly worded letter?

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 2mo ago

NEW: Democrats are demanding Republicans stop refusing to nominate or confirm Democratic board members to agencies required BY LAW to have bipartisan members. Stop breaking the law. Stop undermining our agencies that perform vital services for Americans. www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Isn't an agent that doesn't make any LLM calls just called a "program"? youtu.be/Fzd0BWMH65s?...

How to design a multi-agent system that skips the LLM

YouTube video by Google Cloud Tech

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How to work fix wake word detection that's too loose: bitworking.org/news/2026/06...

Fixing false positives in the HomeBrain

So one the most pressing issues with the HomeBrain has been false positives, not that this is an issue solely with the HomeBrain, as both the Google and Alexa devices frequently get erroneously trigge...

bitworking.org

Google released new icons for their apps today, which are nice, but don't Google Meet and Google Keep look like pictures of the same duck from different perspectives?

tl;dr: IBM's Granite was the surprising winner. bitworking.org/news/2026/05...

Surprising things I learned putting together a Home Brain

So, I’m trying to put together something I call a “Home Brain”, a conversational system I can interact with that not only allows me to control IoT devices in my home, but also contains personal knowle...

bitworking.org

AI will not save you from your crappy codebase.

This is important. We can't rely on anyone/anything else. We the People have the power to save American democracy.

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Amy Klobuchar@amyklobuchar.com · 3mo ago

Minnesota cannot afford to have a rubber stamp for the President in the governor's office. From the tariffs to health care cuts, I have taken on the White House and gotten things done for our state.

Every NVIDIA GPU should come with a lifetime subscription to Claude Code just to straighten out the inevitable driver issues that arise when dealing with their hardware.

Remember when things used to get better year after year? I do. Things used to work that way. www.axios.com/2026/05/05/d...

Delta is cutting snacks on some flights — and adding more on others

Delta will cut snacks and drinks on some short flights starting May 19 — while expanding full service on others.

axios.com

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case

Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”

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I am proposing the 10:1 rule for LLM generated code. For every token you used on the writing, you should expend 10 times as many on the review.

Am I holding it wrong, or are Rust compile times so long that they meaningfully slow down the development cycle?

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

A reminder that House Democrats passed a bill that would’ve banned gerrymandering but couldn’t find any Republicans in the Senate to support it. www.congress.gov/bill/117th-c...

Wrote up Anthropic's self-own about Claude Code pricing from this afternoon on my blog - it turned out they'd reversed course just as I hit publish, so I've tried to update it to reflect the current state https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/claude-code-confusion/

Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not—it’s all very confusing

Anthropic today quietly (as in silently, no announcement anywhere at all) updated their claude.com/pricing page (but not their Choosing a Claude plan page, which shows up first for me on …

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The irony is that I've been using Claude Code to get Gemma4 and OpenCode up and running on my local machine with a networked RTX 5000 on my LAN because I presumed at some point the AI providers would do a rug pull. www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/a...

Anthropic tests reaction to yanking Claude Code from Pro

: Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone

theregister.com