Brian Meeker
@brianmeeker.bsky.social
Dad, software engineer, and lover of metal. He/him
I’m not worried about agents, but I am worried about humans. It doesn’t take a very sophisticated rock for humans to humanise it, worship it, and make very poor choices
dame@dame.is · last wk.real talk, how many of y’all are genuinely concerned about super intelligent AI ushering in the end of days?
The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w agoIt took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case
Companies adding AI features to products that need zero AI features
Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!
tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber
It's #Pebble Time (2)! My original Pebble Time Steel had a battery rupture back in 2021. Very happy to have a new one. Almost no setup. Everything works just like I remember so far. Still at 94% battery after almost two full days.
"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.
Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.
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Bad : that this rubbish is going around again Good: I get to share this excellent history by @bretdevereaux.bsky.social acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c... It’s long but in depth and shows really well the amount of work it took to survive for the vast vast majority of people in the past.
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households
This is the first post in a series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peas…
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Tim Price@timprice.bsky.social · 3mo agoNo it wasn’t. That isn’t true.
Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa
It’s not a coincidence that the Cavs stopped playing ball stopping iso ball and this being their best showing in the playoffs.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
Very proud of my brother. First video from his band, Wulver, is out. Full EP coming soon. #metal youtu.be/nzEkgqvHfKg?...
Wulver - Hostile Takeover
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Published and walked out for game night. Did not expect to come back to being on the front page of the orange site. 😅
Brian Meeker@brianmeeker.bsky.social · 3mo agoI dusted off my blog to explain the AI engineering policy I wrote for work. It morphed into more of a rant on the lack of leadership in tech than I intended. Yelling "MOAR AI!" is not leadership and your teams all feel it. brianmeeker.me/2026/05/14/h...
I dusted off my blog to explain the AI engineering policy I wrote for work. It morphed into more of a rant on the lack of leadership in tech than I intended. Yelling "MOAR AI!" is not leadership and your teams all feel it. brianmeeker.me/2026/05/14/h...
Have a Coherent AI Policy
Yet Another Software Engineer's Blog
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We’re pleased to share that UWOTC-CWA has a scheduled election date! While WOTC still has the chance to voluntarily recognize our union before then we're looking forward to voting and winning recognition of our union. ✊
This can extended to just about any profession where AI is being pushed heavily. The sheer number of software engineers crippling their ability to think by offloading everything to AI is just an advantage for future me.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3mo agoI really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.
President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.
Never expected to see another Triosphere album, but they still sound great #metal youtu.be/0y41T4GKoxs?...
Triosphere - "Of Tyrants" - Official Music Video
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A legitimately clever way of asking "Have you noticed that the president is a sundowning old man in poor health?" without asking the question directly. Because yeah, obviously, most fit adults could win a fight with an overweight old man who sometimes needs assistance to move around.
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.
Oban Pro v1.7.0 is out with: 📡 Signals and awaiting Unique workflows ⚖️ Rate limiting overhaul 📦 Chunking overhaul 🪝 Global cancel/discard hooks 📇 Improved indexes Plus dozens of other improvements, and it unlocks all the features in Web v2.12. oban.pro/docs/pro/1.7... Signaling shown here:
Past me recommended Fly.io as a host to various folks. I am deeply sorry for this error in judgement. Can't get off it fast enough. I am so tired of production incidents. Feel free to run your hobby products there, but trusting it for real production app is a mistake.
I don't recommend doing it all the time, but a solid week of Spite Driven Development can go a long way on occasion.
There are many embarrassing parts of "founder mode", but the one that jumped out to me initially was that VC Startup Land apparently hadn't realized that using headcount as a scoreboard of success is maybe a bad thing? Congrats. You have become aware of coordination costs. Welcome to Management 101.
JA Westenberg@joanwestenberg.com · 3mo agoEvery "founder mode" essay is a man realising he's difficult to work for and deciding to publish an 8,000 word manifesto about why that actually makes him a Very Special Boy
Continuing to get more flowerful with every tattoo session.
I guested on a podcast to talk about tech unions and managed to only sound mildly unintelligent! I'll consider that a win. youtu.be/QoxuqRGFfZY?...
ClueCon Weekly with Brian Meeker [Sn. 15 Ep.29]: Tech Unions Explained
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Pumped to see Emperor and Blood Incantation in Chicago tonight. Far less pumped for the four hour drive back after the show. Good chance I'm passing out a hotel and finishing the drive in the morning instead.
