One of my favorite PNW/Alaskan native artists did an awesome drawing of Jimothy. Check it out. trickstercompany.com/products/jim...

Jimothy Giclée Print 8

Jimothy Giclée Print 8" x 8" by Crystal Worl with a digital artist signature.  This is Crystal's Northwest Coast formline version of "Jimothy". Who is Jimothy? Meet Jimothy: the roundest, most compact...

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Wall Street Journal apparently missed how Seattle police has access possibly illegally to vastly more cameras than known. Reported by the Seattle Times days ago. Also seems to put council failings at mayor's feet.

Seattle’s Mayor Ran as a Socialist. Then She Ran Into Reality. — The Wall Street Journal

Katie Wilson’s progressive agenda has been hobbled by a string of violence, a budget deficit and turmoil inside City Hall; ‘Welcome to government.’

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Remember in Pulp Fiction it was a scandal that the milkshake cost $5. How long until a banana is $10?

A Salmon Run Haiku: Humpy did not win I thought today was his day Last game of the year #Mariners #TridentsUp

Just released v0.5.0 of modelith.sh, my domain modeling toolkit. Check it out. github.com/stacklok/mod... Brings in model importing, vendoring and subTypes. Let me know what you think!

@rakyll.org Hey — so just saw Ax. Looks interesting. Need to take a close look and see how it might fit with mecatl.dev. One thing: the logo/colors *really* look like a rip off of @edera.dev. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional but you should fix it.

Cool new project from the team at @stacklok.com

Introducing Mecatl

Defining and creating a "Cloud Native Harness"

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At airport and 4 dudes just came into the lounge with legit parachute backpacks. Hope I'm not on THAT flight.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social please can you guys do an episode on the AI doomer sex cults? There is no book associated but don’t let that stop you! More people need to hear about how unhinged and bizarre this all is.

Oof. I read the post (long but worth it, trigger warning: sexual violence) and it made me sad and angry. It reflects reality.

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 3w ago

@poisonivy.bsky.social catalogued her niche of Bad Silicon Valley Shit exhaustively and i probably should have plugged her work previously but i was trying to find the most clearcut way i could find of showing that this is one BIG thing so it was almost all primary sourcing ivy blog one:

I'm excited to announce a new open source project from @stacklok.com. Mecatl is a "cloud-native harness". The modern agent harness was born and built on the desktop. Current cloud hosting is largely "lift and shift". What if you built the harness *for* the cloud? joe.dev/posts/introd...

Introducing Mecatl

Defining and creating a "Cloud Native Harness"

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Working with an AI agent is both fun and enormously frustrating. You know that co-worker that is super literal and pedantic and can do amazing things but also frustrates the fuck out of you? That is the AI agent. And also, if you are that co-worker: I love you. Don't change. Keep being you.

🚨 New beyond the noise episode! The legend @h.olysh.it talks (literally) shipping Internet Explorer on physical CDs, co-creating Kubernetes, standing up Google Compute Engine, Google vs. Microsoft culture, and more. Full episode here 👇 bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

beyond the noise - Joe Beda: K8s, Culture, and Code That Survives Contact

Joe Beda, co-creator of Kubernetes and CTO of Stacklok, joins Matt to discuss the cultures behind Microsoft and Google, building Kubernetes, burnout, and the future of AI infrastructure.

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Had to tell the agent to do the birthday paradox analysis on a 128-bit value to convince it that overengineering for collisions wasn't worth it. It's like dealing with an over eager intern. 🙄 My job is safe for now!

video from @hopegiselle.bsky.social split in two for posting here. 2/2

video from @hopegiselle.bsky.social split in two for posting here. 1/2

Wrt geography and war, are winds the new oceans? Interesting it is asymmetric.

Samuel Spade@samspade1941.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Russians, too, are experimenting with balloons, but prevailing winds are against them. For Ukraine, the sky’s the limit. For Russia, it’s a blow." END/

Weird how "Don't speak ill of the dead" is unnecessary when there's simply no ill anyone wishes to speak of

I recognize names on this list and I'm pretty it is people looking to repeal the millionaire tax but... fuck those people. Throwing trans kids under the bus is a red line with me. I won't do associate with you.

Chet Faliszek@chetsucks.com · 2mo ago

Who is funding the anti-trans legislation in Seattle? Washington Federal Bank directly, CEO of Trident Seafood, CEO of El Gaucho/Aqua restaurants and lots and lots of AI and tech bros... fuck them all. www.pdc.wa.gov/political-di...

Protip: I have an apple trackpad for my desk setup and it was sliding all over the place and was super annoying. I had some CatTongue grip tape and put that on it and it is now rock solid. www.cattonguegrips.com

Schools must treat you consistently with your gender identity, provide you accommodations for disability and religious practice, and protect and support all students. Learn more about your civil rights at school:

I tell people all the time that I got lucky with my career and it annoys a lot of them. "No, but you're good," they will say, and I will say, yes, I am good, and also here are all these people who write as well as I do but did not get the same break, so being good isn't the issue, being lucky is.

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am 90% sure my career wouldn't have happened if a couple people hadn't retweeted one of my stories the exact minute they did. You work your hardest, but it's not in your hands. It breaks a lot of people.

The more I work with LLMs and agents, the more I'm gobsmacked by the n^2 nature of how conversations are handled. For every turn of the conversation, you send the entire previous conversation. This means the costs compound the longer the conversation goes on.

You know how dudes hear someone complain and immediately offer solutions instead of listening and maybe lightly advising? That is the tech industry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!

Growing a labyrinthine path around an icosahedron. Uses @amandaghassaei.bsky.social 's gpu-io for the heavy stuff.

Go home Gemini. You’re drunk.

So I’m trying to imagine if Elon wanted to buy my company for $66B. It is all in stock but even at 50%, that is a ton of money. How do you say no to that? (I want to say I would, but I’m in a unique position to be able to say no.)

Thank you for having us, NPR Music. Our Tiny Desk performance is out now: found.ee/DCfC-TinyDesk

As markdown becomes more and more common with agent heavy workflows, I'm becoming a huge fan of semantic line breaks (line per sentence - sembr.org) but the tools out there were buggy. I needed it as a library too. I wrote a new utility called mdreflow. Check it out: github.com/jbeda/mdreflow

GitHub - jbeda/mdreflow: Reflow Markdown prose: sentence-per-line (semantic line breaks), paragraph-per-line, and hard wrap. Go library + CLI.

Reflow Markdown prose: sentence-per-line (semantic line breaks), paragraph-per-line, and hard wrap. Go library + CLI. - jbeda/mdreflow

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