Listening to Zombie (Cranberries) in the car this weekend. 13 year-old: This is the bad version. Adults: What? 13 year-old: The 2025 remaster. [comparison ensues] You know what? The kid is right. The original version is way better.
Ethan Jewett
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Progressive, biker, walker, urbanist, reader, gardener, Jewish, SAP Mentor & industry leader, technologist, erstwhile potter. Often sarcastic. Trying to be kind and inclusive. Based in Minneapolis.
Apparently the full-court-press of LinkedIn AI-generated support for SAP’s new API Policy is *on*. The AI “influencers” are going for the Sapphire-driven SAP executive repost juice.
Just used an em-dash in a message. Had to follow it up with an assurance that it was an organically made em-dash. I’m now anti-AI because I can’t just use an em-dash like a normal person.
LinkedIn is even more of a cesspool than it used to be. Wall to wall AI content that is obviously so. It’s a bit depressing when you see people you respect posting AI generated content that has none of their own voice.
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Brittany Trang@brittanytrang.com · 9mo agoA Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
ChatGPT Agent mode is proving to be really useful for certain tasks. To the point that I’ve exhausted the Pro allocation. 😬
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
npr.org
If you missed my epic SAP EWM talk at ABAPConf in Vienna, the replay is available here: youtu.be/9TblU8tz8_4?... Presentation slides should be shared soon. Here is a taste. :)
The Gödel posts on AI over on LinkedIn are killing me. Great minds over there interpret the incompleteness theorem to imply whatever they please - and specifically that computers (“formal systems” 🤣) can’t think or be conscious. Proof positive that humans hallucinate too.
AI/mind spiritualists are all up in my LinkedIn feed. They are so sure that humans are special. I’ve been a materialist for a long time. Human cognition is amazing, even awe-inspiring, but I don’t think it’s special. It has its faults as well as its close parallels in the natural world.
Hey, yall thought I was harsh when I said this over the years. I said what I said. Do you still think it's harsh now? Some of y'all think you are somewhat safe but you are not, because you are surrounded by unreliable people. It's better to have a smaller group that will not cash you in.
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 3y agoI've told folks many times, I'm not that concerned about nazis, racists, or fascists. Because they're not the real problem. Because there just aren't that many of them in the world. Most people aren't Nazis.🤷🏿♂️ I'm concerned about the people I have around me when nazis show up. That's the danger.
Polestar 2 (2024 RWD LR) roadtrip observations: 1. Really like the experience of enforced short breaks. I estimate about a 10% increase in travel time. 2. Charging has been a non-issue. Electrify America has been solid and the Tesla adapter works fine if needed.
Someone at SAP: "Yep, great example, totally better than old stuff. Very clear."
@getmozi.bsky.social What would be really nice to help me bootstrap my use of the app (used for 2 months - only 3 people in my network): being able to add people who aren’t on the app. No contact info required - just a name and a city. Help me remember to reach out.
I discounted @tailscale.com for a while because @liss.bsky.social was the only one I’d ever heard talk about it, and let’s be honest, many (most?) of his computing choices are kind of weird. But I did try it and it has unlocked a whole toolkit of options for remote computing. Really awesome product.
Ok, this is amateur hour. I’d expect nothing more from the owner of this monstrosity, but for the rest of you: 1. Don’t turn the wheels 2. Rock back and forwards to clear a long path 3. Only once you can get up speed do you turn out as you hit the end of the path you cleared
Ashley "Billie" Thomson 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️@ashleybillie.bsky.social · last yr.Molly White on the crypto de-banking sham. Really good, detailed overview. www.citationneeded.news/crypto-indus...
The crypto industry’s debanking smokescreen
Cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it
citationneeded.news
Backs up my running theory that bankers are at least as dumb as the rest of us.
nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social · last yr.These dummies could have had a compliant corporate Dem with literal Uber lobbyists on her staff and instead they did school shootings and measles
These dummies could have had a compliant corporate Dem with literal Uber lobbyists on her staff and instead they did school shootings and measles
Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · last yr.Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...
Looks like the national Dems interpreted pleas to do something to stop the destruction as, “Fire up the SMS SPAM engine again!”
o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation - feed it a codebase, get back a detailed explanation of how specific aspects of it work simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/5/o...
o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation
I wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have [extensive hand-written documentation](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/authentication.html) for...
simonwillison.net
Exploring working with Ollama and Open WebUI for local LLMs. Finally getting the new Mac Minis fan to spin up. 😀
Silly OpenAI GPT5 theory that also rings true: GPT5 variants have been ready for months but are just being used to distill into smaller models. Won’t be released until after someone else releases competitive models to guard against competitors using it for distilling.
Crypto bros fretting that Trump getting rich off of a meme coin undermines the credibility of the crypto industry is like meth dealers being worried Walter White made their profession look bad.
Trump’s Crypto Venture Divides the Industry He Aims to Support (Gift Article)
The president’s promotion of a speculative digital coin left some crypto investors feeling blindsided, while others saw it as a gimmick that undermined the industry’s credibility.
nytimes.com
All you post-hoc keyboard psychologists who think you can tell from a person's creative works that they're bad actors, shut your lying faces. I know we all have an impulse to make things about ourselves, but, really, this isn't the way. Just stop. There are other ways to grieve (yes, it's grief).