“The Staff Engineer’s Path” by Tanya Reilly is really good. Been listening to it while taking care of the little toad man, and thoroughly enjoying it so far.

The SLA for my tweets being directed at the mutuals tab is 4-9s.

current feelings around AI: the CEOs shoveling slop into everything should be in jail but the guys spending upwards of $60,000 on elaborate, janky home rigs to run local models for no reason other than to see if it works are engaging in a long and semi-honorable tradition of computer toucher shit

lol, lmao even.

I won the internet today.

Dumpster diving for ewaste rules.

SKOL TWINS BABY

Cleaning off and organizing all the shit on my desk got me feeling all 'normal'-like. weird.

Imagine having such an ego and lack of ideas that you buy a moderately large user base for billions of dollars.

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 3mo ago

Randomly remembered original x dot com.

Minecraft punched a dead tree and it left some loot.

Ben & Jerry’s sales through the roof lately.

My 3yr old said “I don’t like the burrito taxi” to me suggesting we doordash something.

My 3 yo brushes her teeth unprompted. This parenting shit is easy (ignoring the quarterly hospitalizations).

Vindicated once again. #BaggedSaladIsFoul

CNN@cnn.com · 4w ago

An outbreak of diarrhea caused by the parasite cyclospora has risen to more than 3,000 cases in Michigan and Ohio, and the ongoing investigation suggests lettuce or salad greens may be the source. However, Michigan health officials said other foods can’t be ruled out. https://cnn.it/4vtv5xW

Anyone else running into issues with the mutuals tab?

Structural water pipe.

Something something origami folds can be used to solve cubic polynomials.

David@yonderdavid.bsky.social · last mo.

Check out how much this gentleman had to say before the model folding starts.

We are going to make this fucking thing fit through the Arby's drive thru

My 3yo is obsessed with the incredibles and I have seen each one probably 20 times with her. Needless to say I need them to crank out another one where Bob and Helen are about to retire for good and yadda yadda kids in college, Jack Jack is a teenager.

He's gonna light the place on fire huh.

Bill Kuchman@billkuchman.bsky.social · last mo.

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Happy 250th anniversary of that time we blew up those alien spaceships

kWh/dwelling is a fun unit to think about out w.r.t. a/c usage.

Discovered the beauty of a rotary octave effect and I think I may be ruined forever.

Dr. Pepper dawgs coming in hot!

My first attempt at home plumbing defeated by my lack of plumbing tools. (Pipe cutter)

AI Slop’s Fable is back on the menu folks. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

The Trump Administration Is Lifting Its Export Controls on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable AI Models

The White House is easing restrictions on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models weeks after ordering the company to suspend access for foreign nationals.

wired.com

Playing peekaboo war with the markets is such a stupid hack that somehow kinda works.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last mo.

If confirmed by Iran, the pause in military escalation will pave the way for a continuation of negotiations over the fragile peace plan between the two countries that was agreed earlier this month. ft.trib.al/IxLkQ8B