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I'm compiling chart crimes

looking at production volume you'd think most of the plates in your cabinet would be paper

several people have replied saying they miss being bored. ok? put your phone down and go sit in an empty room. what are you talking about

Gonna start posting projects I'm working on here since that seems to be what I spend my time on anyway. Today's is swipe keyboard for MacOS: github.com/abwagner/Tra... My 4 week old really likes being held, and I didn't find any free options. Wild that this isn't in MacOS already tbh.

it's not even that things have "too many features" so much as people have lost track of what a feature even is, in the pursuit of finding more of them to put into things. it's not a feature when it doesn't meaningfully improve the product in any way!!

can't believe this essay is four years old, but yeah, the key to understanding a lot of policy debates about urbanism is that by controlling where people live, you can profoundly affect their life outcomes this is kind of obvious stated plainly but is worth reflecting on

Good thread

Watching my kids try to use walkie talkies is hilarious, I'd like to recommend it to everyone. They love it!

Tired of pretending there’s any value in having a systems conversation about a system with people who reject the concept of systems.

if the thing you want to say is "i am very mad about ai" it is ok to just say that. people, even """pro ai""" people, are much more receptive to "i am having big feelings" than "i have fully left my own knowledge base to parrot trivially falsifiable lies"

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

New baby, who dis? This post brought to you by 2 hours of sleep on a hospital couch.

Lmao

Don’t make the machine good. Make the system governable when the machine is wrong.

Look, it's obvious that Iran is specifically looking to punish Trump and the Republicans, IRGC spokespeople have already explicitly said so. Seems pretty likely they're keeping their powder dry and are likely to try *something* closer to the election. We'll see what it is!

This is absolutely correct but the problem is in fact that money is required to make the system work, it's just a question of premium prices (they go up with more utilization). So the implication this saves anyone money is dubious, beyond the dubious claim about fraud itself.

Epic TACO time with language like this

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

Excellent thread. In many ways LLMs are accelerating the process of software becoming a real engineering field and that will make people who want to screw around writing code unhappy. Systemization is good though!

These are all extremely common sense steps, and opposition to them can be used as a useful filter for bad actors in the space.

Sometimes you gotta ignore the discourse.

here’s my nuclear take “Software engineer” is actually over as a job on the horizon of five years and nearly everyone in it just steps one pace right and becomes “software architecture engineer” or one pace left for “probabilistic behavior designer”

Increasingly convinced that specs are now the source and that code is an artifact akin to a lockfile.

EIA, week ending 9/11 Crude oil: -0.6M Domestic prod: 13.944MMbpd Cushing: -0.3M Gasoline: +0.8M Mogas supplied: 8.798MMbpd Distillates: +1.6M Refiner utilz: 97.5% Ref inputs: 17.449MMbpd Total exports: 11.936MMbpd

This is not just about math, of course. It’s about the relation between SV and academia. I think we’re right to say “good knowledge production is reflective about what has been discovered, how, and how that relates to previous inquiry.” But that will not stop our fields from being transformed.

Time to bring back out the full Brent crude physical-through-financial curve chart. This is where we closed yesterday. Dated Brent (physical spot, near-term delivery) > $120 per barrel.

all reactionaries are enemies of humanity. the past sucked and i have no desire to go there. fuck you.

EIA, week ending 9/4 Crude oil: -0.4M Domestic prod: 13.947MMbpd Cushing: -0.7M Gasoline: +1.3M Mogas supplied: 8.551MMbpd Distillates: +2.1M Refiner utilz: 97.8% Ref inputs: 17.629MMbpd Total exports: 11.868MMbpd

a silver lining this week is that it feels like the first time people are talking primarily about what AI is doing or will do, as opposed to what it can’t do. let‘s say what’s good and what’s bad and figure out how to stop the bad things. not fantasize about a world where the bad is an illusion

There are a few annoyances about moving to Bitwarden from 1Password: 1. The Firefox extension doesn't seem to fill 2. The domain match settings don't carry over (I use a lot of subdomains, some with their own logins, for personal stuff)

They brought a shovel huh. I've officially cancelled my account (after 10 years), and am fully on Bitwarden. Even if they reverse course, there's no reason to give them my money. See ya @1password.bsky.social

EIA, week ending 8/28 Crude oil: -4.5M Domestic prod: 13.862MMbpd Cushing: +0.1M Gasoline: -1.2M Mogas supplied: 8.922MMbpd Distillates: +0.8M Refiner utilz: 98.0% Ref inputs: 17.661MMbpd Total exports: 11.896MMbpd

Good summary of the wretched Omarchy/DHH situation

lmfao

If @safety.bsky.app wanted to make this place better and more welcoming to normies they'd roll through and permaban every single person in the replies engaging in ghoulish celebration

Aw what the absolute fuck @1password.bsky.social. I just got finished getting good and cozy with your products in my infra and you go do this shit. www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1passwo...

I endorse this shorthand and will be borrowing it. mckayla.blog/posts/yap.html

Wrote an ADS-B notification tool that tells me when neat aircraft are nearby so I can look at them, but testing it on vacation turns out that a lot of neat aircraft either have ADS-B off or aren't showing on trackers that forward military traffic. So now I have to bring my own ADS-B setup next year.

It's fascinating to me that some people can't interpret any criticism about a process as less than a stain in their personal reputation. We're all here to work better! If you're not, I don't want to work with you (and neither will anyone else).

Yeah, there's a lot of debt but what matters is the fact that they have eroded the fiscal space via political actions and have shown they have no plan to actually deal with fundamental real economic - i.e. capital stock -- rather than monetary problems.

The fact that it is fast becoming a culture war issue and large portions of the left are disowning anyone engaged with it as a tool means we'll fail to meaningfully regulate it, and that should be what actually frightens people.

“Democrats know how to win but aren’t trying” is the most baby-brain political analysis I can think of