Oh hey, it's Brian

In my public television special “The Story of Fascism in Europe” (www.ricksteves.com/fascism), we learn from Europeans whose families lived through fascism that a strong democracy requires vigilant and engaged citizens. We are all participants, we are all responsible, and freedom isn’t guaranteed.

The engineer-manager pendulum model no longer accurately reflects how engineering leadership operates. Most of us aren’t just an IC or a manager. Technology has forced us to live somewhere in the middle. I wrote about what this actually looks like now: www.modernleader.is/p/pendulum-r...

"I constantly see people rise in life who aren't the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you." - Charlie Munger

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

jfc, people.

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Snapped this shot of the Big 3, if any #RedSox or #Baseball media want to use it, please DM me for approval! #RomanAnthony #MarceloMayer #KristianCampbell

I submitted my first CfP, for an AI conference no less. There's probably a 99.99999% chance it gets rejected. Still, fun times!

Definitely the reason most publicly available models are so lobotomized, otherwise THIS happens.

Sorry I put aviator sunglasses on the baby Jesus in your nativity scene and started singing “Highway to the manger zone.”

in computer news: lol, lmao github.com/ultralytics/... it looks like github actions got tricked into running bash through a malicious branch name which was used to ship mining malware inside python packages incredible

I wrote about the death and possible afterlife of Simon’s Rock - the weird little early college where I spent formative years, and which had values totally opposite of those pushed by MAGA and Elon Musk. little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-death-an...

WHAT is going on in Denver right now?! #Broncos #Browns #NFL

Surprising results. Colocated #VMs are a net negative for #cloud performance compared to Non-colocated VMs.

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

choose your fighter

“Simplify Kubernetes with Service Mesh” This is a real title friends

My latest labeler is finally working! What it shows for each politician - 3 labels for the top corp donators - 3 labels for the top industries that donate to them Subscribe to this labeler to be more aware of the interests our politicians represent 🚀 bsky.app/profile/us-g...

The tech migration from Twitter continues. One by one.

I loved writing about #autoscaling in #Kubernetes, it's something I've seen make an enormous business impact. 👀 And... sneak peek 👀 I'm genuinely excited about the next blog post, it's going to be a ton of fun to write. The Sky is the limit... Like, share, and smash that subscribe button! 😂