Casey Rosenthal

Y'all need to stop beating up the number 4. It's not a bad number. In fact, almost everyone's favorite number is less than 100, which given the infinite number of numbers is an astronomically high signal that the best numbers are in fact between 0 and 100. 4 could well be the best number.

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

It's amazing that we have cars.

Cat is 100% right about this. Obstacles, strife, friction -- these are REQUIRED ingredients for being human. Our capacity to feel good tracks with our capacity to feel bad, because really it's the capacity to FEEL. If AI makes everything convenient, humanity devolves to isolated socialslop.

Can someone please contact Kathy Bates and tell her that she needs to play Mary Harris Jones in a biopic?

I know Moxy isn't technically a hostel but like...

we have a policy that we don't watch movies about a white male hero who is special or superior by virtue of birth or genetics.

what would David Hussman think of all this AI stuff? I wish he was still here to tell me.

I’m with you in Rockland, awaiting a vision a path a network tunnel a reverse proxy from angel-headed techbros like me, Carl, how do I take the subway to midtown AI Utopia

OH: it's actually a wyvern though

On the subject of AI. People don't realize how important what @courtneynash.bsky.social is writing about here is to the whole scene: resilienceinsoftware.org/news/11560646 If you believe this take [and I do] it completely changes how you think about integrating and applying AI to engineering work.

Platner needs to negotiate with the Dem party a replacement candidate who shares his politics, but is a good person.

"The older I get, the less I care what other people think." Is it weird that I experience the opposite? The older I get, the more I care what other people think. If I could, I would anchor my time around learning about other people, their experiences, what they think.

Out here calling themselves "preppers" but can't even make a vegan cupcake. 🙄

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

who is teaching AI emotions?

We all know that marriage is for mortals, right? It only makes sense if you expect to die at some point. That's not a criticism of anyone, it's just a practicality.

Little-known fact: 16,750 years ago, cracks in the bottom of the retreating glaciers funneled small rocks into straight lines all over New England. Many ancient people used these rows of rocks as property lines.

I wrote a thing about a problem I see coming down the pike wrt agentic accountability, commitment, and responsibility. www.linkedin.com/pulse/beatle...

YAAISD: Yet Another AI Strategy Doc

Them: Worst president in U.S. history. Me: Worst president in U.S. history, so far.

We've got some more #ElixirLang contractor openings coming up at @dockyard.com dockyard.breezy.hr/p/6dcca4f6ee...

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sure genAI can help write the thing, but does it feel any satisfaction in expressing itself? the optimistic thrill that someone might read it? the satisfaction of crossing it off a to-do list?

@earthtoeve.bsky.social's song "Toy Soldier." damn.

"internal family systems" therapy is no joke, and if you pick up a book on it and go through some exercises without a trained therapist to guide you, it can seriously fuck you up. don't ask any of my parts how they know. they are all busy screaming.

It is not a stretch at this point to say that, if you are using a Ring doorbell, you are an ICE collaborator. Amazon readily provides data to LEOs and ICE. Don't want to be an ICE collaborator? Then don't use Ring.

today's office

It remains a great modern tragedy that a revolutionary and cheap gene editing tech w/ obv applications in medicine and ag was discovered w/ public grants at public universities 13 years ago, and they've been in a pissing contest ever since to exclusively license it for $100Ms.

PSA: deployments are like toothbrushes. they need to be replaced regularly. don't make friends with your deployment.

politicians who want a lasting legacy should learn how to mentor a new generation of leadership

OH: six-seven is a Chinese plot coordinated with the liberal organization dictionary-dot-com to corrupt the English language with nonsense, thereby rendering our LLM models useless

I've been mapping the companies impacted by the AWS outage on October 20th, and trying to find the secondary interdependencies—when companies or services that other companies rely on go down from the outage (e.g. Slack). This is just a snapshot, here’s the interactive version: www.thevoid.community

> New guidelines issued by the Hawaii State Public Library System ahead of the 41st annual event prohibit the use of the words “censorship” and “banned,” as well as the phrase “banned books week,” in displays at 51 public libraries across the state. #censorship #banned share.google/x9limKKKCBYF...

today's office

"The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free." -Utah Phillips

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

anyone else feel like Docker is a farce? I've spent the majority of my day, again!, trying to sort out library version dependencies. now I'm copying over pg_dump from one container to another, and of course now GLIBC, and then.... pepperidge farm remembers when a well-crafted RPM <E_SIGNAL_LOST>

do you think Jupiter ever accidentally referred to himself as Zeus?