Jason C. McDonald

Hey RCA, did you need a new actor for your mascot? This was entirely unstaged. Bleu was really into "Spiral" by the Brad Mehldau Trio. I just captured the moment.

I genuinely believe data centers should be legally required to pay a $1,000 surcharge per $1 of energy used (at standard consumer rates), and at least 50% has to be redistributed to consumers as an energy rebate. They want to strain the grid? Make them pay dearly for it.

This is what we mean when we say that "AI safety" is a eugenicist project. They fear an ultra-powerful AGI that may kill us all. Meanwhile, this Colossus 1 data center is already killing Black people in Memphis.

What if tomorrow you woke up with only what you'd been grateful for today?

Ah, Minnesota winters. The quiet, frigid air, the sparkling snow, the wrens frozen solid to their tree branches. I jest, but it really is one of the reasons I moved to this state. Nonetheless, glad that it's warming up a bit. Hello, mud season! (And yes, I'm back.)

Hey, coming to #pycon? Come meet the authors of some of your favorite Python books...including yours truly! Ask questions and get autographs (BYOB: bring your own books).

If you’re someone that’s a majority in this country and you’re looking for ways to keep this country at least halfway decent, be a George Dale💜 dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

The latest episode of The Python Show Podcast is out now! Special guest Jason McDonald, author of Dead Simple Python from @nostarch joins us and chats about his book, #Python, and much more!

My Facebook feed is mostly AI slop photo galleries of “French Country Cottages” with hundreds of comments “So beautiful!” But last night was the first time I caught bad AI in a setup for an otherwise functional recipe. It was subtle and confusing. Too nonsensical to be a typo. AI doesn’t grok food.

Minnesota, like the rest of the northeastern and north-central North America, has eight seasons: spring, summer, sauna, autumn, stick, winter, arctic, and mud.

The Great Resegregation - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

FedEx: Failing Every Delivery EXpertly. My "next day" delivery package for work was supposed to be delivered by 12:20pm. Then by 8pm, guaranteed. It's now 9:38pm, and the tracking says by "end of day". Signature required. I ain't staying up until midnight!

Excuse me while I go blow chunks.

Learned a new word today: obtundent.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

this is one reason developers are finding a more receptive home on @bsky.app - and why they skipped the migration to mastodon, much to my regret

If you hold very still, you can watch the hype cycle hucksters paint "Agentic" over all their LLM yard signs. Another day, another breathless sales pitch for a bridge.

Did you hear about the clock that struck twelve? He's facing a dozen assault charges. #badpuns #puns #dadjokes

Keurig is just an overpriced pour-over with extra plastic waste. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

I had fun chatting with Mike Driscoll on his podcast! Check it out. www.pythonshow.com/p/51-dead-si...

Interesting idea! I don't know how well it will work in practice if people start looking for the "missing releases" between epoch jumps, but maybe that's a holdover habit from SemVer. Curious to see where this will go in the future.

I swear, I own the dog equivalent of Amy Poehler.

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In Minnesota, saying "careful, it's slippery" in the winter summons the snow gremlins to trip you.

I just had to explain to my German Shepherd that my adjusting the grandfather clock was not actually changing the time. The look of wonderment on her face changed to skepticism, and she looked to Mum to confirm if it was true. When Mum did, Laci Jane laid her head down with an air of disappointment.

New Era of Slop Security Reports for Open Source #python

And we spend significantly more on healthcare when compared to all other major countries. Is there a benefit for all this cost?

Fox in the leaves ~ my favorite stitch from this year I think

New authors! Things you absolutely do not have to pay for: -Being published -Being interviewed on a podcast -Book reviews Things you should be paid for: -Being published -Your time and expertise It doesn't matter how new you are. You never need to pay to play 🖤

Less than a half inch of snow on the road, and the snowplow just went by...moving nothing. I can only assume this made sense to SOMEONE at city hall. #minnesotalife

Some very interesting historical perspectives on the Christmas Creep.

Happy Thanskgiving My fever is 100 At least I'm cozy #haiku

Bringing my pinned Tweet along with me as I migrate here because this still matters & because we cannot normalize what Trump intends to do to DOJ. Justice should never be a political tool for presidents & their pals.

Brain teaser: how can you determine the weight of a kitchen scale if it's the only scale you have access to? #puzzle #brainteaser

Python 3.13, What Didn't Make the Headlines #python

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Writer: …did I have a plan for this cup? Was it supposed to link to some other part of the plot? Crap. I really don’t want to go through and take every mention of the cup out. Maybe I can kill someone with it.

Your purpose on earth is not to argue with people who intentionally want to misunderstand you

I love my Monsieur Cordon Bleu, the dog of my heart. #dogs