Damon Kaswell

WTF, British Columbia? Have you been drinking? Did you look south and decide you wanted some of that?

When all is said and done, the AI scammers and thieves need to see the insides of prison cells. The amount of damage - to the economy, to the environment, and to people's mental health - has been incalculable.

Is the bubble actually popping? Is it finally failing?

OK, so here's what I don't get: How is the stock market still going up? We've got high unemployment, record debt, and overvalued companies that are clearly riding the AI hype train. Why do people keep shoveling money into stocks like SpaceX in this economy?

Just had someone going by "realpdx" tell me that Tina Kotek's trans-friendly policies result in violence against women and girls. I admit I took pleasure in reporting the account for hate speech.

Watching the debate between Kotek and Drazan is giving me real hope for Oregon. Kotek is kicking Drazan's crazy ass.

Assuming this country survives the second Trump regime, there need to be trials and long prison sentences for everyone involved in these crimes.

PSA: COVID-19 is still a thing. Go get your vaccine. Got mine yesterday and the body aches suck... But they suck a lot less than the disease does. And the disease is still killing people.

Three nights in a row of stress dreams. Dreaming about being back in school and forgetting I have a test. About being unemployed. About being picked up by the police. I'm thinking the current state of the world and the economy has me a teensy bit stressed out.

Oh look, there's the Friday stock market manipulation.

It's like declaring yourself a pastry chef because you picked up a scone at Starbucks.

If you're in a weird mood and want to see a bunch of people rapidly dissociating from reality, now is a great time to look at LinkedIn.

Impeach. Now. This demented, corrupt monster is now actively threatening election officials. www.cnn.com/2026/07/17/p...

So we're just re-enacting Weekend at Bernie's with Mitch, eh?

Another day, another violation of the Hatch Act.

Finally some good news tonight. Yes, it's in New York, and I live about as far from New York as you can get while still being in the lower 48, but I'll take it.

Read a post today saying that eventually, software developer employers will include AI tokens in their bonuses. If that happens, I'm throwing all my electronics in the trash and heading to the hills to live as a hermit, where I'll watch civilization self-immolate from a safe distance.

SpaceX has their (completely disconnected from financial reality) IPO on June 12th. If you have a 401k, you might want to reallocate it away from any index fund that will be forced to carry their stock. It's all a scam to make the American people carry the debt of a fucking billionaire.

Happy Pride Month! As the parent of a trans kid, these last couple of years have been rough, but I know a lot of good people have his back. 🏳️‍⚧️

[tinfoil hat] The AI companies buying up all the GPUs and RAM aren't doing it because they actually need them, or at least not just for that reason. They also want to make personal computing impossible. They want you dependent on dumb terminals that only exist to serve AI slop. [/tinfoil hat]

I wrote something of a recipe to follow for breaking addiction to LLMs for developers.