Dave Herman

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This month it's "software factory". Four months ago it was "agent harnesses". Four months before that it was "loops" and "gastowns". Four months before that it was "agent skills". Four months before that it was "MCP". Four months before that... Ughck. Feeling nostalgic for 2010s JavaScript fatigue.

The Mississippi AG says police are justified for killing a baby because someone thought his mother shoplifted diapers that she paid for. The police have refused to release body cam footage. Fuck everything about this story.

When you have wealth, you want power. When you have power, you want wealth. When you have both, you want to live forever and be God. That’s when you’re f—ked. My interview with @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Calling it here: “the bottleneck moved to X” officially now means whatever you want it to mean.

Six in ten Americans believe Baal the Soul Consumption Demon may be consuming souls, three in ten say Baal would never do that, one in ten say they don’t know bsky.app/profile/carl...

These are my skeleton questions.

statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans

I am begging my industry to stop slapping a noun next to the word “engineering” and claiming it’s a revolution.

"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...

This exact bit: youtu.be/rm_yG5SJBiM?...

abolish the death penalty

“We have a cult of radicalized billionaires who believe it is their destiny to rule the 21st century…They know our system is for sale…not only in San Francisco but in Washington.” Read @esksf.bsky.social on how tech oligarchs bought San Francisco. missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

Forget harnesses and frontier models. The real moat is a 30 foot ditch filled with water surrounding a fortified castle.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

therefore a computer must never make a fashion decision

This is really charming. In all these clips we're seeing, when Dolly's voice kicks in, wow it's magical. she's so bubbly

Justice for CSS: in defense of the girliest programming language. Calling CSS easy or unserious should be tired by now. It can build holographic Pokémon cards and 3D-rendering engines, yet it’s still dismissed as decorative. www.wired.com/story/justic...

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

Saw a woman on TikTok who said she quit corporate at age 46 to become a beekeeper because “I would literally rather get stung by 10,000 bees than write ‘per my last email’ again” and you know what? I respect that

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

anyway back to the original post, a lot of people in tech went into it because they wanted to make tech for people and right now they’re making tech for tech that they see themselves eventually being replaced by. it feels bad!

Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...

Two of the outdoor cats have bonded. I think it’s because they kept meeting up in our yard for food. Just goes to show you, you gotta get off the apps and put yourself out there

The fact that Musk himself is sponsoring so many of the anti-trans ads this cycle presents a pretty golden opportunity for Dems to point out that of course the guy who literally wants to build a gas-powered data center in your backyard wants this election to be about trans people.

“When Obama said he supported civil unions in the run-up to the 2008 and 2012 elections, he was offering gay people a slower pace of progress. When Democrats today triangulate on transgender rights, they are offering us a slower pace of decline.”

“A lot of them don’t believe that their fight is partisan, and it’s not.” Yes it is. MAHA is overwhelmingly a right-wing movement with right-wing goals. The reason they make “progressive” arguments is to trick mainstream figures into working with them — exactly as AOC seems to be doing.

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Again I cannot emphasize enough how important Clearly Canadian is as a nostalgic after school snack to 30 and 40-something Americans

the right wing's normalization of the phrase "biological sex" as being completely synonymous with assigned sex at birth has done such irreparable harm not only to trans people but also to most people's awareness of how sex differentiation occurs in homo sapiens at a fundamental level

Literally every single thing in this image is cursed.

I absolutely live for this stuff, these weird little idiosyncrasies that last for centuries+ because replicating traditions is just how we’re wired. How can you hear stories like this and not feel a visceral kinship with humanity? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozen#B...

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

The 19‐old-wife is being forced to fight the entire apparatus of the United States Navy, while caring for a toddler and a baby, in the wake of her 19-year-old husband's mental health crisis. 19.