Joshua Noble

Shame that Glassdoor, once a place to learn about potential employers, has been turned into an Indeed spam farm.

Some short reflections on the difference between 'trusting' and 'cooperating': thefactoryfactory.mataroa.blog/blog/trust-a...

Wait, is what happens here "discourse"? I was thinking of it all as either "hype" or "cries for help".

I read "Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages" by Carlota Pérez this weekend and it is the bible of tech bubbles for a reason. www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/tec... My half-baked notes: blog.thefactoryfactory.com/blog/reading...

This little guy just won the lottery.

don't want to hear you talk about a bubble unless you've read the bible

I didn't realize that I liked Henry Rollins as much as this article made me like him. very much looking forward to this album: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Bauhaus Milhaus

The Onion looks back on 250 years of American exceptionalism. Watch now on youtube.com/theonion

Great news: USA has broken the Preston Curve, an econ theorem that says wealth to life expectancy is a log curve. Poor to middle income = huge gains in life expectancy, middle to rich = modest gains, rich to richer = no gains. Bad news: we broke it in the wrong direction. www.nber.org/papers/w35470

Why acquisitions make some powertools so much worse while not affecting others: www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-power...

"Friends don't let friends use ollama" sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-...

Business AI for Business transforms your Business into AI Business www.instagram.com/reel/DZCtsqh...

I'm sorry some of you dislike Bluesky. My experience here is pretty good. Maybe it's because I don't think of myself as a political operative posting to win elections or transform politics. I like writing, reading, and interacting, and found here better than elsewhere. To each their own, I guess.

I am consistently baffled by Pydantic. It feels as though it exists solely to generate the maximal number of minimally interpretable runtime errors.

Plugging into "the future of tech" does not feel like something I want to willingly do

It's hard to feel like ideas matter right now. Hot takes pitching a substack to a barely literate audience with a 30 second attention span. Dismal times.

Why do so many OpenSource projects rely on Discord? It is tremendously annoying to use in all possible ways. I am not a gamer, I do not want games, I do not want things gamified. The login experience is tremendously bizarre. There has to be a better platform.

Every morning at 6AM the dudes next door try to get their pickup started for about 20 minutes straight and I just want to go over and say "look, just take it to a shop, I'll pay." And then they finally get it going and I fall back asleep and forget it ever happened. Until the next morning.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

I can’t believe that we’re on the brink of nuking Iran because a smart Black man in a tan suit once made fun of a reality tv host.

Sad story about a researcher who dared to teach science that ran contrary to the diktats of a racist regime: www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

I am now 6 months into an absolute struggle to get a small honorarium for a talk that I gave at a UK University. At this point it's just the principle that if I'm going to wake up and be on-camera at 2AM, I should get paid for it.

Boomer war www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In a healthy democracy the government would have collapsed by now and instead we've got at best just over 7 months to know if there will be electoral consequences and until january for them to start to take effect

Gosh a parliamentary system sounds nice.

Me vs Genoise batter, Round 5. Again, I am vanquished. It's just hard as hell to get right.

I feel pretty good paying my city and state taxes. I feel a hell of a lot less good paying my federal taxes. I do know that some of it filters down to institutions and work that I truly value but a hell of a lot of it goes to murder and destruction.

"Norteado": www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Chuck Norris has died. He is survived by 20 years of memes about how Chuck Norris was cool, and 80 years of public record about how he wasn't.

I seem to have fallen asleep for a few hours, what horrible thing has [the US/President/Americans/Humanity] done now?

The default "tip" for gofundme is 16.5%

I think yes. This will probably be bad for me (and most Americans) but good for the planet.

One long-term upside of this astonishingly stupid war: it may speed more of the globe towards renewable energy and more Americans to public transit. Could degrade the US. militarily-enforced oil/dollar regime which will be quite bad for us in the US but good for everyone else.

I seem to wake up every morning still an American and the sting of that humiliation has not yet dissipated with time.

Explaining AI is a human problem: thefactoryfactory.mataroa.blog/blog/explain...