Garrett W.

If you're a worker in tech facing layoffs, or just got laid off, or are looking for work in a tough job market, please get in touch with me. I'm building the Tech Reform Collective. doni@techreformcollective.org

Once in my lifetime opportunity: seeing Rush live. #RushFiftySomething

I'm looking for feedback and contributions on a new set of AI skills I've written for PHP developers to write better web apps. As far as I can tell, it's the first skill set of its kind focused on PHP -- and I want it to be a hit. All input is welcome. github.com/garrettw/php... #PHP #AI #skills

🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 1, 2026 Generics AND __exists both voted down. A deprecations RFC became a fight about evidence. A new Primary Constructors RFC. And a heartfelt plea for async. Full video 👇 youtu.be/dX_Hd_92x7M #PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86

#spotify20 hey @insaneintherainmusic.com 👋 Year 5 is my most-streamed album.

R.I.P. Kimi - our mini dachshund of just 4.5 short years. This hurts. The house is too quiet.

It's always a good time to revisit this meticulous account of Lindsey Graham in the age of Trump, from @saletan.bsky.social:

Power to the People!

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

BREAKING: Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet just won a *massive* landslide to flip a deep-red Senate district. He's up by 14 points in a Trump+17 seat—an overperformance of more than 30 points. How did he do it? Here's our full writeup:

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

NEWS: Democrat Christian Menefee has won the special election for Texas’s 18th Congressional District, further narrowing the GOP’s slim majority in the House.

Not to mention all the things the next admin will need to undo, like, immediately.

Top congressional Republicans and White House allies are working behind the scenes to prevent a politically charged floor vote to release the government’s Jeffrey Epstein case files next month, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. https://cnn.it/4nGsUn8

kermit. *sigh*

Not wrong, but it was because freedom of speech is such a fundamental right in this country and affects everyone equally. Yes, some have a bigger platform than others, but it still matters to anyone who owns a mouth.

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

And it had 1 million views 1 hour after it was uploaded.

Today's Reliable Sources lead: The battle over Jimmy Kimmel and free speech is far from over cnn.it/3Kf4JxK

Jimmy Kimmel returns tomorrow. This is an important victory for free speech. Remember that it was YOU all using your power TOGETHER that got a gigantic corporation to reverse itself. Bless everyone who participated in telling Mickey Mouse to fuck off.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

fubar

Hopefully their dishonor will become a liability at the ballot box, maybe even as soon as this upcoming cycle.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt

The greater Dallas-Fort Worth region’s unemployment rate ticked up slightly last month, even as the national unemployment rate dropped, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb Space Telescope: https://cnn.it/4nfn8sU

Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’

As they should.

We’re fighting back with our voices and our wallets — because no wannabe king can match the power we wield when millions of us take action together: indivisible.org/government-c... #BoycottDisneyABC

Stumped at lvl 21.

This is the context I was missing.

We all need to remember that GenAI can be lurking where we might not expect - and possibly doing damage as it follows its orders. Keep your sniffers trained, people.

Powerful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAHL...

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/on-jimmy-k...

It's a very fun fact. But just don't forget that bit about you having to be a part of it. Recording a convo that you aren't a part of would be "zero-party consent" which isn't a thing and is therefore not protected.

100% agree. And it's shameful for Disney/ABC to so easily kowtow to one of Trump's cronies. They should have defended his right to say what he wants. I understand this "public interest obligation" thing but applying it like this was never the intent and is quite an overreach.

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.