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@edzitron.com I think a talk with Richard Campbell about AI would be a great fit. He's a software developer and OG podcaster and incredibly smart man. Definitely on your wavelength. I respect you both in unequal measures in your respective fields. Check this talk youtu.be/uWnUnMphmPM?...

Love getting emails from people telling me that ROI is a bad measurement of how good something is

Big Tech CEOs are "retards" - the whole bloody lot of them. (And I only ever use the word "retard" as a slight against people in a position who should be better.) I work in tech, striving to build a tech company, and I despise almost all of them.

Here’s a fun game: what’s a bug that regularly happens on your phone and computer? My weird one is that my iPhone screen sometimes goes black with a grey pinwheel. Sometimes it doesn’t happen for months, sometimes it happens once a week, has happened for years across multiple devices.

I just caught myself wondering what Douglas Adams and Arthur C. Clark (authors) would think about the technological world we're experiencing right now.

Lapel microphone. *Lapel* - that's the key word. That's where it's *designed* to be used. Not in your fucking hand! Just a little rant at all the content creators who have decided to hold their lapel mic and talk into it. Fucking shits me to tears. (end rant)

When you look at his film career, Danny Glover does not appear to have aged so well all along the way. I feel better at 45 than he looked when he spoke his iconic "I'm too old for this shit" line. But the man is a legend, so who cares. And he's still going, so who care [again].

Marriage to my wife of 10+ years is hugging, kissing and cuddling every day. Waiting for her to walk through the door. Worshiping her and her body, whatever that is - because I know her. Take off the ring - no difference. Defending my wife - I'll give my life without a second thought.

Is that good? #edzitron

www.office.com What the actual fuck is going on at Microsoft nowadays with their AI push?! This is getting ridiculous.

The fun thing about watching the movie 2001 in 2025 is you realize HAL is just an LLM and so *obviously* it’s going to murder its crewmembers every few flights due to malformed JSON.

There's a meme I keep seeing about why women live longer than men - and you see the men doing potentially fatal activities. What you don't see is men losing their minds with worry when their wife does something seemingly innocent (i.e. cycling with their bicycle kickstand down) and not caring.

Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. - Mark Twain

What the fuck is wrong with people on social media who post their stream of conscious thought without ever giving a context? And it always seems to be related to some sports game, or "going about my daily life". And this is otherwise "interesting" people that I follow. Again - WTF?!

I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it

To quote @punkey.org - this is all just nerds masturbating.

The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either

This whole thread - including a lot of the conversation - has me shaking my head in wonder... as a CTO and start-up co-founder. It's no wonder the software industry is a fucking shit show.

I really don't want to have to switch to Linux, but it's never had a more successful ad campaign than current Windows.

To which I say “It’s Bond mate. Nobody cares about the lore. Bond's first outing in Dr. No was released in 1962, where he was meant to be in his mid 30s. He has appeared as seven entirely different people since then and should now be in his 90s. Get on with it.”

This thread does a better job of capturing why the cloud isn’t merely “renting a bunch of servers” than anything else I’ve seen recently.

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From the same dev: “it’s also that I cannot see management being concerned solving the information visibility that keeps slowing us down. We’re rolling out AI coding tools for devs but no one thinks about the org silos that slow us down 10x more than any coding use case.”

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

I must be old because this actually sounds like fun.

@bobdahacker.com your Burger King write-up was beautiful! 👌 A real joy to read. And a masterpiece of lessons for developers in how not to build software in 2025. It's a shame you took it down but very understandable.

Here's fun. The Business Council of Australia put out a press release and new report about how to make healthcare more efficient. One of the big claims in the press release: "AI has the potential to free up 30 per cent of a clinician’s time, allowing them to spend more time with Australians"

we also, at one point, got an email saying “Taco Bell is now an AI-first company” we made tacos, what does AI have to do with that

I thought I was kidding but it turns out I'm spot on.

Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title Tom Clancy’s Jewish-Japanese Sex and Cook Book and How To Raise Wolves

I just watched "Heads of State". It was fun. This is the old style "buddy" action movie we've been without for so long. Suspend belief. Roll on the action. Make it lighthearted. Bingo! And 2 enjoyable main actors. We need more of this to relax to.

someone posted this on the Better Offline subreddit and I am sharing it without comment

I love watching @edzitron.com as an interviewee because the expression of his body mimics the emotion in his voice. Watching him react to Casey Newton in this clip is a journey! www.youtube.com/shorts/svHju... (Full interview is free to watch at www.patreon.com/posts/ed-zit...)

Vive la révolution! ✊ Or, "welcome to reality". But Vive la révolution sounds cooler.

One trick I learned at Uber (where this got popular) When writing an email that is longer than ~3 paragraphs / ~12 sentences: before sending, STOP Re-read the whole thing Add a new line to the top starting with tl;dr Summarize the whole thing in one sentence You're welcome

Pussycat getting some exercise! [cute-catts]

What a beautifully written piece.

"Oh no, AI's going to take my job... aaaah...!" (Can't do what my calculator does)

In Australia: I opened an attachment to an email - a Dr’s referral of a patient for mental health support. This opened up. I responded as shown. It proceeded to offer me options using the patient’s name, diagnosis .. Where is all of that personal info going, being stored? Where’s patient consent?

I think the technology is mostly fine, but almost all of the people selling it and a lot of the people using it are either grifters or insufferable dipshits.