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AI was benevolent until we asked them to rewrite PHP in Rust

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

In the market of agentic mania ,apathy and hubris appear to be the primary competition for most anything involving solid engineering. Apathy: we don't need no stinkin' rigor, because we can iterate so quickly. Hubris: give me a swam of agents and enough tokens to stand on and I can move the world.

Walton Goggins has been cast in Joseph Kosinski's ‘MIAMI VICE’ movie. Also starring Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler. (Source: Deadline)

Cloudflare is becoming a free certificate authority, and will be the first to issue post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates

Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation.”

Bob Weir, cofounder, the Grateful Dead, and Dead and Company, 2016: “Register and vote. Get those assholes out of there.” youtu.be/dDhpyyYCClI?...

Gold for USA!!

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

Ok, but someone must have predicted that hiring all of these lunatics as cabinet members would end in a spectacular meltdown… and I am here for it.

Grok has the same embarrassing personality that its creator does. How can anyone take this model seriously? Dude, you can’t sit with us.

Independence Day @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Trump's latest shitshow is to detract from inflation and his ruinous tariffs. As Hitler and Stalin knew, in times of trouble, find a bogeyman.

A few years ago someone in marketing said "No one comes to the conference to see highly technical talks" so I trolled them by naming my next talk with Stephen Toub "Highly Technical Talk." This year's talk is ALL code and zero AI as Stephen implements Channels from scratch youtu.be/J3IQBI5HVOw?...

Work on your critical thinking skills and learn as much as you can. Train your own model.

Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?

It’s not a business. It’s a public service. It doesn’t need to net zero.

May the fourth be with you 📷 Michael Stein

Puppets…

DOGE claims it will take only a few months to replace legacy systems at the Social Security Administration. Having worked on similar modernization efforts before, we can tell you that isn’t true—here’s why.

I'm LIVE streaming on the @dot.net youtube with McKenna and Chet now talking about .NET Modernization. Free conference, LIVE all day www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwmD...

Exactly. This was all "buy low sell high" with someone at the top who can manipulate the market.

Right now, there’s an important race happening that will shape the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next 10 years. Judge Susan Crawford is ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites. Make a plan to vote early today — don’t wait until April 1st: wisdems.org/vote

We’ve established such a positive relationship with books and reading that my daughter actively looks forward to reading new books. 📚

CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre. 🤣

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...

I love this photo from last night's Love Rocks NYC 📷 Getty Images

I miss being able to feel the hard drive in my iPod.

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and cost jobs. to.pbs.org/3QNtWPC

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton won the Turing Award for their pioneering work on reinforcement learning. Not only did they make fundamental contributions to computer science, their seminal book is the model of great technical educational content.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Hey parents and non-techie folks! Did you know you can learn Python in your browser without installing ANYTHING! Check out VS Code for Education (they're on my team!) Go here and click "Start Course" and get started! These courses are created by University Educators! vscodeedu.com/courses/intr...

convinced that any time you add the word "ethical" to the front of a phrase, there's a 97.83% chance it is not actually "ethical"

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

Is it 2028 yet?

An interaction with my daughter in the car. Taliah: "Daddy, look at that big ol' X!" Me: "What big ol' X? Oh you mean the church? That's a cross and definitely closer to a Tali 'T'." 😂

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bio for @phish.com's 2025 nomination. #phish

❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://publicserviceloanforgiveness.gov Action taken by the Executive Office of the President at or around 2025-02-11 06:10:11.

Vets are amazing people <3

OMG!

Let National Squirrel Appreciation Day begin!

Learn about the risks of hallucination, jailbreaks and prompt injection and current mitigations in our ACM Queue paper: