Travis Brown

Claude is better than Stack Overflow for getting answers to programming questions in every way, except that it’s worse for the environment, worse for developer communication skills, worse for the long-term health of open source projects, benefits worse people, etc.

All true, but on the other hand: ✅ Less likely to get killed by a cop ✅ Less likely to get killed by an incel with an AR-15 ✅ Less likely to get killed by an asshole in a giant truck ✅ Less likely to get killed by a wildfire ✅ Less likely to get killed by random stuff I bought at the grocery store

Finally blocked that Aaron Rupar guy. He’s not Tennessee Holler bad, or even Scott Horton bad, but still, imagine spending your one wild and precious life farming engagement from the most annoying people on earth by taking screenshots of things Trump says and posting them on social media websites.

Accounts like this, Ron Filipkowski, and The TN Holler all do the same thing: steal videos, don't credit videos/images, rarely quote post or post links to sources. They're content engagement farming with other people's content.

I don’t believe in prison or the death penalty but anyone who wants a car that they drive on the street to go 0-60 in one second or whatever is a fucking psychopath who shouldn’t be allowed to participate in society

Very bittersweet / annoying to read someone dunking on some shitty thing you hate (cyclists, Bluesky) knowing they’re a fan of some vastly shittier thing you hate even more (drivers, X dot com)

I hate screenshot culture so fucking much. If you repost some rando’s unsourced screenshot of a graph because it’s vaguely professional-looking and supports some idea you want to believe, then idk, you might not be a bad person, but you’re definitely making the world a worse place.

Nice thing to see at the end of a pretty bleak week to be an immigrant in this country

My last research work with @algorithmwatch.org, on Google AI Overviews on German regional elections. Why AI Overviews? Because many more people see these than chatbot answers. In sum: Google's previously clear approach to election-related info seems to be replaced with something much messier.

The one gen AI product I would never disable and would probably pay money for is a browser plugin that draws Dracula Flow hair on every photo of Andrew Tate I have to look at

How are there so many beloved BBC journalists who look exactly like this and are also wildly racist pedophiles? At least I only have to learn about them when they die, but that seems to happen every couple of months now.

there are a lot of things about our current cultural moment that are extremely depressing but the extent to which the right tried to canonize charlie kirk and managed only to turn him into a meme (derogatory) is genuinely encouraging

Just deleted a post because I don’t want to contribute to the spread of disinformation in any way, but fingers crossed the event at issue will actually happen soon and we can celebrate properly.

If you want to get mad about some shit the US government did that isn’t murderous or fascist but is just nonsensical and fucking stupid, the National Labor Relations Board account on X recently changed its handle from “@NLRB” (which it had had since 2009) to “@NLRB_Board”.

In general I find it annoying to run into Americans in Berlin, but last night I saw some Waschbären here for the first time, and I felt really proud of these little guys, just climbing around on abandoned buildings, not really assimilating, causing problems for our German hosts

I’ve listened to a few Ashley St. Clair interviews, and IMO the one Brian Reed did last month is by far the most responsible, even though Reed is a normie journalist I often disagree with. I don’t know why leftists in media default to deference so often when talking to formers, but it’s a problem.

perhaps we should view nazi tattoos as disqualifying from here on out. i kind of assumed we'd already view them as disqualifying but was unpleasantly surprised so maybe from here we could all agree not to downplay nazi tattoos since they seem pretty indicative of broad disregard for human dignity

Productive morning in Berlin: picked up my new Aufenthaltserlaubnis at the Ausländerbehörde and happened to ride past a burned out car (the first really good one I’ve seen in a year or two).

hey does anybody need a project

We need a labeler for every account on here that has ever posted BREAKING on a tweet screenshot.

This is why I prefer Bluesky, your home for artisanal clout farming engagement bait screenshotted from Twitter by real humans

I just identified this “Dux Vul” guy and guess what, he’s a name in the European tech startup scene and has had C-suite jobs at companies you’ve heard of.

We need a big comprehensive compilation of people praising / defending Platner. I’ve hated every second I’ve had to spend learning about this guy but at least he could give us a list of people nobody ever needs to listen to again.

Not really the point but social media post screenshot culture is such a fucking plague. If someone did this on one of my repos I would block them on the spot.

This is the most frustrating thing about German immigration as well. Will your residence permit get extended for one, two, three, or zero years? Will the officer immediately switch to English or yell at you for your shitty German? It’s all 100% a lottery based on how their morning is going.

These are two extremely annoying men who sometimes individually make something beautiful more or less by accident. They shouldn’t be allowed to talk to each other and they definitely shouldn’t be allowed to use AI.