a raspberry pi 5 with active cooling and two different sized googly eyes on a wooden table next to the packaging from an “nvme BASE” from pimoroni. you can see screws and the pcie cable from the base installed underneath.
newest member
(at current dram and ssd prices this hardware approach has become actually very expensive 😭)
Overall vibe: The feed is running at a sustained high pitch of political dread and dark gallows humor — people are genuinely frightened about the Iran war, the economy, and democratic backsliding, but cope through sharp jokes, community solidarity, and the occasional Dolly Parton post. The tech crowd is having its own parallel meltdown about AI eating itself and everyone's jobs.
I wrote an app that reads the last 24 hours of my BlueSky feed and catches me up on what everyone is talking about. This is actual output that I have not edited in any way.
Big mr bean energy
stickers? no i’ll be bringing googly eyes to atmosphereconf
Looking forward to finding out why this administration has started this war
having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.
They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"
one reason i do not want Hegseth's idea of boots on the ground is that it's quickly going to turn into some horrific bullshit
Dr. Manhattan on Mars in the comic
It is February 2022. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.
It is February 2026. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.
this is, almost literally, a panel from next week's cartoon, written before I read this.
I’ve started sayin “He’s wearing a wire!” when I see these glasses.
One man overheard and pulled them off. 😭😭😭
trump is taking political hits on iran is because he is now undermining his supporters' ability to win online arguments. you can just own them ruthlessly on the iran thing now for being dumdums. and this they cannot bear. they can tolerate any amount of murder and mayhem, but not being owned online
The 1968 My Lai massacre killed at least 347 civilians. It led to congressional hearings and criminal trials. The bombing of the #Minab school, if confirmed to be an American airstrike, is a comparable massacre and scandal. A dark day in American history.
Who could possibly have predicted that a company whose slogan is "cheat on everything" would cheat?
techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/c...
one of the fun things about commodities markets is that they basically already serve the purpose prediction markets are meant to serve for geopolitical outcomes, they're just somewhat indirect
wti going up is full time oil analysts all deciding the Iran situation is going to stay fucked
Maybe Tom Hanks will get stranded in the Persian Gulf and we’ll all realize oh wait this is real life
I mean, I agree, but I'm not sure that's what Jack means here, or that he's even particularly sensitive to such optics nuances. IMHO His reference to filter bubble seems a reference to moderation (his career long bugbear), not to feedgen algo properly speaking.
Or offering an offramp for today's nostr users stifled by the "other ideology" in the same numbers that use nostr now. His vision was never for bsky to replace Twitter just interoperate with it and provide an ideological "outside", which explains his flip to nostr without moderation woven into proto
the commodities and futures trading commission's enforcement office in chicago has no lawyers now?
can anyone who follows this more closely clarify if this is as bad as i think it is
Yeah I deleted that whole peertube by mistake and been too busy to replace it 🙈
Exactly why crypto and prediction markets want to be under CFTC oversight.
claude code automates the experience of being a megacorp onboarding hundreds of junior engineers per day. this has, uh, some downsides, if you're not prepared to be operating in that mode
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
Text with two indented, italicized paragraphs both starting with "In an emergency" in between three other paragraphs: Marc Stiegler has identified the root cause of the problem; our devices do not support aspects of sharing that we rely on in the physical world. These aspects can be illustrated with two stories. In an emergency, Marc asked me to park his car in my garage. I couldn’t do it, so I asked my neighbor to do it for me and told her to get the garage key from my son. I doubt that anyone would think twice about this story. The second story is in the computer domain. In an emergency, Marc asked me to copy a file from his computer to mine. I couldn’t do it, so I asked my neighbor to do it for me and told her to get access to my computer from my son. People often find this second story so preposterous that they laugh.
The Six Aspect of Sharing Figure 1 illustrates the six aspects of sharing that we rely on in the physical world. That text is around diagram with six images, text labels and arrows. Light blue arrows connect each of four in a right to left chain, and black arrows from the bottom left "Cross domain", extend to those. Another light blue arrow goes from an accountant, labeled "Accountable" to the right of the top four. The top four are, from right to left (in order of the arrows): - Recomposable. A hand giving keys to another waiting hand with a shadowy third hand perhaps giving the keys earlier. - Chained. The same image of two hands but without the third. - Attenuated. The same image of two hands. - Dynamic. A man in a suit and holding a briefcase running. The Cross domain image in the bottom left is an open gate in a possibly electrified fence like you might find around a farm field. Dynamic above a man in a suit running.
Relevant to agentic access control.
I was reminded of Alan Karp's & Marc Stiegler's litmus test for usable access control, and Marc's six aspects of sharing.
alanhkarp.com/publications...
brianmcginnisnc Brian McGinnis' wife has NOT been allowed to see him in the hospital. He is currently awaiting surgery for severe injuries. Legal counsel has also been denied access. A Marine veteran. A firefighter. A father of four. And his family still cannot see him.
so apparently Brian McGinnis has been denied access to both his family and legal representation since a sitting senator broke his arm
i work with words for a living, so I am biased, but I really think we've got to bring back words. really useful if you imbue them with meaning and arrange them properly!
Nothing more hurtful than discovering what you thought was a deep friendship is fake
Totally normal thing for Senior Counsel at DOJ to tweet out at 2am
I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now
I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.
