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"
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.
As an individual it only took me a few weeks to maybe a couple months to figure out how I liked to use it. I can probably still boost my productivity with it but the bottleneck is not testing and implementing anymore. It’s planning and reviewing and so on.
I have said this in other channels but I think getting high leverage out of these tools requires a degree of org restructuring (not layoffs!) that most people are not ready for.
There’s still no substitute for a solid domain model and fresh, accurate documentation. In fact those things are probably more important than ever. And Claude makes them cheaper to maintain, too.
conversely, if the codebase is kept in a good state (simple data flow, good constraints at boundaries), claude can make way better progress within it and introduces less incidental complexity with each change. the problem is, if you don't know what "good" looks like, you won't be able to maintain it
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.
Everyone here is playing and experimenting with new ways that social media can be useful instead of draining and bad. It might take a while but the future is obviously here
Having spent a fair bit of time in the Bay Area over my life so far there’s a lot more grass than I was expecting in Southern California.
ChatGPT iOS notification from “yesterday 21:56”: See yourself as a plushie Reimagine photos using our curated styles of create something new with just a few words.
Uhhhh…I guess ChatGPT is into plushification now?
i don't get it. you can lift at the gym. being a softhanded scribe is like the pinnacle of civilized life, tens of thousands of generations of your ancestors would have murdered to be a softhanded scribe
a lot of what has made discourse insane is that there's an entire crop of guys who live in dc, do a ton of uppers, and have massive gender insecurity around the fact that they're soft-handed scribes
(my first day at the cereal company) our newest product is a high-protein blend featuring almonds, walnuts, and pecans. it's aimed to capture the low-carb/keto market. It's called Post Nut
hell yeah
Before the nurses strapped me into the laser machine, they pulled up Spotify and asked for my favorite album.
“Uh, it’s Kanye’s Late Registration, but he's a Nazi now. Let's go with my second favorite.”
Chat, I spent 40 minutes gently rotating to Carly Rae Jepsen’s landmark E•MO•TION (2015).
we must reduce our dependence on carbon. please, switch to spaghetti solarara
Hand-made solid wood furniture made by US artisans is definitely breathtakingly expensive
I’ll gladly take responsibility for liking cheap stuff lol
I am getting very tired of people blaming “private equity” for changing consumer behavior.
Private equity didn’t degrade the quality of the clothes you buy, ultra fast fashion and online shopping where you sort by low price, then buy clothes without ever actually touching them did that.
where’s the software engineer version :/
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.
Re-upping my pitch for a fantasy trilogy set in a democratic republic in which there are two major parties, the Good party and the Evil party, and they regularly alternate in power, campaign on platforms of good vs evil, but often the electorate decides based on kitchen table issues.
"there's not going to be a Steam Machine you stupid slut."
I used to be cool. I used to make anarchist social networks and crash in people's living rooms until they were like, bro get out
It’s the same thing with Palestine tbh. There is no actually existing Palestinian faction that commands armed men that I support. I just want *my country* to stop subsidizing the other party to that conflict because there is no compelling moral or realpolitik reason to do so and many reasons not to
I’m not even ‘pro-Iran’ (ian govt) in any fucking meaningful sense. If protestors overthrew them I’d probably cheer. I don’t want *my country* to set the world on fire by bombing them, because it isn’t in the national interest, the world’s interest, or my personal interest.
If being socially conservative was a good reason to kill people we’d be dropping JDAMs on megachurches
The Sharon K institute for International Trade & Security (SKITS)
Top left panel: A blonde Roman woman says, “Isn’t it weird that we live longer than boys?” Top right panel: Another Roman woman wearing a floral crown replies, “Yeah, it’s really weird.” Bottom left panel: A Roman general with white hair asks, “What strategy are you going to use to defeat Hannibal, Varro?” Bottom right panel: Varro, a Roman consul with curly hair and a laurel crown, responds confidently, “Strategy? I have 77,000 Roman soldiers and Jupiter’s favor on my side, I don’t need a strategy,” while two helmeted Roman soldiers stand behind him.
what it feels like on contemporary conservative MilTwitter with its obsession on lethality:
