Reid Dossinger

If such things interest you, the new HELP(2) compilation is really good. Not a clunker in there, and the covers are all excellent.

My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.

Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.

Was talking this week to an elder Millenial who teaches computers to college students. Says that, having grown up on Chromebooks, they're functionally tech illiterate. Don't know how to change a document format. Don't know how to print. Don't actually understand what an app is.

"Do you speak French? No. You only speak french fries."

Now do this in the airport, too

Also, Bluesky’s problems are the same problems as any social media platform has.

The irony is that “Bluesky is an echo chamber” is an opinion that people are just parroting from other people who also don’t use Bluesky.

I keep seeing this gif and it makes me think that the people who rented out fog machines really had a boom time in the early 80s.

Good to hear. I thought the Macca 70s doc was fine, but not very illuminating. I'll check out that '62 doc.

They have religious exemptions. That means the parents are liars, tbc, because no major religions object to vaccines…but they do usually have moral objections to lying!

People lying ab their religion are putting other people’s kids & the broader community at risk in schools w/21% MMR uptake rates.

This is not a celebration. It’s violence.

This whole thing has made me real low. For every celebrate unit I can give to Anthropic for rejecting it, I have 100 despair units over the others, especially Google, going along with it.

For the first time ever Claude is the top free app in the US App Store. There’s been no better marketing than the U.S. military trying to force the company to use its AI to fight wars and spy on Americans.

It’s also notable that AI apps and Threads are the most popular apps on iOS.

Read the room, robot arm with puppy dog eyes.

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

That's menus put together by chefs that are not jaded and indifferent.

Oh, if she had friends over, she would have left the room immediately in fury at me.

"Thin desert boy" is a gift.

Cheers to my 12-year-old who sat and watched with apparent genuine interest as I made a chip clip lip sync all of "In a Big Country".

Yes it is! What are you even talking ab...OH MY GOD.

Morning.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

I know this is becoming something of a mantra but it is really disheartening to be reminded constantly how many seemingly normal folks out there are just completely bereft of the most rudimentary degree of basic decency or moral sense.

Hurt my heart a little to watch Governor Spanberger last night. A serious, competent, articulate person speaking honestly from a position of government authority. Are we ever going to see someone like that again in the White House?

The Mighty Milkshake Ducks

I feel like anything interesting or enjoyable about it ended with “you lie”.

Props to @scott.hanselman.com for naming the elephant in the room in big tech.

AI coding tools boost senior engineers but create challenges for juniors who lack context to judge outputs. Cutting junior hiring for near-term gains weakens the future pipeline. We’ll need apprenticeship-style paths.

After another day seeing Claude Code do in minutes what used to take me hours to do.

have been in a generally grumpy mood for days and felt better today and realized it's because the sun is out and i have a large glass of water. i'm literally just a plant that's been cursed with the ability to complain.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.