The talking points have been distributed for the day.

And he doesn’t know what the F he’s doing either. Mind you instead of focusing on the war he just uncorked, he spent his morning writing essays about me in his blog.

Every aspiring politician needs to go on OddLots now

"Slop" is one of the great coinages of the past few years. Kudos Simon Willison. (You should all follow his work if you don't.)

Trump making the US government take a direct share in US Steel and have a direct veto over steel production numbers is vastly more Communist than anything Mamdani has proposed

I have no desire to use Nix. I'm happy to let some guy who writes Ruby decide what binaries my computer should have installed. That's fine.

it's official starting elixir arc honestly it seems like the most sensible language to write services in

[guy at the legislation factory] I guess we doin national suicide now

José Valim built The Elixir programming language into one of the most loved programming languages, used by companies like Remote Supabase Mux Fly.io Discord Spend 30 minutes with us at DPL to understand why his contrarian approach to devtools is a winning strategy youtu.be/ihn2fuc_ueQ

Had a lot of fun chatting with Changelog folks. Touched on LLM codegen at large, thoughts on the future, and had Jerod vibecode an app on air with phoenix.new x.com/changelog/stat…

You are all frogs in a boiling pot.

What's interesting about ICE is their insistence that everyone in America is lying about their actions. The Catholic Church, the Dodgers, the City of Los Angeles, random bystanders, video evidence, police officers, tourists, firemen, clergy... Everyone is lying but ICE.

immutable data means copying everything, right? immutable data also means you can do smart things with pointers and not always copy everything

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

It's so funny how these guys say "import the third world, become the third world" and then their own policy preferences end up converging with the taliban

Oh so guess what happens when you try to drown the government in a bathtub

In April, the Trump administration was saying "100 countries are knocking on the door" begging for trade deals...now it's "many of them never even contacted us" lmfao

On the other hand “win power in the most progressive places and do a good job” is a much more reasonable political strategy for the left than a lot of the nonsense you read online. And there are models of success to follow! slowboring.com/p/learning-fro…