I just met a person who can't tell Python from C++. He has never written a single line of code in his life, yet he feels he can build anything he wants. He told me point-blank: "I challenge you to tell me something I can't build using AI." I tried to explain, but I couldn't

No, C became the default because it was, and is, awesome. We could have changed 50 times, but we didn't. I mean, everyone loves Modula-II, but when its time to write an operating system, you don't play around. You do it in C.

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Pacemakers.

Meta, Google, and Microsoft all use encryption built by the same 50-person nonprofit. Zero revenue from 2 billion users. The founder uses a fake name. And when the FBI subpoenaed them, they only provided 2 pieces of data. Here's how a non-profit secures the internet🧵

Hey Apple I don't know what your UI designers for the email client on your devices were smoking, but it is fucking terrible to use.

*except anyone in the Jeffrey Epstein files, especially Donald Trump

What’s it called when the government owns the means of production?

Some days there simply isn't enough gin 🍸

Now that trump has D.C. locked down and is getting set to send the military to cities he doesn't like. I'd like to point out that the 2nd amendment bros are nowhere to be found. How many times? How many stupid arguments? Some chowderhead with his chest puffed out. "We need our

Small dick energy runs strong in the 2nd amendment bros community 🤷‍♂️

Hmm sorry - 9/10 times I won't let another human have access to my phone - why would I (and a lot of people) want software written by people who have in many cases lost touch with reality have access? Most AI use cases are an echo of Bitcoin use cases - imagined demand.

Yet another reason to not use the privacy abusing browser that is Chrome. Things just got a LLM's sized dose of bad ju ju. There is absolutely not way I am letting Google and its firehouse of data anywhere near my screens.

Found this fella in the spoon drain tonight as we were heading back into the station. He was burring up a bit. @barrelracernt

Says the guy who skipped the draft because of bone spurs ...

A lot of people are calling for a tightening up of gun laws. How many of these people have actually ever tried to get a gun licence & buy a licenced firearm? I can assure everyone that licenced gun owners with registered firearms are not the problem.

Richard Boyle has paid with his career, health & years of stress for blowing the whistle on the ATO. He has not been sent to jail, but the cost to him has been enormous. Whistleblowers protect all of us, yet the law fails them. It’s time for reform. abc.net.au/news/2025-08-2…

Heh. The crash down from this, and the resulting wailing, is going to be epic.

William Gibson famously said that "Cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion." 1/