Would really like the "mute for a week" option for people who are currently being stupid, but may get better with time.

IanColdwater Eve: what are your salary expectations? Alice: well, I want a million dollars and a pony, but I don't expect to get that. What is the salary range you've budgeted for this position?

Ron “Milkman” Jeffries I don't know, but in pre-agile teams I saw a similar behavior. When it became clear that the estimates were way off the actuals, they would rearrange the plan, or add members to the team until delivery by the predetermined date looked plausible. Pony-whipping was often part.

Maybe they make Chromium buildable by non-Google employees. Maybe the ungoogled Chromium tweaks can make it into core. Maybe Bill Gates will buy me a pony

One of my posts about Iryna Zatutska has been flagged as illegal by… the Australian eSafety Commissioner 🤨 I knew the Australian government was crazy since covid and since they locked up nationalist activists, but why are they demanding X censors a European activist talking

Jeet Heer Kelsey Piper Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the United States Handicapper General as a cautionary tale Socialists: At long last, we have created the US Handicapper General from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The US Handicapper General

I'm excited about Node.js built-in SQLite support

“but johnny it’s a palates studio that’s fake and stupid who cares?” while you are partially right, extrapolate from “this insanely trivial thing is prohibited”

pull requests experiencing a destruction of the commons as thousands of strivers are choosing to defect will ultimately mean ad hoc open source contributions will likely become a thing of the past

resisting fascism by beseiging the Israeli embassy

Democratic mayors maintain law and order in your cities so Trump doesn't have a pretext to send in troops challenge (impossible)

8am. I’m waiting for the subway. Unusual for me on a Sunday morning. I look around:people dressed for hiking, work, brunch, a day trip. Everyone different, all going somewhere. And I think: statistically, someone here has probably committed a crime. So what should the subway

What terrifies me is if Virginia were to elect someone Attorney General who thinks his factional opponents’ children are ‘little fascists’ who should be murdered in front of them. Imagine the backlash against Smart Blue Technocrats?

Striver yuppies worried about their kid getting into the advanced kindergarten vindicated

Nick Land getting a brief mainstream moment because Robert Conrad’s grandson shared a numogram with Tucker prompting Joel Berry to defend Tucker from charges of anti-semitic Lemurian digital teleoplexy in order to smear Auron MacIntyre is exactly how this was always going to go

A new study found that 95% of companies have seen zero return on their generative AI investments. The hype says AI will transform every business. The reality is that scaling AI for real economic impact is proving far harder than expected. The winners will be the few who figure

Winter is coming

The day of the rake is now a humanitarian necessity

Me: RFH is terrible Her interlocutors: Hold my beer (She's wrong a lot, but she's right here, and many of the people arguing with her are stupid as bricks)