I just recently joined a company that offers two options for operating systems, Mac or Linux. Windows is explicitly not allowed. Seeing that in my onboarding paperwork was like walking into a warm sunny meadow.

There’s a great interview somewhere with the writers of one of these shows talking about how they knew this was shit and they had unofficial competitions with other shows to constantly one up each other on the stupidity.

I absolutely loved how epic rap battles of history handled Michael Bay. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_wYtG7aQTHA&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD

It’s for sure becoming a huge topic. And now companies are wanting to add llm agents integrated more tightly into development workflows and build processes.

I’m not really familiar with meshtastic, but this caught my eye on all because I live in SLO county. Looks really cool. I’ll have to dig deeper.

ArnoldC is still my favorite of these :D https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/

This is where it’s from https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-january-2022/Those-Seeking-Jehovah-Will-Lack-Nothing-Good/

Basically the message is that in the end times the government will go after JW families in their homes but it’s ok because the angels will be there to protect the faithful.

Years ago we decided to get my daughter evaluated for ADHD. The report came back definite for ADHD and also on the autism spectrum. When my wife and I were going over the report with the child psychologist that had done the testing I could practically see gears in my wife’s head grinding to a halt with a healthy dose of “oh shit” realizations coming over her face.

She’s since also gotten diagnosed and had a whole slew of realizations about her family and especially her mother which helped explain difficulties she’d had growing up.

I have never before heard the term “ludonarrative dissonance” before and I love it. Thanks for the introduction.

For anyone else like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludonarrative_dissonance

You just reminded me of a similar incident at a company I worked at. Larger than a startup, but still not huge. Same situation where it was a question at an all hands, the response from the CTO was simply that he had not seen that data and immediately moved on.

Funny thing was, the guy that asked the question wasn’t even adding about a 32 hour work week, he just wanted to option to do 4 10s over 5 8s but they moved on from his question so fast they never gave him a chance to clarify.

I’m sure those folks that took the Louvre aint waiting on no manager to unlock deodorant at CVS.

Fuck it, just to be a little bit contarian, how much of a selection bias do you think might actually be present in the assumption “…then why don’t the rich ascend to this purer existence in a trailer park? Why is it always the poors?”

For sure we hear about the people that get rich and only want to get richer and fuck over everyone that gets in their way, but personally now that I think about it, I actually do know a few people that got lucky, made a bit, and thought “fuck it, I’m done. I’m going to go farm and smoke weed” or some similar equivalent. You’d never hear about those kind of people unless you directly know them. How many trust fund kids are out there just chilling and enjoying life without trying to exploit everyone around them?

It’s an “educational website” pushing a strong right wing narrative.

Edited to add, and by right wing narrative I mean alternate “facts” and revisionist views of history. https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63329/prageru-is-a-conservative-video-giant-heres-why-its-trying-to-get-into-schools

There used to be a spot near me that did exactly this. It was awesome.

I asked a buddy that works at Amazon about the outage and he pointed me to this article.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

I know quite a few people who currently work there and pretty much all of them are trying to leave.

I don’t remember where I originally heard it, but I like the sentiment that the problem with common sense is that it’s common but not necessarily good.

Hol up, DS is now old enough to be considered retro‽

Why does my back hurt so much? Unrelated I’m sure.

A person I know (and don’t particularly like) created a start up on this idea a couple of years ago already. It’s creepy AF.

This show was the shit when I was a kid!