Brad Ewing
@bradleyewing.bsky.social
🏙️ Urbanist Crank
🎛️ Electronic Noise Producer
🕹️ Game Modder
🌌 Astro Enthusiast
🎛️ Electronic Noise Producer
🕹️ Game Modder
🌌 Astro Enthusiast
TIL
1. GHA environments are not case sensitive
2. GHA environments across repos can overlap, e.g.
"stage" in repo1 and "STAGE" in repo2 can both be inherited by a workflow. so i get the deployment protections of 1 and the env vars of 2 when I define "sTaGe"
GHA why you do this
1. GHA environments are not case sensitive
2. GHA environments across repos can overlap, e.g.
"stage" in repo1 and "STAGE" in repo2 can both be inherited by a workflow. so i get the deployment protections of 1 and the env vars of 2 when I define "sTaGe"
GHA why you do this
February 19, 2026 at 1:01 AM
TIL
1. GHA environments are not case sensitive
2. GHA environments across repos can overlap, e.g.
"stage" in repo1 and "STAGE" in repo2 can both be inherited by a workflow. so i get the deployment protections of 1 and the env vars of 2 when I define "sTaGe"
GHA why you do this
1. GHA environments are not case sensitive
2. GHA environments across repos can overlap, e.g.
"stage" in repo1 and "STAGE" in repo2 can both be inherited by a workflow. so i get the deployment protections of 1 and the env vars of 2 when I define "sTaGe"
GHA why you do this
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One thing I'm getting from rooting around in early postwar periodicals is that middlebrow culture was good, actually and we're impoverished for its demise.
February 18, 2026 at 3:27 PM
One thing I'm getting from rooting around in early postwar periodicals is that middlebrow culture was good, actually and we're impoverished for its demise.
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The number of times @alfredtwu.com has quietly and with insufficient recognition saved 100s of people many hours of time by summarizing complex information is too numerous to count. Alfred, I see you, and thank you so much for your dedication to clarify the often messy/poor organization of politics.
February 18, 2026 at 8:43 PM
The number of times @alfredtwu.com has quietly and with insufficient recognition saved 100s of people many hours of time by summarizing complex information is too numerous to count. Alfred, I see you, and thank you so much for your dedication to clarify the often messy/poor organization of politics.
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Watching blue state elite persuasion YIMBYism rack up wins in Illinois while "we need to retain local control so people don't feel sad about buildings :(" strong townism eat shit is nice
February 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Watching blue state elite persuasion YIMBYism rack up wins in Illinois while "we need to retain local control so people don't feel sad about buildings :(" strong townism eat shit is nice
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how would you rate the probability of a hung minority government succeeding at constitutional change in the type of democracy you are familiar with, because you are certainly not familiar with american democracy
That’s why they didn’t expand SCOTUS and didn’t throw the guy who staged a coup in jail so he could then pardon all the other fascists who landed in prison for staging the coup
I mean I get it democrats are the most antifascist politicians who aren’t the fascists in a two party system
I mean I get it democrats are the most antifascist politicians who aren’t the fascists in a two party system
February 18, 2026 at 9:00 PM
how would you rate the probability of a hung minority government succeeding at constitutional change in the type of democracy you are familiar with, because you are certainly not familiar with american democracy
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i love the melting pot of California and i will tolerate a lot of fraught politics and stupid housing costs to continue to live in a place with this level of cultural variety
February 18, 2026 at 8:26 PM
i love the melting pot of California and i will tolerate a lot of fraught politics and stupid housing costs to continue to live in a place with this level of cultural variety
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Gift link (hope it works) for the @ftrain.bsky.social NY Times piece on the impact of post-November-2025 coding agents (like Claude Code) on the cost of developing software - it's very worth a read www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Gift link (hope it works) for the @ftrain.bsky.social NY Times piece on the impact of post-November-2025 coding agents (like Claude Code) on the cost of developing software - it's very worth a read www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Spanberger and Mamdani are really good “better things are possible” templates for both wings of the Democratic Party
Spanberger: code as moderate while retaining left support, then govern ruthlessly
Mamdani: code leftist, but have a Carney-esque ability to drop unpopular leftist positions
Spanberger: code as moderate while retaining left support, then govern ruthlessly
Mamdani: code leftist, but have a Carney-esque ability to drop unpopular leftist positions
February 18, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Spanberger and Mamdani are really good “better things are possible” templates for both wings of the Democratic Party
Spanberger: code as moderate while retaining left support, then govern ruthlessly
Mamdani: code leftist, but have a Carney-esque ability to drop unpopular leftist positions
Spanberger: code as moderate while retaining left support, then govern ruthlessly
Mamdani: code leftist, but have a Carney-esque ability to drop unpopular leftist positions
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the problem is the incoherence of the response. that is: that it is not fit for any purpose, will eliminate every job worth having, and destroy the earth en route. there has also been a fixation on scholarship which either turned out to be wrong (Bender, et al.) or journalism which is worse (water).
This "why does the left hate AI?" thing is like when the right believes protests are paid for by George Soros; they need a SECRET CONSPIRATORIAL AGENT because they refuse to believe that, actually, a lot of people are independently looking at what AI is being made to be and saying "ok that sucks?"
February 18, 2026 at 6:29 PM
the problem is the incoherence of the response. that is: that it is not fit for any purpose, will eliminate every job worth having, and destroy the earth en route. there has also been a fixation on scholarship which either turned out to be wrong (Bender, et al.) or journalism which is worse (water).
babe wake up a new @segyges.bsky.social article just dropped
That LLMs understand natural language as well as they do should dramatically change our understanding of the problem of 'making AI do what we want it to do'.
www.verysane.ai/p/alignment-...
www.verysane.ai/p/alignment-...
Alignment Is Proven To Be Tractable
That LLMs understand natural language as well as they do should dramatically change our understanding of the problem.
www.verysane.ai
February 18, 2026 at 6:14 PM
babe wake up a new @segyges.bsky.social article just dropped
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software engineering in a nutshell
February 18, 2026 at 5:40 PM
software engineering in a nutshell
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Recurring gripe: people on the left have social media and generative AI exactly backwards. Gen AI is the printing press: it cannot and will not be uninvented. It can run on a laptop at this point. Social media is a handful of specific companies with specific first mover and network effects.
February 18, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Recurring gripe: people on the left have social media and generative AI exactly backwards. Gen AI is the printing press: it cannot and will not be uninvented. It can run on a laptop at this point. Social media is a handful of specific companies with specific first mover and network effects.
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🚨 HOLY MOTHER OF BASED
February 17, 2026 at 7:38 PM
🚨 HOLY MOTHER OF BASED
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Just a remarkable failure of governance: 18 meetings, two council votes, two commission hearings over the course of five years, with many millions in taxpayer dollars on the line, and not even a single shovel in the ground.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Column: In Venice Beach, it's taken nearly a decade to not build low-income housing
The Venice Dell project has been approved again and again, only to be stymied by local officials who oppose it.
www.latimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Just a remarkable failure of governance: 18 meetings, two council votes, two commission hearings over the course of five years, with many millions in taxpayer dollars on the line, and not even a single shovel in the ground.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Waymo and Anthropic are two AI companies people here should reward, regardless of their feelings about AI as a whole or the respective companies. Waymo has, for years, incrementally plugged away at making a technology work. Out of the public eye, without any big flashy demos
whatever you think about Waymo they are light-years ahead of Tesla on this front and it is deeply infuriating that folks are still propping up the stock price based on Elon's lies about taking this stuff national
Ride the Tesla RoboTaxi: only one out of every three will get into an accident! sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Waymo and Anthropic are two AI companies people here should reward, regardless of their feelings about AI as a whole or the respective companies. Waymo has, for years, incrementally plugged away at making a technology work. Out of the public eye, without any big flashy demos
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"Public comment" was always hackable, first by NIMBYs, then by astroturf groups funded by big corporations, and now by AI. All along the way it has made our government less representative and more captured by special interests who favor the status quo. It causes more harm than good. Let's ditch it.
Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.
www.latimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:20 PM
"Public comment" was always hackable, first by NIMBYs, then by astroturf groups funded by big corporations, and now by AI. All along the way it has made our government less representative and more captured by special interests who favor the status quo. It causes more harm than good. Let's ditch it.
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SMRR's membership advisory committee urged its steering committee not to back the effort to bring an airport housing measure to the fall ballot. But the steering committee did anyway.
Signature gathering is expected to start by the end of the month.
santamonicanext.org/2026/02/smrr...
Signature gathering is expected to start by the end of the month.
santamonicanext.org/2026/02/smrr...
SMRR, Unite Here, Cloverfield Commons Prepare for Signature Gathering Effort for Airport -> Park/Housing Ballot Measure - Santa Monica Next
Supporters of a controversial proposed ballot measure that would allow up to 3,000 units of housing to be built on the current site of Santa Monica Airport — should the airport be closed by the city i...
santamonicanext.org
February 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM
SMRR's membership advisory committee urged its steering committee not to back the effort to bring an airport housing measure to the fall ballot. But the steering committee did anyway.
Signature gathering is expected to start by the end of the month.
santamonicanext.org/2026/02/smrr...
Signature gathering is expected to start by the end of the month.
santamonicanext.org/2026/02/smrr...
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Ride in a bike lane and glance into every car that you pass and you'll see an extremely high percentage of people staring at their phones. It's terrible and frightening
You would be freaked out if you saw 25% of drivers drinking a beer, right?
Using a phone is no different.
Using a phone is no different.
February 17, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Ride in a bike lane and glance into every car that you pass and you'll see an extremely high percentage of people staring at their phones. It's terrible and frightening
Can Claude become the best EVE Online player of all time?
Anything that is spreadsheets, Claude in Excel is really good for.
February 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Can Claude become the best EVE Online player of all time?
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linked therein and just obviously true imho
February 17, 2026 at 5:46 AM
linked therein and just obviously true imho
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If you are anywhere to the left of center, your best bet for achieving the political change you want is to elect more and better Democrats at every level of government and to publicly praise them when they do things that you like.
This the skeleton key that explains the entire left-of-center political and informational environment. There is no social reward for ever saying anything nice about a mainline Democrat, so no one does. As a result, baseless antipathy towards the party completely pervades the environment.
February 17, 2026 at 4:34 PM
If you are anywhere to the left of center, your best bet for achieving the political change you want is to elect more and better Democrats at every level of government and to publicly praise them when they do things that you like.
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It's too late, you should just get used to a very unfavorable map for the 2030s.
NEW: The next US Census likely won’t be good for New York. The state is projected to lose two congressional seats, and with them, two electoral votes for president.
One reason why blue states are losing ground: The red states build far more housing than they do.
One reason why blue states are losing ground: The red states build far more housing than they do.
New York Could Lose Seats in Congress Because It Won’t Build Housing
As housing construction booms in red states, blue states are falling behind. That will likely boost Republicans in federal politics.
nysfocus.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:20 AM
It's too late, you should just get used to a very unfavorable map for the 2030s.
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gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 AM
gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
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an observation from obscure twitter account "thebes"
February 16, 2026 at 4:42 AM
an observation from obscure twitter account "thebes"