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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 7h

I guess the jig is up for the PM at Google who tried forcing VirusTotal subscribers to "upgrade" to Google Threat Intelligence. Night of long knives over in Mountain View?

Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 13h

L-O-L. US Park Police could not stop a car that fled from a traffic stop in Chevy Chase and _took the Bay Bridge_. I assume this means that the helicopter tracked it until it got low on fuel and that no local PD in Maryland wanted to assist USPP.

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Driver evades US Park Police in car chase from DC to Maryland's Eastern Shore

U.S. Park Police ended a lengthy police chase in Maryland for a driver they had tried to pull over for a traffic stop in D.C. on Tuesday evening, according to f

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 2d

Councilmember Pinto running, against Robert White, for EHN’s seat…

Like, what’s the catch? What victory path does Pinto see?

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 6d

My robo-broker offered to let customers vote their shares in Tesla. Yes, please!

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Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 6d

“Even after the D.C. Council set aside additional funds to continue green card sponsorships, DCPS says it simply won’t spend the money.”

The 51st @51st.news · 6d

DCPS reneged on its promise to help hundreds of international teachers secure a green card. Many may now be forced to leave the country. Read the full story from @maustermuhle.bsky.social 51st.news/dc-green-car...

DCPS promised them green cards. Now, these international teachers have nowhere to turn

More than 200 teachers may soon have to leave the country because of what they say are broken promises from the city's school system.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 8d

O-5s in the audience, for sure.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 8d

This Air Force cover of Miley Cyrus’s hit song Flowers? Lethal.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 9d

WARRIOR ETHOS

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 9d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV 😂

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 9d

Ultrathink

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 10d

here we go. doesn’t even leak!

Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 11d

Is this a kind of off-by-one error?

Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 11d

Sinks should not be in cabinets. Sinks should have four feet of clearance around them. Sinks should come with a waterproof 4” memory foam pad to go around them on the floor. All faucet connections should have three inches of clearance and flanges around their hex nuts so your pliers don’t slip.

Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 11d

I grew up in Iowa with a 5 cent aluminum can deposit. It was fine?

I've received lobbying spam suggesting that this bill will somehow bring about the apocalypse in DC. I very much doubt it.

Councilmember Nadeau’s Office @cmnadeauoffice.bsky.social · 11d

There are many factors that impact the price of a beverage. There is no evidence that a bottle bill is one of them in any state or other country.

Get more bottle bill facts, like how it is expected to exponentially improve DC's recycling rate, here: brianneknadeau.com/bottle-bill/

Graphic that reads "Bottle Bill Facts. How will this legislation impact the price of beverages?

Experience in other states shows that manufacturers and distributors do not increase the price on their product when a bottle bill is implemented.

In fact, container redemption programs put money back into our local communities through employment opportunities as "canners," at grocers and redemption centers."

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 12d

Some car in Mount Pleasant has an “I miss Elliott Smith” bumper sticker and, yeah, man, same.

Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 12d

Either/Or it is

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 12d

the Apple Music algorithm stages a sad dad intervention

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 13d

Just got off a Zoom call for parents of middle school debate team kids. Multiple questions about how many points need to be earned to be eligible for middle school honors society (so they can get into magnet high school).

I told my daughter it’s easier to be the smartest than to play such games.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 14d

back in the studio, recording a new album

it’s called _Stop Making Lambdas_

Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve somehow gotten into geology (or, more likely, I’ve gotten into John McPhee). After dinner tonight with a former colleague where we debated whether infosec is improving (I said yes, he said no), it occurs to me geology is the right metaphor. The answer is yes, inexorably, but slowly.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 15d

Cell

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 15d

You can also walk back down and take the elevator.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 15d

Average "full stack" (i.e., web) developers are totally fucked, though. Undifferentiated JS boilerplate is not worth a quarter mil annual total comp.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 15d

At risk of re-learning the bitter lesson, I'm also doubtful that general purpose agents will succeed at software engineering. CC knows everything but makes my ADD brain seem disciplined and focused. It's not so much hallucination as disassociation.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 15d

But I also have a long backlog of ideas, and CC has really been able to get them off the ground. It can get started, but it then collapses. I have tried a variety of recommendations. My conclusion is that it can't yet write the kind of code I need to write.

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Jon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 15d

I don't know whether my opinion has shifted so much as been refined. CC has been excellent at debugging and integrating more dev tools (I hate setting up tools). It's helped me conduct research and it's uncovered new info for me there that mere googling hasn't.

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