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“At best, they're a way for skilled employees to be more productive and save time on low-level tasks, but those tasks were already being handed off to lower-level employees. Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative.” Duh
www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...
www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...
Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot
Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place.
www.extremetech.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“At best, they're a way for skilled employees to be more productive and save time on low-level tasks, but those tasks were already being handed off to lower-level employees. Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative.” Duh
www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...
www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...
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Duckdb inet extension supports subnet operations now!! I am unreasonably excited about this🎅
duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
inet Extension
The inet extension defines the INET data type for storing IPv4 and IPv6 Internet addresses. It supports the CIDR notation for subnet masks (e.g., 198.51.100.0/22, 2001:db8:3c4d::/48). Installing and L...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Duckdb inet extension supports subnet operations now!! I am unreasonably excited about this🎅
duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
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"Maybe the fascists in our government and our country have some moral limit. Maybe beyond that point, they’ll refuse to join in this campaign of persecution. If so, we have yet to find it." lnk.thebulwark.com/44UVz0H
Trump’s Attack on Somali Americans Is Vile Fascism
He’s testing our country’s tolerance for ethnic persecution. And we’re failing the test.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Maybe the fascists in our government and our country have some moral limit. Maybe beyond that point, they’ll refuse to join in this campaign of persecution. If so, we have yet to find it." lnk.thebulwark.com/44UVz0H
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George Will:
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
George Will:
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”
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It helps that many of the people producing AI never developed these skills or value their importance.
Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It helps that many of the people producing AI never developed these skills or value their importance.
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10 Essential Python Tricks for Cleaner Code
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
10 Essential Python Tricks for Cleaner Code
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Summarization and sorting out git disasters —that's like 80% of the value I'm extracting from LLMs when not coding.
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Summarization and sorting out git disasters —that's like 80% of the value I'm extracting from LLMs when not coding.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
June 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
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I wonder why Musk is focused on the federal civilian workforce (4% of the budget) and not federal contractors, which account for 3x more annual spending and are more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse?
February 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I wonder why Musk is focused on the federal civilian workforce (4% of the budget) and not federal contractors, which account for 3x more annual spending and are more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse?
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"Musk, with his arrogance and smug superiority, is the final boss of a culture that has for too long heralded STEM as a new vanguard of the intellectual elite while dismissing and trivializing the humanities as frivolous." Hannah Yoest:
Why Elon Will Be Trump’s Undoing
And a request to the DOGE Bros: Please read a f***ing book.
www.thebulwark.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"Musk, with his arrogance and smug superiority, is the final boss of a culture that has for too long heralded STEM as a new vanguard of the intellectual elite while dismissing and trivializing the humanities as frivolous." Hannah Yoest:
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Trump on immigrants: Put them in camps at Gitmo!
Trump on crime: Put them in camps in El Salvador!
Trump on the homeless: Put them in camps outside the cities!
Trump on Gaza: Put them in camps in foreign countries!
I don't dunno, but there seems to be a common theme to all these final solutions.
Trump on crime: Put them in camps in El Salvador!
Trump on the homeless: Put them in camps outside the cities!
Trump on Gaza: Put them in camps in foreign countries!
I don't dunno, but there seems to be a common theme to all these final solutions.
February 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Trump on immigrants: Put them in camps at Gitmo!
Trump on crime: Put them in camps in El Salvador!
Trump on the homeless: Put them in camps outside the cities!
Trump on Gaza: Put them in camps in foreign countries!
I don't dunno, but there seems to be a common theme to all these final solutions.
Trump on crime: Put them in camps in El Salvador!
Trump on the homeless: Put them in camps outside the cities!
Trump on Gaza: Put them in camps in foreign countries!
I don't dunno, but there seems to be a common theme to all these final solutions.
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The right claims to loathe technocracy—but it has empowered Elon Musk to remake the government in the name of efficiency, writes Franklin Foer.
The Dictatorship of the Engineer
The right claims to loathe technocracy—but has empowered Elon Musk to remake the government.
www.theatlantic.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The right claims to loathe technocracy—but it has empowered Elon Musk to remake the government in the name of efficiency, writes Franklin Foer.
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Honestly, there’s no one he hates more. His critics he understands and even respects. It’s the hypnotized mouth-breathers he really hates.
Trump hates the rube who voted for him. I mean I tried to warn y’all 🤷🏻♀️
Trump just took down rural.gov—the main site helping small towns and rural communities access funding to create jobs & run critical services.
Democrats made the largest investments in rural communities since the New Deal, Trump abandoned them in less than a month.
Democrats made the largest investments in rural communities since the New Deal, Trump abandoned them in less than a month.
February 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Honestly, there’s no one he hates more. His critics he understands and even respects. It’s the hypnotized mouth-breathers he really hates.
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MAGA: No, Biden can't wipe away student loans. That's hella illegal unless Congress acts.
Also MAGA: If Trump declares an entire federal agency "lunatics" he can do away with it and all the funding it distributes without bothering to inform Congress, let alone requiring any action.
Also MAGA: If Trump declares an entire federal agency "lunatics" he can do away with it and all the funding it distributes without bothering to inform Congress, let alone requiring any action.
REPORTER: Will it take an act of Congress to do away with USAID?
TRUMP: I don't think so. Not when it comes to fraud. If there's fraud. Those people are lunatics.
TRUMP: I don't think so. Not when it comes to fraud. If there's fraud. Those people are lunatics.
February 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
MAGA: No, Biden can't wipe away student loans. That's hella illegal unless Congress acts.
Also MAGA: If Trump declares an entire federal agency "lunatics" he can do away with it and all the funding it distributes without bothering to inform Congress, let alone requiring any action.
Also MAGA: If Trump declares an entire federal agency "lunatics" he can do away with it and all the funding it distributes without bothering to inform Congress, let alone requiring any action.
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Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.
February 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.
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Unserious the number of people still using substack
February 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Unserious the number of people still using substack
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The entire bottom 50% of Americans are too poor to have any federal v income tax liability.
This is why they get the returns.
They will go from paying no tax to paying tax on everything they buy.
This is why they get the returns.
They will go from paying no tax to paying tax on everything they buy.
The average "working class American" uses the bulk of his income for buying goods and services. The average millionaire spends only a small part of his income ...
Now who will feel the harder impact of the new tax?
Now who will feel the harder impact of the new tax?
February 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The entire bottom 50% of Americans are too poor to have any federal v income tax liability.
This is why they get the returns.
They will go from paying no tax to paying tax on everything they buy.
This is why they get the returns.
They will go from paying no tax to paying tax on everything they buy.
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hey quick question does Goliath win in that story
February 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
hey quick question does Goliath win in that story
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Books are humanizing; social media is radicalizing.
Books may appear passive, but they are energizing. Social media may appear active, but it numbs and stupefies.
Books may appear passive, but they are energizing. Social media may appear active, but it numbs and stupefies.
February 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Books are humanizing; social media is radicalizing.
Books may appear passive, but they are energizing. Social media may appear active, but it numbs and stupefies.
Books may appear passive, but they are energizing. Social media may appear active, but it numbs and stupefies.
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We are living, right now, at the most dangerous moment in American history. I say this without any intended hyperbole whatsoever. Also without hyperbole, let me ask you, in light of Trump's firing of dozens of prosecutors at DOJ last night, and his ongoing purge of FBI agents that may rise 1/14
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
February 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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There is no one more determined to put the boot of fascism on their own throat than the American Press.
And thus, no one more deserving of it.
And thus, no one more deserving of it.
February 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There is no one more determined to put the boot of fascism on their own throat than the American Press.
And thus, no one more deserving of it.
And thus, no one more deserving of it.
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A Few Thoughts on Messages and Morale talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...
A Few Thoughts on Messages and Morale
Over the last few days, as I’ve struggled with everyone else to...
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February 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A Few Thoughts on Messages and Morale talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...
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From a bored and affluent middle class who wanted another season of reality TV.
I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
February 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
From a bored and affluent middle class who wanted another season of reality TV.