Republicans unironically do this with the national debt.

Michael: You're right to push back!

So what I'm hearing is she wants to be roommates... /s

Ngl, the medley at the beginning goes kinda hard.

Or maybe I just have trash taste. 😅

This is AI generated (source). I spent a while looking at the image trying to find the usual tells. It's kinda scary how hard it's getting to tell AI generated images apart from real ones. I'm sure with a powerful enough model, enough iterations, and the right prompt, it's almost impossible to tell in some cases.

This is something that would really frustrate me if I was still on reddit. It feels nice to not care at all.

the December calendar at the bottom is straight-up inaccurate, showing dates that don’t align with the days of the week.

Saved you a click (and a really annoying article read).

It's one banana Mamdani, what could it cost, $10?

Mayor Greg Bozzo said other big industrial projects have been approved in the same manner over the years, but didn’t cause any uproar.

“It didn’t bother them that a food-distribution center came to Gilroy without their engagement, but now it bothers them that a data center is coming to Gilroy without them having the possibility of engagement,” Bozzo said.

“We…have an opportunity to change the way that we do business in Gilroy,” the mayor said. “We’re adapting to the times.”

Seems like the article accidentally misspelled his name with an extra "z". What an absolutely shit take. The corruption here is so obvious.

I'm not even going to bother commenting on that train wreck of a post, but I just wanted to mention that I hate the writing style of programming-related LinkedIn posts. They're just chock-full of sweeping generalizations presented as absolute truth in an extremely patronizing tone.

Why can't people just say, "In my opinion, X technology is a better fit for Y situation for Z reason," instead of "Every time you encounter X, you must do Y, otherwise you're dead wrong."

It's just simultaneously so arrogant and also aggressively ignorant. If someone spoke to me like that in real life, I would never want to speak with them again. And these people are broadcasting this shit to their entire professional network.

> Company sets token usage as performance metric

> I build an "agent" that uses browser automation to navigate company's entire website and verify it for correctness on every code change

> Set it to use top model on highest effort

> Rack up thousands of dollars of usage daily

> Suddenly we all have tokens caps and it's no longer tracked as a performance metric

This is kind of an odd take imo. FOSS is important because it doesn't matter who the creators or maintainers are. Even if all of the people OP listed were in that room and agreed to write backdoors into their software for the government, others could just fork those projects and the community could move on without the bad actors. (I know that's easier said than done, but it is feasible.)

I'm not about to start cheering for Richard Stallman just because he's not MAGA. He had some pretty bad takes about the Epstein scandal.

Sharing this from the article to hopefully save the post a few downvotes:

Coding was never the bottleneck. Not recently. Not in the last decade. Arguably not since we stopped feeding punchcards into machines.

What an exciting time to be building software! With AI, we're able to achieve production outages with unprecedented frequency!

Maybe we will lose low effort artists but gain great music by passionate people.

This is such a bizarre take.

I wouldn't characterize musicians who depend on some financial return as "low effort" at all. Almost all the best musicians, going back to classical music and beyond, were dependent on their music as a source of income.

If anything, the people who do music as a side hobby are usually more "low effort" than those who actually make it their main career. And if artists can't make money of their music anymore, we'll really only get music from rich people who can afford the lessons, instruments, recording studio, production, etc. as an expensive hobby rather than a source of income.

Thanks for the source. After watching the video, the "Mr. Japan" bit was honestly much less noteworthy than the completely incoherent rambling about sending letters to countries congratulating them on the privilege of being able to "shop in the USA". He just kept repeating that and then naming random percentages. It felt like I was having a stroke trying to understand what he was even trying to say.

Looking forward to seeing this exact headline on NotTheOnion in a few months.

I was at a bar once and this woman asked me what I did for a living. After I told her, she asked "Do you remember your dreams?" It really stunned me for a minute and I got pretty sad remembering what I wanted to be when I was growing up. I started to answer, and it turns out, she was just changing the subject and literally just wanted to know if I remember my dreams after I wake up in the morning. 😭