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I'd prefer to forget Elon Musk exists, not spend four hours watching a documentary about him.

There’s some deep irony in Trump cancelling a study on Alzheimer’s. Bet if a journalist asks him why he did it he doesn’t even remember the reason. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/18/pittsburgh-trump-funding-cuts-nih-alzheimers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This YouGov poll showing 27% of Americans believe the first President of the US was named “Jesus H. Christ” is surprising but not that surprising.

I recently made a e2ee location-sharing app which I wanted, fills an unfilled niche, and I never would have had the time to build if I had to write all the annoying mobile app UX code by hand. The extent to which coding assistants can boost open source is underappreciated, vibe-coded slop aside.

This is absolutely insane on so many levels. https://www.npr.org/2026/07/01/nx-s1-5874124/dhs-tracks-ice-critic

Musk’s clownishness tends to distract from the seriousness of the cultural phenomenon he represents. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/07/23/space-oddity-muskism-slobodian-tarnoff/

What's neat about the rise of such powerful openweight models is that it gives those of us who are privacy paranoids the opportunity to move to privacy-centric services (like https://confer.to and https://tinfoil.sh) https://www.ft.com/content/c6ecd8ce-c441-4d7c-aea6-fae3e28fb6ff?syn-25a6b1a6=1

If you pay him extra, you get to write the posts yourself. https://www.ft.com/content/32db576f-4f53-47d2-b00c-2ad4e906952c?syn-25a6b1a6=1

The week I pick to visit the US: the sky is perpetually hazy from smokeeveryone is getting explosive diarrhea from a parasite of unknown originand the authoritarian leader is going to give a speech on all the major networks at dinner time to tell his people how the war with Oceania is going

The one thing I will say is that Trump is truly a genius at petty corruption. It’s like a weird gift he has. Like he seems like a total dipshit, but then when it comes to making money unethically he’s the Michael Jordan of the field. https://www.ft.com/content/32db576f-4f53-47d2-b00c-2ad4e906952c

I was just visiting the US and this Hyperloop did indeed make the connection much easier. https://bsky.app/profile/montanaskeptic.bsky.social/post/3mr5vr6qyes2a

I think this is indeed the right take, but it’s interesting that Nvidia’s incentives are so different here (sell chips to China!), and Jensen Huang seems to have Trump’s ear… https://bsky.app/profile/codendahl.bsky.social/post/3mr5ty6w24k2l

the humans still matter. https://www.axios.com/2026/07/23/googles-deep-mind-ai-model-race

This is the point I've been making about vibe-coding: AI tools can enable small teams or singletons to do more and, possibly, actually help flatten the resource/impact disparity in some fields. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02174-4#:~:text=Ni%20suspects%20that%20rather%20than%20dying%20out%2C%20small%2Dteam%20science%20will%20stabilize.%20It%20might%20even%20see%20a%20resurgence%20as%20artificial%2Dintelligence%20tools%20become%20more%20sophisticated%20and%20accessible%2C%20she%20adds

The Venn diagram of people who use duress passcodes and people who should use duress passcodes looks like this: O o https://bsky.app/profile/zackwhittaker.com/post/3mrfwxpgyvc2u

In 100 years history textbooks are going to have to have explainers for how a silly internet meme about a cute dog turned into an acronym for the fascist takeover of the administrative state. “Timmy, where did ‘DOGE’ come from?” “Uh Mr Stewart it was a Shiba Inu that the worlds richest man liked?”

Awesome. https://anti-zuck.com/

Whoah. An innocent man went to jail and a guilty man went free because the cops made a typo. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-to-prison/

lol https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/973467/ai-bet-situational-awareness-oops-stonks

As I have long said, Ed Zitron either doesn’t know what he’s talking about or doesn’t care about accuracy. Lots to be concerned about with the AI boom, but Zitron is not a source of good analysis! https://bsky.app/profile/nathantankus.bsky.social/post/3ms5qxtljac2y

If I keep this up I'm gonna be spending more time this week building analysis dashboards for my running metrics than actually running.

And if you find AI and RSI scary, wait till you get a load of this thing called nuclear weapons.

I think a question all prospective employees should ask hiring managers is "Does your company use Workday?" Not sure what I'd do if I knew the answer was yes. Ask for more money? Ask if the benefits include emotional counseling to counteract the stress of dealing with Workday?

@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange I, uh, I wear a Garmin and a Fitbit to bed and I check both of those and also manually test my HRV every morning. I’m open to the prospect that this has gotten slightly out of hand. It did start out as a question of “can I optimize my running training intensity today” but there’s something to be said for just going by how you feel.

@wendynather@infosec.exchange oh yeah, I got one of these back in the spring. I guess he probably doesn't read the snarky replies :( that's why he's a Forbes 40 under 40 and I'm just me

@carnage4life@mas.to a metal Visa card that has your @handle on it Can't wait to be at dinner with colleagues and have one of them throw down their metal Visa card with @XxX_DogFanz_69 on it.