OTD 1986 (40 years!) - #SunMicrosystems "Car in Office" April Fool's Day stunt.
Recreated in 2008 at Google - but they didn't have to move and replace walls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs9FjfSv6Ss

Buyer Panic as Memory Price Records Smashed

https://paulkedrosky.com/buyer-panic-as-memory-price-records-smashed/

Age verification clearly doesn't belong into #systemd. We should have never merged this. Instead this should be incrementally added to the kernel itself. I'm doing my part:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260401-i-hope-someone-believes-this-is-real-04f24e03944e@brauner

This is pretty interesting analysis.

Inside Claude Code's leaked source: swarms, daemons, and 44 features Anthropic kept behind flags https://thenewstack.io/claude-code-source-leak/

Happy April Fool's day, internet!

As part of writing Signals & Levers, @joeltosi and I did a bunch of world building for the story that runs through the book. Our fictional company, Limitless Systems, is a SaaS Platform company in the same universe as Parts Unlimited from The Phoenix Project and the Unicorn Project. (What does the platform do? It platforms.)

We even built a website for the company

Today seems a good day to unveil it.

https://golimitless.systems/

About trans rights:

They're a wedge issue. If you think it's okay to deprive trans people of the right to exist in the public sphere then you're saying human rights are conditional and/or can be withdrawn. Which puts you on a slippery slope to no human rights for anyone.

When you trace the roots of the modern anti-trans movement they boil down to some combination of bigotry and billionaire bullshit— the oligarchs think rights are for the rich.

So: trans-rights are human rights. No exceptions.

How Do We Know When We're Heading Into A Financial Crisis?

https://crooksandliars.com/2026/03/how-do-we-know-when-were-heading-financial?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=113991

I've seen heaps of greenwashing arguments from data centre operators mimicking Bitcoin company lines like "we're just using stranded renewable energy". This analysis shows OpenAI's Stargate project will use way more than any available curtailed wind - mostly from their new fossil gas plants

https://blog.gridstatus.io/hype-or-hyperscale/