Nick Selby 

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EPSD. Co-host, EPSD Podcast; Tech Debt Burndown podcast. Board member, NCPTF. Advisory Board, Sightline Security. Former NYPD Intel. Retired TX popo. Bayern, DE / Bedford, TX
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Nick Selby 1d ago
https://apnews.com/live/trump-administration-updates-06-01-2026
Live updates: Appeals court rules Trump policy illegally banned transgender troops from military

The energy price spike triggered by the Iran war has seeped into the price of bonds, causing interest rates to climb in ways that are creating a new risk for Republicans.

AP News
Nick Selby 1d ago
Findus likes eating nori.
Nick Selby 1d ago
Ben1d ago
THIS IS EXTREMELY LOVELY  
Nick Selby 1d ago
The White House's aliens.gov website is repugnant, deplorable, disgusting, and above all un-American.
Nick Selby 2d ago
Kim Possible 2d ago
In anticipation of June beginning Pride Month:
Nick Selby 2d ago
masukomi2d ago

RE: https://connectified.com/@masukomi/116669116675350606

Figured i should probably bring this to a larger audience. For those who don't know, programming by voice is absolutely possible if you have physical issues and it's not horrible either.

With the help of Talon you can handle any weird punctuation - OR - custom words which is also useful if you're a fiction writer.

I support Talon on Patreon as a form of insurance. I want it to be around in case I need it some day.

#accessibility #rsi #writer #programming

Nick Selby 2d ago
So happy that Star City is out, now that For All Mankind has turned into fuckin' Days of Our Lives.
Nick Selby 2d ago

“The meteor, measuring about 3 feet (nearly 1 meter) wide, entered the atmosphere around the New Hampshire border with Massachusetts, north of Boston, the Associated Press cited the American Meteor Society as saying.”

I don’t know what the American Meteor Society is but if they were really American they wouldn’t focus on foreign objects.

Nick Selby 2d ago

It’s the end of the world as we know it. And I feel sick.

https://ijr.com/texas-bbq-joints-crushed-by-soaring-brisket-prices/

Texas BBQ Joints Crushed by Soaring Brisket Prices

Texas barbecue restaurants are shutting down as skyrocketing beef costs turn brisket from a working-class staple into an expensive luxury.

IJR
Nick Selby 2d ago

Shaking. My. Head.

The other day I saw that someone was banned from Claude because they cursed out Claude after its raging, inconceivable stupid. Anthropic said that they wanted to protect the safety and respect in the workplace of its AI tools.

⏺ The current session is using Opus 4.6 (with 1M context). There is no "Opus 4.8" model available.

Awaiting instructions.

❯ https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

⏺ Fetch(https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8)
⎿ PreToolUse:WebFetch hook returned blocking error

⎿ WebFetch and WebSearch are blocked. Use Firecrawl instead: firecrawl search, firecrawl scrape, or other firecrawl commands via the Bash tool or the firecrawl:firecrawl-cli skill.

⎿ Error: WebFetch and WebSearch are blocked. Use Firecrawl instead: firecrawl search, firecrawl scrape, or other firecrawl commands via the Bash tool or the firecrawl:firecrawl-cli skill.

[This was Claude trying to skirt the hook preventing it from using Anthropic's repugnant and smelly WebFetch and WebSearch]

⏺ Skill(firecrawl:firecrawl-cli)
⎿ Successfully loaded skill

⏺ Bash(firecrawl scrape "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8" -o .firecrawl/anthropic-opus-4-8.md)
⎿ (No output)

⏺ Searched for 1 pattern, read 1 file (ctrl+o to expand)

⏺ Here is what the page says:

Claude Opus 4.8 was announced on May 28, 2026. Key details:

- Model ID: claude-opus-4-8 - Pricing: $5/M input tokens, $25/M output tokens (unchanged from Opus 4.7). Fast mode: $10/M input, $50/M output (3x cheaper than previous fast mode pricing). - Availability: Available today via the API and claude.ai.

It is not yet listed in the Claude Code model selector on this machine. The model ID to try would be claude-opus-4-8.

Awaiting instructions.

❯ /model claude-opus-4-8
⎿ Set model to claude-opus-4-8

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.