Here's a strange situation:

thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free.

Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author.

If you use my tools at work and your company does #Rust, I'd really appreciate a hand landing a job or freelance mission. A boost goes a long way. 🙏🦀

https://dystroy.org

Everything is for the best in this best of possible worlds, right? Right?

https://z1nz0l1n.com/26w19/

Three big political parties in Germany, Social-Democratic SPD, the Green and the Left Party coordinated to #LeaveTwitter today.

Here's the SPD farewell message on Twitter, translation by me:

X has descended into chaos in recent years. Political debates thrive on dialogue that reaches and informs people. X, on the other hand, is increasingly promoting misinformation. That is why we are no longer posting to this account.

https://x.com/spdde/status/2051195153444999507

GameStop’s CEO struggles to answer the question of how his company worth $12B can afford to buy eBay for $56B.

This is amazing television.

An NYT op-ed strikes at the root of my criticisms of Anthropic’s PR blitz related to mass job displacement by AI.

I think it’s unlikely to happen soon due to both adoption lag and datacenter capacity.

But for AI companies to believe it’s going to happen and build these products anyway is a choice. And it’s a choice everyone can see them making.

The coming backlash is going to be brutal if the tech industry doesn’t pivot quickly in its messaging and actions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e1A.zFGe.sWGP3oHShI4x

Apparently Sonys AI support chatbot told gamers that licenses need to be checked every 30 days now, which was not true, but then caused a huge controversy.

I love that for them! That’s what you get for not responding to your tickets in person.

Signed: someone who still responds to tickets in person