JA WestenbergThe Culture War is a toxoplasma. It bypasses your rational defenses by hacking your tribal loyalty circuits. If you find yourself genuinely furious about a minor controversy involving a sub-group you didn't know existed last week, you aren't "informed." You are being optimized for engagement.
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@codinghorror @mttaggart "That's a nice company you've got there. Would be a shame if something were to happen to it. Can you just change this one thing?" https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-pentagon-claude-hegseth-dario
@blinry I've been using jj for about two weeks and like everything but split 🪓. Using fish shell abbreviations, gh, and fzf I've built up a very capable command line interface to github as well. ❤️
Jeff AtwoodMastodon and Building For the Long Term 👏🐘💛
mekka okereke 
While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
"The world" has already taken the win. Every country *except the US*🤡 now has access to cheaper power, cheaper cars, non-polluting buses, less dependence on coal and oil, which means slightly less geopolitical instability based on the price of oil.
Oh, and as a side effect, will produce less C02.
@campuscodi seems like a great use case for a distributed system like bit torrent.
Dave RahardjaQ: Hey, we got two spare Vespa motors, a bunch of old tires, bamboo sticks, and a couple of monkeys. Whatchu wanna do with them?
Indonesians:
@Schneems is the memory drop the thing I should be seeing?
@JEG2 thanks. This is spot on. Shared with my team.