Let’s be very clear: Los Angeles is the perfect place for this to play out for the Trumpists. The Trumpists hate California and hate Los Angeles and a vast amount of their base feels the same — even the Trumpists here, who wallow in hating the place they live. /1

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3lr2i4bigwk26

@RSNStats it sounded very weird on the radio. Leaned right and it was to his left?

Please do not use Facebook as your business website.

Despite the rainy weather (it was the 12th weekend in a row with rain here in New England), we got some work done in the garden and made a run to Lowe’s for plants. Hopefully, it will ease up enough to get them in #today, but tomorrow promises to be good weather anyway.

I will never get over how much more my professional judgement is questioned now that people know me as a woman vs back when they thought I was a dude.

Hearing about it is one thing. Experiencing it is quite another.

Fuck the patriarchy.

Psycho Killer gets its first ever official video for its 50th birthday:

https://youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?si=u9QZnmcT9eQUFJY3

#music #TalkingHeads

Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.

"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect — which is where you read what’s actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."

"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time."

"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and they’ll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send ’em a copy of this post."

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/

#Today is a busy day. I dropped my wife off to get her hair done, and now I'm heading to the dentist to have my teeth cleaned. After that, it's back to Safelite. I hope they have all the parts to replace my cracked windshield on the EV6 this time. The crack is creeping across the windshield and has nearly reached the driver's side.

@RSNStats that was an amazing baseball game! It seemed like every time I look up the score would change, but the Red Sox were still down by one. But they pulled it out in the end for a change.

How to rethink leadership to energize disengaged employees
https://www.fastcompany.com/91342572/how-to-rethink-leadership-to-energize-disengaged-employees?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Fast Co. Leadership @fast-co-leadership-FastCompany

Arc's farewell post makes me grateful for new ventures like Good Internet Magazine and the folks repping personal websites. The picture they paint is bleak & corporate, and I hate to imagine that my posts would only ever be consumed by LLMs and summarized for people to read through an intermediary chat interface: "Webpages won’t be the primary interface anymore... increasingly, webpages — apps, articles, and files — will become tool calls with AI chat interfaces"
https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025

@eclectech OMG, how adorable! You'll get a signed first pressing indeed!

A couple of days back I hatted Phineas snoozing on the sofa. This is him with his pack hike tribe that he goes with once a week. How utterly adorable are they?! @jdarnold

#sillySummerHatting

Isn’t it amazing that when you call a place for an update on a part that they promised to contact you when it gets in—it should always have been brought in just that morning—and they’re ready to schedule you? I must be so lucky to call on the very day the part finally arrived. 😡

@TrueBlue4THREE Thanks! Things are a lot better this week after the antibiotics finally kicked in.

Be safe. Wash your hands. Watch your distance. Wear your N95 mask. Vaccinate! Boost!

Never memorize what you can look up in books. Albert Einstein.

It was also a busy week in the #SaltLine, at least on one of the projects. I finally got the first pass of using the Clang tools to do my AST diffs, and it’s working pretty well. I have lots of cleanup, but I’m happy with the results. My progress with the Clang tooling has not been very good for the other project. I need to focus on that other project this week.

I have been playing many computer games over the past few days. I broke out my Asus ROG Ally and played many different games. I even fired up the Xbox to play some games. I am enjoying the remastered Oblivion, the Elder Scrolls game I have played the furthest in the past. I might have gotten as far as 1/3 done in that game. Starting over with the remastered one, though, which seems silly given the length of these Elder Scrolls games. I also finally beat the first boss in Gears Tactics.

The weather looks good for the next few days this week, but rain is predicted for the weekend. I need to look it up again, but last I heard, we'd had eight of the last nine Saturdays with measurable rain. I will take the dogs for a long walk in the Fells #Today, which will improve everybody's attitude. I spent much time cleaning up outside yesterday and have much more to do today. The pool is ready for swimming, although the saltwater conversion won't be for a few weeks.