learned about https://github.com/aaronraimist/DontFuckWithPaste which is useful

in those situations where some absolute brainless hogfucker has decided that making people type in an email address instead of pasting it from the repository like the chthonic gods intended is somehow appropriate, thus increasing cognitive load and making everyone's day more shit.

fuck your ai.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/

having worked in enough of the gov contracting sphere - and having held a security clearance - and having paid any fucking attention to how you treat classified materials - and having paid any fucking attention to how you -ship- classified materials - and having paid any attention to what materials count as classified - and having paid any attention to geopolitics - and having any fucking godsfuckingdamned competence at fucking all -

I can assure you that there is a stack of paperwork at least six inches high consisting of waivers to established procedures that led to this fucking situation occurring.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/18/congress-f-35-china-investigation-01083647

it's probably not healthy that I'm getting a stress headache from extreme anger about llm shit before 10 am.

Hot take*:

Nobody wants features.

Nobody is shopping based on anticipated new features.

Nobody whatsoever is even slightly interested in 'new features' as a selling point for any kind of software product and, in fact, the addition of - or the promise of - new features is an anti-signal indicating that the product in question will be unreliable, useless, and insecure.

And the entire sales profession is full of lying sacks of shit who all need to be fired ballistically.

* if you have a differential opinion on the temperature of this take vis a vis your specific experience, start your own thread.

.....it's really fucking depressing that everything in the software space is "what's the least worst option"

x formerly twitter and csam, hand in hand.

it's hardly a surprise but it's yet another example of why that site is not suitable for any kind of professional use.

ask your friends who are still on it why they're providing traffic for the CSAM generator.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/elon-musks-xai-used-child-porn-to-train-grok-models-lawsuit-says/

sooo...had a bit of a thought earlier...💅

if your job requires interacting with LLM shit,

and you document when you've had to correct the LLM for being wrong,

and you bring that documentation to your performance review,

you now have a case that - since the LLM is still in use, it clearly "meets expectations" -

your corrections of it indicate that you exceed expectations, and that this should merit the largest raise available.

I was severely annoyed today after having a discussion about how seethingly grating it is that I have to go through a whole-ass nuanced argument every time to provide extremely targeted, rational answers as to why 'ai' is not suited for a given thing,

instead of being able to just say "I don't want it" and having that be enough.

So I went and got some holes poked in me - upgraded my helix to an industrial - and now I have endorphins again.

does anybody make a 1990s-style wallet chain but for phones

the plastic garbage bag is a miracle of modern technology and its utility is severely underrated

https://www.404media.co/cities-are-covering-flock-cameras-with-trash-bags/

individual actions are not meaningfully contributory to systemic problems.

if you want individual buy-in, then there must be a systemic answer for the action you desire: "reduce, reuse, recycle" programs require recycling facilities and infrastructure.

demanding individual austerity to address systemic problems is a demand for suffering without effect, and misery without payoff. it's very calvinist, and it's very horseshit.