Jimmy

If your medical and nutrition advice is in the "opinion" column, there's your problem.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the best at finances, but why does the Pentagon need another $50B to bomb Iran?

They have a nearly-trillion dollar yearly budget and it's only March.

It is a dishonest GOP talking point. I'm no fan of Tapper at all, but pointing out that Republicans will say he's "voting against the troops" is both very true and very necessary.

All this talk of self-hosting your AT Protocol instance and data is madness.

I’m old enough to remember when every node on the internet was self-hosted and it SUCKED.

Message boards, pages, files, and endpoints just randomly disappeared because some nerd in Minnesota had to get off the phone.

Unless the AI hit the big red launch button, the answer is “no”.

If people use bad information to do bad things, the people are still responsible.

Don’t let war criminals off the hook by helping them blame the computer. Don’t be part of that narrative.

Hegseth and the whole administration are morons and should be in jail.

But framing this as "this is AI's fault" is just as dumb.

AI doesn't do anything on its own (yet) - PEOPLE sent the weapons. PEOPLE killed those children.

Don't let them off the hook with unfocused techno-panic.

I’m old enough to remember when Michelle Obama was called Mussolini because she encouraged kids to move more.

"We might hold a vote in the future if Trump crosses _THIS_ line"

"OK, _THIS_ line"

"Maybe _THIS_ line?"

Fahrenheit is correct for ambient temperature. You shouldn’t need decimals on your thermostat.

Everything else, totally agree.

The idiots in the "War Department" and the White House think Iran is going to be like Venezuela. It's not.

Iran has contingencies 5 levels deep for every high-level official. The government is already back and operating as before - except now we don't know where or by who. (whom?)

#ForeverWarIII

This shouldn’t be a refund to businesses, it should be a refund to people, via a tax credit.

Businesses raised prices and passed the cost on to consumers, so we reward them with money? That’s fucked up. Especially considering most businesses will never lower their prices back to pre-tariff levels.

People didn’t “love the dot com boom” - they complained about Amazon and Pets and Kozmo killing local business. Spent years fighting the online shopping juggernauts (hence the bursting bubble).

AI is the same. A couple big ones will persist, and we’ll all eventually use them.

The rest will burst

Typical Democrats shooting-themselves-in-the-foot behavior.

Dems: "Hey! Tariffs made prices go up, costing consumers so much money"

Also Dems: "Let's make sure the big corporations get a refund, which they will in no way use to refund customers or lower prices at all"

my favorite tech-blogger-evolution over the last year has been the change from "AI is a slop factory that is stealing content and ruining the planet" to "Here's a tutorial on how I set up 4 MCP servers on a Mac mini to route requests to the appropriate LLM for more speed"

(both are still true, btw)

For sure. Because we only had 51 seats, and one or two votes matter.

But the realistic alternative to a West Virginia Democrat wasn't (and isn't) going to be another Democrat.

We can blame one or two Democrats for not convicting Trump, but we can also blame 47 Republicans.

we agree! we do need more aggressive policies.

But - we can't even propose more aggressive policies from the minority side of the aisle.

step 1 - get the gavel back in both chambers.
step 2 - pass liberal policies.

we have to take risks on centrist/right-leaning Democrats or we can't even try.

Nope. But colors decide who gets to sit in the big chair.

I think Schumer and Jeffries and the whole lot are useless.

I also know Dems don’t even get to decide what votes get to the floor unless one of those idiots is holding the gavel at the front of the room.

I’ll worry about how Fetterman and other DINOs vote AFTER DEMS GET TO PICK WHAT IS VOTED ON.

Image of the senate map, showing 53 red dots for Republicans and 47 blue dots for Democrats.

Fetterman is awful, for sure. But he’s also a blue dot.

More blue dots means the person who makes all the rules and decides what is voted on is also a blue dot.

Sorry, but I’m a pragmatist liberal. I’ll take all the blue dots I can get this year.

I agree Fetterman is not a Dem. I also think Oz voting in the Senate on permanent laws would have far longer negative impacts than a couple years making non-binding policy decisions as a cabinet member.

“Vote blue no matter who” has never been a thing because dems are the worst version of “litmus test voters”.

I’d rather have a shitty democrat like Fetterman than an actively destructive Republican like Oz in that seat.

Don’t like Fetterman? Don’t let him get past the primaries.

Most people will say "Eat It" or "Amish Paradise" because they parodied very popular songs, but anyone who doesn't think it's "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" is objectively wrong.

do you know if this is like Spotify's implementation (which is awful)?

Spotify just plays the audio of the video podcast when in "audio" mode. Lots of podcasts have different edits for audio and video so switching back and forth is tricky, timestamp-wise.

My bet: the Mac Pro Roundtable apology tour, but for Siri.

I am a technical product manager (ontology and APIs), and I’ve found some LLM tools to be enormously helpful. A mundane task like “here are two ontology TTL files, give me a report on alignment or discrepancies” would take me hours, but the machine does it in 4 minutes.

Gonna be a weird future.

In my experiments, it’s pretty good at the research and implementer/tester/validator bit.

The product and architecture bits are sorely lacking. Lots of cognitive cruft, unnecessary duplication and tech debt, etc.

Robert Kraft’s team losing the Super Bowl in humiliating fashion is, to date, the worst consequence suffered by any of the men in the Epstein files.

Probably the same reason half my family in the Washington DC area are Cowboys fans.

They grew up in an era where the local team was terrible.

The only thing I get from this is even Trump didn’t watch the Kid Rock thing.

But it’s to save _your_ bandwidth. They’re doing it to help _you_. 🙄

(Yes, this is sarcasm. Streamers are stingy with data. I work for one and it’s just as you’d expect.)