Jared White

A tangle of bushes with burgundy-colored flowers in the froreground give way to a vast scene of the Willamette River and a walking pier, with the looming Fremont arch bridge looming off on the horizon. A sunny day but filled with poofy clouds adds lighting drama to an otherwise simple scene.

Yesterday, a glorious moment walking along the north end of the #Portland riverfront, and signs that spring has well and truly arrived. 🙌
#PDX #Bridge #SilentSunday

Welp, now blocking the CTO of Bluesky for promoting slopaganda.

Folks, if you don't want to spend all your time on a social network being coded by slopagandists and prompt junkies (via “Claude Code” etc.), can I highly recommend joining a *far* better social network? ☺️

https://jointhefediverse.net

Ooo, I love me some slopaganda in the morning. 😂

You seem to be very unware of the *large* volume of deeply talented programmers who fundamentally disagree with this framing.

Reports of the death of the handcoder are *greatly* exaggerated (not to mention the myraid ethical issues around LLMs in general), let me be clear.

US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban Trump calls Anthropic a ‘Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about’

No one wants to use AI—we know that this is a technology in search of an actual use or a "killer app," as they used to say in Silicon Valley, that will attract users to their platform.

AI finally found their user base: fascist governments. And this time, the killer app actually kills.

Social science this ratio, haha. 😄

Tech companies: We're going to spend billions of dollars on "AI" datacenters.

Real people: And our kids can still walk to school safely, right?

Tech companies: No.

This is the reality of today's U.S. politics. It makes my brain bleed… 😵‍💫

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

“Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets,” Polymarket disturbingly wrote in a post on X announcing the partnership.

And a new game emerges! I'll get things started:

* Journalism is better when it's backed by live banjo.
* Journalism is better when it's backed by live eels.

Now it's your turn!

Journalism is better when it's backed by live __________.

I thought we already had false spring in January. 😅

Another day, another math shooting.

Welcome to Amurica!! 🇺🇸🎆🎊 USA! USA!

So they have no plan. Got it.

Here are the latest death toll figures from the US and Israel's ongoing attacks on Iran and Iran's retaliatory strikes.

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Samuel the Alternate Man is on the fast track to turning his company into one of the most lothed & reviled in mainstream tech consciousness.

OpenAI will go down in history as a blatent example of corporate cowardice & greed, one nearly unparalleled on the world stage.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Amen to that! Although…I'm not sure I can stop using it since I never started using it to begin with… 😉

Wait, you just now realized this? 😄

Oh that's wonderful! 👏 And doubly good when they're also trying to pump out awful slop AI ads…none of that please!

Some other recommendations:

* The Boy in the Bubble (Graceland, Paul Simon)
* In the Air Tonight (Face Value, Phil Collins)
* Conditioning (Human's Lib, Howard Jones)
* Who Needs Love Like That (Wonderland, Erasure)
* Look Out Any Window (Scenes from the Southside, Bruce Hornsby)

In 2019 there were 36,500 people killed, 4.5 million people injured, and 23 million vehicles damaged in motor vehicle crashes in the United States. The economic costs of these crashes totaled $340 billion, including lost productivity, medical, legal and court costs, emergency service, insurance administration, congestion, property damage, and workplace losses. This is equivalent to $1,035 for each of the 328 million people living in the United States, and 1.6% of the $21.4 trillion real U.S. Gross Domestic Product in 2019. These figures include both police‐reported & unreported crashes. When quality-of-life valuations are considered, the total value of societal harm from motor vehicle crashes in 2019 was nearly $1.4 trillion. Lost market & household productivity accounted for $106 billion of the $340 billion, while property damage accounted for $115 billion. Medical expenses totaled $31 billion. Congestion caused by crashes, including travel delay, excess fuel consumption, greenhouse gases, & criteria pollutants accounted for $36 billion. Each fatality resulted in an average discounted lifetime cost of $1.6 million in economic costs, and $11.3 million when quality-of-life valuations are considered. Public revenues paid for roughly 9% of all motor vehicle crash costs, costing taxpayers $30 billion in 2019, equal to $230 in added taxes for every household in the United States. Alcohol- involved crashes accounted for $69 billion or 20% of all economic costs. Alcohol was the cause of the crash in roughly 82% of these cases, causing $57 billion in costs. Distracted driving crashes cost $98 billion. The Economic and Societal Impact of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2019 (Revised) Blincoe, Lawrence J.;Miller, Ted R;Wang, Jing-Shiarn;Swedler, David;Coughlin, Tom;Lawrence, Bruce;Guo, Feng;Klauer, Sheila G;Dingus, Thomas A; US DOT NHTSA National Center for Statistics and Analysis;Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation;Virginia Tech Transportation Institute; 2023-02-01

In 2019, the economic costs of US car crashes totaled $340 billion. This is equivalent to $1,035 for each of the 328 million people living in the US, & 1.6% of the 2019 GDP. Including quality-of-life valuations, the total value of societal harm from motor vehicle crashes was nearly $1.4 trillion.

Well well, the Dow's well under 50,000 points.

Sorry Pam B.!

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

I would love to be proven wrong! If you know of a cowork space that's fun & creator-friendly and doesn't feel like a Millennial-gray corporate transplant from some other part of the country or a dull shoestring-budget office building from the 70s…I'd greatly appreciate the referral!

OK. I don't know if this is a Portland thing or a post-COVID thing or a "these days" thing but there's something lacking in cowork culture here.

I felt a more vibrant creative indie cowork space culture in bedroom communities of suburban CA mid-2010s than today in Portland. And I can't explain why.

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

Yeah, I'm watching "Donald Trump" tonight!

…as played by Sebastian Stan in "The Apprentice" 😂

I saw this was on a free streamer and didn't get a chance to see it before, so figured it was worth a shot.

Life is better when you block assholes

Radioactive Toy A boutique Rails and Ruby development studio

Just gave my business website a much needed facelift! I'm still looking for a new client ... I can help with anything #Ruby / #Rails / #Hotwire / Web development.

Get in touch if you'd like to work with me or have any leads!

Good idea! I'm probably going to tune in for a while to the People's State of the Union being put on by Meidastouch and MoveOn, but Netflix also sounds nice. 😄