Awesome strategy for winning elections, guys. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/politics/democratic-party-socialists-moderates.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3VA.GzPm.Yw1oKdhWvzLf&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Joshua Thayer
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mastodon 4.3.21Fond of computers, bikes, airplanes, coffee, radios, walking, or many of those at once.
Taking a year+ to be a full-time dad. Find me in the SF playgrounds with a coffee and a joyful, grubby kiddo.
Starting to look for climate-related software work.
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@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz “We didnt understand our stack and then it broke and we couldn’t recover anything” is a much less exciting headline.
Also, the model didn’t “confess” to anything. It made up statistically reasonable words, just like it made up statistically reasonable commands which nuked prod.
Will we build a new web in the ashes of the old one? Or maybe we already are?
@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org apparently real! a friend texted from ukiah. https://earthquaketrack.com/us-ca-ukiah/recent
@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org @me_valentijn@m.ai6yr.org That’s a sad outcome for what was a very useful service. Thanks for filling me in. Back to watching ADSB this summer I suppose.
@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org got the same, i suspect it was a false alarm? nothing here in sf
@USelaine@mastodon.online Infurating
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@nolan@toot.cafe I feel grateful the sea change in our profession has happened towards the tail end of my career. I’m fortunate to have worked while craft was valued and mattered, grew to balance that with deadlines and velocity, and now I’m approaching the new era with a kind of horrible wonder. Craft and a critical eye still seem valuable but it’s not yet clear to me how those are best expressed.
I share your conclusion- more than anything I’m inspired for more human connection- music, friends, kids.
@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org Only semi-related, but what happened to Watch Duty?
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And I feel for them. The wonderful satisfaction of a small, elegant solution to a thorny problem is a, I think, a big motivator for many software people. There are still fun problems to solve, I think, but those little koans are ~gone (in many jobs). Until the tokens run out for good, at least.
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@blaine this is fantastic work! it addresses problems i really wanted to think about while building privacy preserving / offline collaboration tools for journalists some years ago. exciting stuff, i’ll be really interested to see where it goes!