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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And the NYT calls it a case of "mistaken identity". It would have been more honest -- and definitely more interesting! -- to instead point out that the race for "dumbest guy in the senate" has been blown wide open.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here's the original article: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... It really is as up-your-own-*ss as the shorter quote made it sound.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That guy thinks he is making a utilitarian argument (one person making 50 cars wait!) but if it were one car and 50 pedestrians crossing, he would be just as unhinged. Because in his mind roads are for cars, not for people.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rolling Stone Journalist: "I don't think anyone actually lives in Europe. He must be posturing for effect."

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Imagine being so wrapped up in your tiny corner of the world that when you learn there are people who don’t live in that corner, your first thought is that they must be posturing.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For a second I thought you were talking about the british tabloid

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is irritating enough to get multiple fundraising emails per day from every single race in the country, but FFS could you at least say WHAT RACE YOU ARE RUNNING IN? You are cold-soliciting people thousands of miles away, you could at least introduce yourself.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Have they said how "inactive" is determined?

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

> spend less time on pure status updates and more time going deeper An essential aspect of the AI-pilled CEO is they've already mentally spent all the "AI dividend" on "reduce cost", so there's nothing left for "improve outcomes." They don't want "better for the same $"; they want "less for less."

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But how can the earth be hollow and flat at the same time?

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Don't challenge the opposition to an endless game of leapfrog. Go straight to 99!

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What are the missing 15 letters?

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In the situation you describe, it sounds like you are better off trying to distill main points into a single phrase and put that on the slide ("Visualize The Watermelon"), punctuated with a few comics or tweets or headlines for illustration/laugh break? Also sounds like that will be more authentic.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you are lucky enough to have a few images in mind that really hammer the points home, great, build around that. If you have no images, then looking for them for their own sake is usually counterproductive. But 45m with no visual breaks is hard, and a few funny illustrations does go a long way.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is a complicated question... there are a lot of "worse than nothing" outcomes down this road. If you're going to use images, they should support the local topic and connect to each other, but it is too easy to let the image part of the process take over and distort the narrative.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Bryan is being polite, by framing it as an inadvertent omission. But asking people to read your slop is an act of contempt for the reader. It is an asymmetric attack, where low-effort on your part requires higher effort on others. Like robodialers, but with gaslighting.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I remember how violated people felt, and how angrily we reacted, to the first e-mail spams. At some point we just accepted that spam was a fact of life that we couldn't do anything about. (Just like measles.) I would hope we'd do better this time, but not betting on it.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That's like two steps away from understanding the word he was trying to use. Even if he had said "fearmonger", he would still be using it wrong.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It isn't just selfish assholes, of course; take the recent spate of "we found three people who got incredibly lucky in their Roth IRA and now have a gazillion dollar balance, something must be wrong" articles. You set up the rules the best you can, and sometimes imperfect things happen. That's OK.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Selfish assholes always trot out the "but what if something imperfect happens" excuse (e.g., what if welfare recipients use the money to buy steak and champagne), as if the world were already perfect and this new hypothetical imperfection would pollute it irretrievably.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Mediocre dude complains that standards are strangling our society, part 352"

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is it like Jeopardy, where, if you forget to phrase it with "my man looks like...", it doesn't count?

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

But don't worry, the judges are borderline illiterate too, so it cancels out?

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Well, isn't that a fine "How do you do"

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

No, that's calamari. (I know, hard to keep the food horrors separate.) (About a decade ago, an urban legend spread that calimari rings in many restaurants were actually fried pork ... bung. slate.com/human-intere...)

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Is Imitation Calamari Made From Pig Rectum? The Anatomy of a Food Rumor.

A friend told me the other day that she'd heard a horrifying report on public radio: You know those deep-fried, chewy rings of calamari? Sure. Well,...

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

To be fair, there was something to that; many mgrs didn't look beyond their company walls or even their own personal opinions, and asking what other companies have done in similar situations is surely useful. But it is never as simple as "ask the consultant/robot for the optimal answer."

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This reminds me very much of the "management revolution" of the 80s, where consulting companies rushed to create "databases" of "best practices", suggesting that for every business problem, there is already a known optimal solution sitting on the shelf, you just don't know it (until you pay us.)

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

ghost hunters are entertaining

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's as if everyone left of Mitch McConnell thought Life of Brian was a how-to guide to politics: "The only people we hate more than the Romans are the Judean People's Front"

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This season of Reacher is more explicitly "competence porn" than previous ones, and given the sea of incompetence we are all swimming in, is much needed

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A catastrophic dereliction of responsibility. It's not clear it should continue as a educational institution if it cannot stand up for the most basic principles of education. They had one job.

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Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org · 10/08/2026

The first part of OpenJDK’s Project Valhalla, JEP 401 (Value Objects), has been integrated into JDK 28 as a preview feature and is now available in the early-access builds. More information: openjdk.org/projects/val... #JDK28 #OpenJDK #Java

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"The only people we hate more than the Romans are the Judean People's Front."

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Where's your fourth partner, regulatory failure?

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“So you’re saying” is like the biggest tell ever. Never once in history has what comes next actually been what was being said.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

HEY! There are some of us that admire BH

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Paul Philips once joked: "Lots of languages are fighting the last war. Go is fighting the war of 1812." I really wanted to like Go when it came out. The elevator pitch was great: C, minus pointer arithmetic/forging, plus GC, coroutines, and lambdas. But then they made so many avoidable mistakes.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What is so painful is that so many of these were known blunders at the time Go was designed. (The most egregious loop var capture blunder was later "fixed", but should never have made it off the drawing board.) I reviewed the GOPL book in 2015 and just shook my head in disbelief for 400 pages.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A lot of gambling addicts seek out casino jobs because at least then they are _near_ the action, even if they can't be in action

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Our waffle iron makes a sound like an air raid siren when the waffle is ready and every time, the “luftwaffle” pun comes to us anew

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

But that is a world of difference. Learning new languages encouraged learning new patterns of thinking, sometimes radically. But frameworks in language X are already dramatically influenced by the philosophy and values of X. So there is much, much less to be learned there.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

By coincidence, I just (re)read the (very short) DFW essay “The Nature of the Fun”, which explores the same topic (but in a much uglier way.)

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

But you have it all wrong! This comes from his previously unhealthy lifestyle, as he told us! This couldn’t have anything to do with his brilliant and daring attempts to cheat death. Obviously.

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