Reposted by @dbsmasher.comaustin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 24/09/2026some variation of this is what im expecting. jevon's paradox is going to push a ton of people who dont think of themselves as SWEs into weird hybrid pseudo-SWE roles, but the <p50 SWE who just writes java and doesn't bring any product or business insights to the table is turbo-fucked 51549
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comLittledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that 101121412
dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 22/09/2026At this point I don’t think this country deserves a competent woman as president. 061
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/20268/14/2026 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff? (Gift Article)She will run as a woman but unlike how every woman before her was forced to run. 411820
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comRonnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026@marcprecipice.bsky.social hot takes: good management *is* hating things all the time why bother to fight it? 161
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comElixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 19/09/2026I've been baking this "law" for awhile: Rule: As a system becomes more reliable, the "cognitive distance" of its remaining failure states from the normal operating procedure grows rapidly. Corollary: The more reliable a system is, the more exotic and unrecoverable its failure states are. WDYT? 10486
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comTheodore Kim @theodore-kim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026As always, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ’s analysis of the “AIs gone rogue” bullshit is spot on. “Why do the powerful leaders of A.I. want us to panic? Because panic sells the idea that A.I. is ungovernable.” They show their unseriousness when “[n]one of them are enthusiastic about accountability."nytimes.comOpinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with. 18736
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder. 21656504
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not. 12247251141
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy 543792895
dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 17/09/2026Who knew Matthew Rhys could do physical comedy like this. 030
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This attempt to construct a narrative of persecution around being a white guy in America is at base, an expression of profound jealousy and insecurity towards people who have to overcome challenges they will never face 281401196
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026How did he pass is job interview? The same reason he's all over the press & everyone in the "left" is captured by these people. I'm gonna call it like it is, once again, its ******RACISM********* Y'all can't imagine that WE are the experts. 12832234
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 12/09/2026Well well well 810313
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Today is the most Monday of Tuesdays ever 622356125
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comthe moon report 🌕 @seachanger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I’m happy to have Labor Day twice but let’s remember why en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day 0183113
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comSisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026incredible work by 1PW leadership fucking up bad enough that a fight over Arch Linux for Racists escaped containment so completely that now Jamelle Bouie's telling 750k very online millennials, almost certainly the demographic most likely to pay for 1PW, to go cancel their 1PW subscription tonight 5571115
dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 03/09/2026/me looks at @alfredapp.bsky.social …you better not disappoint me. 070
dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 02/09/2026Instead of “assume good intent” I’d like people to recognize impact instead. 0140
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 30/08/2026fwiw I think that AI is very clearly leading to a huge huge uptick in security issues everyone but it doesn't require extreme AGI so much as man we have a lot of bad code to exploit, not to mention how much easier phishing has gotten 4242
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x 14436125
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/08/2026Tell you what, I’ll worry about the imaginary oppression of robots in the future when you worry about the real oppression of humans right now 844896
dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 26/08/2026Today my 15 yr old came back from school and I found her on the couch scrolling thru Dolly Parton videos The kids are alright. 0160
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comlaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Lady Liberty, with some statue in the background 1898
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Someone please give the Grim Reaper reading glasses 017617
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026[Exit Queen.] 2063895211004
dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 25/08/2026I dunno what fucking roulette is picking who gets a trip out of this world but it is BROKEN 0100
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comThe Fucking Town Crier (Pacific) @profanetowncrier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It's Monday and I've had enough of it already. 082
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperationyoutube.comWhat Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnellYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 15360241281
dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 24/08/2026Yes that’s expected of a dem candidate in the year of our lord 2026 But I cannot begin to describe how proud it makes me to hear an Egyptian second gen guy say this. 090
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comIYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026ALL THIS. If you want a debate club, go back to high school, or find some organization where adults live out their high school debate club fantasies. I don't care which, just keep your dippy debate bro shit out of my mentions. 03912
dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 17/08/2026I dunno who needs to hear this but if you’re an Eng leader who still refers to an author and a non white man on your team says they’re problematic Take the hint. In other news: watch for how your favorite Eng mgmt writers are responding to the clause watermarking content news. 050
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Destroying books for AI slop feeding is akin to Nazi book burning. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 0477119
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comaustin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 14/08/2026when designing a distributed system, keep removing shared mutable state until it doesn’t work anymore, then put a little back and draw a box around it labeled “this will break first” 424229
dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 12/08/2026This place is too serious. I’m going back to where the biggest drama is a little boy’s bike 000
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comDaniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This site lets you scan barcodes to see if they’re part of Taylor Farms: www.taylordetector.comtaylordetector.comTaylor Detector — Scan for Taylor Farms brandsWondering if a product is made by Taylor Farms? Scan any barcode to instantly check brand ownership and affiliations. Free, no signup required. 3324771681
dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 05/08/2026I am going to need all the Holland Bernthal bloopers. All of them. 030
Reposted by @dbsmasher.comCasey Rosenthal @clr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026On the subject of AI. People don't realize how important what @courtneynash.bsky.social is writing about here is to the whole scene: resilienceinsoftware.org/news/11560646 If you believe this take [and I do] it completely changes how you think about integrating and applying AI to engineering work.resilienceinsoftware.orgExpertise Can't Be Automated: Why Resilience Still Needs Humans | Resilience in Software FoundationAbby Wambach, Neil Peart, Kelsey Hightower. These people are all experts in their relevant fields. Through them we recognize expertise as an exceptionally high 041
dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 31/07/2026This tik tok is for @ronnieftw.bsky.social and only @ronnieftw.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAmnwHe9/tiktok.comIn my defense it was dark and I couldn’t find the light switch. Also wow it’s hard to get out of a toothbrush.TikTok video by dadchats 020