At a previous job, a multi-billion dollar Y Combinator darling, the CEO learned that our largest customer was walking away. His response was to hop into Slack and ask a ChatGPT bot for guidance. In a public channel. I am still not sure whether the bigger problem was the impending potential collapse or the fact that he was workshopping survival strategies with an AI in front of the whole company. This was prior to the loss of the customer being announced, too.

These people are not serious people. To quote Ed Zitron, they are business idiots. They think they are gifted captains of industry, yet they cling to a machine that tells them they are brilliant while it spits out work with no real substance. It matches the kind of employees they reward - the ones who perfect the performance of work rather than the work itself.

eggies

maybe he needs a new beanie and he’s deciding on which one to wear

was it black or white smoke, that’ll tell us if he’s reached a decision

Just realised that all my handwringing, as a fairly long in the tooth software engineer, about “why am I failing to stop these companies from building dogshit architectures and forcing awful process on everyone” was just base–superstructure doing its thing. The job I was hired for multiple times was literally impossible given the material conditions. Good old Marx. Undefeated.

I keep thinking about writing a blog post on why architects that prattle on about Conway’s Law are missing the point and the real issue is the logic of capital, not the org chart…but, honestly, nah.

AmericanPedoBear™

Soldiers emerged from the £10 million vehicles vomiting while others were said to be shaking so violently they could not control their bodies after war games on Salisbury Plain, sources said. Others had weakness in their legs.

it’s like the calf cramp tweet about Beto in vehicular form

If you haven’t seen Limmy’s recurring hyperfixation with hate-watching James Corden, I highly recommend his pain

Edit: actually this is a better one, his rage is so healing lmao

I haven’t listened to TrueAnon in years, and yet it feels like every time I see a quote from them it involves casual ableism

Trump declines to rule out underground nuclear tests

When he inevitably insists on a surface test, let’s hope his desire to “see it up close” leads to a repeat of the solar eclipse incident

Lmao the Wikipedia article has a list of the classic Obumblerisms relating to it

Nice little detail about Clinton in there:

Peter says that Epstein now travels with Clinton and Clinton wants you to meet him

If I remember correctly, this was around the time that Bill was flying around on the Lolita Express with Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker

The drunk Minnesota National Guard Major who said on national TV that he doesn’t wash still keeps a Stars and Stripes snot rag proudly in his pocket. America in one image

Lurch to the left

https://www.noracooks.com/vegan-shawarma/

it stimulates a part of the brain known as “Shatner’s Bassoon”

can’t believe I posted a Paxman clip instead of this banger when someone mentioned Blair

Lmao he’s literally fat shaming the flag officers

he really was a slimy bastard

The Potoo