Bill Karwin

I realize it is not the highest priority issue, but we should all just stop doing that.

It's Oklahoma. He's certain to be replaced with another one just like him.

Remember he replaced Jim Inhofe, who was best known for his outspoken climate science denial.

Have you read Marcus Aurelius?

"Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love."

If you're in a vehicle collision, never say "I'm sorry" to the other driver, because it can be used later as evidence of your liability in the accident.

I think that's what's going on with Kristi Noem. She will never apologize.

Legally, it can be a disadvantage to apologize, and has no upside.

I also worked for Block, but I left after I realized the leadership was completely rudderless.

Opinion | I Worked for Block. Its A.I. Job Cuts Aren’t What They Seem.

This is what I've been saying for several years.

It makes no business sense for a profitable company to cut 40% of their staff just as the company gets technology it believes multiplies those workers' effectiveness.

In fact, the layoff had nothing to do with that.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

Orwell was an optimist.

I wondered why element 100 is named for Enrico Fermi. That led me to this list, from which I infer that it was simply inevitable.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

This is why I think their goal is not to make a product that works for people. Their goal is to drive up their company's valuation on the stock market. They make a thousand times as much profit quickly, but they're eating the seed corn.

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I agree. The modern LLM industry has never been about making products that work reliably. That doesn't matter, if the valuation keeps growing. Making tech products is not their mission, it's just table stakes.

Or it could be "Cat Scratch Fever."

Tom Holland and Zendaya need a couple portmanteau.

Are we going with "Hollandaise"?

The most positive interpretation, I think, is that humans value empathy more than they value intellectualism.

People assume saying, "I understand" is an expression of empathy or support, because that's worth saying.

Whereas saying, "I know a thing" is not.

This is not unique to Bluesky. We just don't have a good idiomatic way in English of saying, "I understand X" without people hearing "I am in favor of X."

With respect to very wide tables, it depends on the storage engine.

Column-oriented extensions exist based on PostgreSQL, such as Citus, MonetDB, or Greenplum. These are designed for analytics workloads. These do well with wide tables more than the default OLTP storage engine.

Any word on whether the FIFA Peace Prize committee regrets their choice?

Are members of Congress becoming telemarketers? Stop fundraising, start working, says Fla. Rep. David Jolly, who is seeking to ban federal-elected officials from dialing for dollars

The primary job of Congress is phone bank worker. That is literally what they spend the majority of their day doing. Cold-calling people to raise money.
www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minu...

At this rate, people will just have to go for a walk or read a book. Madness!

Note: Those who accuse AI of being a supply chain risk may be supply chain risks themselves.

There's probably an analog in every fiction franchise!
But none of them are as irredeemably stupid as this administration.

What's to think about? The current GOP is basically S.P.E.C.T.R.E from the James Bond franchise. They aren't conservative, they aren't small-government advocates, they aren't pushing Christian values. They consistently behave like organized crime. We don't need to be surprised by this anymore.

In fact, you can continually add more people indefinitely!

Do you clean yourself afterwards with Tecnu or one of the other poison ivy soaps? I've tried this, and it works. In my area, I have poison oak, not poison ivy, but they act the same and the soap claims it works for both.

Or the Pakleds.

Still photo from an episode of classic TV show "Perry Mason." The lawyer Mason (Raymond Burr) stands in front of the witness stand, looking expectantly at the witness, who might be trying to conceal the truth.

Yes, the crucial part is that you will know if it gets it wrong.

I recommend the Perry Mason rule: don't ask a question unless you can tell whether the answer is true or not.

The Penguin (Burgess Meredith), a villain character on the TV show "Batman" (1966), with two henchmen wearing black cloth masks over their eyes.

To be safe, don't hire anyone who wears a mask to a job interview.

Unless you're a Batman villain hiring goons.

Yo dawg, I heard you like catching exceptions, so I put an exception in your exception and now you can catch exceptions while you catch exceptions.

Ugh. I liked watching long-form woodworking videos on YouTube, but because their algorithm prioritizes shorts, now all the creators have to do that too.

3/4 of my subscription notifications are now teasers or excerpts of old videos.

I can't imagine the creators are happy about this.

Little poison ivies?