“Yeah bro LLMs are great at figuring out how to use your CLI tool you just gotta write good --help output”
SO ARE HUMANS. THIS IS KNOWLEDGE FROM THE 60S. I AM GOING INSANE.
THEY’RE DOCUMENTATION THEN? THE SHIT YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN WRITING THE WHOLE TIME? AND THE ADVICE FOR WRITING THEM BOILS DOWN TO THE EXACT SAME SET OF POINTS YOU SHOULD APPLY TO DOCS FOR HUMANS?
HOW COOL. AND INTERESTING. TELL ME MORE.
_dissolves into a frothing puddle_
I’m currently losing my mind over the whole skills.md file thing. Sure, they’re useful and make sense. Not arguing against that.
But mfers are out there unironically saying shit like “you need to make sure you’re clear and to the point in your skills files, provide good examples”
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This dude rules
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.
Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.
Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Cs) The Centre for Social Justice • 1d • NEW: Britain is in the grip of a welfare crisis. An out of work family on combined benefits will now receive £18,000 more than the post-tax earnings of a family on the living wage. 1.5 million children now have workless parents. Read our report, The Benefits Budget SUNDAY EXPRESS CAMPAIGNING FOR A BETTER BRITAIN NOVEMBER 30, 2025 express.co.uk• £3.20 FREE £5 OFEC S MAGAZINE WHEN YOU INSIDE SPEND E25 @ dobbie WITH YOUR I-DAY TV SUDE STAR TURN FREE LUXURY MINCE PIE TART: SEE PAGE 32 CUNG ICIN E3.50 Critics reveal true Budget burden on working parents with three kids FAMILIES NEED WAGES OF £71,000 TO BEAT BENEFITS'
This doesn’t even pass the laugh test, let alone the smell one. If you’re taken in by this, then you’re the type of person whose work colleagues regularly sends you to the shop for a tin of tartan paint and a long stand.
Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics.
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.
New blog post: The illegible nature of software development talent
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Well written, well sourced. Read it, comprehend it, internalise it.
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They kept Telegram on their App Store even after it was used as an organizing platform first for ISIS and then for murder Nazis
Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.
You should fire whoever wrote this headline.
The feds are engaging in a brutal crackdown on innocent people, causing damaging and wasting tax dollars. Look at Chicago. Look at LA.
They are enemies of a free society; debating whether it's "smart" is gross.
Under the compact, a mix of nine public and private universities would receive favorable terms for government aid if they agreed to conditions like banning consideration of race or sex in hiring and admissions, capping international undergraduate enrollment, requiring that applicants pass admissions examinations and suppressing grade inflation. Universities with large endowments would be asked to waive tuition for students interested in the hard sciences.
A sex-blind admissions policy at selective universities will not go the way that the Trump administration thinks it will.
Okay look:
There’s theoretically a Marxist definition of working class, which means anyone who doesn’t own the means of production. But no one actually uses it (even if they claim to), because means doctors and many CEOs are working class, but a streetside food vendor is a filthy capitalist.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his attempted military coup in Brazil, but you didn't hear much about it in the news because the people who did the exact same thing in the States dominated the media crying hysterically over a podcaster. None of this was inevitable.
I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.
This letter to The Economist makes a decent point. The case for robo taxis probably feels overwhelming in a country where the urban design means you're utterly screwed without a car.
It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable
(Though in all seriousness, On-call Optimizer is great. Turns out you don't have to plan your life around what your lowest bidder on-call tooling provides as a vibe coded mockup of scheduling.)
Glad to hear it. Chop chop!
Today in "At Google we used to..."
Currently missing a 20% project from 200x that let you group pages/alerts from the same event into "outages", and let you tag outages with stuff like "impact:none" and "action:none", so you could find and nuke shit alerts.
Truly unfathomable space alien genius.
US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:
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I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.
