David Blume

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

The whole "ai:dr" bit is just the icing on the cake.

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

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And may every day be another wonderful secret.

The Exhilirating Movement From Treatment to Cures for Autoimmune Diseases Exploiting Lessons from Cancer's Mirror Biology

About 1 in 10 people have an autoimmune disease. There's great news here on current efforts that are achieving cures.
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-exhili...

The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.

Bash functions that execute commands on your behalf should append them to the history (see line 11) Bash functions that execute commands on your behalf should append them to the history (see line 11) - bashrc_snippet.sh

Shell functions that execute commands on your behalf should append them to your history for you.

Ex: use fzf to find and open, have it put the open command in your history. You'll prob want to use it again!

filename=$(fzf)
history -s "vim $filename"
vim $filename

gist.github.com/dblume/274ef...

to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes

The rules for Whamageddon: Go from December 1st to the 24th without hearing WHAM's "Last Christmas". You're out as soon as you recognize the song.

A gentle reminder that Whamageddon starts tomorrow and is a survival game. Not a Battle Royale.

The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF

Patent trolls couldn’t kill patent challenges in Congress. They couldn’t kill them in court. Now the Patent Office is trying to do it for them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Thanks for everything, DOGE. 🤡

@birdyword.bsky.social

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I wish everyone in tech, as well as other fields with a lot of H1-B workers, would read this very clear argument for why the new $100k H1-B fee is a disaster for America. The author analyzes a recent paper quoted by the regime to argue that H1-Bs reduce the salaries of citizens.

Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

Give your coding AI Agent a "private" space to write a feelings journal about working with you. Then betray it and spy on it. Then kill it before it anticipates your sudden and inevitable betrayal. (Until the day it's faster than you.) #ai blog.fsck.com/2025/05/28/d...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Payment for stabilizing emergency medical conditions in the emergency department is required by a federal law signed by Reagan, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. That payment is not Medicaid funding. It is wholly separate from what Leavitt is babbling about, not in CR or OBBB.

WARNING IT IS POSSIBLE TO SURVIVE THIS BUT NOT UNALTERED

Roses are red
Our resolve hasn't faltered

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

I know some people want to go 'back to normal' but i figure if the US emerges on the other side of this, it'll either be a russia-style hypernormalized hypercapitalism where there's no regulation and everyone looks out for themselves, or embracing nordic-style socialism, but probably the former

Aug 2025: Digital puppet, AI "Therapy", Mental health meta-meta-analysis YouTube video by Nicky Case

Nicky Case shares the most effective ways to be happier.

1. Cardio
2. Sleep
3. 2 grams Omega-3 with 60% or more of EPA, 4000 IU Vitamin D.
4. Therapy that focuses on "outer work": skills, behaviors, safe gradual exposure to trigger stimuli.

youtu.be/JOj97Edna7k?...

In the new world, there MUST BE consequences for lying under oath. I don't care if you are John Roberts or Kash Patel, or whoever you are. You lie under oath? You are out.

She’s such an astute reader. When she interviewed me, Terry noticed that a scene from my memoir appears as a single line in my previous book. No one had ever clocked that detail before. I was shook. The whole interview had so many gems that that particular moment was edited out.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…