Jorge Vergara

JUST IN: The US embassy in Oslo was hit by an explosion early on Sunday, causing minor damage but no injuries, Norwegian police say https://cnn.it/4ldVo7A

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

Here adjusting the calorie tracking app because my wife took a quarter of my
hamburger with one bite 😂

I told myself I was going to launch an app today I’ve been working on as a side project for my own use.

So of course instead I detailed my car, and inventoried my closet to donate about 60% of my clothes 😶‍🌫️

When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.

I would argue they knew exactly what they were doing, which was deliberately sabotaging needed public works programs by offering snake oil they never had any intention of delivering.

every last one of these people need to be tried and jailed as the goons and criminals they are. No exceptions.

It's funny, growing up the Miami Herald was famous for Monkey Business Gary Hart and now they're famous for uncovering a global pedophile ring that included two Presidents and Bill Fucking Gates. I'd say that's an insane CV from a small but mighty paper

An entire administration that thinks logging off for 30 min makes everything go away

Taekwondo belt holder showing a white, yellow, orange, and green belt

Thanks!

Now it’s purple, brown, read, and then black.

Then it’s like black 1st degree, 2nd, 3rd, etc until you die 😂

4 people in front of a taekwondo banner, they all with taekwondo uniforms

Graduated from my green belt today into a brand new 🥋 blue belt 🙏🏼

Thank you Veni 🙏🏼

Taekwondo belt holder showing a white, yellow, orange, and green belt

Thanks!

Now it’s purple, brown, read, and then black.

Then it’s like black 1st degree, 2nd, 3rd, etc until you die 😂

4 people in front of a taekwondo banner, they all with taekwondo uniforms

Graduated from my green belt today into a brand new 🥋 blue belt 🙏🏼

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.

if you were to write a prophecy of the future back in 2000 that "in 2026, President Donald John Trump has launched a war on Iran with Israel after previously attempting a coup to stay in power in 2020", people would think you've gone insane

NEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the United States has asked Ukraine for help intercepting Iranian-made Shahed drones, citing Ukraine’s battlefield expertise. Zelenskyy said any assistance will come only if it does not weaken Ukraine’s own defenses.

The fact that we go into creative careers to avoid admin, but the only creative jobs are freelance, and freelance means doing your own admin…an ironic twist worthy of the Twilight Zone.

I have no evidence, but also no doubt that they discontinued that iMac purely to sell more expensive displays with other computers.

When I had that iMac I didn’t need anything else, no external monitors, no more nothing 😞

First Draft: 🤬 Is This the Worst-Run War in US History? Trump and his administration are improvising a major conflict in the Middle East, as Democrats keep winning in the 2026 redistricting war that is immensely backfiring on the GOP.

“privately, Trump has voiced extreme unease about how the rising American body count “looks,” and few officials close to him believe he has tolerance for a protracted quagmire, sources with knowledge of the matter tell me” - Swin for Zeteo’s First Draft morning newsletter. Have you subscribed yet?

Half of Americans back abolishing ICE amid Trump crackdown, poll finds YouGov poll shows 50% support as Kristi Noem defends ‘terrorist’ claim and shutdown drags on

Repeat after me; “abolish ICE” is the mainstream position.

whatever else we do

we need to make it illegal for chatbots to call themselves "i," "me," and otherwise pretend to be people

it's not innate to llms -- it's part of the interface layer between the user and the statistical model

and it can be gotten rid of

I follow tech blogs for content to share in my newsletter. I had to unfollow some blogs because they just turned into ads for AI.

Thankfully, I see some starting to pick back up the topics they used to talk about previously.

How to win in November

Think we need a few new PR options:

Approve, but I take no responsibility, because:

- I have no clue what this code does and I'm not sure you do either

- Clearly someone else is pressuring you to rush this out

- AI generated so much code that no human can reasonably review this

There are a lot of things wrong with this. (Like a lot of things).

But what stood out to me was "llms don't feed and validate narcissists". Like they absolutely do? These things feed you back exactly what you wanna hear. By design.

Don't use ai for therapy. Full stop. Don't do it.

This sounds bananas to me. There is no reason the actual moderation needs to be tied to the account itself. And even if it is, just don't allow blocking the account. Why give people no indication that this is a problem and then suspend them?

and don't make me some anti-ai savior bc i do like many people who use ai to code. i hope your employer is paying for it instead of you