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CEO, PGX Inc. (we do database things): https://pgexperts.com "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid." — Valery Legasov (Jerod Harris), "Chernobyl."
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“Some of y’all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows”

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

The people we are fighting laugh and applaud at this, and think it is great and that their agony is hilarious. I really don't want to hear about incrementalism and triangulation anymore.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

If you wonder why the Soviet Union became so corrupt, inefficient, and ultimately a failure, this was the reason. A civil service of party hacks is a death sentence.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Time to post it again.

submitted 9 days ago • 91 comments

Just a momentary break from noting that everything is terrible to praise the trend of companies and organizations giving mailing list subscribers the ability to op out of Mother's Day and Father's Day emails.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The best way to help your comrades is to not go to jail over stupid shit. You can't do the revolution from inside a cell.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Yes, I am absolutely sure that the Office of Foreign Asset control of the US Treasury Department of the Trump Administration will have a light touch and deft hand towards someone setting up third-party structured financial transactions whose beneficial recipients are Palestinian.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Y'all - screwing around with structuring transactions to foreign countries perilous, angels-fear-to-tread territory. And screaming "you're defaming me" at lawyers who are trying to help people make informed choices about potential risks is bad and you're bad and should feel bad if you do it.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Zoom, we have to talk. Yes, I get there is a post-processing step required for meeting recordings. That's fine. No problem. But displaying a forced-to-front dialogue box that you cannot hide or send to the back while it is processing? What. The. Fuck.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Given the reality that pushing back against the Trump administration has been remarkably successful, one could be forgiven thinking that those who caved in at the first sign of trouble were really just looking for an excuse to do what they wanted to do anyway.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Newsom is busily destroying whatever positive legacy he might have left in California for a shot at the White House that he has no chance, at all, of winning. Watching the GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA decided to go-along-get-along with fascism is just revolting.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Watching everyone in the pundiariat decide that the real problem with the Ds last time was that we were just insufficiently horrible to trans people is revolting.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"States" are, after all, abstract entities and lines on a map. They don't have emotions, bodies, loved ones. A "red state" doesn't get hurt. People in them get hurt, and one of the things this administration should have taught us is that fundamental human decency should not be a party line vote.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

"I came over to Bluesky and couldn't find any tools so we can deliver high-value fresh content that allows people to engage with the brands they love. It's like they don't even care."

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

OK, sure, but what's the downside?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The President of the United States, who has access to one of the most powerful set of intelligence organizations on the planet, is shocked by something that anyone who has spent two minutes a day reading the news over the last few years knew already.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

One more observation about the SQL queries (and some other code) generated by ChatGPT and Copilot: They almost always generated near-identical code, no matter how complex the problem. This indicates that they were rehydrating a particular solution a human had done for a similar problem.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Having given both ChatGPR and MS Copilot some SQL query problems to solve, I have some observations: 1. Generally, the resulting query was correct in that it would produce the right output. 2. They almost never were written in a way that indexes would be helpful. 1/n

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Some quotes are too good to cut on.ft.com/4jkssZ0

submitted 13 days ago • 95 comments

Conservative legal minds: "There is no Constitutional right to privacy. That's a leftist 'auras and penumbras' reading that has no basis in the plain text." Also: "We have performed necromancy and determined that the 14th Amendment really meant something different than what the plain text says."

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Just like the unlawful, unchallengeable arrests of non-citizens is being used to test out arbitrary detention for everyone, the deliberate and mendacious conflation of being pro-Palestinian with being anti-semite is being used to test-fly making it illegal to criticize the government.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

From PGX’ AI policy:”All code that was, in any part, written using LLM-based tools must be accompanied by entirely human-written tests with demonstrable 100% code coverage, including all error conditions.”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

All this talk about allowing people to "take control of their healthcare" just means "we are coddling anti-vaxxers for political purposes."

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

What stage of technically-not-fascism is arresting inconvenient judges and opposition lawmakers?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Me, early 2024: "This 'both sides are the same nonsense' is absurd, and we need to get rid of the Tory government." Me, mid 2025: "My bad. They're the same."

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

We as a nation are being given the largest single live experiment of the Prisoner's Dilemma ever done, and I have to say that we're not doing very well at it.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

“Goebbels outlines ambitious plan to solve overcrowding in Polish cities.”

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I do not believe in hell, but if I did, I would wish a special place in it for those against vaccination, especially childhood vaccination, and their craven enablers. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments