jmoiron plays the blues

@jmoiron.bsky.social At least Google had the self awareness to ditch "Don't be evil" after they realized that being at least a little evil could cut costs and open up new revenue streams. "Democracy dies in darkness", absolutely pathetic.

@jmoiron.bsky.social This has been a splinter in my brain for a while now. This is, in fact, a very simple election. One of the candidates staged a coup.

@jmoiron.bsky.social The nature of the top responses (which are weighted that way by design) to Kelsey's subdued announcement of his voting intentions on the bird site was eye opening. I knew it was deteriorating, but I hadn't realized the full extent.

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: This just 40 mins out from NYC, so not too far north!

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Judging by his "clever ploy" and actual favorite books he's definitely an actual Ayn Rand guy. My response to this test is to be nice, move on from the subject, and never engage with them again.

@jmoiron @bryanl Oh no, you're keeping the candle lit for the good old days

@jmoiron Maybe it's just a generational gap, but I find it really sad that most of tech twitter has turned into generic empty-calorie influencer culture.

@jmoiron.bsky.social Current headline on BBC dot com: "'Middle East erupts' and OBE for Queen's funeral horse"

@jmoiron RT @StreetsblogNYC: That's so funny, Governor, because this is what autumn in New York CITY looks like to us, thanks to you killing congest…

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Always good when TJ leads the Haka

@jmoiron.bsky.social Interestingly round number for me.

@jmoiron.bsky.social Lost another great; RIP Sérgio Mendes :(

@jmoiron.bsky.social This Sinner v Paul match is incredibly high quality so far.

@jmoiron.bsky.social The most tiresome aspect of tech industry discourse is that no one can seem to acknowledge that there are other legitimate parts of the industry where their preferred methodologies don't work.

@jmoiron Glad to see people start to explore this angle. IC work *is* team work. All that extra code you write at home spends time that, in an office, could be spent on spontaneous but valuable socialization: mentorship, cross-team networking, filling in gaps about business/product, etc ...

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I've never heard this term before.

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Would be interesting in a sci fi context, an intergallactic power struggle over the long dead corpse of an ancient advanced civilization that produced refined materials long enough ago that they've decayed into low-background form, eg. for use in the magic mcguffin that can "end ...

@jmoiron.bsky.social This recent SciShow episode brought up "low background lead" which I was not aware of, but is really cool! It's lead that is old enough to have lost nearly all of its 22y half/life trace radioactive isotopes to decay. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0A9...

@jmoiron.bsky.social I'd happily use this site much more if more of my network moved over to it so the news has been good.

@jmoiron @glcst Haha me neither

@jmoiron @glcst Xc L,

@jmoiron @billychasen Like trying to cancel a subscription outside.of California.

@jmoiron @calebspare Unbelievable that "staged a coup" does not refer to the guy who urged his goons to attack the capitol.

@jmoiron @copyconstruct Valley culture is a cocktail with more narcisism than empathy.

@jmoiron @ibuildthecloud @AlexJonesax I think @calebspare said it best regarding features like this (paraphrasing), "I want this, but I don't want other people to have this."