Jeff Atwood

I love how ActBlue is like "oh, sure, flat 20 percent tip on all integer amounts entered, that makes sense".

Everyone is wasting all this money betting huge amounts on "AI" (aka large statistics models, really clever parrots) when they should be investing in the human communities around their product, which are the source of... everything. 🧠

a) We have the capacity to heal each other that is equal to our capacity to destroy.

b) Language does give us the power to change.

c) We can regulate our own physiology [without drugs] through breathing, moving, touching.

d) We can change social conditions to help people feel safe and be able to thrive.

If you think this is difficult try naming humans https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats

w/r/t https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/114005957931267181 I should explain the joke, because it is very complex. This is a CUSTOM donation receipt email designed to look like a GENERIC donation email receipt, and it WAS sent to me via email by the internet archive intentionally to make a joke to celebrate the donation, and it even has another hidden layer for @textfiles involving the notes on the wire transfer that the archive played on HIM without his knowledge. Then there's the meta on top of that which we are doing together right now.

TL;DR unbelievably awesome. A++++ would donate again

(that's another joke)

Oh my god Internet Archive you magnificent bastards what did you do, and PLEASE KEEP DOING IT FOREVER https://archive.org/donate

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the rarity of things is interesting, but so arbitrary https://info.xposuremusic.com/article/these-are-the-20-most-valuable-vinyl-records

I'm giving away half my wealth over 5 years - not in my will, not after I die, right now. I’ve already sent $1M to eight organizations working to help Americans. There’s a lot more to come.

Let's talk about how we can build the American Dream. AMA!

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ifd3ys/im_giving_away_half_my_wealth_to_make_the/

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"As a billionaire, other people invest you with huge powers, Mr. Gates said. Because you are successful in one sphere, he mused, “they think you’re good at lots of things you’re not good at.” It almost sounded like a warning." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/technology/bill-gates-tech-billionaires-memoir.html

It's annoying that when I think of big, prominent tech figures I have to now mentally assess if they have gone full Palpatine or not. So much technical debt on these projects.