as if we needed any more reasons to use Signal over Telegram lol. lmao
xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday said Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is investing $300 million worth of cash and equity in the chat app.
what does this even mean? what is Glitch aside from user profiles and app hosting? “Important changes are coming to Glitch” makes it sound as if it’ll continue on in some way, but the actual announcement reads like “we’re shutting down”.
Important changes are coming to Glitch
We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.
this announcement looks and reads so much like a cringey wedding invitation that i just immediately assumed it was. even the pull quotes feel like vows. exquisite
🗣️ The layoffs will continue until morale improves
Microsoft is cutting 3% of its workforce
It's likely Microsoft's largest job purge since it said goodbye to 10,000 employees in 2023.
we went from a month of Earth Day conservation content to “let’s mine the fucking seabed” in three days
These minerals are currently sitting atop the sea floor, waiting to be scooped up and processed. Through #NOAA’s mapping tech and licensing abilities, we are helping industry leaders find, collect and bring back these minerals to benefit the #USA & domestic manufacturing.
Just finished building my first open-source library in ages! This one is a Ruby gem for Slack’s Block Kit framework, something we use heavily at FireHydrant. I built it using ActiveModel validations for all of their schema limits, many of which the gem can fix automatically!
GitHub - davidcelis/block-kit: 💬 A Ruby gem to build UI with Slack's BlockKit framework
💬 A Ruby gem to build UI with Slack's BlockKit framework - davidcelis/block-kit
the fact that ActiveModel type casts attributes on read instead of write is sending me into a hate spiral
this was a really fun and interesting read about a little Postgres mystery! i laughed out loud exactly twice.
did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So weR…
git added the ability to sign commits with SSH keys in late 2021? and i had no idea?? i’ve just kept using GPG??? oh my god
Sign commits with SSH keys | GitLab Docs
Sign commits in your GitLab repository with SSH keys.
holy shit it finally merged! we’re closer than ever to making Mastodon’s Reply Guy problem a little less awful
Add Fetch All Replies Part 1: Backend by sneakers-the-rat · Pull Request #32615 · mastodon/mastodon
Fix: #9409 Fix: #14017 Fix: #18150 Original PR Here: NeuromatchAcademy#44 Further description here: NeuromatchAcademy#43 I've never made a PR for upstream before, so forgive me if i&#39...
what an absolute LEGEND
Roy Lee built an AI system that bypasses FAANG's brutal technical interviews and says that the work of most programmers will be obsolete in two years.
the ENTIRETY of 18F is gone. they completely eliminated it.
The latest workforce action at the General Services Administration includes the elimination of an entire tech team of around 90 employees.
i didn’t think the original could get any better, but…
AI Hank Hill sings Propane Genesis Evangelion
All credit for the actual edited and animated video goes to Gamblor who made the original "Propane Genesis Evangelion - King of the Hill Anime OP" video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJdgErAfiRQ Credit for the AI cover goes to RakanishuFoo on discord. And I had to find out that by trial and error that the original evangelion OP and the instrumentals were off tempo by 0.158%, so I had to fix that to get them to sync correctly. Then I put this video together.
it’s honestly so insane that anyone would look at what Musk did with Twitter and be like, “oh! oh! let’s let him do that but with the federal government”
Elon Musk Says Federal Employees Must Explain Their Work Or Be Fired
The post, which contains few details, is Musk’s latest effort to slash the federal workforce.
no shit? 🤔
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
remember when Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil”?
Google Removed Pride Month and Other Diversity Holidays From Its Calendar App
The company has also reportedly removed Indigenous Peoples' Month, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage Month.
Principles have a price. Anyone can stand up for their values when it’s popular and easy, but principles are tested when standing up has a cost.
well said! too bad it’s being said by terrible people for the wrong reasons, though. if you’re still on Substack… why? come on.
The fight for free speech in 2025 and beyond
On Substack’s ongoing commitment to freedom of the press
when i saw this post quoted earlier, i assumed someone else had written it. when i saw that Manton had written it himself, in the third person, i was flabbergasted. but that didn’t last long, because it’s just par for the course. he’ll keep making it all about himself.
I hope one day, if I get through this with my sanity and health, we look back and find it odd that in the first week of Trump’s 2nd term, looking for someone to blame, all eyes turned to… Manton. The guy who has been fighting Trump for 8 years. The guy who has volunteered on campaigns against Trump. The guy who when Trump first won, broke down in tears. The guy who dedicated his life to building a safe platform. That’s the guy who must pay the price now.
great summary of what’s been happening with the Micro.blog fallout this week. i tried it a bit before falling into the “i’ll just build my own blog” circle of hell and… well:
It’s hard not to notice, though, that there’s a distinct vibe of “no politics” there.
For years, one of the highlight shows of Anthrocon, a furry convention in Pittsburgh, was a comedy act put on by an aspiring professional comedian who was part of that community. He was good friends with the con’s chairman—a guy who’s a pretty good comedic storyteller in his own right, and who did his own show at the con. They often shared the stage together.
