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That guy in that place who does that thing.

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Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 1d

No idea, and the WSJ article doesn't appear to name the investors. Greenoaks led the round according to TechCrunch.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 1d

Well, to be fair, the "accessories" part *is* pretty vague and potentially covers a lot of ground. He could be supplying the local Walter White's glassware as "accessories" to the propane they're buying to cook with for all we know.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 1d

Also, black coffee having "almost no nutritional value" means it has no sugar, almost no fat, and negligible calories, so on balance unless you have certain health conditions a 12-oz black coffee is probably a better choice than say, soda or energy drinks with "nutritional value" only from sucrose.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 1d

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...

Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’

Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…

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Helm @helm.sh · 2d

Helm 4 Beta 1 is out!

This is your chance to test it, break it, and help shape the path to GA. 🧭

Try it now and share your feedback 👉 github.com/helm/helm/re...

#helm4 #Kubernetes #CloudNative

Release v4.0.0-beta.1 · helm/helm

Helm v4.0.0-beta.1 is a pre-release for the next major version of Helm. This is a pre-release meant for testing. The beta testing phase is meant to test Helm v4. API breaking changes are no longer ...

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 3d

Any chance somebody can contact Paul Rode about resurrecting his Watchface Generator site?

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

To kids it probably means nothing but "she was sick" or "she can't have a baby, that's sad". To adults who've gone through pregnancy loss or infertility it's an abrupt hammer to the forehead.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

_Up_ has a blink-and-you-miss-it clip in the montage of the old man's married life where it's very clearly implied that his wife had a miscarriage and can no longer have children as a result.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

(Actually, to be accurate, *clicking* it does nothing at all -- that text is a tooltip that appears as soon as the pointer reaches the icon in question.)

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, I haven't read the whole thing -- I feel like I've read the one thing Thiel writes enough times to not need to read it again. I'm just commenting on the juxtaposition of those two sentences in your screenshot.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

Given that, a little sloppy self-contradiction almost seems minor to me...

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

To be fair, when they made the movie they took *a central part of the comic* (Dr. Manhattan is basically a god and can transmute matter and manipulate vast quantities of energy) and ignored it to make an energy crisis (that the comic explicitly negates as a concern) the *driving plot line*.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

I'm pretty sure _Watchmen_ would have been impossible to write for anyone *not* routinely off their face on drugs.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

Zoom Workplace's AI Companion panel on the home screen *looks* like it has a close/minimize toggle, but if you click it it just says "AI Companion always shows on the home screen".

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

Also a lot of cloud providers and such use it to make using things easier (e.g. "your new instance is ready, its hostname is foo dot example dot com [click to copy] and its public IP is xx.yy.zz.aa [click to copy]")

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

Specifically, a lot of web-based technical training platforms (Instruqt and the like) use this type of functionality so you don't have to retype or highlight and copy every command in the instructions.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

Also if you embed ads from a third party, you should be required to put a standardized complaint button next to them that reports the ad directly to the FTC (or other relevant authority) and Cc's an admin address that belongs to you.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

Pretending not to know that the ad service they chose to take money from is pushing scams and malware doesn't fly any more.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

The website makes money renting the space, they can take responsibility for what they make money from (just as the ad service should be required to take responsibility for the ads they get paid to serve not being misleading or illegal).

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

"But it's a third-party ad network!" is no excuse (and hasn't been for quite some time), nor should be, any more than "but he said he wasn't drunk!" would be for a bartender who sat and watched a clearly drunk customer weave his car out of the parking lot onto a highway.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

The website *has* control -- specifically, control over what broker or network it takes ads from, and they should vet them and not choose one pushing shady ads.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 4d

Weird Al is one of the few major celebrities I have not only never heard a bad story about, I've never heard there *are* bad stories about him.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 5d

The gap between "what government officials and employees are compelled or forbidden to do" and "what people assume is compelled or forbidden because it's how they remember things always working" is a yawning chasm.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 5d

Or "Presidential pardons go through a vetting process and candidates are assessed against certain criteria". That was a consensus that held across several administrations, but the President always had absolute pardon power for federal crimes; several Presidents just elected to put conditions on it.

Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 5d

A good-size chunk of that destruction is just ignoring consensus that's inconvenient. Like "the Senate votes on judicial nominees". What if they don't? "Well uh..." It was just always understood that the Senate would rarely fail to do that, until failing to do it became a strategy.