and notion and confluence and jira and

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

this one hurts ronnie

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

good afternoon

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Probably but I'm not convinced it'll be any less annoying when PMs who could code did it in the past

yeah, I don't actually use the terms so carefully but I would say it may be the difference between "developer" and "engineer" returns to meaningful purpose

thanks!!

hmm yeah, maybe? vs OpenAI the company of whatever just lemme sell this shit?

talked to someone at Anthropic the other day who was certain that they wouldn't need to hire anyone after about 2026 so clearly there's still lots of believers out there; I guess it still remains to be seen but...

as to the idea of it turning into PMs guiding AI agents to build systems, I just haven't really met PMs who have that level of conceptual detail integrity for scaled systems (like, maybe 2 in my life; and even those 2 would hit a scaling wall)

Occasionally I do a deep dive of thinking about whether AI will really fundamentally eliminate the need for software engineers and my conclusion remains the same: it won't. Might change the employment curve in some ways but barring the big singularity or w/e I don't see it removing the job

don't suppose you have a link where normals (non-academics) can read it?

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

happy Friday

classic

I cannot believe how often NYC public schools are closed the have the next 2 Mondays off?!?

Wrote a thing. Again. Telling the truth is generally regarded as a matter of intention and moral character, but it's also a skill: the ability to delineate accurately what's going on out there and who exactly the parties are....

too many of you are focused on bari weiss throwing around memos at third place CBS when you should be focused on fundamentals like throwing out the runner at first base with two outs

Thank you, @cmrestler.bsky.social. Restaurants should have the option of keeping outdoor dining all year and New Yorkers should have the option of taking advantage of it. Folks, call your City Council rep and ask them to support this bill. Let's set the stage for the Mamdani administration.

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...