Mike Wasson
@mikewasson.net
Pittsburgher in London. Tired. Software developer looking for work. he/him
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Pay no attention to Trump's incoherent rambling. They have not thought through how to expropriate the oil. There is no US oil major that would operate in Venezuela in its current condition.
And the oil…
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Pay no attention to Trump's incoherent rambling. They have not thought through how to expropriate the oil. There is no US oil major that would operate in Venezuela in its current condition.
idiots: "iraq was about taking their oil"
trump: "you know, the idiots have a good point"
trump: "you know, the idiots have a good point"
January 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM
idiots: "iraq was about taking their oil"
trump: "you know, the idiots have a good point"
trump: "you know, the idiots have a good point"
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Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image
January 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image
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me, to all my early Republic historian friends on the occasion of the 250th:
happy for you
or, sorry that happened
happy for you
or, sorry that happened
January 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
me, to all my early Republic historian friends on the occasion of the 250th:
happy for you
or, sorry that happened
happy for you
or, sorry that happened
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This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
January 3, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner
If they can’t prosecute sandwich guy what are the chances they can successfully prosecute Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 2:38 PM
If they can’t prosecute sandwich guy what are the chances they can successfully prosecute Maduro
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I feel we’re in the middle of the biggest dev tooling change happening across the industry - and it’s happening over a few short months. And rapidly spreading everywhere.
January 3, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I feel we’re in the middle of the biggest dev tooling change happening across the industry - and it’s happening over a few short months. And rapidly spreading everywhere.
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When I just started out developing I remember being so so so full of ideas that I was coding in my head and wished I could have done programming while commuting / on the bus. With eg a phone. But it was impossible, ofc.
Now it’s possible!! A massive change
Now it’s possible!! A massive change
January 3, 2026 at 2:12 PM
When I just started out developing I remember being so so so full of ideas that I was coding in my head and wished I could have done programming while commuting / on the bus. With eg a phone. But it was impossible, ofc.
Now it’s possible!! A massive change
Now it’s possible!! A massive change
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For the last ~20 years, I did most of my coding inside an IDE - the last ~15 with increasingly good autocomplete.
Which is why it’s so weird that I barely opened an IDE the last two weeks, even as I pushed lots of code. I use the CLI, the web and my phone (!!) to prompt code
Which is why it’s so weird that I barely opened an IDE the last two weeks, even as I pushed lots of code. I use the CLI, the web and my phone (!!) to prompt code
January 3, 2026 at 1:59 PM
For the last ~20 years, I did most of my coding inside an IDE - the last ~15 with increasingly good autocomplete.
Which is why it’s so weird that I barely opened an IDE the last two weeks, even as I pushed lots of code. I use the CLI, the web and my phone (!!) to prompt code
Which is why it’s so weird that I barely opened an IDE the last two weeks, even as I pushed lots of code. I use the CLI, the web and my phone (!!) to prompt code
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grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
![A Bluesky user based in Venezuela posted 'I live near a military air base and five earth-shaking explosions were just heart.'
User @thenordic.bsky.social (a random asshole) replied 'was it too hard for you to to [sic] add a link?' along with a link to an AP piece. Quick, don't look, what do you think the odds are that this user responded gracefully to being told that OP was on the ground and reporting firsthand?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ycbmujtxprrwbkiw3x5qsyz4/bafkreieh2ddespqvcqdhpfy4g2higsw4lfiguzpaxs3rdessztcokmww6i@jpeg)
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 AM
grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
I was curious to what degree this differs from Noriega. Some important differences:
- Panama had declared a state of war with the US
- Panama had shot and killed a US soldier
And even still was incredibly sketchy
- Panama had declared a state of war with the US
- Panama had shot and killed a US soldier
And even still was incredibly sketchy
January 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM
I was curious to what degree this differs from Noriega. Some important differences:
- Panama had declared a state of war with the US
- Panama had shot and killed a US soldier
And even still was incredibly sketchy
- Panama had declared a state of war with the US
- Panama had shot and killed a US soldier
And even still was incredibly sketchy
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The members who did the "don't follow illegal orders" video absolutely need to immediately do a "hey these were the illegal orders we were talking about and participating in them can expect to face consequences to the fullest extent of the law" video
Uniformed military are involved in this shambolic behavior and they all need to be held to account
A primary goal of the discussion now on dragging dem pols to do the right thing has to be on widespread accountability and where appropriate prosecutions of significant numbers of servicemembers
A primary goal of the discussion now on dragging dem pols to do the right thing has to be on widespread accountability and where appropriate prosecutions of significant numbers of servicemembers
Inexcusable shit.
January 3, 2026 at 8:29 AM
The members who did the "don't follow illegal orders" video absolutely need to immediately do a "hey these were the illegal orders we were talking about and participating in them can expect to face consequences to the fullest extent of the law" video
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you think you’re being more informed or bearing witness, but what you’re doing is just satiating a need to feel information flow
January 3, 2026 at 11:22 AM
you think you’re being more informed or bearing witness, but what you’re doing is just satiating a need to feel information flow
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
*nine years later*
Oh, huh, "Donald the Dove" was a pun on "Donald [the] Duck"
Oh, huh, "Donald the Dove" was a pun on "Donald [the] Duck"
January 3, 2026 at 11:05 AM
*nine years later*
Oh, huh, "Donald the Dove" was a pun on "Donald [the] Duck"
Oh, huh, "Donald the Dove" was a pun on "Donald [the] Duck"
Legitimately excited by Mamdani. I consider myself a boring social dem-ish liberal. I think he'll be a good test of the proposition: can a *smart* leftist in power do something that I don't like? I suspect the answer is no, at least when restricted to the powers of the mayor of NYC.
January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Legitimately excited by Mamdani. I consider myself a boring social dem-ish liberal. I think he'll be a good test of the proposition: can a *smart* leftist in power do something that I don't like? I suspect the answer is no, at least when restricted to the powers of the mayor of NYC.
Trying to figure out what I could have possibly said to get me on a "Russian trolls" list
January 2, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Trying to figure out what I could have possibly said to get me on a "Russian trolls" list
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The fact that media outlets are saying “Grok said” in their reporting doesn’t bode well for, well, anything
January 2, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The fact that media outlets are saying “Grok said” in their reporting doesn’t bode well for, well, anything
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genuinely, unironically, in order to explain this when TAing for intro I said, "You know that a scrub is a man who can't get no love from me. But can he get no love from me *because* he is a scrub, or...?"
January 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
genuinely, unironically, in order to explain this when TAing for intro I said, "You know that a scrub is a man who can't get no love from me. But can he get no love from me *because* he is a scrub, or...?"
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The world has a lot of godawful not fit for purpose software in it. LLMs and their tooling can absolutely remedy this, but for this outcome to come to pass, the extractive mindset of SV needs to be broken upon the wheel.
January 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The world has a lot of godawful not fit for purpose software in it. LLMs and their tooling can absolutely remedy this, but for this outcome to come to pass, the extractive mindset of SV needs to be broken upon the wheel.
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the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad
January 2, 2026 at 1:43 AM
the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad
this is extremely offensive. you should watch where you're walking or get off the sidewalk
January 2, 2026 at 12:15 PM
this is extremely offensive. you should watch where you're walking or get off the sidewalk
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This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.
Has everyone whose scroll the illegal image appeared on also committed an offence by downloading it? This is one of those AI worst case scenarios that ought to make everyone aware of the current direction of travel.
January 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.
most obvious thing possible happens
China's BYD set to overtake Tesla as world's top EV seller
It would mark the first time the Chinese firm has outpaced its American rival for annual sales.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 2, 2026 at 10:58 AM
most obvious thing possible happens