My spicy take of the day:

Bring.
Back.
Administrative Assistants.

For fucks sake, have people in the office who are literally professionals in drafting and editing memos, scheduling meetings, figuring out travel, coordination with other folks, hell, making a good cup of coffee. It's IMPORTANT […]

To all contractors: the order of washers, seals/gaskets, and nuts matters.

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Wrong: "Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Switzerland." Right: "Trump imposed a 39% tariff on Americans who buy from Switzerland." Every time you see this mistake, correct it. Every. Time.

Also, I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again:

Part of your job as a senior is to tell your juniors about your fuckups. The embarrassing cringe reckless and lazy bullshit that you did when you were new, and the various times you brought down Prod. We ALL did it sometime […]

Get off my lawn https://contenttechtodon.org/@deane/114423835953325952

Dear Canada

You are going to be given every excuse not to vote.

You'll be told there is already record turn out. You'll be told, the polls already favor the conservatives, losing. You will be told, that exit polls favor someone else. You may even be told, that it looks like someone else has […]

The government building a data lake powered dragnet to find criminality is a massive breakdown in privacy controls between government agencies. It is scary, especially considering how poorly they handle their own errors. There is no reason to assume it would only be pointed at their target of […]

"Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs"

People would rather buy older processors that aren't that much less powerful but way cheaper. The "AI" benefits obviously aren't worth paying for.

https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-admits-what-we-all-knew-no-one-is-buying-ai-pcs/

Set a recurring calendar entry for calling my senators and representatives, sending in comments on policy proposals, figuring out where to march, etc. Hoping that if I allocate a specific time it'll help me panic less during, well, the rest of the day.

Every morning I wake up consumed with […]

This email could have been a salmon cannon

due to a clerical error, we accepted money from a vulture capital firm and long story short we’re pivoting to dead mice or whatever they eat