Matthew Marlowe

30+yrs in Tech, Author, Consultant, Occasional CTO, Gentoo Linux, 3d Printing, Space, Homeschooling Father, Active Investor and Options Trader, Dogs & RV's

[Matthew Marlowe @engineervirtue]

The business needs to be redesigned.

It may be more delivery than drive through in future...they will not stay in business by constantly cutting food quality while doubling prices and pissing off customers with shitty AI's..

Deliver people high quality burgers and fries when they have cravings .. Do it fast and for less than anywhere else or become history.

[Matthew Marlowe @engineervirtue]

Law depends where you live. Even in United States, each state can do things slightly differently.

But, my understanding:
- Any good credit card must _immediately_ remove charges from your card if you dispute a purchase and they have 30-90 days to investigate.
- Sellers can not charge you a purchase until the goods leave their control, however sales are not final until they can confirm the item was delivered to you.. however, there can be grey areas such as items shown forever in transit, lost, or damaged in transit. Any reputable vendor will refund or buy insurance from the carrier for high quality goods. Really good vendors completely absorb shipping losses and overnight replacements for lost or damaged goods.
- Sometimes you are forced to wait a few weeks while FedEx or UPS investigate...can be issue if shipping company says they delivered to your address even when they didn't. If you gave them a waiver saying signature not required.. FedEx/UPS can get away with a lot...

In general, the only real solution is to only buy high value goods with a credit card designed to protect you. The AMEX platinum for business card is used by nearly every small business in the United States for a reason... they charge a high transaction fee but protect their card holders zealously... 5 minute calls can fix almost everything.

[Jason Sesler @jmsesler]

@TheBabylonBee

[🌞Sunny哥 @BTC__Sunny]

我统计了，美股历史上的几次崩盘！

1907年 恐慌-48%修复10年

1929年 大萧条-89%修复25年

1973年 石油危机-45%修复9年

1987年 黑色星期一-36%修复2年

2000年 互联网泡沫-78%修复13年

2008年 金融危机-57%修复5.5年

2020年 新冠闪崩-34%修复6个月

2022年 加息冲击-27%修复18个月

2025年关风暴-23%修复1.5个月

我发现了，修复的时间越来越短了，是为什么？

[Vikash Singh @code_bytein]

Everyone debated UUIDs today.
But nobody mentioned UUID v7.
Here's why it changes everything 🧵
The real problem with UUID v4:
-> Completely random
-> Fragments your B-tree indexes
-> Kills write performance at scale
-> Larger storage than integers

This is what the "never use UUID" crowd experienced.

And they weren't wrong for v4.
UUID v7 fixes all of that:
-> Timestamp-prefixed (sequential by design)
-> No index fragmentation
-> Fast inserts, just like auto-increment
-> Still globally unique - no coordination needed
-> Works across distributed systems out of the box

UUID v7 wins on almost every axis.
The takeaway:
The debate was never "UUID vs Integer."
It was always "which UUID are you using?"
Most devs are still on v4 in 2026.
Upgrade your mental model. 🙂

[Matthew Marlowe @engineervirtue]

@unclebobmartin Depending what you are coding and if really want a compiler, if you don't need top line performance- Ruby actually seemed to take what was best of C++ and simplify it for modern use cases.

[Melissa O'Connor @Melissa_in_CA]

Funny how same-day election results by 8:53 p.m. are possible when it’s 2021 and the whole state is voting on whether to recall Gavin Newsom.

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

🔥 AI just found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg.

That’s the video library bundled inside many apps, tools, containers, and devices. Some bugs sat untouched for 15–20 years.

Google Chrome also dropped PATCHES for a record 429 vulnerabilities this week.

Read: https://t.co/6MEVD9ufxu

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word.

Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this:

"When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that."

He is not anti AI. The Linux kernel saw a 20% jump in submissions this release because of AI tools. He uses it. He gets it.

His point is something most people are too afraid to say.

AI is a productivity tool exactly like compilers were. Compilers boosted programming by 1000x. AI adds another 10x on top. Enormous. But nobody says "the compiler wrote my code." So why are we saying AI wrote it?

He also flagged something nobody is talking about.

AI is flooding small open source projects with drive-by bug reports. Someone runs a prompt, files a report and disappears when asked for a patch. Maintainers with one or two people are drowning trying to keep up.

"Sometimes AI reports a bug and when you ask for more information the person has done that drive-by and does not even answer your question. That is the real burnout issue."

And his final warning was the sharpest of all.

"People who do not understand the complexity of systems will prompt systems and write processes that will fail."

The AI hype crowd is very loud right now.

Linus has been building real systems for 35 years. When he talks, engineers listen.

Full interview here:
https://t.co/LmXJtvKc4O

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Signs you might be trying to get your frontier AI lab nationalized:

You compare it to nukes… threaten half of white-collar jobs… warn recursive self-improvement could end humanity… then race ahead anyway.

In other words, you want the government to save us from… you.

[Jason @mytechceoo]

CEO replaces PJ pilot with OpenClaw

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! TREASURY SEC. SCOTT BESSENT just DROPPED this line on Elizabeth Warren

"45% of our small and community banks DISAPPEARED since the great financial crisis. Senator Warren likes to say, 'Ooh! We might have a bank failure!'"

"She KILLED 45% of the small banks!"

🫳🏻🎤

[Matthew Marlowe @engineervirtue]

Historically, datacenters aren't that bad... and filled to max with cooling, sensors, and fire fighting tech to minimize risk.

Modern AI data centers though seem to be testing the absolute edge of density and power limits...

I hope this is just peak business cycle and sanity recovers... or constant innovation reduces power draw over the next decade and that the push for token supply flattens out.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

An Ohio fire department is warning that AI data centers are quickly becoming a full-time job for first responders.

In Jerome Township, northwest of Columbus, emergency crews have been called to two Amazon data centers a staggering 84 times in just four years. Since the first facility opened in 2021, firefighters have responded to dozens of incidents, averaging about two calls per month.

Then came the major fire.

In April, a two-alarm blaze at one of the sites caused more than $50 million in damage and tied up emergency crews for over 24 hours.

Local officials aren’t just worried about the fires themselves. They’re concerned that precious emergency resources are being repeatedly diverted to these massive industrial complexes, all at taxpayer expense.

Data centers are sprouting up across America as tech companies scramble to build the massive infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence. These facilities house thousands of servers that run nonstop, consuming vast amounts of electricity and generating intense heat that requires constant cooling.

While data center fires remain relatively rare, they can be exceptionally challenging to fight. The buildings are packed with electrical systems, battery backups, complex cooling infrastructure, and high-security zones that often hinder emergency access.

Ohio has emerged as one of the nation’s fastest-growing data center hubs, with more than 170 facilities already operating and many more under construction or in planning.

This growth mirrors a global explosion in hyperscale data centers, driven by the skyrocketing demand for AI computing power. Every response, AI image, or large language model ultimately relies on physical servers somewhere in the world.

While these facilities bring jobs and economic investment, many communities are feeling the strain, on power grids, water supplies, roads, and now, local emergency services.

[Adam Huntington @Adventuring_RE]

Dude the derelict construction sites, scrubbed websites, blown timelines, and junkies working on "drinking water" say otherwise...Biggest fraud in San Diego history next to the homeless fraud.

Look at our roads and everything else and ask yourself if commies should be turning shit in to drinking water. Its a fake idea never coming online. @realDonaldTrump

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

California is no longer the state with the most Fortune 500 companies.

After all the departures, that title now belongs to Texas.

[Iris Tao @IrisTaoTV]

My family escaped Communism to come to the U.S.

Today in the Oval Office, I asked President Trump why he's warning Americans about Communism in a new statement. His response was powerful:

“You're going to get free rent, you're going to get free houses, you're going to get free food, you're going to get free everything, but eventually that ends, and it leads to death, destruction, and squalor 100% of the time.”

On Mayor Mamdani in NYC: “I don't understand why he thinks it's okay for all these companies that pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes a year to leave, because you're not going to have any tax base.”

“Free enterprise is tougher to sell, but that's what's made our country great, and that's why it's great again now.”

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Jobless claims weekly change by state

[Matthew Marlowe @engineervirtue]

$UPWK is down from $20 to $8 based on the fear that AI deployment across small/medium biz means the end of the freelance hiring boom of the last 20yrs..

Is that true?

You can definitely argue that companies are downsizing and avoiding hiring any junior/mid talent not in their areas of competitive advantage. Full time hiring will be frozen and headcount kept low.

But, thats normally when the freelance market is most profitable...

[Tut C🅰️pital @kingtutcap]

$VELO

[Matthew Marlowe @engineervirtue]

Hard not to buy $VELO at $18 premarket, small cap growth returning to fair value but still well above cheap March prices

If you look at the run up from $12-25 (+13) and factor in regular 50% take back (-6.5) for profit taking .. you get the current pre-market for re-entry.