Jeff Waugh

I build castles* in the sky* made of fairy floss*. 😎⛅️

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[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

fuckin' hell buddy I don’t think the Dutch East India Company is the flex you think it is

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

Peter Thiel said Pope Leo was the antichrist for wanting to regulate A.I. He bought a mansion in Buenos Aires and met Argentine president Javier Milei. Now Milei in FT pitches Argentina as the home of unregulated A.I., creating a new legal framework, the “nonhuman corporation”.

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

systemd[1]: Startup finished in 46ms (kernel) + 0 (initrd) + 31ms (userspace) = 78ms.

okay that's reasonable

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

It could take a generation to fix what Trump and his goons have wrought. (What's fixable, anyway.)

But it'll inflict more time and pain if Democrats keep putting up entitled, seat-warming, empty suits. Do they have the humility and courage to learn from Mamdani?

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

While too frequently watching people I once respected lose their minds, I'm surprised-to-be-unsurprised that @mipsytipsy hasn't. https://t.co/SjHPfFAOeH

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

discrete != discreet

dissociation != disassociation

deprecation != depreciation

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

Linux Foundation YouTube title: “OpenTelemetry is the Kubernetes of Observability”

accurate

although i think they meant it as a good thing

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

eugh AWS is slopping their YouTube videos

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

maybe violent gaming will distract the “smart” glasses perverts from upskirting

[Nathie 🔜 AWE @NathieVR]

Happy to report that Doom is now playable on Meta's smart glasses.

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

@ManishEarth “proximally invested”

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

@acruiz eugh 😬

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

This sounds generous, but it's bullshit:

Bezos wants to keep people on low incomes, lose their sense of contribution to society, and stop complaining about billionaires.

Everyone should pay tax (and know it). We should raise low incomes. We should tax high incomes and wealth.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

@glengyron Future enshittification doesn't preclude past enshittification.

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

Google shovelling “AI” into Search means the inevitable enshittification of real Search. Guh.

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

https://t.co/a872vsx5Fc

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

jesus nat

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

Seems like Android finally won the civil war between Google’s operating system teams, but caked their victory parade in slop. https://t.co/GZITPdMcs0

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

“Just wiggle your cursor and watch it come alive with Gemini, offering quick, contextual suggestions every time you point at something on your screen.”

yikes buddy no one fucking wants that

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

@AvidCommentator Slop content, slop thinking. Part time workers wouldn't (and shouldn't!) put "most of [their] pay" (!) into an ETF because they need liquid cash, and ETFs function best as longer term investments.

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

Pop culture translation should it help anyone…

Palantir built Project Insight from "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and Israel is using it to commit genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. Hydra is Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Thiel, etc. their nameless MAGA goons and astroturfers.

[Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel]

An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes

They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling.

Story by @nabihbulos
https://t.co/sBVBNxOMnA

[Jeff Waugh @jdub]

@themetresgained The same ones that ran away from the Liberal Party (and John Howard in particular) when they expanded the scope of their racism?