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@glcarlstrom Kamala Harris wouldn't even know that Oman existed.
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We are so far into "mad king" territory that the White House may not even bother to clarify whether Trump just confused Oman with Iran or is indeed threatening to bomb Oman
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "Oman will behave just like everyone else, or we'll have to blow them up"
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Did some cabling today. It's so satisfying. Once clankers take over they'll surely keep me around.
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@braelyn_ai if I see capitalized sentences and punctuation I assume bot. basically I just assume bot.
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you cant convince me that ANYONE still uses emdashes. if i see one, i immediately assume bot
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@KhalidWarsa Waiting for everyone to move back to GitHub once leaving that is passé
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Tech is so funny and y’all ain’t serious.
-OpenAI makes a deal with the government
-uninstall ChatGPT and move to Claude
-Anthropic asks you to pay up
-uninstall Claude and move to Codex
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@jamonholmgren And remember the days when Spotlight would pump that misc word you typed into the awesome built in Dictionary app and give you a definition + link into the app? Now the “best” is presumably to shove you to some website dictionary. The app one is nerfed to like 20th place 😢
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@KhalidWarsa I’ve been at this for 35 years. Knowing what to ignore or at least really drag your feet on and let shake out is super important and a bit of an art! Staying atop “everything” is generally a waste of time. Except for influencers where being excited about all things is the job.
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I’m late to every AI trend:
- adopted Cursor late
- switched to Claude Code late
- just started using DeepSeek
- haven’t tried OpenClaw or Hermes
- haven’t used GPT 5.5 yet
And guess what? I didn’t fall behind or become obsolete like all the AI grifters and tech bros said.
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@CFDevelop Have you taken a look at the many recent studies on ROI of AI expenditures? It is a bleak picture. These are from the lenses of executives saying they are not seeing the payback proportionate to the investment. The more interesting question is how should companies measure it
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Why are companies still trying to keep their AI costs down?
Some dev companies are paying $20k + a month for developers and don’t want to pay $200 for an AI plan
If devs have to ration the usage, they’ll stall and or use cheap models that burn time and introduce bugs
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@SarAllyce Irks me: drive-throughs. Folks sitting in a long Starbucks car line for 10 minutes vs getting out and walking 50 feet to pick it up inside.
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@murphyrl71 @WatcherGuru Not saying it does. But, he could demand to find the leakers that are profiting this way because it gives the appearance of corruption. Wouldn’t you want to know who is tipping people off on all these foreign policy announcements? The perception of corruption took down Orbán.
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@Varint @WatcherGuru Again, where is the proof that it's anything to do with Trump???
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JUST IN: $760,000,000 worth of oil shorts were reportedly placed 20 minutes before President Trump announced the Strait of Hormuz was open.
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@ShamashAran @brianeharrison idc on the issue per se, but I’m not buying the safety angle of the guy’s argument. Dangerous drivers are inattentive, intoxicated, driving too fast, etc. I’d say the language proficiency has little to do with. I think I could be a safe driver in Germany, for example.
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@brianeharrison We shouldn't stop there.
All texas govt business should be in english only.
All documents, voting, etc.
English only.
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True. I'm leading the fight for ENGLISH ONLY driving exams!... This shouldn't be "controversial."
From KXXV: A few days ago, State Rep. Brian Harrison made a post on Facebook calling the offering of driving exams in Spanish a "betrayal." Harrison is pushing for the exams to only be available in English.
Harrison told 25 news he was “outraged” to find out that, not only is it allowed for drivers tests to be administered in a foreign language, it’s also specifically required by state law.
"There is empirical data," he said, "and it’s intuitive, the danger to Texans of allowing non-English proficient drivers on our roads. It jeopardizes the safety of my family, my neighbors, my constituents."
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@murphyrl71 @WatcherGuru I think people are pissed because there has been essentially no FTC or SEC investigation into these amazing trades that seem to occur before major Trump announcements. He could demand them, but doesn’t. But checking Pelosi’s stock trading is swift and severe (as it should be).
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Why are so many of you assuming it was Trump or someone in his Admin?? You think he was the only person who knew about these things? Show the proof of who is responsible or stop with the BS accusations.
This is part of the problem now days! Too many people blindly believing every little thing some random person posts on social media! When did we stop demanding facts & evidence and start settling for accusations & feelings??
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@ShamashAran @akramcodez It was a different era when, upon turning the thing on, you had to work to do anything besides write programs.
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“We don't know where Iran’s uranium is, or even if they have any” sounds like the start of a group text that ends with: “don’t tell the president.”
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@Pastor_Ken_CBC @RLHeinrichs @CliffordDMay It should be, but isn’t. Hence the congressional sycophancy which does nothing to improve the quality of decision making and actions out of this country. And those with a lot to lose (e.g. @RLHeinrichs) will tread lightly too.
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@RLHeinrichs @CliffordDMay "We" = Trump, no? It's okay to criticize Trump directly, is it not?
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But I'm disappointed in Georgia Meloni. I thought she was one of the few Western European leaders with a spine.
Eli Lake@EliLake
This hurts Italy. Doesn’t matter for Israel.
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@coolp100 @ShamashAran Does “impartiality” even exist is media today? tbh I’m not even sure what it’d look like. I’m not arguing with you btw… more just thinking out loud.
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@ShamashAran Yeah I really trust these guys to be impartial. Give me a break.
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If you told me back in 2005 that TMZ would be doing more investigative journalism about politicians than ABC, NBC, CBS or Fox, i'd have laughed you out of my sight.
TMZ@TMZ
TMZ is officially in D.C. — and our team is quickly learning exactly what it's like to be a Senator. 💼🤔
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Flutter devs, what will you do now that the source code of GetX is fully gone from Github?
github.com/jonataslaw/getx
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@MarkOSullivan94 @Zhuinden Is that relevant? GitHub could just as easily suspend Remy’s account without notice, too.
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@Zhuinden It was always recommended to avoid GetX
When people were adopting it they were learning GetX not Flutter
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@DanielLockyer Last summer, I was committed to improving my pull-ups, and I trained hard. That focus and intensity taught me something really important: what golfer's elbow is
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@ShamashAran We’ve lost more people to vending machines tipping over (30-40/year) than we have in this “war”
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I have absolutely no problem with the president threatening to utterly destroy a country that has been waging war on us for 50 years.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski@lisamurkowski
The President’s threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” cannot be excused away as an attempt to gain leverage in negotiations with Iran. This type of rhetoric is an affront to the ideals our nation has sought to uphold and promote around the world for nearly 250 years. It undermines our long-standing role as a global beacon of freedom and directly endangers Americans both abroad and at home. The oppressive, terror-spreading regime of the Islamic Republic must be distinguished from the people and the civilization of Iran. Everyone involved—especially the President and Iran’s leaders—must de-escalate their unprecedented saber-rattling before it is too late.
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@RLHeinrichs Yes. Exactly the feeling I get when I read, “A whole civilization will die tonight”.
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Again, POTUS makes clear that the US is against the regime, not the Iranian people.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
.@POTUS explains to a reporter that the Iranian people yearn for freedom: "We've had numerous intercepts, 'Please keep bombing' ... and these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding... they want freedom. They have lived in a world that you know nothing about."
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