Mike Hole 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @mike-hole.bsky.social

“They Looked Iranian”: Security Footage Shows Trump Negotiating With White House Patio Umbrellas for Six Hours theshovel.com.au/2026/03/25/the…

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

When you trust Donald Trump and try to cross the Strait of Hormuz

Donald Trump says the bombing campaign in Iran has led to "people walking around with no legs". That's yet to be proven, although Trump has shown evidence that people can walk around with no brain

OMFG!!!!!

I have discovered a truly marvelous way to make my AI conscious, but I have run out of tokens.

Tweet of the year?

Real-life Ice Age! 🤣

Day 59 of 2026:

So OpenClaw is cooked.... Literally! 😉

@Grady_Booch You could get your AI to print your own for you peecho.com full disclosure I work as part of the group that Peecho belongs to.

JFC GitHub when last week!!!!! 😠😠😠😠

I have a very strong belief that a lot of the AI-oriented hyper-FOMO, end-of-the-world campaigning on X stems from three main sources, all of which are gross and unfortunate. The first is that many people were trained on / trained by crypto influence campaigns to affect a "you're falling behind" induced FOMO as a way to get eyeballs and capture dollars, even if those dollars were a total grift. (most of AI is not a grift, but crypto taught a certain nihilistic amorality that encourages active grifting) Next - many people in tech are off-beat, somewhat misfits, or were marginalized in high school. There's a lot of tech people on X with big chips on their shoulders. Telling people that they don't get AI and will be relegated to a permanent underclass is emotionally satisfying as a form of (essentially) retaliatory bullying. If you notice, a lot of the X personalities who seem generally well-adjusted seem to have more measured takes on AI. Finally, the AI wave is centered in the SF bay area, like so many technology trends before it. Something about those redwoods just makes the people want to build startups. The SFBA absolutely loves a cult, and it particularly loves a millenarian-style cult that is based upon the world as we know it ending and ushering in a new, incomprehensible age. AI is perfect, and espousing the most extremist, apocalyptic views of the future is the best way to gather the most extreme cult members. This is really just a cultural affectation, but it means that a certain end-of-days way of communicating that sounds ridiculous in Tokyo / London / NY (or even LA!) plays totally fine in the bay. All of this combines to make AI discourse completely insufferable.

I understand why people think AI will make workers less valuable. ...but allow me to offer an entrepreneur's perspective. (As opposed to the douchebag, scarcity-minded media/economist perspective.) When AI increases productivity, the value of the person using it goes UP…not down. If I have an ad campaign delivering a 300% return on ad spend, I don't think "How can I spend less?" I think "How can I spend MORE?" The same is true for human capital. Entrepreneurs get this because we're abundance-minded. We create something from nothing and call it Tuesday. Economists don't get this because they're scarcity-minded. They literally believe all resources are finite, so a new technology must replace an older one. It's never worked that way. The pessimists look smart in the short term, but it's the optimists who get rich in the long term. Don't listen to the doomsdayers. Treat AI like the productivity gift that it is, and double down on the PEOPLE who are willing and able to use it.

@Grady_Booch It's the replies from people who obviously don't know your background etc. they make me smile the most. I just wonder how they saw your tweet in the 1st place.

Today, I am Very Annoyed with Claude. It a) added code I didn't ask for b) deleted code I did not tell it to c) broke code that used to work because of these changes then d) lied when I called it on these things Adding code I did not ask for and NOT reading/reviewing those changes is the way malicious stuff gets introduced. Grr. Were Claude my intern, I would have told it that it was time to review their life choices.

FFS Claude!

@mdancho84 Does it turn all images in the doc into encoded images?

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft launches a free Python library that converts ANY document to Markdown Introducing Markitdown. Let me explain. 🧵

@grok what is considered not lawful civil authority?

OMFG this ...