Need a new business idea?

Pick any existing successful business and copy it. Operate ethically and leave out the Nazi associations, AI slopfest, and/or maximum value extraction for PE profits.

You’ll retire wealthy. Not Bezos wealthy. But wealthy enough.

@afilina I think the SaaS industry will self-correct.

Understanding that the SaaS model is threatened by Claude doesn’t mean AI is good. It means tons of SaaS is bad. And that SaaS dying off is a good thing.

It used to be “if it’s on a spreadsheet it can be a SaaS”. Now the bar is higher.

This isn’t an endorsement of AI. Rather, it’s an indictment of cheap products that offer little value.

The Washington Post laid off a third of its staff yesterday.

It’s time to teach citizens how to be journalists and give them a central site to file stories that their neighbors need to know.

We didn’t learn about the killing of Renee Good or Alex Pretti from CNN. We learned from citizens with cameras.

Time to teach them how to gather facts.

I wonder if recent declines in SaaS adoption are driven by companies that got burned by AI slop and are instead doing things the “old way” with spreadsheets.

If you can vibe code your way to a product in a weekend (I don’t concede the point) but it’s crap, and there’s tons of crap to sift through, companies may just stop sifting and do what works.

@britt hi there. I run a hosting company and though we’re US-based we’re happy to host clients in Canada on Canadian infrastructure (we use AWS infrastructure). Let me know if I can help.

@grmpyprogrammer is this you saying we can’t be friends if I use a Mac?

@Hunko @stevegrunwell “congress shall make no law…”

Protesting a government employee falls within the scope of criticizing the government. Congress cannot make a law to criminalize protesting government officials. If they did, or the law is misapplied to criminalize legitimate protest, the law is void in that scenario.

The state can charge them with trespassing for refusing to leave. But you cannot claim they violated bystanders civil rights as an end run around the first amendment.

@maccath I don't think it's appropriation, no, if your intent is not to be perceived as Muslim or to make a Muslim-specific fashion statement.

@afilina I wonder if this is a universal problem or a gendered one.

When I transitioned the number of times people assumed me to be incompetent skyrocketed.

I can only assume it’s because of my perceived gender.

@preinheimer is this like a daily routine for you now? And can I join in?

What are some self-hostable apps that everyone recommends?

@heiglandreas The 2nd amendment doesn't empower us to overthrow our government, only to possess weapons. Ostensibly the possession of weapons exists as a check against a tyrannical government. But there is no legal mechanism for taking down a fascist besides holding an election.

Asking us to act illegally when most people wouldn't do so in their own countries is disingenuous (not saying you're disingenuous; just saying that a lot of people calling for violence are)

If you're not American, and you want to beat up on the United States for our decent into fascism, I understand the appeal.

The schadenfreude is real.

But please try to remember that in this country there's 70+ million Americans who DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS and we are NOT OKAY. You blame us for not stopping it, but we tried the legal way. What are our alternatives? We are protesting and being killed. We are standing up and being crushed.

We are trying. We need your help.

@MostlyJim @stevegrunwell I hold some respect for people who say that things have gone too far.

But I have to ask, when they were told this is what was going to happen and they said we were overreacting and we were reactionaries, why didn't they believe the orange guy's own words at the time?

They were warned.

Arresting a protestor of a church service as a Federal offense is definitely heavy-handed.

The United States Government just appealed a ruling that said individuals exercising their 1st amendment rights could not have their 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th amendment rights trampled on.

The United States is now asserting that exercising one's 1st amendment rights is illegal.

Let that sink in.

I've been told that the protestors in MN are "paid agitators". I would have protested for free but if there's money available, where do I sign up? </sarcasm>

@clolsonus This is not okay.

@SenseException @heiglandreas I get my news from legitimate sources. And I’m still wondering when standing in front of the vulnerable is the right thing to do.