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Cloudflare is pulling a us-east-1. I guess Twitter sits behind Cloudflare now because it appears to be offline.
Nice thing about phpc.social is we touch neither AWS nor Cloudflare for core services, so we're still up.
Wish I could say the same for some stuff at my day job.

It always starts with talk about millionaires and billionaires and ends with a 36% unrealized gains tax on the handful of assets you bought to try and get a stake in the economy and claw your way out of financial insecurity and maybe be able to retire some day. Meanwhile, the unfathomably rich remain forever unfathomably rich. These people are the allies of capital, and creators of a permanently dependent underclass. They do this to ensure there is always a job for them. If they really cared…

So the Claremont Institute pays Jeremy Carl to be antisemitic and racist?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/politics/jeremy-carl-state-department-nomination-bipartisan-opposition
That’s gotta be a fascinating job description…

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.

Coursera's buying Udemy: awesome! I love monopolies, and we're one step closer to one now!
I'm just waiting for the AI shoe to drop next. It'll be awesome to pay $19.99/mo to learn randomly-inserted hallucinated non-facts from an LLM running a RAG pipeline over a syllabus thrown together by some associate professor who can barely afford rent from their day job.

@… Honestly I think I'm like exactly the person you're describing in your example. My day job being what it is, when I hear "host static files" my mind just immediately jumps to like "Yeah, I could do that with S3".
So I'm trying to purposefully step back, take a breath, and take your advice. But I realize I've been so *in* the co…

Did California lose Larry Page?
The Google and Alphabet cofounder, who left day-to-day operations in 2019,
has seen his net worth soar in the years since
—from around $50 billion at the time of his departure to somewhere approximating $260 billion today.
(Leaving his job clearly didn’t hurt his wallet.)
Last year, a proposed ballot initiative in California threatened billionaires like Page with a one-time 5 percent wealth tax
—prompting some of them to con…

Silicon Valley Billionaires Panic Over California’s Proposed Wealth Tax
Larry Page’s apparent Florida move highlights how seriously the ultra-rich are taking a one-time tax aimed at extreme wealth inequality.

Green Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: 'Quit that s-tty job you have' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5728186-green-day-billie-joe-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260207/p72#a260207p72

I spent 10 minute looking for a cron job that wasn't there because it was on a different machine. What a great day!

"In short, the experience of programming, the one you, dear reader, live day in and day out in your daily job, has not fundamentally evolved in the past 60 or even 70 years. Our command line environments even have the TTY (short for “teletype”) moniker embedded in them. We are still coding… procedures… in text files… using sequential models."
…

Bret Victor
The first video of this series will feature none other than Bret Victor in one of his most memorable talks. We have already discussed Bret in a previous article about Smalltalk, where we named him one of the most influential figures in that galaxy. This video, however, shows that his light shines much brighter than that.

"Rabbit Recipes," US dept of Ag 1930. (We are looking for things to cook to celebrate public domain day Jan 21st 2026 re: 1930!)
Not so sure about Rabbit Recipes, but nice layout. Thank you US Dept of Ag for digitizing this (I love my job).
What will you cook to celebrate public domain day?
http…

It’s been a norm for my whole time in tech.
How is it NOT just another day at the job? @… https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115762982979476704

My friend Brad Bazemore KK4PWJ wanted a totally free — zero cost, 100% open source — comprehensive US Amateur Radio study app. His day job is in testing, and he really knows his stuff.
So he built Open Ham Prep.
I'm super grateful for Hamstudy — it's how I passed all three tests, and I contributed to a bunch of explanations, especially improving ones that were just mn…

First day on the new job, a successful project well done, and lots of great things happening lately - this all feels so good and right! 🧡
I use #Arch on my work laptop btw.
Seize the moment, folks. Every damn moment.
And enjoy having some queer fun! 🥳🏳️‍🌈
Also, hack the planet! ✨👩‍💻✨👩‍💻✨

sat down and wrote some code from scratch for the first time in who knows how long and rediscovering that wow, this sucks, this is why I don't do this for my day job

#AdventOfCode Day 5: My stupid part 1 solution was too slow (because I checked each ingridient instead of compare the ranges). After fixing that it was fast and correct. I have a plan for part 2, but $job to do, so let's see when I get a round tuit (to quote an old #Perl saying).

The mechanics sorted out filling the adblue tank.
The warnings have stopped beeping and the 10 l bottle that was in the back is gone, so presumably I can trust it's in the tank now.
Sounds like much of what I have paid for was for them doing what I did: Looking all around the car for an ad-blue tank hole and taking things apart trying to find it.
But none of that is the correct solution, which is to put it up on the ramp and clamber underneath to find the tank which has some sort of lowering mechanism, to then lower it and fill it and raise it again.
Not a job for me then. Next time it'll maybe be cheaper coz of them knowing what to do now and not spending half a day trying to figure it out.
Apparently there is a second emissions reduction mechanism which doesn't take a wattery bottle of urea, but instead needs a pouch of oily tar stuff.
This is more likely to empty and need replacing next, rather than the piss bottle.
And even for normal cars that haven't been screwed up for wheelchair access this is a mechanics job anyway. And the garage will have to order in the tar pouch especially.
Back in the 90s, my first car cost about 200 quid. Today I paid 200 quid to get someone to fill it up with purified piss for emissions reduction. Oh how things change. 😆

Zohran Mamdani’s third day as mayor of New York City was supposed to be dedicated to a long-stalled #pedestrian #safety plan,
the kind of local quality-of-life issue he had made central to his campaign.
Instead, after the U.S. military captured

For Mamdani, a Break With the President Just Three Days Into His New Job
New York City’s newly elected mayor planned to spend Saturday announcing a pedestrian safety plan. Then President Trump brought a captured foreign leader to his doorstep.

Die Putzhilfe, die in ihrem Day Job in einem Supermarkt arbeitet, lenkte meine Aufmerksamkeit auf die dort nun in Nachtschichten durchgeführten Arbeiten zur Erstellung von Wurstplatten.