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Interrupting weekend chores to say: I like this flat mop bucket system. It spray-rinses the mop as you push it downward, and then you remove the excess water via the other hole. Easy peasy. Just wish the water reservoir was larger. Returning now to our regular programming.

Kirk Cousins on 4th NFL stop with Raiders: ‘I’d like to still do this’ https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/08/kirk-cousins-on-4th-nfl-stop-with-raiders-id-like-to-stil…

Took the day off to head up to Natural Bridge State Park with my wife. Pictures don’t really do justice to how massive it is.
Then there are the Blue Ridge Mountains, always gorgeous. Will return to Skyline Trail later this summer, as it’s an official International Dark Sky viewing location. Perhaps in August for the Perseid meteor shower season.

Former Raiders RB Decides to Retire From Football https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/william-stanback-retirement/

I have returned from @…’ State of the Browser (#SotB #SotB26) feeling incredibly grateful to have been able to attend (and speak). An urgent and everg…

Sen. Steve Daines announces he will not seek reelection (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/steve-daines-montana-senate-retirement-2026-election-00813633
http://www.memeorandum.com/260305/p41#a260305p41

Bewährte Strategie: Was man nicht misst, existiert auch nicht.
Dem Verein #ProQuote fehlen nach dem Stopp der #Bundesförderung 600.000 Euro. Projekte wie die #Leitmedienzählung

ProQuote verliert Bundesförderung: „Ohne das Geld müssen wir viele Aktivitäten einstellen“
Das Familienministerium lehnt den Antrag vom feministischen Verein ab. Die vermuten dahinter ein politisches Motiv.

Yesterday, I've read a vibe coded script for the first time in my life, and I've cried.
It wasn't ugly. "Ugly" is not the right term. It was as if someone wasn't able to comprehend beauty, but badly tried to mimic it. It felt like "malicious compliance" to beauty. The kind of awful verbose pedantry that feels wrong every step of the way.
It's the kind of code you'd expect in a corporate environment when you know that the code would be read by the top suits who have no idea about coding, but judge it by the volume and expect science fiction level of make-believe.
It's the kind of code is abstracted away into the tiniest details. Every function returns a complex dataclass explaining precisely what it did, for no reason at all. What would be two lines of code is a function. What would be a function is a whole module. It's a caricature of good programming practices.
I was supposed to add modifying a second field on the same object via GitHub API. I've guessed it would take me about an hour to figure out the code enough to be able to do that — what ought to be 2-3 extra lines. I suspected I'd discover that most of the code does precisely nothing. Just meaningless API exchanges that are absolutely unnecessary. It felt like the kind of parody of bureaucracy where you have to file 10 forms to do something, and only one of them actually means anything.
What used to be "do one thing well" became "doing ten totally random things is fine, as long as one of them happens to be what I need, and the whole thing doesn't blow anything up in an obvious way".
Perhaps it's just because this way a throwaway script. Maybe "production" stuff takes more, err, prompt refining? Maybe it actually can produce stuff that's comprehensible.
But if that code was any indicator, then I'm not going to believe that any big LLM contributions are actually reviewed by humans. A review will take more time than rewriting from scratch. This is a ticking time bomb. That LLM-generated code isn't introducing exploits right now is either a statistical accident, or it's just that nobody bothers.
Clarification: I didn't "prompt" it or request one. I'm not a hypocrite.
#NoAI #NoLLM #AI #LLM

A US appeals court pauses a lower-court order that would have reinstated around 1,000 Voice of America journalists and staff who had been put on paid leave (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.

Appeals Court Stops V.O.A. Journalists From Quickly Returning
A panel of three judges halted the lower court order to reinstate all full-time Voice of America reporters and support staff who had been put on paid leave.

Das #Verwaltungsgericht Schleswig-Holstein stoppt die #Ölförderung auf der Mittelplate im #Wattenmeer mit sofortiger Wirkung.
Grund ist eine fehlende

Mittelplate im Wattenmeers: Ölförderung nach Eilantrag der DUH gestoppt
• Erfolg für den Naturschutz: Gericht ordnet sofortigen Stopp der Ölförderung im deutschen Wattenmeer an• Fehlende FFH-Verträglichkeitsprüfung: Betrieb war rechtswidrig • DUH fordert dauerhaften Ausstieg aus der Ölförderung im Wattenmeer und eine Abkehr von den Plänen der Bundesregierung, die Ölheizung zu retten