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WHITE WITH FEAR is a deep dive into the decades-long quest by some in America’s conservative political machine to amass power by exploiting racial fault lines.
https://www.pbs.org/video/white-with-fear-tielvg/

White with Fear
Examine how some of America’s conservative political machine uses racial fault lines to gain power.

Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-o…

An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about their new partnership, plus my thoughts on OpenAI and Microsoft’s new deal.

My main gripe with “AI coding” is that people present it in highly emotional terms as a fait accompli that will “change everything” instead of it being just another tool (that is one of many) to make software.
Like I saw a SERIOUS post today (not on here) from a tech guy I previously respected that was basically like a 90s infomercial with black and white video of working on a computer (labeled “without AI”) and then over-saturated footage of chilling in the pool or whatever shit (labeled “with AI”).
Not to mention there’s a constant barrage of “enjoy being poor” type bullshit.
This is abusive behavior; it’s emotional manipulation and gaslighting.
It’s cringe, as the kids would say.
I think the underlying LLM technology has use cases that are genuinely useful, for example when making explorative software prototypes, both for backend and frontend stuff.
But it's like a hammer. Useful for nails, useless for anything else.
And you got to ask where the hammer is coming from. Was it made with stolen metal? Forged by exploitative labor? Locked away in a data center so you can only rent the hammer by the hour from some business trying to do a bait and switch?
I'm hoping that the AI landlord industry dies eventually (signs point to this as they won't be able to fulfill the obligations to their investors) and people use locally-run stuff, ethically with open source models (without stolen stuff) and without ridiculous environmental impact in the future.

"Starting with Values: Introducing Our AI Engagement Framework" @ ZSR Library, Wake Forest University
https://zsr.wfu.edu/2026/starting-with-values-introducing-our-ai-engagement-framework/
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Y’know as someone who was “weird” in High School, I “get” the faintly disdainful “normies are protesting”
BUT, and more seriously fuck that noise.
“Normies” were the people who beat back (and are continuing to beat back) ICE in MN, LA, etc.
Fight the Good fight and go home and have some wine

RB Rico Dowdle looks forward to new opportunity with Steelers upon reuniting with Mike McCarthy https://www.nfl.com/news/rb-rico-dowdle-looks-forward-to-new-opportunity-with-steelers-upon-reuniting-with-mike-mccarthy…

Quotes from @… : “Plan the learning. Not the solution. Not less planning. Different planning.
The question isn’t “How do we plan less?”, but “What are we actually trying to plan?”
Plan the learning: decide upfront what you need to understand, how you’ll find out, and what you’ll do with what you discover.”
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We’ve been doing Q2 planning, and folks want estimates on when projects can be completed while we don’t even know yet what our options might be, let alone what an appropriate solution is.
I’ve been trying to focus on what to do next that will move us forward, and only give estimates for that.
But I can only estimate what I’ve done before, or can abstract from previous similar activities. Doing work breakdowns for very near horizons helps, but that develops over time. I can’t estimate past what’s visible to me now.
https://medium.com/thrivve-partners/you-cant-plan-your-way-to-discovery-0798f2797852

from my link log —
What category theory teaches us about dataframes.
https://mchav.github.io/what-category-theory-teaches-us-about-dataframes/
saved 2026-03-29

White House Captions Photo Of Trump And King Charles As
‘Two Kings’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/04/28/white-house-captions-photo-of-trump-and-king-charles-as-two-kings/?ctp…

White House Refers To Trump As King In Photo With King Charles
President Donald Trump hosted King Charles III at the White House on Tuesday.

Offseason checklist for all 32 NFL teams: What did the draft cross off and what's left to do? https://www.nfl.com/news/offseason-checklist-for-all-32-nfl-teams-what-did-the-draft-cross-off-and-what-s-left-to-do