Last week I was using Claude Code and it needed information about the database I was coding against. It used my local AWS key to obtain the login account data and inspected the database without asking me. Another time it jumped out of the project root and made changes to another related project without asking me. It's simultaneously amazing and terrifying.

I've had to put a directive in all my .claude files telling it not to push branches to Gitlab automatically, or it will.

As we push minimum wage to become a living wage, that demographic won't have jobs at all.

My local McDonalds used to have 20 high school kids on staff. Now they have three 40 year olds and six kiosks.

I used to live in a neighborhood built over an abandoned army spy base. In the 50's and 60's, they used to burn huge piles of camera film and then the base fire department would practice by putting out the fire. With foam. All the nearby wells are contaminated. My family and I drank that stuff for a decade before anybody made that public.

There was also a photochemical "lagoon" somewhere on the base. God only knows what they were dumping in there.

Over the five years since I last replaced my phone, my entire work and financial life has been woven into a myriad of apps and accounts that I was required to install on my phone. If I have to replace my phone, I'm doomed. If I lose it, even worse. I hate this. I can't even sign my kids out of school without it.

You can't charge a subscription fee for that.

Check out this video of a guy using ChatGPT to design a 3D CAD model without using any CAD software. He went from a photo to a fully constrained 3D model in minutes. Really quite amazing. And scary. Nobody is safe.

It never worked. George Washington warned us about political parties in his farewell address.

While I'll be sad when they deorbit the ISS, I hope Taco Bell again seizes the opportunity as they did with Mir and we all get the chance for a free taco if it hits their target.

The old deal let them continue enriching uranium. The end result between that and no deal are the same.

They were most likely using a sling wrecker. That's the type with a tow bar and those wide strips that hang down from the boom - kind of what you think of when you imagine a tow truck. Those are relics from the 70's when cars had huge chrome bumpers and solid frames.

Today they (should) use a wheel lift. That's the type with the bar that goes under the car and lifts from the tires.

I worked at a towing shop in Richmond in the 90's when I was in college there (not Seiberts, but I remember them). It was the sketchiest shop in the city, we only had sling wreckers, and our quality of drivers reflected that we were the only shop in town that didn't drug test. Half of my job was fixing the damage that the drivers did when towing illegally parked cars. They'd hook the steering tie rods, bending them, and then winch it up with the sling and rip the bumper cover off.

Nothing here is newsworthy except that it started from a Flock camera.

The astronaut.

As long as Google, etc, stops indexing the site - something I've always wanted. That should be the rule. If it's paywalled or behind a login, it's not indexed.

My company had me add an AI chatbot to our product. Nobody used it. So they had me make it the default landing page, full screen, in your face!

Nobody uses it.

Go to history and remove the video. I have to do this every time my kid uses my account or I get MrBeast videos in my feed.

They look like prison buses.