“We’ve been good so long - we’ve earned the right to do terrible things but you still have to say we’re good!” – Palantir, pooping its diapers

Like, imagine being so much of a fucking dweeb that you can't stop talking about "The West" as some sort of sacrosanct innate good, but instead of using as evidence all of the actually good things "The West" has done, you use the shit we've been holding back for 60 years.

Palantir is run by shitty dudes.
Hatred, fear, and money are all that they have.
Fuck those guys, and anybody that chooses to work there or with them. If that's you, then fuck you.

RE: https://indieweb.social/@dandean/116439655876133811

A horrible side-effect of the below situation is that I have Sequoia on the left and Dogshit Tahoe on the right – I have a constant reminder that it didn't have to be this way.

I am so mad

I have now completely separated my personal and work computers.

I still use two screens, but the left is my personal laptop, and the right is a studio display connected to a closed laptop.

Universal Control connects the two, so I can use a single mouse and keyboard.

So far, it's working really well! I may end up with a 3rd display so I have two dedicated work screens and one smaller personal screen.

The risk to my personal information from the mandated AI tools is now drastically limited.

Tahoe feels like a half-assed 2012 Linux distro.

Somebody give me Dye's phone number so I can retroactively fire him myself.

Scrollbars colliding with the obscene border radius of Tahoe is a work of art.

"Whatever 🤷" – Alan Dye

Apple's Time Machine team has apparently never heard of advanced space-age functionality like globbing.

I just went through and deleted all of the `node_modules` directories across all projects in my `/projects/` directory and the estimated backup time went from 2 DAYS to 1 HOUR.

Someone at Apple, please invent a way for Time Machine to ignore node_modules directories.

Finally back with the Party Hobbits.

Isengard is a heap of ruin.

The hobbits are smoking and sleeping at the broken gates to the tower. The Lord of the Mark (the horse king formerly old guy, head of Rohan) thinks they’re cool dudes and can’t wait to talk about the history of smoking with them.

hard for me to believe that people would independently come up with generative AI as a serious method for solving problems if the entire field of practice wasn't subsidized by investment ponzi schemes, real estate scams, and shovel sellers

a great rule for evaluating websites in 2026 is: if it looks like dogshit it's probably ok. if it looks like it came out of a neon cyberpunk movie, it's definitely vibecoded and you can close the tab without the effort of going to github and seeing a thousand line BUTTCRACK_IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md file

i just want to live in the world where this miraculous technology we all live alongside now was used to make everyone's lives better, not just the richest quarter of the world

Is the design team just out to lunch, or is some weirdo forcing them to churn out this trash? This has to be under duress - these new icons are unbelievably bad.

Apple really making some choices with the new app icon for Final Cut Camera

Actually, just leave us all alone. In order to age-gate kids, they're going to have to invade all of our privacy.

The age verification thing feels so much like the kind of law that regulates women's clothing rather than holding abusers accountable.

Regulate the tech companies. Leave kids alone.