Assuming this information is accurate (I haven't personally vetted it):
I can't tell if these people are complete morons, or if this was simply engineered to fail.
(Both Occam and Hanlon suggest…) https://yac.grumpy-learning.com/@grmpyprogrammer/statuses/01M0RT0134HB2BBY69CQ0Z7CQQ
I said this fourteen months ago. I realize that we had to let it play out for posture and politics, but we could have stopped wasting our time with negotiating with a bad-faith opponent over a year ago and we'd be in the same place as we are today. /cc @pluralistic https://scoat.es/@sean/114756842507291693
Went to a watch party (in Hudson QC; couldn’t find one in Montreal).
When the stream broke up the whole bar filled in with singing.
Middle aged men openly tearing up.
Not sure the 14 year old really understood, but he still says he had fun.
Yeah… “you must seek our permission to engage in new trade deals” is even more tone deaf and stupid than thinking we’d be happy to join your dysfunctional union 🙄🙄
(this is the worse-before-it-gets-better bit)
Oh hi tariffs, I guess. 🙄
It was an AI-driven Smurf attack. Cool cool.
(it was a Copilot amplification failure in VS Code)
[Unfortunate] Achievement Unlocked: RF on my signal lines.
A shibboleth is a word you use to signal that you're in on the conversation/joke/group.
A shamboleth is a word that gives you away as not actually being part of the in group; you're obviously repeating something you heard and don't understand. https://scoat.es/@sean/117130578975249376
It's hard to overstate how important The Tragically Hip was to Canadian music and culture during their time, even though they were virtually unknown to the rest of the world.
I won't say that everyone in #Canada loved them, but almost everyone knew them in some way or another.
The last show seems to be available for watching on YouTube. I'm going to watch it again for the first time since that night.
Ten years ago today, all* of #Canada gathered together to watch The Tragically Hip's last show.
Gord Downie, the band's lead singer and main songwriter, had been diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer, and The Hip went out on a farewell tour (though they did not call it that).
I did not get tickets to the Kingston show, but we watched at home with the kids. They probably barely remember. I'm still a bit sad.
* = over 11 million people watched live. Canada pop. was ~35 million at the time.
I sat down with a old brewer friend today. We got talking about changes in the brewing industry.
…and how so many breweries started by hiring an expert to set them up: recipes, schedules, cleaning routines, maintenance plans, etc.
…then how when that expert left for whatever reason, the breweries that replaced the expert with cheap inexperienced labour managed to carry on for a little bit, but often turned out awful product as soon as anything changed or went wrong…
This is a post about AI.
“Untied States" [sic] is a good Freudian slip, these days.
I love working with Nick. I've worked with him for a very long time, and couldn't recommend him highly enough.
I would also love to continue working with Nick. If you've got a project for us (or just for him), reach out! https://sloan.host/@nick/117112429900657125
‘tis the season
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I saw someone I worked with a long time ago raving about the greatness of the AI company he works at and how they have positions open, but definitely let him know if you apply because the AI might filter you out even if you're a perfect match.
We are at a very dumb part of history.
GitHub is broken again today. Instead of the work you planned to do, why not read my (recent, relevant) post on how we got here? (if you missed it last week)
20 years ago, I used to shell in to fast boxes from my home internet connection because my home internet connection was slow.
Today, I shelled in to my homelab server from my iPad, via @tailscale, hotspotted over my mobile phone, to download a big file because my home connection is faster (and I was going to use it there anyway).
Sometimes hard to remember that it works this way now.
> 2026-08-13 16:05:19 (36.0 MB/s) - ‘debian-13.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso’ saved [791671674880/791674880]
It’s 2026 and I’m running a #BBS like it’s 1991.
https://seancoates.com/blogs/yulbbs
(I’ve mentioned #yulbbs on here before, but I finally made some time to write about it with a bit more detail.)
Saw the Perseids brighter and longer than I’ve ever seen a meteor blast across the sky. Earth sure is putting on a show today.