After the Epstein files, a sex scandal being the thing that popped the AI asset bubble absolutely should have been on everyone's 2026 bingo card.

Tired: Profumo
Wired: Huang
Inspired: Not having an affair with someone half your age just because you're powerful and you can.

It's Veteran's Day in the USA. There was an assembly at my kid's elementary school. I volunteered to help with the reception and cleanup without really thinking about it.

I went to the same elementary school in the 80s. I don't ever recall having a Veteran's Day assembly. It was the very first one my Vietnam Era father attended.

In the end, I realized that seeing my kid give his grandfather a certificate of appreciation of his service is the only symbolic act worth contemplating at my age.

And we're at Union Station 13 minutes early.

Lovely 6 degree day.

And ICE 802 was 14 minutes late.

Granted, I still have about 90 minutes until I get to Chicago Union Station...but it looks like we'll be 10 minutes early.

I'm also wishing we had something like bahn.expert here. Granted, https://asm.transitdocs.com/ is pretty nice.

Looks like ICE 802 left Südkreuz 13 minutes late. That's on time by Amtrak standards!

This morning I'm taking Amtrak 371 from the Gun Rue to Chicago a 283 km route. It leaves at Noon CET.

We could compare it to ICE 802 between Berlin and Hamburg, leaving Berlin Südkreuz at the same time.

Granted, the scheduled time of the Hamburg trip is 2 hours and 10 minutes whereas my trip to Chicago is scheduled to take 4 hours and 8 minutes.

But my train just left and ICE 802 is delayed 13 minutes right now.

In a few hours, I'll be walking from my house to take a city bus to an Intercity train.

This is unremarkable to most in the developed world, but it's an unusual privilege living in the middle of Gringolandia.

I am very happy that spooky season is finally wrapped up.

I'm kinda done with trick-or-treating AND trick-or-governing.

Is there any reason I shouldn't just recycle a 2007 era Mac Mini?

Its power consumption compared to an equally powerful Raspberry Pi seems to make it not worth plugging in again.

Hearing @evacide on Trashfuture fills me with a level of glee that may have led to my child being a bit embarrassed at school pickup.

In my defense, he's going to have to get used to his dad being the unapologetically weird dad.

The most terrifying thing I've ever experienced on Halloween was being in the Spirit costume store with an indecisive Kindergartener the night before costume day at school.

Billie Slop is not my algo...
It's just a tool that thinks that we can be fooled
But the theft is not our fault

https://social.circl.lu/@quinn/117469831577796507

OH: "Imagine what would happen if we let firefighters and school bus drivers *vibework* the way we let coders *vibecode*."

OH: "Agentic AI is just management introducing a kitten herding problem in your org after setting the productivity bonus metrics around cuteness."

OH: "Wait, I thought Model Collapse was talking about capitalism, not computers..."

OH: "I made a joke in today's morning meeting about the Heterodoxy, Exclusivity and In-Group training that was replacing DEI...but none of them realized it was a joke."

#vibecoders

OH: "Recursive self-improvement in AI is a lot like what the Habsburgs thought they were doing by marrying their cousins."

On this September 11, let the world be reminded that for every civilian killed in the US on that day, the US military has killed about 200 civilians abroad fighting the GWOT.

Part of being a great Kindergarten teacher in the US is knowing exactly how and when to leave the kid gloves on when dealing with the parents.