Hee-haw cars and slinky kinks
Strange finds and quips from the world-wide web
Today it’s all wastebook.
Wastebook
“gizmocrat” and ”gizmocrats,” new govt IT outsourcing term?
“Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was tweeting about guacamole prices over the weekend as Musk took over key functions of the government.” Two weeks in.
“Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk,” attributed to William Gibson.
“Tariffying,” The Economist.
“There’s probably a couple of kinks in that slinky,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).
“power the West to its obvious innate superiority.” #PalantirLife.
“It’s cheap, so it’s not a vice.” Jason.
“Hee-haw cars.” Roderick.
“I want to believe that the JP Morgan analyst tried to get compliance to let them call the note ‘Fuck this bullshit.’” Slides Benedict.
“BYOAI.”
”You cannot be a software startup and just be a sustainable business; the ecosystem will reject you.” Here.
“Once your code is out there, it can’t be controlled by a MEGACORP,” overheard at cfgmgmtcamp 2025.
Logoff
I don’t know if I’m uninspired, if everything is lost in the DeepSeek funk, or what, but I haven’t found much worth linking to yet. We’ll see what the second half of the week brining.