Yep. “We want more people to watch Shorts” -> A/B test cramming more into the home screen -> “More people watched Shorts with X change, roll it out to everyone” -> “What’s the next idea to get more people to watch Shorts?”
Someone gets the idea that more views on Shorts is what they need and start optimizing for it. On and on until another metric becomes more important and they optimize for that.

At my workplace eng management won’t shut up about AI and vibe coding.

Absolutely brother!

It’s kind of practical when standing or walking slowly, like at a fair. Since it’s got a shoulder strap I don’t have to hold it all the time. But you can’t set it down with anything in it. Cleaning is a little awkward but not terrible, give it a good soak and use a bottle brush to get all the way down.
It is fun to drink out of a horn though

This comment made me look up at my drinking horn hanging on the wall among Ren faire weapons and shield…

With all the additions can you even taste the difference between bison and cow?

Because the people who came up with it assume it would have the same ego as them.
It’s also just Pascal’s wager in a robot costume.

Bad news about Target: they’ve cancelled their DEI initiatives to cater to the administration

What’s your impression of loops so far?
I’ve been underwhelmed, but I don’t know if that’s a platform issue or an adoption issue. Found a couple good accounts to follow, but I really want a block option to keep some accounts out of my “for you”

A neighbor told me that even though her now-adult children had no side effects if she could go back and decide to not vaccinate them instead, she would

Sleepytime tea

Android programmer. Picked it up back in 2011 when I was a couple years out of school.

I’d trade LLMs for bug ships and necro assassins in a heartbeat

Iirc they’re indexes for the system wide search feature, Spotlight

Your dialer may already be monetized! If you get a call from a company and see their logo chances are they paid for that. It’s not enshittified yet, but it definitely could be. Source: I maintain a codebase that does this for a major device manufacturers dialer.

I’m them-adjacent and I’ll keep my mouth shut

I recognize the river diversion one as an Alex Jones taking point, via Knowledge Fight. Iirc it’s in northern California and wouldn’t help with reservoirs near LA anyway. The river may or may not actually even be diverted for these fish