Flutterby™! (short)

Financial Times: Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone tells investors (paywalled).

India Economic Times: Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone tells investors: Report

Stock Market Bloodbath Spikes Fears of AI Bubble Bursting

So somehow whatever I'm currently playing on my phone is showing up on Charlene's phone's lock screen. I have cleared caches, disabled services, removed permissions, and yet what I'm playing continues to be broadcast.

This feels like a massive security issue.

Trying to figure out where I read "LLM coding agents are to app development what Geocities was to the web".

(I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about that analogy.)

To install the Conda package manager for Python on the Mac, please either install the super annoying desktop application, or run:

conda install anaconda::conda

in the terminal. What sort of bullshit recursive thing is this? The actual answer appears to be:

brew install --cask anaconda

Reader, the answer was not, in fact, that. At least not directly. Feels like another situation like Qt where the goal is to make the command line use as annoying as possible to rope people into the additional telemetry of the GUI tool.

Shannon Prickett @Binder@petrous.vislae.town

Oh, that's a good idea. We should nationalize the Federal government so it'll be responsive to the people.

Chat, is it a good sign when you find:

from shlex import _find_unsafe

at the top of a Python file?

(Despite importing shlex, and using this deprecated method to tell if it should be escaping the string, it then manually escaped the string...)

Marisa Kabas at The Handbasket: I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy.

If you haven't seen the clip yet, I think his delivery is perfect. He sounds like a decent dude.

Men Who Eat More Plant-Based Protein Have Higher Testosterone Levels.

Via.