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Steve Yegge: Welcome to Gas Town

Gas Town is a new take on the IDE for 2026. Gas Town helps you with the tedium of running lots of Claude Code instances. Stuff gets lost, it’s hard to track who’s doing what, etc. Gas Town helps with all that yak shaving, and lets you focus on what your Claude Codes are working on.

Every time I thought the gag was played out he managed to take it a little further, and then I was browsing the github repo. Via Metafilter, who also can't figure out if it's a joke or real...

I used to kinda be grateful advertisers for helping to support the podcasts I listen to. But now I hear ads for BetterHelp and Lifelock and seriously side-eye...

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Lily Cohen @lily@foothills.social notes

I’m now officially moving from “the cloud is just someone else’s computer“ to “the cloud is just a landlord for your data”

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Jeff Kaufman: Contra Dance as a Model For Post-AI Culture. Thinking about the focus on live music vs Modern Western Square Dance's recorded music, and, once again, this drops back to the centralization of the role of the caller, and how that interacts with those dancing, and making the music.

Via Tara Calishain.

Went into a Slack channel which is doing the "Start Free Trial" to view messages older than 90 days thing, and realized the Signal group that has replaced this Slack workspace has a message expiration time of 10 days...

Just the Browser

Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. The goal is to give you "just the browser" and nothing else, using hidden settings in web browsers intended for companies and other organizations.

This project includes configuration files for popular web browsers, documentation for installing and modifying them, and easy installation scripts. Everything is open-source on GitHub.

Via and via.

DocAtCDI @DocAtCDI@mastodon.social

Do you know what a healthy pregnant sheep is called?

Well, due ewe?

Imagine having to eat this much crow because you let your staff use an LLM...

The Verge: UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake / Copilot invented a nonexistent football match that was included in an intelligence report. (Via)

Matt Burgess @mattburgess@infosec.exchange links to the actual letter, noting:

Absolutely wild that a UK police chief has now—after previously denying it— confirmed that a fictitious football match that led to a ban of Israeli fans... was generated by AI.

The letter from Craig Guildford QPM VR DL, Chief Constable.