Notices by Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)

“AGI: a strategy of raising funding based on the promise of being able to replace any worker with a Python script.”— @anildash

https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/01/what-would-good-ai-look-like/

@inthehands A lot of them have bought into the idea that we need to reduce taxes on the wealthy because they will use that money to create jobs.

@VeroniqueB99 @benroyce Guess whose company isn’t processing poultry right now.

Some people hate PHP because it was their first language, they wrote a ton of bad code in it, learned better practices along the way as they switched to other languages, and then look back on their old code and blame the language.

#PHP

Did we (the US) or did we not bomb Yemen? I can’t find any news about it because everyone is so focused on the Signal group chat fiasco.

So…is that what the administration wants us focused on?

#USPol

@chris They don’t want to slow it. “Move fast and break things.”

@chris I’ll be there!

The problem is that so many people buy-in to the “eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy” argument because we’re taught that bureaucracy and bureaucrats are wasteful and evil.

@chris @dustinrue @alda I’ve been having issues with my work machine similar to this. Personal machines are fine. I think it’s all the corporate spyware that’s installed causing problems.

Amy Gleason is the head of DOGE, like Linda Yaccarino is the CEO of X/Twitter.

“Explaining why he protested, Kluwe pointed out he is white, male and heterosexual. ‘Privilege and power,’ he said.

“‘It’s important (those) who have privilege and power like I do to be out there on the front lines helping support those who are being oppressed,’ he continued. ‘Because we cannot expect the people being oppressed to do all the work. It’s on all of our shoulders to do that work. And I hope other people are brave enough and willing enough to do this.’”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/02/20/chris-kluwe-arrest-maga-protest-city-council-meeting/79337534007/

Belated Dragon Con photos.
My wife is surrounded by Fraggles! These are all the performers and actual puppets from the new “Back to the Rock” series; Karen Prell is one of the original performers.

Back row (left-to-right): Gobo with puppeteer John Tartaglia, Wembley with Jordan Lockhart (face hidden), Boober with Frank Meschkuleit, and Traveling Matt with Kevin Clash.

Front row (left-to-right): Red with Karen Prell, Liz, and Mokey with Donna Kimball.

#DragonCon #FraggleRock #Muppets #Puppetry

@JessTheUnstill @catsalad This is part of a deliberate effort to lower market rates for software engineers. By flooding the market with laid-off workers, and by labeling many of them as “under performers,” they can drive down salaries across the industry. This is their way of resetting and gaining the leverage in hiring.

#Duolingo, wtf is wrong you?

RFK Jr. is objectively the wrong candidate to run HHS. There is nothing in his background or responses to questions that show he is fit for the position. Are Republicans really that fearful of going against MAGA?

#USPol

@feld @ekis I dunno. I’m pretty negative right now. It’s hard to have hope when you’re chronically depressed on top all this. *waves arms wildly*

@feld @ekis They’re still under the DOJ, right? So, ultimately, they answer to the president. Since Trump signed an EO designating most federal employees as “political,” he can pretty much fire whomever he wants.

@feld @ekis It would have to be Congress, since the president controls law enforcement and the military.

On the little server I have running here at home, I'm now helping @internetarchive back up US Government websites and data.

You can help, too:

1. Download and run the ArchiveTeam Warrior
2. Set the selected project to "usgovernment" (or select US Government from the available projects in the web interface)

I'm running Warrior as a container with podman, but there are various other ways to run it.

More details at https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

This project looks promising:

"Goodnews is a PHP-based social media platform like Mastodon based on the ActivityPub protocol."

Highlights:

- PHP 8.2+, Hyperf, and Swoole
- AGPL 3.0
- ActivityPub
- Mastodon API compatibility
- Backend and frontend are separate projects
- Active development

https://github.com/goodnews-project/goodnews-backend

#PHP #Goodnews #ActivityPub