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.

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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.