The 1Password thing
1Password gave $300,000 to DHH’s Omarchy.
I have been a 1Password customer since 2006! My whole family is on it! I have moved multiple enterprises to it! Let me just tell you how stoked I am to move 20 years of shit because these people insist on being fascist assholes.
– Ian Coldwater, Bluesky, 3 September 2026.
I don’t want to repeat that effort, so I’ll hold off for a bit in hopes that you realize that you can’t be part of the DHH posse and not start smelling bad. And before too long, intolerable, to me at least.
– Tim Bray, CoSocial, 3 September 2026.
the last 48 hours has taught me that many of you log in to too many websites.
– Jenn Schiffer, Bluesky, 3 September 2026.
The bill arrives
Roughly about six months ago we unleashed Claude in our R&D cycle. It’s part of the reason we didn’t raise margin guidance on the year because we’re covering some of the token spend that we’ve got going. And the goal of that really was to, let’s see what we could break.
– Mike Spencer, deputy CFO of Salesforce, at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference, reported by The Register, 3 September 2026, explaining why Salesforce held full-year operating margin guidance at 20.1%
You have had eight years at the VA to execute on this, and quite frankly this is all just an overrun cost. You are not managing this project. This is just a blank cheque for Oracle.
– Nikki Budzinski, ranking member of the House Veterans’ Affairs technology modernization subcommittee, reported by Computer Weekly, 3 September 2026, on an electronic health record program whose ceiling rose from $10bn to over $27bn and which has completed 17 of 170 clinics
AI
Huh. Makes sense that someone would. And I guess this is Nvidia unifying the ai supply chain? But… huh
– Luke Kanies, Hachyderm, 3 September 2026, on Nvidia buying Hugging Face for $12.9bn
My position on AI has been extremely boring and is basically, “if something is currently happening, the people who are saying that it’s impossible that it will ever happen are probably wrong”.
– Dan Luu, “How accurate have Ed Zitron’s AI skeptic predictions been?”, 3 September 2026, stating his priors before scoring someone else’s predictions
Gloria Steinem, 1934-2026
A sign of societal progress is that both of my children (now 25 and 19) were utterly baffled when I explained that the title Ms. was a controversial political statement when I was a kid. It’s completely normal to them, not worthy of comment or even something to be thought about.
– Ian Coldwater, Bluesky, 3 September 2026, followed by: “May the title Mx. be as uncontroversial to my grandkids”
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