9/10/25

Tech

How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs i agree with anil that it was spineless that tim apple built & gave that ugly UGLY award to trump. i'm not sure i agree that steve jobs would have done anything differently, other than privately yell "fuck you" to everyone in the administration while working to ensure his company survived. but either way, it sucks that apple, a company with real "fuck you" money has decided to not spend it in a situation like this

AI

I don't want AI agents controlling my laptop: if you aren't already, you should be reading Sophie's blog. this post is great! i agree that i get really nervous when i see an engineer --yolo and hope for the best. i've also been burned by claude code deleting a database in the last week - with explicit instructions not to do the thing that deletes the database

Claude API Web Fetch Tool: Simon Willison walks through a new feature of the claude API. it's interesting to see how anthropic is considering security in a feature that actively crawls the web, and goes directly into the points that Sophie was making in the above post

Bay Area

Routes eliminated, trains once an hour, BART and muni contemplate nightmare scenario i know that transit agencies across the country are facing fiscal cliffs, and so is ours here in the bay. if funding doesn't come in for these systems, it will be a complete collapse.

AC Transit (which serves the east bay) is taking a grant from the Dept of Homeland Security that would require AC Transit to cooperate with and support ICE. I plan to call in.