Episode 530: His proper name is Sasquatch
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Emoji Rankings and Orca Insights
In this chapter, the speakers engage in a playful debate about ranking various emoji concepts, including humorous takes on 'treasure chest' and 'distorted face'. They also delve into cultural perceptions of orcas, discussing their treatment in entertainment venues and how public opinion has evolved, all while maintaining a lighthearted tone.
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This week, we cover AI going rogue, Cloudflare declaring independence, and the secure container craze. Plus, Matt bravely judges 9 new emoji.
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Runner-up Titles
- VP of getting it on
- Neutral trombone
- Good Margin
- Independent from what?
- The New Benevolence
- I have plenty of cynicism for other things
Rundown
- Emojis
- Australian Bigfoot
- Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name
- Matt’s Rankings:
- Hairy Creature
- Trombone
- Treasure Chest
- Fight Cloud
- Orca
- Landslide
- Apple Core
- Ballet Dancers
- Distorted Face
- AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catastrophic error in judgment' and 'destroyed all production data'
- Cloudflare
- Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AWS Price List
- Chainguard builds a market, everyone else wants in.
- Bitnami Secure Images
Relevant to your Interests
- Browser extensions turn Trojan and infect 2.3 million Chrome and Edge users
- Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me
- Dell employees are not OK
- How Uber Became A Cash-Generating Machine
- Clouded Judgement 7.18.25 - The Return of the Point Solution
- Mid-Year 2025 CNCF Open Source Project Velocity
- new Date("wtf")
- Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends support, effective immediately
- The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
- Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot
- Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch
- Apple details how it trained its new AI models, see highlights
- Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI
- The Enshittification of American Power
- Customer guidance for SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2025-53770
- Mike Lynch’s Estate Ordered to Pay Hewlett Packard $945 Million
- OpenAI announces ChatGPT agent for web browsing
- OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
- ChatGPT Numbers
- Move Mesos to the Attic
- Anthropic hired back two of its employees — just two weeks after they left for a competitor.
- Investors Float Deal Valuing Anthropic at More Than $100 Billion
Nonsense
- Coldplay’s Kiss Cam Exposes Astronomer’s CEO Andy Byron Alleged Affair With HR Chief Kristin Cabot
- Unicode's new emoji refuses to put respect on Bigfoot's name
- Atari Is Re-Releasing Its 2600+ To Celebrate Pac-Man's 45th Birthday
Conferences
- Sydney Wizdom Meet-Up, Sydney, August 7. Matt will be there.
- SpringOne, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Explore 2025 US, Las Vegas, August 25th to 28th, 2025. See Coté’s pitch.
- Wiz Capture the Flag, Brisbane, August 26. Matt will be there.
- SREDay London, Coté speaking, September 18th and 19th.
- Civo Navigate London, Coté speaking, September 30th.
- Texas Linux Fest, Austin, October 3rd to 4th. CFP closes August 3rd.
- CF Day EU, Frankfurt, October 7th, 2025.
- AI for the Rest of Us, Coté speaking, October 15th to 16th, London.
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