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My wife and I play a “would you rather” variation with our kids where every question involved Salami somehow. It’s the little things that make life fun

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Just wait till the people making fun of Matt Damon’s helmet as anachronistic read what Homer did to Mycenaean Greece!

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Rust makes dbt go brrrr docs.getdbt.com/blog/faster-...

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RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

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I have remained fairly silent over the past few weeks, largely because I have been processing the reality of an organization dedicated to improving government services being repurposed into the vector of destruction of those very same services. I wrote up some thoughts. Quick tl;dr🧵

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School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival. www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

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I got 6 hours of sleep last night so I’m basically unstoppable

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Why was the API down? It needed REST #SundayPunday

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Alternate title: How to stop worrying and learn to love JIRA open.substack.com/pub/emilie/p...

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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

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“Dad I’m so happy you don’t have work” 2 year old while doing his naptime. I find a lot of purpose in work, and I was honestly a little nervous about how I would handle a 12 week paternity leave psychologically (longest I have ever gone without working since I was 20 was 1 month). 🥹

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Let recent political events be a warning to all intelligent people out there, who can warp anything into meaning the opposite of what it really means. Pledging to ask myself: am I explaining away uncomfortable ideas? Then I am in the middle here.

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Look I’m as excited about dbt Labs’ acquisition of sdf as the next guy but I don’t need a static SQL compiler to tell me import CTEs were a bad idea! open.substack.com/pub/analytic...

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What is social media is for, if not this?

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Broad Street, South Philly

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I’m going to log off for a while.. see you all in a week or so?

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There's really no words to express the absolute absurdity of a lone person trying to rewrite a bunch of old mainframe code like my brain rebels that anyone could possibly be doing this and how badly it's going to fail

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When you have a newborn and sick kids in the house

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Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

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President Elon Musk, unelected and with no formal governmental role, but acting as de facto king of America, issuing commands to ban members of Congress from their own government. Treason

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honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

submitted 21 days ago • 1571 comments

It really is that simple. If Biden had announced he appointed Selena Gomez to shut down ICE, nobody would doubt that's illegal and unconstitutional. Appointing Musk to shut down USAID is no different.

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Schrödinger’s dishwasher

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The shortest one of his podcasts. And one of his best by my lights. Listen up y’all 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/2SIS...

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Just a reminder that Musk couldn’t get a top level security clearance. And he was under investigation for violating the terms of the clearance he did have. Now he has your Social Security number, your tax returns, and is unilaterally deciding who the government does and does not pay.

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Pritzker: "He promised he was gonna lower costs & make us safer. He's done none of it. I realize he's only been in office 2 weeks, but it's gotten worse, not better. You think grocery prices have gone down? No, they've gone up bc of what he's threatening or what he's already put in place"

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump's inauguration. mashable.com/article/gove...

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