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glenn.vanderburg.org

Engineering Director at Nubank. Software development is engineering.

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And I suggest that the United States should seize and nationalize Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink. We can both make suggestions!

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

It occurs to me that the person in charge of this grievously underperforming and apparently cratering company, who has not set foot in the office for months now, should probably send shareholders a list of the 5 things he accomplished last week on their behalf or risk being fired.

submitted 12 days ago • 127 comments

This country has a lot of bullshit to answer for. I've got plenty of family history that should me hate this nation. But I don't. I want it to honestly reckon with its history and be better than it was, because I am a patriot. 🇺🇸

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

As China continues to give money and projects to countries to gain influence, we are shutting down our agencies that do that. China is eating our lunch and Trump is the reason. Sorry folks, if you don’t see it you don’t understand how the world works. Period

submitted 37 days ago • 542 comments

Every two or three months, I end up on hold with my local Walgreens pharmacy about a prescription. The hold music seems to have been designed to torture anyone who has even a tiny understanding of music. There's a 16-second loop of music that begins an ascending sequence …

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

In a functioning democracy, a president who -tries to seize Congress's constitutional spending powers -attempts to rewrite the Constitution unilaterally -pardons violent insurrectionists who attacked the government -fires the Inspectors General and DOJ prosecutors would face immediate impeachment

submitted 42 days ago • 77 comments

This is an excellent, thorough rundown of the hows, whys, and whethers of Costco.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

submitted 47 days ago • 187 comments

Let 2025 be the year of refusing to give legacy credibility to non-credible institutions. It doesn't matter what the NYT, CNN, Washington Post, TikTok, Facebook, etc, etc, USED to be, what you remember them to be, or how you want them to be. Judge and treat them on what they are NOW.

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

The constitution forbids leveraging public office to make money because doing so degrades public trust in the office, opens you being manipulated by foreign actors who understand your motives, and it fundamentally violates the very idea of government as an entity of service to others.

submitted 52 days ago • 63 comments

Hey folks so we're not doing "if you personally have not made a loud public statement about Bad Thing You're Not Accountable For then it's obvious you don't think it's bad," right? Right. Glad we had this talk.

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

submitted 57 days ago • 754 comments

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with with an umlaut. Grübrednav, a sideboard/buffet.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

1. Good sandwich bread 2. Almost too much mayonnaise 3. Leftover turkey in coarse chunks 4. A little salt 5. A lot of black pepper 6. Nothing else

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

This thread is quite a ride — funny, surprising, mildly disgusting, and fascinating by turns — but every space nerd has wondered about these topics, and @maryrobinette.bsky.social has done the research for her books (which you should read).

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

@gruber.foo I agree with basically everything you said about Substack, but regarding “a small ‘No thanks’ link to actually read the damn thing” — it was a great day when I realized that hitting ESC gets the same result.

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments