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Co-founder & CEO of the Burner app. Giving people more control over their lives and privacy with software. Former publishing person, Steely Dan and #dadrock fan forever. He/him; trans rights supporter 🏳️‍⚧️
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The United Stasi of America

I told my kids I was going to roll up to pickup with the windows down, bumping "Not Like Us," the next time they were late getting ready for school. The reactions made it clear I scored a direct hit.

DOGE is a bigger threat to US federal government information systems than China. If you find this statement controversial, I'm going to question your IT and cybersecurity credentials.

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Well this is something.

First they came for the telemarketers, and I said nothing, for I am not a telemarketer futurism.com/the-byte/ceo...

This is it. This is the take.

Fuck yeah ACLU!

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

For sale, arc of universe, never bent

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

A whole bunch of people who voted for Trump or stayed home on Election Day are already 26 dog-weeks into remembering why they voted for Biden in 2020. Would have been nice if the media would have kept how bad it was as top of mind, or the dems knew how to tell the story effectively.

Samuel L Jackson just mentioned the Inuit Dome, so I’m pretty sure that’s the name now.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This. Time to buckle up.

Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023

Solidarity with all trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, intersex, and not conforming to bullshit stereotypes people. Fuck those fucking fuckers.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

This is not what I meant when I said we should get the band back together. RIP Garth Hudson, an all-time great.

Happy MLK Day.

this is the part in the movie where the young protagonists are forced to turn to the old doc brown types who have been complaining nobody knows how to self host anymore, to help setup self hosting because its the only solution to get control back.

they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh

live your life in a way that makes your friends write this way about you when you depart the planet

Oh, an oligarchy, and it’s taking shape? Huh.

AOC: Trans girls are girls. And for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern for women for the first time. I don't know who has been to gym class, I’ve played co-ed sports all the time

Anxiously watching the fire maps along with many other folks I know. Really feeling for those displaced or impacted by the fires so far, with likely more to come. Stay safe Los Angeles!

Imagine being a public company and steward of discourse, and elevating a man to your Board of Directors who publicly beat his wife. It's hard to feel like squelching internal dissent about it is the bad part.

Digging

I did 75 hard pickleball minutes yesterday, does that count?

Does anyone else do the thing where you answer a phone call but situationally pretend like you don’t know exactly who’s calling from the callerID, because it just feels too weird and overly familiar to pick up and be like “Oh hi Gary” to your plumber?

In the Sopranos, no one would be confused about this message.