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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

calling zelenskyy a dictator and trying to force an election during wartime only furthers putin’s agenda and is an abdication of american leadership on the global stage. the usa has become the largest source of geopolitical uncertainty in the world. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...

Free speech absolutist

J.D. Vance's lecture in Europe basically convinced every country to quietly create a new secret group chat without the US.

Make America Find a Foundation That Matches Its Skin Tone Again

when you go too hard trying to get your new boss to like you

The Kennedy Center Dishonors

former treasury secretary larry summers: “we are now in the riskiest period for inflation policy since the early biden administration.” “even without tariffs, immigration restrictions, deficit bloat and attacks on the fed there would be serious grounds for inflation worry.”

A friend remarked this weekend that T is not, “my president.” While I agree with very little he says or does, I certainly respect the office and the electoral process. Sadly, he is my president, and I will continue to hope and pray that he makes better, kinder decisions.

3 hours to leave her house. This is how they treat a 4-star Admiral and Commandant of the Coast Guard. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

As long as there is demand, Stringer Bell will find a way to fill that demand.

Perfectly captured.

Goldman Sachs, Jan 21: "Despite Trump’s comments that the 25% tariff will be implemented in 10 days, we continue to believe the odds of a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico are low (20%)." Why have analysts been caught so flat-footed by Trump doing *exactly what he said he would*?

Was wondering where the tariffs were but remembered Trump doesn’t start thrashing around until 11am most days

Imagine dying in service of your country and your family needing to request anonymity because of the President of the United States and his supporters.

Janet Yellen told me once Donald Trump doesn't understand economic policy. No reason

me, circa 2007

I think it already is. But seriously. Don’t call them names. We want the door open for them when they realize the mistake they made. We are for a better America. Not a vindictive America

because this exact playbook was sooo successful in retaining only the best talent at 🐦

Mark, you dipshit, I hope you know exactly how many people detest you. Personally, my hate has been a decade building, thanks to you helping fascists in India normalize hate, foment violence and destroy our democracy, such as it was.

graffiti spotted in bergen, norway:

by the grace of God, I received my vasectomy just 24 hours before we found out about Hamas’ explosive condoms

Watched Heretic (2024) earlier this week. Surprisingly deep with great performances across the board. Some tropes weren’t handled very well, but was well-crafted overall and definitely left me thinking.

old work news continues to be good and relevant work news. folks know I was “done” with cloud cost management, but Archera has been a great ride as we’re truly doing something different and new in the space

Turns out you get a sucker when you receive a vasectomy

why are they using the least precise graphics ever to represent something as discrete as “89 seconds to midnight” on the Doomsday Clock!? apnews.com/article/doom...

The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good. Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.

Most of my promotions were based on my ability to attach my work to the metrics below. Working at a major cloud provider made this a lot easier because we tracked everything. It largely comes down to earning and sharing the credit across different teams including engineering, product, and sales.