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I am a Denver-based software engineer (Java and GCP). I use old Commodore 64 and Atari ST computers; practice aikido and kenjutsu; am a JD; and like pineapple on pizza. 🇺🇸🇵🇷 Hablo español. Parlo una mica de català.
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We are now the enemy.

It seems to me that if Musk has proof that millions of social security checks have gone out illegally to dead people, he should be presenting that evidence in front of a grand jury under oath tomorrow instead of shitposting it on social media. When can we do this under oath?

lol

Sorry, I’m a bit out of the loop here. Am I to understand a show famously titled Saturday Night Live, decided to have its 50th anniversary special on a Sunday?

The Department of Government Efficiency is ransacking multiple federal agencies, without oversight or safeguards, and EFF is glad to join the brigade of lawsuits to protect this critical information.

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

I can see why.

lol you dumb fucks

"I’ve been on the bench for over four decades," Senior U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, said. "I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Picard leadership tip: The larger your audience and the higher your position, the greater the need to communicate with care and precision.

Yes.

📣 Thread: Here's a few things you can do to protect your mental health on here today and going forward. 1. Add mute words (in Settings > Moderation). Use keywords like politician last names, party names, event names, policy names, slogan names--just be mindful that some terms can be too broad.

“Time to go” @thecure.com www.nme.com/news/music/r...

Today I am declaring Federation Emergency at the Bajoran Wormhole and will send warships to the Celestial Temple to repel the disastrous invasion of our quadrant. #StarTrek #InaugurationDay #SISKO197

Starfleet, who wished to stop our cause and Sisko even tried to take my freedom, and indeed, to take my life ... my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by the Pah-Wraiths to MAKE ALPHA QUADRANT GREAT AGAIN!! #StarTrek #InaugurationDay #SISKO197

a bald eagle in a dumpster screaming to the heavens is probably the most fitting image to start this next administration.

#timelinecleanser youtu.be/DF-PHzLyiu4?...

What would Mike Johnson or Trump say if one day soon CA decided to say FU we are keeping our money. See below. B as BILLIONS. Thats what happens.

Me clicking on a restaurant website: I wonder when they're open and what they serve Restaurant website: O U R M I S S I O N

Don't want to leave Facebook, but you'd also like to disrupt how much they monetize your data? Some guidance, via Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Is it me, or does it seem there’s a lot of misspelled memes going around? There’s some really good ones I’d like to share, but cannot in good conscience if they are misspelled

this is the most likely outcome also, useful parallel with bluesky and the brazil ban on X last summer: even if the app shuts down for a month, that is not enough for people to fully build up their social graph on a new network. people will migrate back to tiktok en masse if its unbanned again

The most interesting thing about the SpaceX explosion is how many people are now openly rooting for SpaceX to fail. That's really unfortunate, but it's also entirely Elon's doing.

The Walgreens CEO being like "Whoops! Turns out nobody wants to shop at a store where the products are impossible to access!" illustrates how so many companies disregard the customer experience. I literally don't care if people shoplift from Walgreens. Stop making it my problem.

EFF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court's Decision to Uphold TikTok Ban:

Agreed. I need to do a better job at this.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously upheld a law to ban TikTok in the United States if its Chinese parent company doesn't sell off its U.S. assets by Jan. 19. President-elect Donald Trump, however, has said he supports TikTok and will find a way to keep the app running.

"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is kinda like "Don't Be Evil" as a slogan. It's a bit worrying when you choose it, but it's a lot more worrying when you take it down

Good read on Apple's compromise between privacy and performance in search

Questions you can always ask in an incident review: What made this particular incident hard to deal with? What skills helped the responders diagnose and remediate?

I've done an unusual number of mentoring calls this week, and one thing I'd like to remind everyone is, you are enough, and you can't forget how far you've come. You're most likely in the best position you've ever been in to build on top of everything you've done until this point.