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I'm @miguelytob on the hell site. Senior Software Engineer @ Duolingo. Ex Apple, ex Twitter, ex Google. Opinions are my own. been described as "always agitated". 🏳️‍🌈 en/es/pt 📍nyc🗽
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#AA63 is squawking 7700 over the West of England. Reason unknown. www.flightradar24.com/AAL63/392b6068 More info on 'squawking 7700' here. www.flightradar24.com/blog/what-ar...

good summary

This is the guy who led the utterly incompetent Twitter encrypted DM program

bringback.duolingo.com

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! Did you know that if you saved $100,000 a day every day from the birth of Jesus to today, you still wouldn't have 1/5th of Elon Musk's net worth? Does Elon Musk perform labor that is worth way over $100,000/day for 2000+ years? Or is something seriously wrong here?

I would trust my cat with root access more than I would trust this man, and my cat is literally named 0day

I have to publicly thank @koncavechest.bsky.social for the really sweet early birthday present he got me: a Blu-ray of my favorite singer’s latest concert tour and also their first album from 25 years ago ❤️

I always say if you’re not seeing the subway crazy person then it’s you. Whoops. Lived it very vividly today. Today on my commute my headphones didn’t connect to my phone (They were on and in noise cancelling mode just failed to connect) and I didn’t notice …

pathetic

There's something quite unique about the version of 旅路 (Tabiji) that Fujii Kaze performs in his Feeling Good Stadium Live... It is kinda grungy and in a way reminds me of 90s Rock en Español... Considering it's one of his most contemplative songs it's quite the combination, but it works!

access to the payment *records* will be read-only but... uh, it doesn't specify that their access to the code and systems that manipulate the payment records will be read-only as well, does it? I can think of how I'd get cute with this and drive a truck through it.

one of my former twitter colleagues (an engineer): “musk is doing to the government what he said could be done to the twitter code — just delete it and see what happens”

I hope someone is keeping track of which elected officials bought and sold stocks.

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

Can anyone stop President Musk?

Just pointing out that Elon Musk, government employee, removing content from ExTwitter criticizing government employees, seems like the kind of First Amendment issue that old Elon Musk was concerned about: www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/m...

Duolingo does a learning challenge for employees twice a year for 5000 xp on a course of your choosing for a reasonable bonus. It started today and ITS ON.

Rebuilding the things that Musk is gleefully destroying will require literally thousands of times more work to rebuild than it took to destroy them. That's assuming that the United States has a future in which it is possible to rebuild.

Tariff situation as of 4pm: —Tariffs on Mexico “paused” for 1 month —Trudeau & Trump supposedly spoke for the 2 time today an hour ago, no word on any resolution —Seemingly no progress between Beijing & Washington Without any changes, tariffs on Canada & China begin in 8 hours

The executive branch does not have the legal right to cancel appropriated spending or eliminate agencies created by Congress. Trump and Musk are doing both. Entirely lawless and unconstitutional. The world's largest provider of food assistance shut down. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Withholding foreign aid was what Trump was impeached for! The laws have not changed. But he wasn’t convicted so now he is doing it on a much greater scale!

This is a big deal. We could see a full ground stoppage by morning of all flights if not immediately fixed. Really feels like things are coming apart quickly. Last outage of NOTAM in 2023 led to the largest ground stoppage since 9/11.

I am so goddamn mad. A friend who’s been FISHING BODIES OUT OF THE POTOMAC appears to be in the Trump purges today.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Feels like outside OPM and GSA headquarters where Musk has set up his bases of operations would be prime places to stage protests.

BREAKING NEWS: It is much worse than previously reported: Not only were at least 30 federal attorneys who worked on January 6 cases fired, but all six of the FBI's most senior executives and multiple heads of field offices have been escorted out. This is terrifying.

“Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening: A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions.”- @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

follow @mmasnick.bsky.social -- trust me, we have seen this entire playbook before, and nothing about it is new or novel

This is authoritarianism: I've warned my non-binary clients, people I've represented relative to gender identity government bureaucracy, of increased risk when transiting US CBP on a US passport when there's been a gender marker change, until we get some clarity about what the fuck is happening

hello, my name is sam altman with an important transmission. you may be familiar with my product, mega-plagiarizer 9000. i have compelling evidence that the chinese have plagiarized the mega-plagiarizer 9000 in creating their rival mega-plagiarizer. this is unacceptable and will teach me nothing

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

They're building concentration camps on a military on foreign soil. That's what this is.

This... sounds like a concentration camp.

I’ve spent about 2-3 hours each day on calls or chats with my US gov friends. Here’s an anonymized recap of what’s going on. First, I am so very sorry that they are living our last year at Twitter. I never wanted to think about that time again, and I hope my advice is helpful. 1/