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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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Hey parents and non-techie folks! Did you know you can learn Python in your browser without installing ANYTHING! Check out VS Code for Education (they're on my team!) Go here and click "Start Course" and get started! These courses are created by University Educators! vscodeedu.com/courses/intr...

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In the coming years, I look forward to the best selling books titled “Debugging AI-generated Codebases” and its companion “Refactoring Legacy AI Systems”.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

convinced that any time you add the word "ethical" to the front of a phrase, there's a 97.83% chance it is not actually "ethical"

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

submitted 14 days ago • 826 comments

Is it 2028 yet?

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An interaction with my daughter in the car. Taliah: "Daddy, look at that big ol' X!" Me: "What big ol' X? Oh you mean the church? That's a cross and definitely closer to a Tali 'T'." 😂

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bio for @phish.com's 2025 nomination. #phish

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://publicserviceloanforgiveness.gov Action taken by the Executive Office of the President at or around 2025-02-11 06:10:11.

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Hey Elon, time to confess: You are so full of shit. Signed, A Real Software Engineer.

submitted 27 days ago • 18 comments

Vets are amazing people <3

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OMG!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Let National Squirrel Appreciation Day begin!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Learn about the risks of hallucination, jailbreaks and prompt injection and current mitigations in our ACM Queue paper:

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Another fantastic episode from Scott and Mark. youtu.be/SUpiZMwJn54?...

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The owls on this particular road have a very active neighborhood watch association. I left before they could call the cops. 🪶

submitted 42 days ago • 44 comments

Google Search, More Machine Now Than Man, Begins Requiring JavaScript

submitted 44 days ago • 54 comments

We have two open jobs for our two-year writing fellowships at @theprospect.bsky.social. It's an full-time, entry-level position where you learn by doing everything in a newsroom: reporting and writing breaking news, profiles, features, analysis. Come join the best damn team in journalism.

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

Some interesting YouTube comments youtu.be/z_pPJvLjNrk?... around AI. I’m not sure I can make it more clear

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Between RetroGameRestore getting console output on an Intel Arc GPU on the Pi 5... and one of Nvidia's OSS driver engineers looking at my bug report for their driver... It looks like we might get AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs all working (to some extent) on the Pi 5 this year!

submitted 48 days ago • 30 comments

So you’re saying it’s a good time to start TikTok-ing?

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I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥.

submitted 54 days ago • 1957 comments

I’m so glad that the price of milk will go down as soon as we rename the Gulf of America

submitted 54 days ago • 13 comments

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submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

Exploring an open world and accidentally triggering a main story mission feels like a personal attack 😩

submitted 57 days ago • 133 comments

What an incredibly savage period in time. Cartoon Journalism is powerful because pictures speak a thousand words. It's sad to see a creative fall on their sword and wouldn't be necessary if the obvious weren't so true.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

This is what I call taking the New Year by the horns. 😂

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NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION 2025: In the interest of preserving the planet, specifically water conservation, I am now selflessly resolved & fully committed to peeing in the shower. #ProudToDoMyPart

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