Dave Alvarado
@alvarado.social
Full-stack dev in a non-tech company. Cishet brown dude. He/him.
Mastodon: https://alvarado.social/@dave
I play a chaotic good tank in real life.
Mastodon: https://alvarado.social/@dave
I play a chaotic good tank in real life.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus while vowing to call Trump's trade war bluff on CNN just now,
"This isn't gunboat diplomacy (laughs). I mean, this is like an Al Capone shakedown in his syphilis phase."
"This isn't gunboat diplomacy (laughs). I mean, this is like an Al Capone shakedown in his syphilis phase."
February 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Canadian MP Charlie Angus while vowing to call Trump's trade war bluff on CNN just now,
"This isn't gunboat diplomacy (laughs). I mean, this is like an Al Capone shakedown in his syphilis phase."
"This isn't gunboat diplomacy (laughs). I mean, this is like an Al Capone shakedown in his syphilis phase."
Timeline cleanse.
February 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Timeline cleanse.
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a true king in Texas 👑👑👑
January 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
a true king in Texas 👑👑👑
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I'm assuming everyone knows that this "new" idea of "meritocracy" is just: "white men have merit by definition, and everyone else doesn't," right?
January 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I'm assuming everyone knows that this "new" idea of "meritocracy" is just: "white men have merit by definition, and everyone else doesn't," right?
Interesting. Who would have thought that the organizations people join to make sure they never get bullied again aren't willing to actually, you know, *do* things, and as soon as "putting yourself in danger" is the job, they don't want to do it.
January 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Interesting. Who would have thought that the organizations people join to make sure they never get bullied again aren't willing to actually, you know, *do* things, and as soon as "putting yourself in danger" is the job, they don't want to do it.
Oh hey look, people are catching on to the fact that AGI is a lie, so Sam is on to pushing the next pipe dream.
![Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang speaking at an event in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024. Photographer: Kyodo/AP Images
So energy …
Fusion’s gonna work.
Fusion is going to work. Um. On what time frame?
Soon. Well, soon there will be a demonstration of net-gain fusion. You then have to build a system that doesn’t break. You have to scale it up. You have to figure out how to build a factory—build a lot of them—and you have to get regulatory approval. And that will take, you know, years altogether? But I would expect [Helion 20] will show you that fusion works soon.
20 Helion, a clean energy startup backed by Altman, Dustin Moskovitz and Reid Hoffman, focuses on developing nuclear fusion.
In the short term, is there any way to sustain AI’s growth without going backward on climate goals?
Yes, but none that is as good, in my opinion, as quickly permitting fusion reactors. I think our particular kind of fusion is such a beautiful approach that we should just race toward that and be done.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreiee7jjkbneuad2nrf4n2muxyl4ud6st5pnnr37b6tqep2nhnyreby@jpeg)
January 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Oh hey look, people are catching on to the fact that AGI is a lie, so Sam is on to pushing the next pipe dream.
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when you are not allowed to criticize fascism, that's a good indication you are living in a fascist state.
A Milwaukee TV weather forecaster was dropped by her station a day after she criticized Elon Musk for his Nazi salute
CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture
Meteorologist Sam Kuffel criticized Elon Musk on social media for his straight-arm gesture some likened to a Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration.
www.jsonline.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
when you are not allowed to criticize fascism, that's a good indication you are living in a fascist state.
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It’s a handy-dandy guide for how bureaucracies were thwarted back then!
Did you know that this neat WW2 Office of Strategic Services Simple Sabotage Manual is declassified and available freely online? www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
www.gutenberg.org
January 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It’s a handy-dandy guide for how bureaucracies were thwarted back then!
This! Open your Bible to the New Testament and start reading. You'll hit the Sermon on the Mount a few pages in.
January 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This! Open your Bible to the New Testament and start reading. You'll hit the Sermon on the Mount a few pages in.
Ladies and ladies, behold the biggest own-goal I've ever seen.
So then all people are female regardless of further development. Congrats, folks, we've finally gotten rid of Men™️.🙄
January 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Ladies and ladies, behold the biggest own-goal I've ever seen.
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Been needing to figure out some accessibility options to rest my eyes more but still read massive quantities of research papers... Does anybody use a tool capable of doing audio reads for a PDF that they like well enough? I can tolerate imperfect here if it helps enough
January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Been needing to figure out some accessibility options to rest my eyes more but still read massive quantities of research papers... Does anybody use a tool capable of doing audio reads for a PDF that they like well enough? I can tolerate imperfect here if it helps enough
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So now that white people en masse are realizing they too can be treated like Black folks, we’ll probably seem some real civic action that hasn’t happened in a long while.
Because of white people fear anything, it’s being treated like Black folks.
Because of white people fear anything, it’s being treated like Black folks.
January 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
So now that white people en masse are realizing they too can be treated like Black folks, we’ll probably seem some real civic action that hasn’t happened in a long while.
Because of white people fear anything, it’s being treated like Black folks.
Because of white people fear anything, it’s being treated like Black folks.
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THIS is why the powers that be don't want unions in the US. Look at what unionized sex workers do to the powers that be when cops don't do their jobs.
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[Mexico City, Mexico]
Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building.
Via Ghost of Durruti
Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building.
Via Ghost of Durruti
January 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
THIS is why the powers that be don't want unions in the US. Look at what unionized sex workers do to the powers that be when cops don't do their jobs.
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Jesus. Reminder that the old slogan was "Democracy Dies in Darkness".
New slogan is basically "Bread And Circuses, But In Newspaper Format"
bsky.app/profile/benm...
New slogan is basically "Bread And Circuses, But In Newspaper Format"
bsky.app/profile/benm...
scoop: The Washington Post today is unveiling a new mission statement that has been in the works for months
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’
This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Jesus. Reminder that the old slogan was "Democracy Dies in Darkness".
New slogan is basically "Bread And Circuses, But In Newspaper Format"
bsky.app/profile/benm...
New slogan is basically "Bread And Circuses, But In Newspaper Format"
bsky.app/profile/benm...
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They use the term to mean “b*itch” and “<ethic/racial slur>”. That is quite literally its meaning.
Rep. Andrew Clyde refers to FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell as a "DEI hire"
(she's a woman)
(she's a woman)
January 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
They use the term to mean “b*itch” and “<ethic/racial slur>”. That is quite literally its meaning.
Fuck around, find out.
For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc
January 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Fuck around, find out.
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I have a friend who is looking at a role at Microsoft and she would like to know more about the work culture there.
Are there any folks currently working there willing to send me a blurb about your experience so I can pass it along?
Are there any folks currently working there willing to send me a blurb about your experience so I can pass it along?
January 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I have a friend who is looking at a role at Microsoft and she would like to know more about the work culture there.
Are there any folks currently working there willing to send me a blurb about your experience so I can pass it along?
Are there any folks currently working there willing to send me a blurb about your experience so I can pass it along?
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What’s the deal with supposed progressives posting Gen AI imagery? You’re using several gallons of water and god knows how much power each time, to make stuff that looks like dead dog ass. And insulting actual artists in the process.
January 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
What’s the deal with supposed progressives posting Gen AI imagery? You’re using several gallons of water and god knows how much power each time, to make stuff that looks like dead dog ass. And insulting actual artists in the process.
Three word pr0n: bsky.app/profile/dons...
December 31, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Three word pr0n: bsky.app/profile/dons...
Just when I thought 2024 was going to be a total write-off. 🤣
Steve Bannon Joins War Against Elon Musk as MAGA Implodes |
Steve Bannon Joins War Against Elon Musk as MAGA Implodes
Donald Trump’s biggest fans are at each other’s throats over immigration, and H-1B visas in particular.
buff.ly
December 27, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Just when I thought 2024 was going to be a total write-off. 🤣
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At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
December 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.