Luiz E.
@kowalski.bsky.social
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February 13, 2026 at 10:29 AM
useswitchboard.app now has Outlook, Fastmail, and Apple Calendar support
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In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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“The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez." www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:40 PM
“The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez." www.propublica.org/article/alex...
finally made this public - been using snowflake IDs in a few projects and figured I'd package it up. rust does the heavy lifting (because I wanted to see if I could do it)
> github.com/luizkowalski...
> github.com/luizkowalski...
GitHub - luizkowalski/snowflaked: [experimental] A Rails plugin for generating Twitter-like Snowflake IDs using a high-performance Rust backend. Thread-safe with configurable machine ID and custom epo...
[experimental] A Rails plugin for generating Twitter-like Snowflake IDs using a high-performance Rust backend. Thread-safe with configurable machine ID and custom epoch support - luizkowalski/snowf...
github.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:30 PM
finally made this public - been using snowflake IDs in a few projects and figured I'd package it up. rust does the heavy lifting (because I wanted to see if I could do it)
> github.com/luizkowalski...
> github.com/luizkowalski...
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i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
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I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
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Todo mundo vinha declarando que o fim do jornalismo estava próximo, ele chegou.
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Todo mundo vinha declarando que o fim do jornalismo estava próximo, ele chegou.
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Sempre bom lembrar que o fascismo é, psicologicamente, o movimento político dos ressentidos.
Artistas fracassados viram facho.
Uber é quase sempre reaça.
Velho broxa é um poço de ressentimento e ódio.
O fascismo se alimenta disso. Porque dá um propósito, alguém a quem culpar pelo próprio fracasso.
Artistas fracassados viram facho.
Uber é quase sempre reaça.
Velho broxa é um poço de ressentimento e ódio.
O fascismo se alimenta disso. Porque dá um propósito, alguém a quem culpar pelo próprio fracasso.
Odeio esse vídeo porque ele me lembra que artistas medíocres ressentidos abraçam o fascismo com tudo
📍 São Paulo - Estádio do Morumbis
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Sempre bom lembrar que o fascismo é, psicologicamente, o movimento político dos ressentidos.
Artistas fracassados viram facho.
Uber é quase sempre reaça.
Velho broxa é um poço de ressentimento e ódio.
O fascismo se alimenta disso. Porque dá um propósito, alguém a quem culpar pelo próprio fracasso.
Artistas fracassados viram facho.
Uber é quase sempre reaça.
Velho broxa é um poço de ressentimento e ódio.
O fascismo se alimenta disso. Porque dá um propósito, alguém a quem culpar pelo próprio fracasso.
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AI efficiency gains are utter and complete bullshit.
WARN filings expose 4.7k of Amazon's 14k cuts last month. 500 PMs were laid off while engineers (1,800 laid off) were hit hardest, mostly SDE IIs which refutes the "management bloat" narrative.
The trend is clear: Big Tech continues to purge junior roles due to "AI efficiency gains."
The trend is clear: Big Tech continues to purge junior roles due to "AI efficiency gains."
Amazon cut more than 1,800 engineers in record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster
Nearly 40% of the roughly 4,700 positions Amazon eliminated across Washington, New York, New Jersey and California were engineering jobs.
www.cnbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
AI efficiency gains are utter and complete bullshit.
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"I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene edition
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Marjorie Taylor Greene edition
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene edition
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Marjorie Taylor Greene edition
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Didn’t even take 24 hours for billionaires to decide they aren’t leaving New York after all.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Didn’t even take 24 hours for billionaires to decide they aren’t leaving New York after all.
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People telling me that Trump didn’t forget he was the president on January 6th 2021, he’s trying to convince his followers he wasn’t.
October 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
People telling me that Trump didn’t forget he was the president on January 6th 2021, he’s trying to convince his followers he wasn’t.
I like Mastodon's approach to IDs using Snowflake, and I packaged it into a gem that integrates with Rails github.com/luizkowalski...
GitHub - luizkowalski/snowflake_id: 💎 Snowflake-like IDs for Rails applications backed by PostgreSQL
💎 Snowflake-like IDs for Rails applications backed by PostgreSQL - luizkowalski/snowflake_id
github.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I like Mastodon's approach to IDs using Snowflake, and I packaged it into a gem that integrates with Rails github.com/luizkowalski...
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Everything I want I can afford, because if I can’t afford it then I don’t want it. A philosophy that has served me well for decades.
August 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Everything I want I can afford, because if I can’t afford it then I don’t want it. A philosophy that has served me well for decades.
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Generative AI tools are the blood diamonds of the tech industry. The technology is quite impressive and valuable but the ethics of how it’s made is questionable AF.
August 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Generative AI tools are the blood diamonds of the tech industry. The technology is quite impressive and valuable but the ethics of how it’s made is questionable AF.
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Playing Watchdogs 2 and it has a long prelude explaining the world where it’s like “every company is selling your data, people are profiling you and assigning a dollar value” and every time I start up the game it goes HOW ABOUT YOU SYNC THIS WITH AN UBISOFT ACCOUNT & TAKE YOUR GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL
July 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Playing Watchdogs 2 and it has a long prelude explaining the world where it’s like “every company is selling your data, people are profiling you and assigning a dollar value” and every time I start up the game it goes HOW ABOUT YOU SYNC THIS WITH AN UBISOFT ACCOUNT & TAKE YOUR GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL
I've been using Conductor (conductor.build), and it is insane what it can do. I revamped useswitchboard.app UI in record time
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July 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I've been using Conductor (conductor.build), and it is insane what it can do. I revamped useswitchboard.app UI in record time
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Almost every time I start to play with some new programming language I tell myself something along the lines of "I really miss the amazing #Ruby standard library right now!". Ruby is not without its flaws, but the standard library is very comprehensive and one of the best in the industry.
June 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Almost every time I start to play with some new programming language I tell myself something along the lines of "I really miss the amazing #Ruby standard library right now!". Ruby is not without its flaws, but the standard library is very comprehensive and one of the best in the industry.
Germany in 2025
In 1948, President Mariano Ospina of Colombia signed a "tax on single men".
It imposed a 15% income tax for all colombian men above 35 who weren't married. This rule was in force for 12 years.
It imposed a 15% income tax for all colombian men above 35 who weren't married. This rule was in force for 12 years.
June 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Germany in 2025
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Traffic to news sites is plummeting as Google has rolled out AI overviews which provides answers without needing to click on links.
Google had no choice but to respond to the rise of tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity but this definitely feels like a snake eating its own tail.
Google had no choice but to respond to the rise of tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity but this definitely feels like a snake eating its own tail.
News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools
Chatbots are replacing Google’s traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers.
www.wsj.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Traffic to news sites is plummeting as Google has rolled out AI overviews which provides answers without needing to click on links.
Google had no choice but to respond to the rise of tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity but this definitely feels like a snake eating its own tail.
Google had no choice but to respond to the rise of tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity but this definitely feels like a snake eating its own tail.
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Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
May 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies
But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI