pablo
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🇺🇸/🇬🇹. had a life in tech (ex - Ramp, Lyft, ClassPass, Google, Adobe, 2 other startups). figuring out what's next https://pablotimer.com . Personal blog at morepablo.com
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Law enforcement: we need to break encryption to get access to Signal to protect the children!!
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Law enforcement: we need to break encryption to get access to Signal to protect the children!!
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
agree this is incredibly annoying. I liked this video on it www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZgj...
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
agree this is incredibly annoying. I liked this video on it www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZgj...
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She gave us the best tweet archive update ever lol
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
She gave us the best tweet archive update ever lol
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
Tax Churches
Government buyback of guns, and after 6 months, we just take them
Abolish ICE
CBP reverted to 90's version
Something that looks a lot like prison abolition
Cities of certain density (still pretty low; Dallas qualifies) have many pro-bike/transit anti-car measures
No school lunch debt
Government buyback of guns, and after 6 months, we just take them
Abolish ICE
CBP reverted to 90's version
Something that looks a lot like prison abolition
Cities of certain density (still pretty low; Dallas qualifies) have many pro-bike/transit anti-car measures
No school lunch debt
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Tax Churches
Government buyback of guns, and after 6 months, we just take them
Abolish ICE
CBP reverted to 90's version
Something that looks a lot like prison abolition
Cities of certain density (still pretty low; Dallas qualifies) have many pro-bike/transit anti-car measures
No school lunch debt
Government buyback of guns, and after 6 months, we just take them
Abolish ICE
CBP reverted to 90's version
Something that looks a lot like prison abolition
Cities of certain density (still pretty low; Dallas qualifies) have many pro-bike/transit anti-car measures
No school lunch debt
Also how long it spent in each phase
Like, I became aware of it at 1, but it was months before it was 2, where it lived for less than a year
followed by 8-12 YEARS of 3 and 4
Like, I became aware of it at 1, but it was months before it was 2, where it lived for less than a year
followed by 8-12 YEARS of 3 and 4
i'd love to read a real evolution of "stay woke" - i saw it evolve as:
1. in black culture, a way of pointing out structural racism
2. on black twitter, same thing but often a joke about something silly
3. white people adopt woke to mean generic antiracism
4. conservatives learn a new n-word
1. in black culture, a way of pointing out structural racism
2. on black twitter, same thing but often a joke about something silly
3. white people adopt woke to mean generic antiracism
4. conservatives learn a new n-word
“woke” as i recall originated as a kind of ironic conspiratorial posting thing on black twitter (“stay woke”), and then conservatives decided it was just “political correctness” in the millennial era bsky.app/profile/unst...
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Also how long it spent in each phase
Like, I became aware of it at 1, but it was months before it was 2, where it lived for less than a year
followed by 8-12 YEARS of 3 and 4
Like, I became aware of it at 1, but it was months before it was 2, where it lived for less than a year
followed by 8-12 YEARS of 3 and 4
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enjoying the fact that someone somewhere has been wandering around thinking this is true
October 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
enjoying the fact that someone somewhere has been wandering around thinking this is true
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
I largely agree with this thread and love data centers as a concept, but simultaneously feel that most companies could save a lot of money if they colocate 2-3 servers instead of run cloud
ideally they colocate in a data center!
ideally they colocate in a data center!
I genuinely don’t think people realize that datacenters and what they accomplish (hyperscalers) are genuinely a far more efficient way to do the computation required for modern life. Limiting datacenters is not more efficient and does not consume less power for the same amount of compute.
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I largely agree with this thread and love data centers as a concept, but simultaneously feel that most companies could save a lot of money if they colocate 2-3 servers instead of run cloud
ideally they colocate in a data center!
ideally they colocate in a data center!
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Remember how the Panama Papers changed nothing, and the leaker got killed?
Remember how Chelsea Manning's leaks didn't lead to any real heads rolling?
Remember when Edward Snowden patriotically gave up a life in the US and it didn't change surveillance culture?
Remember
Remember how Chelsea Manning's leaks didn't lead to any real heads rolling?
Remember when Edward Snowden patriotically gave up a life in the US and it didn't change surveillance culture?
Remember
All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Remember how the Panama Papers changed nothing, and the leaker got killed?
Remember how Chelsea Manning's leaks didn't lead to any real heads rolling?
Remember when Edward Snowden patriotically gave up a life in the US and it didn't change surveillance culture?
Remember
Remember how Chelsea Manning's leaks didn't lead to any real heads rolling?
Remember when Edward Snowden patriotically gave up a life in the US and it didn't change surveillance culture?
Remember
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This builds on @mtsw.bsky.social ‘s theory the real reason managers and corporates hate work from home is it exposes who can read and who can write, and hint hint, a lot of America’s higher up can barely do either
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This builds on @mtsw.bsky.social ‘s theory the real reason managers and corporates hate work from home is it exposes who can read and who can write, and hint hint, a lot of America’s higher up can barely do either
it reminds me a bit of Google?
~a decade of "the system works! what a great company!" and then in the mid 2010's we learn of massive amounts of womanizing happening (Sergey, Drummond, Rubin)
so the 90s/00s were what they were, but they also had a substrate layer of ALL these guys doing this shit
~a decade of "the system works! what a great company!" and then in the mid 2010's we learn of massive amounts of womanizing happening (Sergey, Drummond, Rubin)
so the 90s/00s were what they were, but they also had a substrate layer of ALL these guys doing this shit
Hmm it seems that all the people who rule over us, in government and the private sector and academia, are evil pedophiles.
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
it reminds me a bit of Google?
~a decade of "the system works! what a great company!" and then in the mid 2010's we learn of massive amounts of womanizing happening (Sergey, Drummond, Rubin)
so the 90s/00s were what they were, but they also had a substrate layer of ALL these guys doing this shit
~a decade of "the system works! what a great company!" and then in the mid 2010's we learn of massive amounts of womanizing happening (Sergey, Drummond, Rubin)
so the 90s/00s were what they were, but they also had a substrate layer of ALL these guys doing this shit
I always said that most "big company bullshit" happens because "generating docs, demanding docs, having meetings -- the customer doesn't care, but it feels like work is happening." It's hard to tell too, because you do need some process!
But GenAI feeds into the worst of that
But GenAI feeds into the worst of that
it's just, yeah, genai isn't going to make a great developer any more productive, and as best we can tell, it makes them slower
but the people in your company who simply do not give a fuck? it lets them create work and look productive
for every honest genai user there are countless more scammers
but the people in your company who simply do not give a fuck? it lets them create work and look productive
for every honest genai user there are countless more scammers
Glad to see Polygon cover the resistance of game developers to generative AI--and to be able to speak briefly to one of the greatest dangers of this entire thing.
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I always said that most "big company bullshit" happens because "generating docs, demanding docs, having meetings -- the customer doesn't care, but it feels like work is happening." It's hard to tell too, because you do need some process!
But GenAI feeds into the worst of that
But GenAI feeds into the worst of that
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
I think one of the most important strengths you can have, if you're lucky to have it or develop it, is to refuse to be awed by rich or powerful people on that basis alone
i have said this before but i think that the people who were “charmed” by epstein wanted to be charmed
honestly one of the most striking things about epstein's emails is the fact that the man, described in many places as "a genius," is essentially subliterate
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I think one of the most important strengths you can have, if you're lucky to have it or develop it, is to refuse to be awed by rich or powerful people on that basis alone
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The American penny died on Wednesday in Philadelphia. It was 232. The cause was irrelevance and expensiveness, the Treasury Department said. Nothing could be bought any more with a penny, as the cost to mint the penny had risen to more than 3 cents. nyti.ms/48bFd5K
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The American penny died on Wednesday in Philadelphia. It was 232. The cause was irrelevance and expensiveness, the Treasury Department said. Nothing could be bought any more with a penny, as the cost to mint the penny had risen to more than 3 cents. nyti.ms/48bFd5K
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*in chicago* alone
3300 people. the federal government has disappeared over 20 people a day for almost half a year
Good morning from Judge Jeffrey Cumming's courtroom, where he's considering a motion to release 100s of "Midway Blitz" arrestees on EM who were subjected to "warrantless" arrest.
ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...
ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...
November 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
*in chicago* alone
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
a) hilarious
b) human-made art keeps winning: this weekend I visited home, and the most popular thing for my niece and nephew (11 and 8) was working through @thecryptmaster.bsky.social 's skull riddles
It's a great game! Do check it out!
b) human-made art keeps winning: this weekend I visited home, and the most popular thing for my niece and nephew (11 and 8) was working through @thecryptmaster.bsky.social 's skull riddles
It's a great game! Do check it out!
Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
a) hilarious
b) human-made art keeps winning: this weekend I visited home, and the most popular thing for my niece and nephew (11 and 8) was working through @thecryptmaster.bsky.social 's skull riddles
It's a great game! Do check it out!
b) human-made art keeps winning: this weekend I visited home, and the most popular thing for my niece and nephew (11 and 8) was working through @thecryptmaster.bsky.social 's skull riddles
It's a great game! Do check it out!
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What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
This is fascinating!
Also, I wonder how this would be different for logographic languages like Chinese Hanzi/Japanese Kanji, where "phonics" as an idea wouldn't be so straightforward
Also, I wonder how this would be different for logographic languages like Chinese Hanzi/Japanese Kanji, where "phonics" as an idea wouldn't be so straightforward
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is fascinating!
Also, I wonder how this would be different for logographic languages like Chinese Hanzi/Japanese Kanji, where "phonics" as an idea wouldn't be so straightforward
Also, I wonder how this would be different for logographic languages like Chinese Hanzi/Japanese Kanji, where "phonics" as an idea wouldn't be so straightforward
It'd be like if you had your own personal FTC officer who'd be assigned to prevent you from tweeting market manipulation
(would work as well as that did, too)
(would work as well as that did, too)
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It'd be like if you had your own personal FTC officer who'd be assigned to prevent you from tweeting market manipulation
(would work as well as that did, too)
(would work as well as that did, too)
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In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
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I give you American tech bro AI
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I give you American tech bro AI