travvy new year
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Cat and toddler dad, co-founder @mysilio.com, engineering manager and UCAN nerd at @storacha.network, music and dancing enthusiast.
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Agents like this should be identified and their name and picture posted on a searchable web site with videos and content like this linked to their names
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Agents like this should be identified and their name and picture posted on a searchable web site with videos and content like this linked to their names
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god that’s an amazing statistic
The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:18 AM
god that’s an amazing statistic
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This is exactly right.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
People might argue that ICE is not recruiting quality agents.
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
Opinion | ICE's violence is no accident
Alan Elrod: The killing of a woman by an immigration enforcement officer in Minneapolis was the raw application of Trumpist authoritarianism.
www.ms.now
January 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM
This is exactly right.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now.
Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
Deeply harrowing and incredibly inspiring.
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Deeply harrowing and incredibly inspiring.
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Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
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“IT WAS MURDER”
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
January 10, 2026 at 8:57 PM
“IT WAS MURDER”
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
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well well well
AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune
"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.
fortune.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:52 PM
well well well
Smart and classy move from Jensen Huang tbh
Billionaires in a "Save California" Signal chat call a 5% wealth tax "Communism," the WSJ reports. "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who lives in the Bay Area and now has a roughly $150 billion nest egg, has said he was fine with the tax." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Signal Chat Where Silicon Valley Is Plotting Against California’s Billionaire Tax
Tech elite exchange criticism and tips about a wealth-tax proposal that has sent some billionaires shopping for homes elsewhere.
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Smart and classy move from Jensen Huang tbh
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Billionaires in a "Save California" Signal chat call a 5% wealth tax "Communism," the WSJ reports. "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who lives in the Bay Area and now has a roughly $150 billion nest egg, has said he was fine with the tax." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Signal Chat Where Silicon Valley Is Plotting Against California’s Billionaire Tax
Tech elite exchange criticism and tips about a wealth-tax proposal that has sent some billionaires shopping for homes elsewhere.
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Billionaires in a "Save California" Signal chat call a 5% wealth tax "Communism," the WSJ reports. "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who lives in the Bay Area and now has a roughly $150 billion nest egg, has said he was fine with the tax." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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It's amazing how much stuff happens in Signal chats these days.
Billionaires in a "Save California" Signal chat call a 5% wealth tax "Communism," the WSJ reports. "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who lives in the Bay Area and now has a roughly $150 billion nest egg, has said he was fine with the tax." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Signal Chat Where Silicon Valley Is Plotting Against California’s Billionaire Tax
Tech elite exchange criticism and tips about a wealth-tax proposal that has sent some billionaires shopping for homes elsewhere.
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:50 PM
It's amazing how much stuff happens in Signal chats these days.
now thinking about that fire Chou Tofu I had a week ago and missing #Taiwan
I do think it’s always a bit of a smell to have compiled code sitting around where an human might see it, but sometimes good things smell bad so this is more art than science for sure.
January 10, 2026 at 7:42 PM
now thinking about that fire Chou Tofu I had a week ago and missing #Taiwan
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Yeah, it's part of that whole high dimension constraint satisfaction! Sometimes there's no way to satisfy everything, and you need to choose the least bad option. There's a lot of skill and judgement in that
January 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Yeah, it's part of that whole high dimension constraint satisfaction! Sometimes there's no way to satisfy everything, and you need to choose the least bad option. There's a lot of skill and judgement in that
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I simply do not believe there is any moral goodness in manual labor when you can automate it away. The moral goodness lies in the act of automating it away, freeing one to follow other pursuits
January 10, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I simply do not believe there is any moral goodness in manual labor when you can automate it away. The moral goodness lies in the act of automating it away, freeing one to follow other pursuits
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and i'm not the first to say this, but it is a grave mistake that folks want to cede an important technology to the right
we fight for technology so that we can direct it towards good ends. we don't just let the other side take good tools because we don't like how they use those tools
we fight for technology so that we can direct it towards good ends. we don't just let the other side take good tools because we don't like how they use those tools
January 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
and i'm not the first to say this, but it is a grave mistake that folks want to cede an important technology to the right
we fight for technology so that we can direct it towards good ends. we don't just let the other side take good tools because we don't like how they use those tools
we fight for technology so that we can direct it towards good ends. we don't just let the other side take good tools because we don't like how they use those tools
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a thing i've been thinking about posting for a long time is "back in those days, the workers didn't say "eww factories were created by capitalists to enrich capitalists, we should abandon factories" they said "we should seize them and direct their output for the good of humanity"
January 10, 2026 at 7:07 PM
a thing i've been thinking about posting for a long time is "back in those days, the workers didn't say "eww factories were created by capitalists to enrich capitalists, we should abandon factories" they said "we should seize them and direct their output for the good of humanity"
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This is a big difference between software and art. A lot of art is done for its own sake. Software is mostly not done for that—it is a means to solve problems and make people's lives better. (A lot of software makes people's lives worse, but the problem there is the software, not how it was written)
January 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
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To me, software engineering is about solving high dimension constraint satisfaction problems through creative insights, with the overall goal being to solve real problems. Spending 2 days resolving merge conflicts is a thing I've done in the past. I've gotten no value, no insight from it
January 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
To me, software engineering is about solving high dimension constraint satisfaction problems through creative insights, with the overall goal being to solve real problems. Spending 2 days resolving merge conflicts is a thing I've done in the past. I've gotten no value, no insight from it
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I've been sitting with the discomfort here a bunch, and to me this is it, right? What is being suggested is that I engage in an act of self-flagellation (resolving thousands of lines of merge conflicts by hand) because the richest man in the world uses some of the same underlying tech to peddle CSAM
![Screenshot of Claude Code terminal interface showing a migration progress checklist
The terminal displays a dark-themed interface with two tabs labeled "1: fg" and "2: ~" at the top. The main content shows a detailed task list for what appears to be a Rust codebase migration project.
The upper portion (lines 47-54) shows completed tasks highlighted in green, including items like "PrivateIpStackCreate enum," "InstanceNetworkInterfaceCreate with ip_config," and creating dual_stack_nics files for floating_ip.rs and probe.rs.
Below that, lines 43-54 show another set of completed tasks (marked with [x]) in a green-highlighted block, detailing work on dual_stack_nics/instance.rs including IpAssignment<T> enum, type aliases, and various struct implementations.
The middle section shows "Phase 4: Add Types to silo_project_ip_version_and_pool_type" with a file being written containing Mozilla Public License headers and module documentation about adding ip_version and pool_type fields to SiloIpPool responses.
At the bottom, a "Cerebrating..." status bar shows the AI is thinking (1m 30s elapsed, 5.7k tokens). Below this is a checklist of remaining tasks including completing dual_stack_nics/instance.rs, creating version module files, updating latest.rs, resolving conflicts, and running cargo checks.
The footer shows "accept edits on (shift+tab to cycle)" indicating pending code changes awaiting user approval.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sl3g3nhnad34sfhjnqdivbzd/bafkreiep35hi26nxyemiy4v2tvo7mlkftnbwice3rvs3phucmlnbzguw3q@jpeg)
January 10, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I've been sitting with the discomfort here a bunch, and to me this is it, right? What is being suggested is that I engage in an act of self-flagellation (resolving thousands of lines of merge conflicts by hand) because the richest man in the world uses some of the same underlying tech to peddle CSAM
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i think a core beef that i have with a lot of this "automation is bad" sentiment lately is that there is no inherent moral good in laboring
the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily
the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily
I've been sitting with the discomfort here a bunch, and to me this is it, right? What is being suggested is that I engage in an act of self-flagellation (resolving thousands of lines of merge conflicts by hand) because the richest man in the world uses some of the same underlying tech to peddle CSAM
This is a miracle. Do you know how many hours of work this saves me
January 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
i think a core beef that i have with a lot of this "automation is bad" sentiment lately is that there is no inherent moral good in laboring
the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily
the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily
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I cannot express how incredibly vapid it is for @chatterton.bsky.social to be essentially resorting to civility discourse when the thing we are talking about is an armed agent of the state shooting a woman to death in broad daylight, confident that his thug regime will protect him from justice.
January 10, 2026 at 7:06 PM
I cannot express how incredibly vapid it is for @chatterton.bsky.social to be essentially resorting to civility discourse when the thing we are talking about is an armed agent of the state shooting a woman to death in broad daylight, confident that his thug regime will protect him from justice.
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white guys who want to sneer at the resolve of liberal and left wing white women right now: this is a superb time to shut the fuck up and go do something useful instead
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 AM
white guys who want to sneer at the resolve of liberal and left wing white women right now: this is a superb time to shut the fuck up and go do something useful instead
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the odds that this man’s hard drives contain child porn are vastly higher than zero
rw press is using the fact that the shooter, an immigration officer, is married to a much younger recent Filipino immigrant whom he apparently met in the Phillipines as proof that he is not a racist. that is not what i would determine from that fact pattern. i would FOIA 911 calls at his address.
January 10, 2026 at 12:17 AM
the odds that this man’s hard drives contain child porn are vastly higher than zero
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I hope they all starve in mounds of their own excrement in freezing ditches.
It’s merely what they want for others.
It’s merely what they want for others.
Something tells me come 2029 there are going to be a whole lot of chuds trying to get jobs with strange three-to-four year resume gaps from 2025 to 2028.
I'm sure they'll complain that it is 'reverse racism' when no one wants to hire them.
I'm sure they'll complain that it is 'reverse racism' when no one wants to hire them.
January 10, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I hope they all starve in mounds of their own excrement in freezing ditches.
It’s merely what they want for others.
It’s merely what they want for others.
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/3 Hence, neither “Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good” nor “Ashli Babbitt was murdered” is defamatory, because those are based on your interpretation of disclosed facts — like videotaped events. You’re giving your interpretation — your OPINION — of the disclosed fact.
January 9, 2026 at 2:13 AM
/3 Hence, neither “Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good” nor “Ashli Babbitt was murdered” is defamatory, because those are based on your interpretation of disclosed facts — like videotaped events. You’re giving your interpretation — your OPINION — of the disclosed fact.
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/9 Anyway, a substantial project of the Right is to make it dangerous, expensive, and ideally illegal to speak the truth about them. Don’t give up an inch of ground.
January 9, 2026 at 2:23 AM
/9 Anyway, a substantial project of the Right is to make it dangerous, expensive, and ideally illegal to speak the truth about them. Don’t give up an inch of ground.