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How the morning started.
How the morning is now.
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Because free-market healthcare was famously so much better pre-ACA
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Texas/Southwest ICE/CBP/National Guard could be at home where it's warm and they aren't being yelled at daily.

Instead, Chicago:
Sun 09 Day 38° 32% NW 19 mph Scattered snow flurries and snow showers before noon. Becoming partly cloudy later. Temps nearly steady in the mid to upper 30s. Winds NW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow 30%. Higher wind gusts possible.
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authori...
Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.[1]
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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😑

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
"The conservative writer Rod Dreher, a close friend of Vance, warned, “I am told by someone in a position to know that something like 30 to 40 percent of D.C. G.O.P. staffers under the age of 30 are Groypers.” The figure is impossible to check, but it captures a widespread sense that Fuentes’s politics are ascendant."
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Because a lot of people think people are using the term Nazi too lightly these days, know that I don't.

See this, from just this week
"White supremacists crowdfund for Georgia man in Nazi uniform"
www.israelnationalnews.com/news/416999
“I am in contact with @GasChambers,” Miller tweeted on Sunday, referring to an X account that says it has raised money for him. “We are going to pay the bail for Kenneth in the next few days he will be free. Gaschamber was very kind and gracious.We just spoke on the phone.We are going to get kenneth out very soon.”
October 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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No comment
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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"This is fine"
October 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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DHS downtown
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Federalist No. 4- John Jay
It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it; nay, absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctified by justice or the voice and interests of his people. But, independent of these inducements to war, which are more prevalent in absolute monarchies, but which well deserve our attention, there are others which affect nations as often as kings; and some of them will on examination be found to grow out of our relative situation and circumstances.
October 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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What in the Hatch Act propaganda
www.whitehouse.gov/wire/
October 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The troll Presidency is tiring to witness
I'm not alt-texting

www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Why the fuck aren't some of y'all concerned?

apnews.com/article/pent...
The new Pentagon press corps will include the Gateway Pundit, the National Pulse, Human Events, podcaster Tim Pool, the Just the News website founded by journalist John Solomon, Frontlines by Turning Point USA and LindellTV, run by “MyPillow” CEO Mike Lindell. The Pentagon’s announcement came less than a week after dozens of reporters from outlets like The New York Times, The Associated Press, CNN and the Washington Post turned in their access badges rather than agree to a policy the journalists say will restrict them to covering news approved by Hegseth.
October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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This week I learned about AWS S3 object expiration
AKA– delete a 💩-ton of data for way-way-way-cheaper

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/lat...
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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And if you are computational.... sometimes it's made brutally clear to you 🤣
Screenshot of AWS Batch dashboard showing both many failed and succeeded jobs
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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3 people I'd love to have a coffee with
October 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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A regular who's who of Orgs reliant on AWS N. Virginia
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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@standupforscience.bsky.social in Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Had to be downtown early this morning. So far the weather is fine.

#Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Let the mission creep begin
October 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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And free speech intimidation
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October 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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🇺🇸
October 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Glamorous not-venture-capital-funded biotech owner Friday night...

Writing documentation so I don't forget how to do this again in 6 months
Setup You need to set up 3 things on AWS. I'm not covering IAM assignments right now but that's really important, and complicated. Launch Template: Create a launch template that defines the instance type, AMI, security groups, and other settings for your EC2 instances. The settings used are in aws_settings/lt-06076e99c790b5977.json. The User Data script in the launch template assumes instances have ephemeral NVMe storage available. If your instance type does not have NVMe storage, you will need to modify the User Data script accordingly. The script is base64 encoded in the JSON file, but should be the same as bin/aws_userdata.sh. Compute Environment: Set up a compute environment in AWS Batch that uses the launch template. This will allow you to manage and scale your compute resources easily.
October 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Screenshot of trumprx.gov
October 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM