DrewHoo
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I’m a software engineer focused on early stage startups, interested in social justice and building cool, free, accessible tools for everyone.
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Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
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getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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How do I tell all the online ads that, after weeks of vacillation, I finally ordered a puffy jacket and don’t care to see adds for the cotopaxi fuego anymore?
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
How do I tell all the online ads that, after weeks of vacillation, I finally ordered a puffy jacket and don’t care to see adds for the cotopaxi fuego anymore?
Dem platform can’t be anything less than abolishing ICE and prosecuting the many documented crimes we’ve got videos of. Stunning to think dems could be thinking any smaller. Stop wasting my fucking tax money on these goons, FFS
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Dem platform can’t be anything less than abolishing ICE and prosecuting the many documented crimes we’ve got videos of. Stunning to think dems could be thinking any smaller. Stop wasting my fucking tax money on these goons, FFS
One of my design pet peeves is skinny ass icons. I don’t like reading them visually. Am I old or am I right?
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
One of my design pet peeves is skinny ass icons. I don’t like reading them visually. Am I old or am I right?
JFC I haven't witnessed anyone with less self-awareness than Hurwitz since Tobias Fünke blue himself. Horrifying.
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
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November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
JFC I haven't witnessed anyone with less self-awareness than Hurwitz since Tobias Fünke blue himself. Horrifying.
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Okay folks, after doing some digging I have determined that everyone complaining about AI using precious potable water specifically have no clue what they're talking about. Will finish this soon.
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Okay folks, after doing some digging I have determined that everyone complaining about AI using precious potable water specifically have no clue what they're talking about. Will finish this soon.
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The writing I want to read on this week’s file dump is from a (former?) sex worker because I think they likely offer a unique point of view on powerful people’s relationship to people (including minors) they perceive as sex toys and sex servants
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The writing I want to read on this week’s file dump is from a (former?) sex worker because I think they likely offer a unique point of view on powerful people’s relationship to people (including minors) they perceive as sex toys and sex servants
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
How tf is this real?!
this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
How tf is this real?!
This happened on the same day two months ago:
1. Frmr neighbor reached out bc she had some react contract work
2. Frmr colleague reached out bc she’d just been laid off
Obv I connected them. Frmr colleague just got hired full time. Beyond thrilled for them. Invest in your networks and neighbors!
1. Frmr neighbor reached out bc she had some react contract work
2. Frmr colleague reached out bc she’d just been laid off
Obv I connected them. Frmr colleague just got hired full time. Beyond thrilled for them. Invest in your networks and neighbors!
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This happened on the same day two months ago:
1. Frmr neighbor reached out bc she had some react contract work
2. Frmr colleague reached out bc she’d just been laid off
Obv I connected them. Frmr colleague just got hired full time. Beyond thrilled for them. Invest in your networks and neighbors!
1. Frmr neighbor reached out bc she had some react contract work
2. Frmr colleague reached out bc she’d just been laid off
Obv I connected them. Frmr colleague just got hired full time. Beyond thrilled for them. Invest in your networks and neighbors!
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incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
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Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
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you can see why fascism is so popular when the other option is The Loser Party That Loves Losing
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
you can see why fascism is so popular when the other option is The Loser Party That Loves Losing
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I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone
Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
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If only this was satire. Sadly, we mean it.
Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree
Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If only this was satire. Sadly, we mean it.
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Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
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I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."
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Refusing to feed people while building a massive ballroom is a fast track to eat the rich. No pun intended.
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Refusing to feed people while building a massive ballroom is a fast track to eat the rich. No pun intended.
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I think about this a lot.
October 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I think about this a lot.
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Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
trib.al
October 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.