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This explains it better than I can
September 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This explains it better than I can
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This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day
BREAKING: Pete Hegseth fires the general whose agency's initial intel assessment of damage to Iran nuclear sites angered President Trump, AP sources say.
Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iran nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision.
bit.ly
August 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day
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“The chief justice has no higher obligation than to protect the federal judiciary from attacks by this president, and in my view he has utterly failed.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America
The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“The chief justice has no higher obligation than to protect the federal judiciary from attacks by this president, and in my view he has utterly failed.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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These signs are popping up in stores in Richmond, Virginia. Know your rights, the Clash were right. Photo thanks to my sister Pam. 🧪 #USA
August 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
These signs are popping up in stores in Richmond, Virginia. Know your rights, the Clash were right. Photo thanks to my sister Pam. 🧪 #USA
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Leadership protip:
Sometimes being Kind is orthogonal to being Nice.
Being Kind is giving painful but necessary feedback to help someone correct a potentially detrimental behavior or habit.
Being Nice is avoiding giving feedback to avoid hurting their feelings.
Sometimes being Kind is orthogonal to being Nice.
Being Kind is giving painful but necessary feedback to help someone correct a potentially detrimental behavior or habit.
Being Nice is avoiding giving feedback to avoid hurting their feelings.
August 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Leadership protip:
Sometimes being Kind is orthogonal to being Nice.
Being Kind is giving painful but necessary feedback to help someone correct a potentially detrimental behavior or habit.
Being Nice is avoiding giving feedback to avoid hurting their feelings.
Sometimes being Kind is orthogonal to being Nice.
Being Kind is giving painful but necessary feedback to help someone correct a potentially detrimental behavior or habit.
Being Nice is avoiding giving feedback to avoid hurting their feelings.
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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
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“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
REPORTER: Is the president okay with this bill adding to the deficit?
LEAVITT: This bill does not add to the deficit
LEAVITT: This bill does not add to the deficit
May 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
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yeah i feel like a lot of this "Biden coverup reckoning" is a circle jerk between legacy media elites and establishment dems who are trying to perform accountability to prove theyre a different party. But they're not doing accountability about anything that actually matters to voters
May 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
yeah i feel like a lot of this "Biden coverup reckoning" is a circle jerk between legacy media elites and establishment dems who are trying to perform accountability to prove theyre a different party. But they're not doing accountability about anything that actually matters to voters
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You own a factory. You criticize the President. The government seizes your assets. You bring a takings claim against the government under the Fifth Amendment. The Supreme Court says the government must return your assets. The government says no. What's so different to what they did yesterday?
April 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
You own a factory. You criticize the President. The government seizes your assets. You bring a takings claim against the government under the Fifth Amendment. The Supreme Court says the government must return your assets. The government says no. What's so different to what they did yesterday?
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the jamelle bouie secret to presciently anticipating the behavior of the president is to just ask myself what a dumbass bully would do
Opinion | Trump’s Lust for Power Cannot Be Satiated (Gift Article)
The tariff saga is just the latest example of the president’s urge to dominate.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
the jamelle bouie secret to presciently anticipating the behavior of the president is to just ask myself what a dumbass bully would do
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I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing
April 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing
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Hear me out: the U.S. should invest in a strategic UUID reserve
March 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Hear me out: the U.S. should invest in a strategic UUID reserve
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Every tech company* has platform teams trying to build:
1. Heroku, except hand-rolled
2. One giant shared database, so engineers can ignore analytics without consequence
3. If they have a monolith, microservices. If microservices, a monolith
4. A solution to the halting problem
* Hyperbole. I hope
1. Heroku, except hand-rolled
2. One giant shared database, so engineers can ignore analytics without consequence
3. If they have a monolith, microservices. If microservices, a monolith
4. A solution to the halting problem
* Hyperbole. I hope
March 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Every tech company* has platform teams trying to build:
1. Heroku, except hand-rolled
2. One giant shared database, so engineers can ignore analytics without consequence
3. If they have a monolith, microservices. If microservices, a monolith
4. A solution to the halting problem
* Hyperbole. I hope
1. Heroku, except hand-rolled
2. One giant shared database, so engineers can ignore analytics without consequence
3. If they have a monolith, microservices. If microservices, a monolith
4. A solution to the halting problem
* Hyperbole. I hope
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Has anybody considered that AI tech that mines social media to target ads at individuals is precisely the same tech you'd use to mine social media to create targeted spear-phishing attacks on a massive scale? Isn't AI incredible 🙄?
February 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Has anybody considered that AI tech that mines social media to target ads at individuals is precisely the same tech you'd use to mine social media to create targeted spear-phishing attacks on a massive scale? Isn't AI incredible 🙄?
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I keep seeing people on LinkedIn describe themselves as a "SAFe Agilist." Sorry to break it to you, but those two words are incompatible. You're either one or the other, but can't be both.
February 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I keep seeing people on LinkedIn describe themselves as a "SAFe Agilist." Sorry to break it to you, but those two words are incompatible. You're either one or the other, but can't be both.
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I can't help feeling a "game-changing" technology that's going to "transform" the way we work wouldn't need to be sneaked into products without the user's consent.
All I see is posts asking "How do I switch this f**king thing off?"
Copilot's the U2 album nobody asked for, except it's not free.
All I see is posts asking "How do I switch this f**king thing off?"
Copilot's the U2 album nobody asked for, except it's not free.
January 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I can't help feeling a "game-changing" technology that's going to "transform" the way we work wouldn't need to be sneaked into products without the user's consent.
All I see is posts asking "How do I switch this f**king thing off?"
Copilot's the U2 album nobody asked for, except it's not free.
All I see is posts asking "How do I switch this f**king thing off?"
Copilot's the U2 album nobody asked for, except it's not free.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. DevOps is a team.
January 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. DevOps is a team.
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Ketamine is a hell of a drug.
January 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Ketamine is a hell of a drug.
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My hot take on college football: The SEC was only dominant in when they were paying players under the table and everyone else was (mostly) playing by the rules. Now that everyone can pay players legally, other colleges can win too.
January 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My hot take on college football: The SEC was only dominant in when they were paying players under the table and everyone else was (mostly) playing by the rules. Now that everyone can pay players legally, other colleges can win too.
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THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're "self-made"
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're "self-made"
December 15, 2024 at 2:32 PM
THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're "self-made"
1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Family network
6. Personal assistance
7. Strong belief they're "self-made"
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Software engineers of the world, I beg you.
Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields.
Sincerely,
Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.
Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields.
Sincerely,
Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.
January 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Software engineers of the world, I beg you.
Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields.
Sincerely,
Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.
Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields.
Sincerely,
Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.
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Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
January 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.