Geoffrey Wiseman
gwiseman.bsky.social
Geoffrey Wiseman
@gwiseman.bsky.social
Father, husband, software consultant. He/him.
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Damn, I missed the Starlink/USAID drama in all the chaos.

"Starlink was part of an investigation by USAID into sexual exploitation and abuse in Ukraine when USAID's Inspector General was fired by President Trump and all employees put on administrative leave."
futurism.com/elon-musk-co...
Elon Musk Reportedly Has a Huge Conflict of Interest Motivating Him to Gut USAID
Besides the billionaire's racist and xenophobic ideologies, Musk's singling out of USAID was more than likely self-serving.
futurism.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
New Year, New Adventures.

Wrapping up a contract and looking for new contracts or new full-time roles in Software

If you have software engineering projects that you’re hiring for, happy to talk.
January 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
December 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Wrote up what I built as an experiment to surface popular videos from AWS re:Invent 2024:

dev.to/aws-builders...
Top re:Invent 2024 Videos
Every year, Amazon Web Services holds a conference, "AWS re:Invent", and they release the conference...
dev.to
December 13, 2024 at 6:12 AM
Reposted by Geoffrey Wiseman
In Texas now, a doctor who performs an abortion on a woman who doesn't want a child faces 99 years in prison. But a creep who slips abortion meds into his pregnant wife's drinks, causing their baby to be born with complications? That's six months. Tell me again how it's not about punishing women?
Texas attorney who poisoned pregnant wife with abortion medication sentenced to 180 days in jail
Mason Herring's estranged wife told a court that their now 1-year-old daughter has developmental delays and attends therapy eight times a week.
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2024 at 5:48 AM