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Ramiro
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Software Engineering Manager based out of Vancouver, WA. Trekkie 🖖🏻. I love TV, movies, video games.
I got these "Back to Nature" fudge stripe cookies, and I was predictably disappointed.
October 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
No Thank you please.
October 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo.

Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow:
September 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I think I just convinced myself that humanity must not make it very far into the future because if we did we’d have seen time travelers fixing some of the messed up shit happening now
September 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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September 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The instinct of management is to blame those pesky workers rather than AI being shit, because the AI mandate comes from the bosses, and the first priority of management is to ensure compliance and mete out punishment.

The failure of a project is in many ways a success for justifying a purge.
the actual purpose of waterfall is management control, which is vastly more important than project success
September 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Somehow someone has committed fraud with a card of mine, where the card had never once been used, neither online or in person, and the card was safely put away and hidden in a drawer.

It was used for two transactions of 19$ on TikTok promote, whatever that is

Honestly it’s got me a pretty anxious.
August 31, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Perfect arm day shirt
August 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I had previously worked with a guy with a bad habit of suppressing errors rather than fixing them and I just found out that he did this _on the entire test suite for the most crucial / used part of our application_
August 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Hey @github.com, this is seriously disgusting. You should not be supporting anything X produces, especially when said thing has called itself “mega hitler” in production environments.

I had already been playing with the idea of moving to codeberg, this may solidify that

github.blog/changelog/20...
Grok Code Fast 1 is rolling out in public preview for GitHub Copilot - GitHub Changelog
Grok Code Fast 1 will be available as an opt-in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code. Rollout will be gradual —…
github.blog
August 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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In the wake of yet another mass shooting, Trump again sends tots and pears 🥔🍐

and continues mobilizing the full force of the federal government against Black and brown people, in an attempt to make our lives worse.

Of course, that's not a joke.
August 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Why does it look like a cute little walrus 😭
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Aug 25
JUST IN: U.S. officials confirmed a case of the flesh-eating parasite in a person who traveled from El Salvador. Screwworm typically affects cattle in South America, but has spread north in recent years.
The U.S. confirms its first human case of New World screwworm. What is it?
U.S. officials confirmed a case of the flesh-eating parasite in a person who traveled from El Salvador. Screwworm typically affects cattle in South America, but has spread north in recent years.
n.pr
August 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Man I need to drink more
August 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Of course an “educator” pushing AI to teach children is anti-dei

apple.news/A_8f5CN_hSSa...
Bill Ackman’s New Pet Project Is a School That Embraces AI and Rejects DEI — The Wall Street Journal
Alpha School, with locations in Texas, Florida and California, launching in New York in September
apple.news
August 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Haircut day last Saturday
August 20, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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The Social Security Administration has conceded an issue with phone service, after denying it to NPR, and has announced a fix.
Social Security announces a phone service fix after denying there was an issue
The Social Security Administration has conceded an issue with phone service, after denying it to NPR, and has announced a fix.
n.pr
August 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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The "Star Trek Wines" team is introducing a set of alcohol-alternative spirits in 2026, branded as Synthehol

#StarTrek
August 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Constitution sections on due process and foreign gifts just vanished from Congress' website

Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials. www.404media.co/constitution...
Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website
Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.
www.404media.co
August 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release
Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release | TechCrunch
While the ActivityPub integration is a main selling point for Ghost 6, this major release includes a number of other changes and new additions.
techcrunch.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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August 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I got an advertisement that was like "Want rewards for holding crypto" and I'm like "No, I want punishment for others that do"
August 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Friday’s sacking of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after a report showed a shock slowdown in hiring shows Trump is now broadening his politicization of formerly non-partisan bodies.
Trump Opens New Front in Politicization of the US Economy
I’m Malcolm Scott, international economics editor in Sydney. Today we’re looking at concerns over Trump’s assault on America’s economic institutions. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.
bloom.bg
August 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM