And here is the latest version of the spending bill, just proposed by Speaker Johnson. Which will be voted on today evening.

#gov #appropriations

Then the second version which did not pass the house yesterday evening - 116 pages long.

If you want to check out the Spending Bill - the first version which is 1547 pages long, here it is

My son was telling me how much he enjoyed his frappuccino at Starbucks and how silly it was of his Dad to order a black coffee at a milkshake place!

Thats Starbucks problem in a nutshell

Every day, I launch a fight against ever increasing no of tabs.

And then give up.

Each tab tells a story. A possibility - of reading an article, buying that thing, writing that doc, signing up for that class.

If I close that tab, I might never find it again.

The tabs live another day.

As an Indian, my contempt for (rich white) anti-vaxxers in the west is so deep I often cannot quite find the words to express my contempt.
I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India.
My father worked for the Pulse Polio program.
What is happening?

The second coming makes it sounds like a horror movie. I guess that would make us the actors doing a line up or something

Ps: note to self - get a pic taken by a photographer

Just read Product Managers as Product Mangoes and in my sleep deprived brain it kinda made sense. Now awake and trying to figure out why

And all this made me think of @anildash.com

🥭

Was out in San Francisco this morning, volunteering with the Salvation Army. Our boys helping us deliver meals.

Chatting with other volunteers, I was reminded how much I love the spirit in the city. The fun, creative, vibrant, helpful spirit. Grateful to live here.
#happythanksgiving #sanfrancisco

Born in yet another reincarnation. The life-death-rebirth cycle of Google chat / messaging continues...

Competition is a beautiful thing. And maybe just maybe we are seeing the beginning of the end of coercive social media

"algorithmic social network" is an oxymoron. It's not social if the algorithm is stuffing random content into my feed, and I cannot see content from those I follow.

Let's welcome the scientists to the blue skies.

You know a social network is on its way when people spend a lot of time about the social network itself.

But ideally and one day, I would like Bluesky to fade into the background. And let the content do the talking.

If you have been following the teen mental health crisis, this episode from Ezra Klein podcast is worth a listen
https://open.spotify.com/episode/21U9rwa6J2EjbXmFOwdiT6?si=xjhS5eOBS86iHu1Yi4mIUg

Found my peeps