Glenn McAllister
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I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
January 8, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
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DUDE CORNER: Hey, Do You Know How To Do This Thing, That’s Clearly In The Docs, But I Haven’t Even Bothered to Look For Yet?
July 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
DUDE CORNER: Hey, Do You Know How To Do This Thing, That’s Clearly In The Docs, But I Haven’t Even Bothered to Look For Yet?
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Pretty wild that you have to be like, a graphic and web designer to tell your career and work story these days
I feel like we don't talk that much about the escalation of these aesthetics and expectations
I feel like we don't talk that much about the escalation of these aesthetics and expectations
December 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Pretty wild that you have to be like, a graphic and web designer to tell your career and work story these days
I feel like we don't talk that much about the escalation of these aesthetics and expectations
I feel like we don't talk that much about the escalation of these aesthetics and expectations
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You should know what your contract says because it will tell you what you can and cannot do. Because if they start pulling "well the letter of the contract says we don't have to answer--" then you know what your options are.
You should know what you are obligating yourself to do.
You should know what you are obligating yourself to do.
December 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
You should know what your contract says because it will tell you what you can and cannot do. Because if they start pulling "well the letter of the contract says we don't have to answer--" then you know what your options are.
You should know what you are obligating yourself to do.
You should know what you are obligating yourself to do.
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This message hits hard.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This message hits hard.
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Someone out there is going to take a timed break from running a content farm, read this, and get a faraway look for a second.
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STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conten...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Someone out there is going to take a timed break from running a content farm, read this, and get a faraway look for a second.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conten...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conten...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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To me, one of the worst things about neurodivergence is that people don't believe you. When you fuck something up that makes other people feel like you don't care. And you're trying to make them believe that you really do care and it's just your brain not cooperating.
December 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
To me, one of the worst things about neurodivergence is that people don't believe you. When you fuck something up that makes other people feel like you don't care. And you're trying to make them believe that you really do care and it's just your brain not cooperating.
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As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
December 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
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We had a goodish internet..
But forums were racist, the platforms you miss often stole willfully from the marginalized :
Forums require moderation that folks didn’t think was work , so moderators and their institutional knowledge never got systemetized
But forums were racist, the platforms you miss often stole willfully from the marginalized :
Forums require moderation that folks didn’t think was work , so moderators and their institutional knowledge never got systemetized
December 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
We had a goodish internet..
But forums were racist, the platforms you miss often stole willfully from the marginalized :
Forums require moderation that folks didn’t think was work , so moderators and their institutional knowledge never got systemetized
But forums were racist, the platforms you miss often stole willfully from the marginalized :
Forums require moderation that folks didn’t think was work , so moderators and their institutional knowledge never got systemetized
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One of the challenges since I got my ADHD diagnosis is that I can't really tell if the issues I observe now are the same as they've always been, or if they're actually worse and I just don't have a good frame of reference. I forget things all the time now. But maybe I always have.
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
One of the challenges since I got my ADHD diagnosis is that I can't really tell if the issues I observe now are the same as they've always been, or if they're actually worse and I just don't have a good frame of reference. I forget things all the time now. But maybe I always have.
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We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but...
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but...
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.
"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.
Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.
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From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago
aphyr.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Excellent rule for life in general, really.
Cops are literally trained to manipulate information out of you. And for all the chatter I see about their nefarious, underhanded methods for this, the truth is, most don't need to bother, because a lot of you volunteer that shit willingly.
Cops are literally trained to manipulate information out of you. And for all the chatter I see about their nefarious, underhanded methods for this, the truth is, most don't need to bother, because a lot of you volunteer that shit willingly.
October 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Excellent rule for life in general, really.
Cops are literally trained to manipulate information out of you. And for all the chatter I see about their nefarious, underhanded methods for this, the truth is, most don't need to bother, because a lot of you volunteer that shit willingly.
Cops are literally trained to manipulate information out of you. And for all the chatter I see about their nefarious, underhanded methods for this, the truth is, most don't need to bother, because a lot of you volunteer that shit willingly.
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“build the test automation code”
ok but what is the spec or single source of truth for the data model
“we did not write one”
then how will i know what to test against
“what is the true face of the system before it was written?”
and then eva was immediately enlightened
ok but what is the spec or single source of truth for the data model
“we did not write one”
then how will i know what to test against
“what is the true face of the system before it was written?”
and then eva was immediately enlightened
October 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“build the test automation code”
ok but what is the spec or single source of truth for the data model
“we did not write one”
then how will i know what to test against
“what is the true face of the system before it was written?”
and then eva was immediately enlightened
ok but what is the spec or single source of truth for the data model
“we did not write one”
then how will i know what to test against
“what is the true face of the system before it was written?”
and then eva was immediately enlightened
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You can *care* about many things and you can only take concrete & sustained action on 1 or 2 things.
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
You can *care* about many things and you can only take concrete & sustained action on 1 or 2 things.
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I think if you're not yourself a fighter in tech right now, you need to learn how to amplify, protect, and rally around the people you see whom you generally believe are pushing on the right directions. I will say I don't know that software engineering knows how to do this because it hasn't had to
October 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I think if you're not yourself a fighter in tech right now, you need to learn how to amplify, protect, and rally around the people you see whom you generally believe are pushing on the right directions. I will say I don't know that software engineering knows how to do this because it hasn't had to
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This is correct. It’s VCs who spend their time doing drugs and inventing weird religions, executives who have boners about firing workers, and non-technical hucksters who are pushing this stuff. The vast majority of people doing actual technical work on the ground feel the way this piece describes
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is correct. It’s VCs who spend their time doing drugs and inventing weird religions, executives who have boners about firing workers, and non-technical hucksters who are pushing this stuff. The vast majority of people doing actual technical work on the ground feel the way this piece describes
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More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
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it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
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I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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my toxic take is that i think this word is unserious and goofy, a signal of a certain kind of genx/elder millennial personality that also brought us “awesomesauce” which is seemingly harmless but is certainly not easy to be around
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
my toxic take is that i think this word is unserious and goofy, a signal of a certain kind of genx/elder millennial personality that also brought us “awesomesauce” which is seemingly harmless but is certainly not easy to be around
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omg as a pentester PLEASE use one of these! Get them for your entire company. It’ll go great
September 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
omg as a pentester PLEASE use one of these! Get them for your entire company. It’ll go great