Dr. S
@ssalaka.bsky.social
Technomancer exec by day, academic and storyteller by passion. Bridging the gap between innovation and humanity one tale at a time.
How many more pardons will we get before we change it from white collar crimes to orange collar crimes?
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/t...
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Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao
The pardon came nearly a week after President Trump commuted the 87-month prison sentence of former New York Rep. George Santos.
www.cnbc.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
How many more pardons will we get before we change it from white collar crimes to orange collar crimes?
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/t...
History will remember Trump as the most consequential Republican president since Lincoln.
Not the best. Not the worst. The most consequential.
does-god-exist.org/2025/10/16/t...
Not the best. Not the worst. The most consequential.
does-god-exist.org/2025/10/16/t...
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
History will remember Trump as the most consequential Republican president since Lincoln.
Not the best. Not the worst. The most consequential.
does-god-exist.org/2025/10/16/t...
Not the best. Not the worst. The most consequential.
does-god-exist.org/2025/10/16/t...
Let me get this straight.
So you have 2 outright anti-vaxxers.
And 6 folks who tangentially worked with/in medicine but absolutely no background in immunology or vaccines.
Tell me again about "following the science" when no one on the panel has studied the science?
www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...
So you have 2 outright anti-vaxxers.
And 6 folks who tangentially worked with/in medicine but absolutely no background in immunology or vaccines.
Tell me again about "following the science" when no one on the panel has studied the science?
www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...
Kennedy names new members of CDC vaccine advisory panel days after removing previous advisers | CNN
Just two days after retiring the entirety of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has appointed seve...
www.cnn.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Let me get this straight.
So you have 2 outright anti-vaxxers.
And 6 folks who tangentially worked with/in medicine but absolutely no background in immunology or vaccines.
Tell me again about "following the science" when no one on the panel has studied the science?
www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...
So you have 2 outright anti-vaxxers.
And 6 folks who tangentially worked with/in medicine but absolutely no background in immunology or vaccines.
Tell me again about "following the science" when no one on the panel has studied the science?
www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/h...
In celebration of my birthday today (4/21), I'm giving away 100 copies of my new book Elysium Rising!
Over the next 30 days, you can enter to win a copy. Head on over to GoodReads and enter the new contest.
📘Contest Link📘
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
Over the next 30 days, you can enter to win a copy. Head on over to GoodReads and enter the new contest.
📘Contest Link📘
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
April 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
In celebration of my birthday today (4/21), I'm giving away 100 copies of my new book Elysium Rising!
Over the next 30 days, you can enter to win a copy. Head on over to GoodReads and enter the new contest.
📘Contest Link📘
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
Over the next 30 days, you can enter to win a copy. Head on over to GoodReads and enter the new contest.
📘Contest Link📘
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
Who's willing to bet they're going to swap Garcia as part of this, only to then say - well we can't do anything now because he's in Venezuela...
apnews.com/article/el-s...
apnews.com/article/el-s...
Salvadoran President Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelan deportees
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela on Sunday.
apnews.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Who's willing to bet they're going to swap Garcia as part of this, only to then say - well we can't do anything now because he's in Venezuela...
apnews.com/article/el-s...
apnews.com/article/el-s...
You know when you're reading a great book or watching a movie, but then it starts to suck because you see the plot before it happens.
Tarrifs and TikTok...
www.unilad.com/news/us-news...
Tarrifs and TikTok...
www.unilad.com/news/us-news...
Trump reveals what is happening with TikTok after China announces 34% retaliation tariff on US goods
Donald Trump issued a statement on Truth Social about the fate of TikTok and the work he has been doing on it
www.unilad.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
You know when you're reading a great book or watching a movie, but then it starts to suck because you see the plot before it happens.
Tarrifs and TikTok...
www.unilad.com/news/us-news...
Tarrifs and TikTok...
www.unilad.com/news/us-news...
Leave the rancid butter on the counter for 12 years and still expect it to make cookies???
March 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Leave the rancid butter on the counter for 12 years and still expect it to make cookies???
💰 Who wants to make a quick $20,000? 💰
BOUNTY UPDATE - Day 15
So, here we are, halfway through the first month of this bounty, and the stats below are absolutely abysmal.
$20k to find me a job. Should be easy money right?
www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
BOUNTY UPDATE - Day 15
So, here we are, halfway through the first month of this bounty, and the stats below are absolutely abysmal.
$20k to find me a job. Should be easy money right?
www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
Stephen Salaka on LinkedIn: #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopmentleadership #techleadership… | 55 comments
💰 Who wants to make a quick $20,000? 💰
I’m putting my money where my mouth is.
What you get? $20K
How? By landing me a $200K+ VP/Director of Software… | 55 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
💰 Who wants to make a quick $20,000? 💰
BOUNTY UPDATE - Day 15
So, here we are, halfway through the first month of this bounty, and the stats below are absolutely abysmal.
$20k to find me a job. Should be easy money right?
www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
BOUNTY UPDATE - Day 15
So, here we are, halfway through the first month of this bounty, and the stats below are absolutely abysmal.
$20k to find me a job. Should be easy money right?
www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
While a shutdown is never good, a shutdown is stable, predictable, and known (meaning nothing is happening until it is over).
In the current climate of on again off again government DOGE terminations, this might actually reduce some of the market volatility.
In the current climate of on again off again government DOGE terminations, this might actually reduce some of the market volatility.
March 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
While a shutdown is never good, a shutdown is stable, predictable, and known (meaning nothing is happening until it is over).
In the current climate of on again off again government DOGE terminations, this might actually reduce some of the market volatility.
In the current climate of on again off again government DOGE terminations, this might actually reduce some of the market volatility.
💰 Who wants to make a quick $20,000? 💰
BOUNTY UPDATE - Day 14
To the person who might have helped me land an onsite interview. If this goes over well you might have won the bounty!
Interested in taking part (and helping me get back to work, click below).
www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
BOUNTY UPDATE - Day 14
To the person who might have helped me land an onsite interview. If this goes over well you might have won the bounty!
Interested in taking part (and helping me get back to work, click below).
www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
Stephen Salaka on LinkedIn: #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopmentleadership #techleadership… | 55 comments
💰 Who wants to make a quick $20,000? 💰
I’m putting my money where my mouth is.
What you get? $20K
How? By landing me a $200K+ VP/Director of Software… | 55 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
💰 Who wants to make a quick $20,000? 💰
BOUNTY UPDATE - Day 14
To the person who might have helped me land an onsite interview. If this goes over well you might have won the bounty!
Interested in taking part (and helping me get back to work, click below).
www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
BOUNTY UPDATE - Day 14
To the person who might have helped me land an onsite interview. If this goes over well you might have won the bounty!
Interested in taking part (and helping me get back to work, click below).
www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
💰 Want to make a quick $20,000? 💰
I'm offering a $20K bounty to the person who helps me land my next role.
No gimmicks. Just cash for a successful placement.
📅 Day 13 update
🔗 Get details & share leads: www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
#JobSearch #Bounty
I'm offering a $20K bounty to the person who helps me land my next role.
No gimmicks. Just cash for a successful placement.
📅 Day 13 update
🔗 Get details & share leads: www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
#JobSearch #Bounty
Stephen Salaka on LinkedIn: #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopmentleadership #techleadership… | 53 comments
💰 Who wants to make a quick $20,000? 💰
I’m putting my money where my mouth is.
What you get? $20K
How? By landing me a $200K+ VP/Director of Software… | 53 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
💰 Want to make a quick $20,000? 💰
I'm offering a $20K bounty to the person who helps me land my next role.
No gimmicks. Just cash for a successful placement.
📅 Day 13 update
🔗 Get details & share leads: www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
#JobSearch #Bounty
I'm offering a $20K bounty to the person who helps me land my next role.
No gimmicks. Just cash for a successful placement.
📅 Day 13 update
🔗 Get details & share leads: www.linkedin.com/posts/ssalak...
#JobSearch #Bounty
Is this thing on?
Does anyone know someone hiring? As a casualty of this wonderful economy I'm on the market for a role as a Director/VP of Software Engineering.
(Hopefully somewhere where my BlueSky posts won't get me fired, or worse...)
www.linkedin.com/in/ssalaka/
Does anyone know someone hiring? As a casualty of this wonderful economy I'm on the market for a role as a Director/VP of Software Engineering.
(Hopefully somewhere where my BlueSky posts won't get me fired, or worse...)
www.linkedin.com/in/ssalaka/
Stephen Salaka - The Ghosted Guild | LinkedIn
✈️ From Grammy Nods to Keeping F-35s in the Air, I'm Stephen "The IT Doctor" Salaka… · Experience: The Ghosted Guild · Education: Walden University · Location: Melbourne · 500+ connectio...
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February 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Is this thing on?
Does anyone know someone hiring? As a casualty of this wonderful economy I'm on the market for a role as a Director/VP of Software Engineering.
(Hopefully somewhere where my BlueSky posts won't get me fired, or worse...)
www.linkedin.com/in/ssalaka/
Does anyone know someone hiring? As a casualty of this wonderful economy I'm on the market for a role as a Director/VP of Software Engineering.
(Hopefully somewhere where my BlueSky posts won't get me fired, or worse...)
www.linkedin.com/in/ssalaka/
I've got a new cover in the works. Something not so chaotic, from an up and coming artist.....
Get the original version NOW before they are all sold out!
Get the original version NOW before they are all sold out!
📖 ELYSIUM RISING – OUT NOW! 📖
Dreams forge the future, but nightmares seek to end it. A mind-bending sci-fi thriller of ambition, horror, and destiny!
📖 Read Now:
📗HARDCOVER: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVT7K58L
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#ElysiumRising #SciFi #Cyberpunk #CosmicHorror
Dreams forge the future, but nightmares seek to end it. A mind-bending sci-fi thriller of ambition, horror, and destiny!
📖 Read Now:
📗HARDCOVER: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVT7K58L
📘PAPERBACK: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVT9N4NQ
#ElysiumRising #SciFi #Cyberpunk #CosmicHorror
Elysium Rising
Amazon.com: Elysium Rising eBook : Salaka, Stephen: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I've got a new cover in the works. Something not so chaotic, from an up and coming artist.....
Get the original version NOW before they are all sold out!
Get the original version NOW before they are all sold out!
Reposted from @rd0dave on Threads.
Seriously, government finances aren't like home finances.
Running the government is not like running a business.
Seriously, government finances aren't like home finances.
Running the government is not like running a business.
February 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Reposted from @rd0dave on Threads.
Seriously, government finances aren't like home finances.
Running the government is not like running a business.
Seriously, government finances aren't like home finances.
Running the government is not like running a business.
It's almost as if the 14th amendment never existed....
Loosing trust in treasury securities would tank the market and send us into a depression the likes of 1920's never could imagine.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Loosing trust in treasury securities would tank the market and send us into a depression the likes of 1920's never could imagine.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Trump Says Some Treasury Notes May Not Be Real
I suspect this will just end up being something Old Man Trump...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It's almost as if the 14th amendment never existed....
Loosing trust in treasury securities would tank the market and send us into a depression the likes of 1920's never could imagine.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Loosing trust in treasury securities would tank the market and send us into a depression the likes of 1920's never could imagine.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
📖 ELYSIUM RISING – OUT NOW! 📖
Dreams forge the future, but nightmares seek to end it. A mind-bending sci-fi thriller of ambition, horror, and destiny!
📖 Read Now:
📗HARDCOVER: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVT7K58L
📘PAPERBACK: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVT9N4NQ
#ElysiumRising #SciFi #Cyberpunk #CosmicHorror
Dreams forge the future, but nightmares seek to end it. A mind-bending sci-fi thriller of ambition, horror, and destiny!
📖 Read Now:
📗HARDCOVER: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVT7K58L
📘PAPERBACK: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVT9N4NQ
#ElysiumRising #SciFi #Cyberpunk #CosmicHorror
Elysium Rising
Amazon.com: Elysium Rising eBook : Salaka, Stephen: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
📖 ELYSIUM RISING – OUT NOW! 📖
Dreams forge the future, but nightmares seek to end it. A mind-bending sci-fi thriller of ambition, horror, and destiny!
📖 Read Now:
📗HARDCOVER: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVT7K58L
📘PAPERBACK: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVT9N4NQ
#ElysiumRising #SciFi #Cyberpunk #CosmicHorror
Dreams forge the future, but nightmares seek to end it. A mind-bending sci-fi thriller of ambition, horror, and destiny!
📖 Read Now:
📗HARDCOVER: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVT7K58L
📘PAPERBACK: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVT9N4NQ
#ElysiumRising #SciFi #Cyberpunk #CosmicHorror
So apparently posting opinions here that folks don't like winds up with weird people knocking on your door and companies firing you.
Sorry, but I've got to eat, so trimming down my posts to prevent this level of harrassment.
Sorry, but I've got to eat, so trimming down my posts to prevent this level of harrassment.
January 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So apparently posting opinions here that folks don't like winds up with weird people knocking on your door and companies firing you.
Sorry, but I've got to eat, so trimming down my posts to prevent this level of harrassment.
Sorry, but I've got to eat, so trimming down my posts to prevent this level of harrassment.
"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it hates those who speak it."
Over the years I've amassed a ton of blocked folks on FB, but usually I would see one or two bots, and maybe a handful of -phobes posting on things. Now that the flood gates are opened, it's becoming worse than X...
Over the years I've amassed a ton of blocked folks on FB, but usually I would see one or two bots, and maybe a handful of -phobes posting on things. Now that the flood gates are opened, it's becoming worse than X...
January 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it hates those who speak it."
Over the years I've amassed a ton of blocked folks on FB, but usually I would see one or two bots, and maybe a handful of -phobes posting on things. Now that the flood gates are opened, it's becoming worse than X...
Over the years I've amassed a ton of blocked folks on FB, but usually I would see one or two bots, and maybe a handful of -phobes posting on things. Now that the flood gates are opened, it's becoming worse than X...
500 followers!
I never even broke 50 at the other place despite lurking for years!
Let there be donuts!
I never even broke 50 at the other place despite lurking for years!
Let there be donuts!
December 12, 2024 at 12:15 AM
500 followers!
I never even broke 50 at the other place despite lurking for years!
Let there be donuts!
I never even broke 50 at the other place despite lurking for years!
Let there be donuts!
Pro-tip DOGE is pronounced Dog E, like doggy, but E for electronic.
Why do you think the icon is of a dog?
Why do you think the icon is of a dog?
December 11, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Pro-tip DOGE is pronounced Dog E, like doggy, but E for electronic.
Why do you think the icon is of a dog?
Why do you think the icon is of a dog?
DOGE is doing such a great job so far!
They've already elminated funding to the ACLU without even starting yet...
They've already elminated funding to the ACLU without even starting yet...
The ACLU gets *zero* funding from the government.
A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.
A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.
December 6, 2024 at 11:28 PM
DOGE is doing such a great job so far!
They've already elminated funding to the ACLU without even starting yet...
They've already elminated funding to the ACLU without even starting yet...
Yes, citizen united made companies people.
But billionaires are NOT companies that hire people.
But billionaires are NOT companies that hire people.
December 5, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Yes, citizen united made companies people.
But billionaires are NOT companies that hire people.
But billionaires are NOT companies that hire people.
If a politician is bought for $100M, and a bigger doner comes and buys them for $150M,does the $100M person get their money back, or do they battle it out highlander style?
December 3, 2024 at 4:23 AM
If a politician is bought for $100M, and a bigger doner comes and buys them for $150M,does the $100M person get their money back, or do they battle it out highlander style?
Not like Canada exports anything people in the US actually need...
Anyway, houses are already too cheap... /s
Anyway, houses are already too cheap... /s
November 27, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Not like Canada exports anything people in the US actually need...
Anyway, houses are already too cheap... /s
Anyway, houses are already too cheap... /s