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Isaac Whitfield
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Fan of all things automated, OSS when applicable :) Intelligence wanes without practice! Senior Engineering @LatentAI
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Happy First Contact Day! 🖖
April 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (Gift Article)
The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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iTunes (2002)
February 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government.

Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
February 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Breaking news: The White House has removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest provider of food assistance, after they refused to let representatives of Elon Musk access restricted spaces.
USAID security officials on leave after refusing access to Musk allies
Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk has been denigrating USAID, which is the world’s largest provider of food assistance.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
January 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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There is a nonzero chance something you do is driving your co-workers nuts.

Whether you’re in a cubicle or on your sofa, consider doing a few things differently during meetings, in messages and with all of your other tech tools.
The new work etiquette: If you can’t spot the jerk, it might be you
From avoiding unclear meeting invitations to gossiping more, these are some rules of the modern workplace.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 27, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Updated runiq with much more efficient blooms, and exposed the Filters API for programmatic use: github.com/whitfin/runi...

#rustlang
Release v2.0.0 · whitfin/runiq
Remove default bytelines features
github.com
January 5, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Hit Hyper again in TFT, definitely the smoothest climb I've had!

Too many people tunnel on a single headliner, makes the game so much more consistent if you play whatever shows up.
December 29, 2023 at 1:02 PM
Say hello to Myles!

Originally a stray cat found by a work friend. After asking around their neighborhood, nobody claimed him.

He had a bad case of ear mites but a trip to the vet cleared that up quickly. He's about 5-6 months old, the newest member of the household!
November 14, 2023 at 5:19 AM
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Got Hyper in TFT Set 9.5!

This time took 64 games with a 67% Top 4 rate, not bad!
September 28, 2023 at 10:16 PM
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New art history meme just dropped
September 1, 2023 at 1:07 AM
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A Thing I did :)
August 31, 2023 at 11:08 PM
Got to Hyper again in Set 9! Finished it with a pretty crazy Samira game :D

63% Top 4 over 62 games, 18% 1st place. Ended with 12 Top 4s out of the last 15 games :)
August 29, 2023 at 7:06 AM