Maggie Zhou
@zmagg.com
when I was 23 I wanted to write the next Great American Filesystem
gardening and parenting posts these days
gardening and parenting posts these days
Tbh I thought ICEblock was performative nonsense but if the doj is pressuring Apple to remove it from the App Store I guess it wasn’t?
October 3, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Tbh I thought ICEblock was performative nonsense but if the doj is pressuring Apple to remove it from the App Store I guess it wasn’t?
Reposted by Maggie Zhou
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
www.404media.co
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
996 sounds better in Chinese
October 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
996 sounds better in Chinese
Reposted by Maggie Zhou
how *would* you explain this. "imagine if the only company making serious investments in JavaScript was, like, Mailchimp, and the language's only killer app/framework was written by JK Rowling, whose own business was utterly insignificant"
is there a good explainer out there for the Ruby Central stuff for somebody not very familiar with the ecosystem?
October 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
how *would* you explain this. "imagine if the only company making serious investments in JavaScript was, like, Mailchimp, and the language's only killer app/framework was written by JK Rowling, whose own business was utterly insignificant"
“We’re just standing around the sink eating green beans from the colander, this is a new level for us”
“You mean…low?”
“I didn’t want to say new low but yeah.”
“You mean…low?”
“I didn’t want to say new low but yeah.”
September 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“We’re just standing around the sink eating green beans from the colander, this is a new level for us”
“You mean…low?”
“I didn’t want to say new low but yeah.”
“You mean…low?”
“I didn’t want to say new low but yeah.”
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it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.
Speaks for itself.
Speaks for itself.
September 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
Baby led weaning is a scam by people who don’t like salad
September 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Baby led weaning is a scam by people who don’t like salad
I grew up in the South so I have heard from many a white person argue passionately that they don’t care what somebody says they just care how they say it. It took leaving the South to realize this meant that they didn’t care what somebody said as long as they were also white or agreed with them.
September 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I grew up in the South so I have heard from many a white person argue passionately that they don’t care what somebody says they just care how they say it. It took leaving the South to realize this meant that they didn’t care what somebody said as long as they were also white or agreed with them.
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
Reposted by Maggie Zhou
September 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Maybe my problem is that I want to work in person in the Bay Area with the kind of person who lives in nyc
September 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Maybe my problem is that I want to work in person in the Bay Area with the kind of person who lives in nyc
Found a late season volunteer sungold in a corner of my garden (probably from seeds that dropped last year - volunteer tomatoes tend to not start really fruiting until now bc they don’t germinate until it gets warmer) and I decided to lovingly stake and water and fertilize it for a few weeks.
September 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Found a late season volunteer sungold in a corner of my garden (probably from seeds that dropped last year - volunteer tomatoes tend to not start really fruiting until now bc they don’t germinate until it gets warmer) and I decided to lovingly stake and water and fertilize it for a few weeks.
“Dress for the job you want”
So how do I dress like somebody who never has to wrestle with bazel.
So how do I dress like somebody who never has to wrestle with bazel.
September 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
“Dress for the job you want”
So how do I dress like somebody who never has to wrestle with bazel.
So how do I dress like somebody who never has to wrestle with bazel.
Before having a child I never would’ve guessed how much money I would be willing to spend on (colorful, cute) baby clothes
September 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Before having a child I never would’ve guessed how much money I would be willing to spend on (colorful, cute) baby clothes
Did a garden tidy up and found that the watermelon we planted which I stg was just watermelon greens has an honest to god melon growing on it
September 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Did a garden tidy up and found that the watermelon we planted which I stg was just watermelon greens has an honest to god melon growing on it
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rfk jr is literally a murderer
Ossoff: Absolutely RFK JR should resign. He should have never been confirmed to begin with. He is utterly unqualified. This is someone who has embraced every piece of quackery and pseudoscience that he’s come across.
September 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
rfk jr is literally a murderer
My PRC born in 1959 mom says Silicon Valley right now feels like china 1958 da yue jing (great leap forward)
September 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
My PRC born in 1959 mom says Silicon Valley right now feels like china 1958 da yue jing (great leap forward)
B made a celery salt that starts with “first dehydrate a celery root” from some British cookbook and it’s super good actually. Tasty on popcorn
September 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
B made a celery salt that starts with “first dehydrate a celery root” from some British cookbook and it’s super good actually. Tasty on popcorn
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watching people rubberducking themselves into writing longer and longer specs, repeating themselves to eliminate any global context, using formal words to avoid ambiguity, and finding the right tokens to recreate the training set
and telling me that the machine is doing all the work and thinking
and telling me that the machine is doing all the work and thinking
August 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
watching people rubberducking themselves into writing longer and longer specs, repeating themselves to eliminate any global context, using formal words to avoid ambiguity, and finding the right tokens to recreate the training set
and telling me that the machine is doing all the work and thinking
and telling me that the machine is doing all the work and thinking
Collaborating with only robots and not humans seems like a fundamentally lonely endeavor, a cul de sac approach to anything worth building.
I keep thinking about how even in video games we were quick to add chat and group interaction.
I keep thinking about how even in video games we were quick to add chat and group interaction.
September 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Collaborating with only robots and not humans seems like a fundamentally lonely endeavor, a cul de sac approach to anything worth building.
I keep thinking about how even in video games we were quick to add chat and group interaction.
I keep thinking about how even in video games we were quick to add chat and group interaction.
Sad about the end of stone fruit season
September 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Sad about the end of stone fruit season
I am tired of the smash burger moment
September 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I am tired of the smash burger moment
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The fraction of people in Germany who were Jewish in 1933 (~0.75%) is lower than the fraction of people in the US today who are trans (~1%). Anyone willing to sacrifice trans people now, would have sacrificed Jews then.
Refs:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
usafacts.org/articles/wha...
Refs:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
usafacts.org/articles/wha...
Germany: Jewish Population in 1933 | Holocaust Encyclopedia
Learn more about the Jewish population in Germany in 1933.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org
August 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The fraction of people in Germany who were Jewish in 1933 (~0.75%) is lower than the fraction of people in the US today who are trans (~1%). Anyone willing to sacrifice trans people now, would have sacrificed Jews then.
Refs:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
usafacts.org/articles/wha...
Refs:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
usafacts.org/articles/wha...
A friend calls this time of year “crispy season”
August 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A friend calls this time of year “crispy season”
Home!
12 hour jaunt to SoCal for an event.
12 hour jaunt to SoCal for an event.
August 31, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Home!
12 hour jaunt to SoCal for an event.
12 hour jaunt to SoCal for an event.