4/9. "GeeCON 2024: Ted Neward - Why the Next Five Years Will Be About Languages" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 05 May 2025 ⸱ https://youtube.com/watch?v=PWCg_tDct9I

Members of the WhatsApp group strategized how to best build cases to paint student protesters as “supporters of Hamas.”

Even if you put the major ethical considerations to the side, X is full of bots and scammers - so engagement is pretty much nil. Also, your follower stats is probably false because a lot of people (like me) have left but kept their accounts locked so they cant be impersonated. Get of X. It's time.

This was an interesting conversation—check it out, tell me what you think.

all manner of weird bullshit happened between 2015-2020 but jan 6 2021 should be an clear cutoff point after which a someone’s inability to take a strong and unambiguous stance against trumpism matters

Yeah, women let men lead for a while, and look where it got them. Women ain’t stupid.

Random foreign actor: send us all your deets by tonite. Military leaders: Who the fuck is this guy? Don't do it. Obey the chain of command. Random foreign actor: Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent?

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

Welp, power’s out at the house again. Nifty rainstorm, but not a fan of the downed power lines.

Gay Valimont is the Dem nominee in the Florida special election to replace Matt Gaetz on April 1st. The House is currently 216 Dems & 217 Reps. 𝗪𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗣 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 6 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀. Winning this critical election would put Trump & Elon's disastrous agenda on HALT!!!

BREAKING: Trump is losing support: Less than one month into the chaotic return of Trump, and these Trump-voting farmers have already had enough. If the election were held today, they would not vote for him. Make sure everyone sees this!

"We will have to go toe-to-toe with this administration ... challenging its attacks on science in the courts, finding ways to protect public health through state and local action." Huge respect for Gregg Gonsalves, fighting for global health equity for decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

In the wake of this week’s deadly aircraft collision near Washington, President Trump happily jumped to conclusions and pulled the U.S. apart rather than together, Peter Baker writes. "He has long demonstrated that he is more comfortable as the blamer in chief than consoler in chief."

If only there were a shorter English word for "makes misleading claims".

Everything is so damn stupid.

Tomorrow’s sportsball wishes: - Commanders squeak one past the Eagles (it’s been far too long since Washington had success like this) - Bills blow the Chiefs apart (I dislike dynasties and the Chiefs are one) Chances of me getting my wishes: Practically zero

How it started. How it’s going.

For example….

Why resist? In two years, left unchecked, Trump’s policies are going to absolutely wreck his alliance of tech bros, MAGAts, Evangelicals, and far-right sympathizers, so… sure, let him go. The county will be trashed, but hey, this is what the men of the US wanted, instead of a competent woman. Win!

BLOGGED: Distributed systems and organizational design As an engineering manager, I've discovered that there is a remarkable similarity between distributed systems design and engineering organization design. blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2025/or...

Family includes everyone! ❤️

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*

This is the point. Without safety-nets, who will actually take (useful, constructive) risks? The people telling you to manage without a safety-net ALL have their own personal safety-nets. They are all, without exception, already rich. They need nothing from you except what they can take.

I look forward to Coach Prime coming to the NFL and being exposed as a weak coach with more flair than future. No, I do not like the man. I just don’t.

Trans rights are human rights. Pass it on.

x.com/knowingbette... A thread on home-schooling that, honestly, resonates 100% with me. Both my kids? Public schools. Because even though I am a teacher at a university level, I in no way am qualified to teach them math, science, or English. My job is to parent. That’s way enough.

Hey Blueskiers…. First test of my network: I have a need for an Azure DevOps consultant for an opp for a colleague. Preferably an individual over a company. Who’s interested?

Hey network, your thoughts? If you’ve never seen Gitte speak, trust me, she’s awesome. Maybe even better than me. ;-)

You really have to feel for Barack; he has to sit next to the orange buffoon. Nothing like trying to pay your respects while sitting next to a full diaper.

The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).

New Study: although Matt Walsh once claimed that the number was "millions," fewer than 1,000 U.S. adolescents were treated for gender dysphoria with puberty blockers, and none under 12 received hormone therapy.

In 1979, Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House. In 1986, Ronald Reagan tore them down along w/Carter’s clean energy funding. This sums up the difference between the two men & political parties. Investing in solutions for the future vs canceling progress to score political points.

BLOGGED: 2025 Tech Predictions It's that time of the year again, when I make predictions for the upcoming year. As has become my tradition now for almost two decades, I will first go back over last years' predictions, to see how well I called it, and... blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2025/20...

The late President Jimmy Carter is often portrayed as too passive in confronting revolutionary Iran. But a look into the archives of the time tells a different story.

The mass murder in New Orleans and Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas fit a troubling pattern among U.S. vets, research says. https://interc.pt/400Re8X

Everything stated in this post is a provable fact. You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.

There is way more truth to this than most published authors will be willing to admit. I, for one, am glad that we're almost done with ours. Just a few more chapters to polish, then upload. Should be "first draft complete" and in Apress' hands by the end of this month, if not sooner.

I'm sorry, but not liking how a headline is framed is not defamation, Elon. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/02/e...

Most mass casualty offenders with U.S. military backgrounds were associated with far-right domestic extremist groups and movements.

In ancient Egypt, people drank low alcohol beer and wine to avoid the parasites in "raw water." The old graves, which I excavate, are full of children who died from diseases we now can vaccinate against. You are ghouls for promoting this garbage.

“Finland’s success isn’t a matter of luck or the outcome of quick fixes. It’s the result of a sustained, well-resourced national strategy, driven by a ‘Housing First’ approach, providing people experiencing homelessness with immediate permanent housing.” oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/13/f...

More than 3,000 Native American children died in the custody of the U.S. government after being forced to attend boarding schools from the 1800s to 1960s, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.

Holy shit, this is 100% accurate 😆

I know I call him a goof and all, but look at this Egyptian-god-ass cat

Just kinda sums up 2024 in a nutshell.