It’s not a lot of days lately I agree with the white house but an end to pharmacy benefit manager kickbacks is long overdue.

Need a distraction? Come and join me for hacking on @ApacheSpark today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1fD... / twitch.tv/holdenkarau

Today in Holden and the magic smoke I’m surprised these light still worked…

Just started reading Christina DiEdoardo’s book about Canada and Americas historic war plans for each ( amzn.to/49l14r4 ) other just as America invades another country. What a weird time to be alive. (Amazon link)

Oof one of @fightpaperwork.bsky.social’s NV jetsons gave up the ghost (had this screen then got really really hot). Anyone got a lead on cheap RK1s?

Going to do a mini stream working on Fight Health Insurance tonight (Christmas Eve) at 6pm :)

X-mass Eve Eve Code Review Feedback Follow up on my @apachespark filter pushdown PR: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KRt...

I'm going to hack on the "What's in in Spark 4.1 (since Spark 2.4)" chapter of High Performance Spark 2e today :) -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdz4...

Come and join me for proposing a large(ish) @ApacheSpark change and see how we run the SPIP process -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC2y... :D

Come and join me for a quick pre-holiday @ApacheSpark stream: www.twitch.tv/holdenkarau hacking on filter pushdown regression.

I don’t know how Your Rich BFF knows when I’m on vacation but she did another great post on www.fighthealthinsurance.com today while I’m on vacation at the same hotel as last year 😝, give it a watch / share ❤️ www.instagram.com/reel/DSNbmx5...

Kicking off december with hacking on some Spark UDF acceleration adventures -- www.twitch.tv/holdenkarau :) 100% off all Holden Spark PRs today only for cyber monday :p

@julianwood.com talks with @holdenkarau.com about turning a decade of Apache Spark expertise into an AI tool that fights insurance denials. fighthealthinsurance.com is live and free. The business model? Step one ✅ Step two ❓ Step three: profit 🤷

Come and join me for more hacking on @apachespark today -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5F_... I'm going to be working on github.com/apache/spark...

The benevolent dictator model feels tempting for #OSS - faster, fewer debates. Then a PR argument with the single person in charge reminds me: Speed isn’t health. Community is.

Come and join me for a relaxing Friday afternoon of hacking on Apache Spark — twitch.tv/holdenkarau 👍

Come and join me for some not-so-spooky zombie PR adventures: bringing back some "stale"/"dead" PRs around TTLs and other fun adventures in @ApacheSpark -- www.twitch.tv/holdenkarau / www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Qo...

Finishing up my slides for @smalldatasf in the @McDonalds parking lot with a Frappé. The free WiFi is so so but I needed to get out of the house :) P.S. want to hear about when not to use Spark? Check out my session this Wednesday ❤️

Come and join me reviewing some @apache.org Spark PRs for halloween. Spooooky? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ilF... / www.twitch.tv/holdenkarau

New Orleans Spark/Data/misc Friends! I'm going to be in your city for current.confluent.io/new-orleans starting Monday-ish if you want to catch up :)

Come and join me for a lazy Sunday hacking on the streaming appendix of High Performance Spark 2e (which you can also pre-order :D) -- www.twitch.tv/holdenkarau / www.youtube.com/watch?v=zraw... :D

Pandas! I’m in Seattle! If any nerds want to catch up before Worldcon let me know :)

Got diverted to a state I hadn’t been planning on while trying to make it to Chicago: great news I can legally pee in NM wasn’t sure 😝 ugh I hate our new future.

From bar napkin to production: @holdenkarau.com built AI to help appeal health insurance denials. Real ML deployment talk - privacy, middleware, & questionable frontend code!

I'll be in Seattle for worldcon! Together with @holdenkarau.com Always game for raising money for trans folk! And I'd love to get my edition of Silk Threads signed by you, that i bought from Laura Antoniou at worldcon 2019 ❤️

Check out the @fighthinsurance team with our puppets being silly downtown while talking about the serious matter of insurance denials — www.instagram.com/reel/DJUY96h...

Really excited for @holdenkarau.com 's fighthealthinsurance.com as someone who's done my fair share of fighting health insurance. This is seriously one of the better applications of LLMs

Come and join me this morning talking about @fightpaperwork.bsky.social & Fight Health Insurance -- youtube.com/live/ZtSVVF0... :D

Stoked to see our work at @fightpaperwork.bsky.social covered in A.I. Wars: How healthcare uses artificial intelligence against you youtu.be/J-WEh1A-IXU?...

🌊 We’re launching Fight Paperwork (AI appeal-writing for providers who are done getting steamrolled by insurers) After helping folks generate 3,000+ appeals through Fight Health Insurance professionals asked: "Can I use this?" And now they can use fightpaperwork.com to get paid for their work :D

Getting ready for the pro-launch: "Can you pull the farts out of that log statement?" "That says fast, but I understand why you think it would say farts." #businesslife #fighthealthinsurance fightpaperwork.bsky.social @fhinsurance.bsky.social :D

Want to keep on top of everything happening with @fhinsurance.bsky.social and our upcoming launch of Fight Paperwork? Follow us: youtube.com/@fightpaperw... , youtube.com/@fighthealth... , linkedin.com/company/figh... , instagram.com/fighthealthi... , instagram.com/fightpaperwo... :D

Anyone have contacts at Google AdWords for some credits? Google analytics keeps trying to upsell me with fake credits enough that I want to try but like… not without some credits. #cheapstartuplife

Hello! I'm Els and I have several websites that really need a proper (wordpress?) backend, but I have no time to set it up. I'm a queer data nerd, who also teaches about kink and polyamory, so you should be comfy with that kind of content. I prefer to hire a fellow queer, and this is a paid job.

There's something magical about the first users you have not talked to yet using your product :D If you're a healthcare professional and want to get on the wait list to use AI to fight health insurance denials (and soon prior auths and more) you can get on the waitlist at www.fightpaperwork.com :D

Anyone have experience with getting cypress to work with self signed SSL certs?

At Fight Health Insurance, we’re on a mission to empower professionals and patients to fight back against unfair insurance denials. As we prepare to launch our professional version, Fight Paperwork, we'd love your input on this survey: us20.list-manage.com/survey?u=d98...

Would folks be interested in a book entitled "How to do corporate taxes and other things I don't want to do -- a definitely not legal guide for startup founders" ? :p (and or do you know of one?)

I had a dream where I woke up in a country with affordable medical coverage. Then I actually woke up and got back to work on FHI :p Also check out our new logo :)

NEW: Trans young adults and parents sue over Trump’s orders restricting transition care For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @holdenkarau.com 's Fight Health Insurance referenced in Guardian "New AI tool counters health insurance denials decided by automated algorithms"

Tomorrow (Thursday) at 1PM EST we are doing our new FOIA Forum, where we will teach you live how to pry records from the federal government (also via state). Subscribe now to get the livestream link, I will email it tomorrow morning (also archived for later viewing) www.404media.co/our-new-foia...

I wonder how the executive action by the cheeto impacts NEXUS cards. Jointly issued by Canada & US which may soon have different views on my gender.

After an amazing 3.5 years at Netflix it’s time for me to move on. Starting ~late next week I’ll be working full time on Fight Health Insurance ( www.fighthealthinsurance.com ) 😊 It’s exciting and scary to take a leap like this, and if you know folks we should be talking to get in touch :)

Listening to pink pony club on @SFBART on my way to talk to VCs for Fight Health Insurance :) (not pictured: my coffee.)

Came out of morning exercise this morning to the scene of a crash at 26th and Valencia :(

Utterly brilliant. Women in #STEM doing the realest shit. @holdenkarau.com

BTW, check out the “An Arm & A Leg” show interview with @holdenkarau.com and how they used public records to enable its large language AI model to work. shows.acast.com/7c237614-aac...

Dinner… took a turn. Bean cookie!

“Do we have a pay phone?” “No.” “Do you want one?” “No I just couldn’t remember if we did.” youtu.be/Cipc8EowshY?...