Oh interesting, people who don’t know how to build software are getting mad at my post about building software. Cute. Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink.

If your job was to know when to hit the semicolon key on the keyboard, I'm sad to say that's not an employable skill anymore. If you shape ideas into tools and art via code, it's really so much better than ever now, and I don't see that changing soon.

I wish there was a hell so there could be a special place for these folks.

So let’s think about this. A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands. The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

This is so cool!

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THEY RAIDED THE CAMP TO TAKE THE KIDS LETTERS

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

my hypothesis is

A reminder this happened earlier this week at Trump’s massive concentration camp in El Paso: “The cases of tuberculosis and COVID-19, two diseases that spread through the air, have underscored concern about the conditions at Camp East Montana and other immigration detention centers.“

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

KPOP feels like the obvious choice.

money can absolutely buy happiness, you just suck at being rich like you suck at everything else in life

Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

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i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.

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“Execute Operation Mar-a-Lago…” Couldn’t have seen this coming.

huh, what a weird coincidence

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that this happened at a healthcare event is just A+, no notes

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Are we surprised a guy whose son monitors his porn activity thinks seeing a bunch of naked people is threatening?

I am so stoked for this book.

“I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS” is the greatest clickbait book title ever (it’s not about what you think, although the history is highly relevant)

Resistance has many fronts.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

Democracy dies in a political consultant's messaging strategy.

Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way. by Ezra Klein

That is not a No and they know it.

I really appreciate this video.

We all saw this. “We” === the demographics that are currently being attacked and oppressed now. Many dismissed us as over exaggerating or too sensitive. We were called too emotional and over reacting. Told to calm down. Told we were being bias. Some other demographics are waking up. Slowly.

1. Wow. 2. Shows how the US has zero perspective of history, which explains a great deal

I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.

Terrifying day. The downstream consequences could be scary too. Of the many reasons not to tweet gleefully about Kirk getting shot (also: it's morally wrong), a big one is you don't want to give these people any more ammo in their fight to shut down two-party competition in America

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i’ve said it a million times before: videos should not autoplay by default on any social media site

The lack of fireworks is the giveaway.

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Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.

"voters are why I lost" is the funniest possible thing for a politician to say.

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