Adam Holisky

Adam Holisky

@adam.holisky.com

I make 1s and 0s as a technical product manager and software engineer. I used to (and still do!) write words. Once caught a level 21 Pikachu, it was awesome. Minneapolis. Consultant. Ex: Blizzard, Penske, AOL All opinions are mine.

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

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Fire everyone on the cybersecurity team who had anything to do with this. What are you even testing here?

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

There’s details in this that are notable, but overall absolutely amazing. I imagine most of us will eventually know someone who’s life was saved because of this. Star Trek level technology here.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

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This is awful, but I appreciate how much the idiots in charge of CBS are doing to let the entire world know that they are no longer a legitimate news organization.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

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Y'all! Check out this human made game! I've met this human! In meatspace! They're super cool and it would be super cool if they got some attention!

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social

The first two days of Steam Next Fest are critical to a game's visibility! If you've been thinking of trying it out, booting up the demo today will help Steam surface it so others can discover it! store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/...

Been playing MTG Arena through Steam running in an isolated docker container… in the browser. On my 2018 MBP Intel with a Touch Bar running Arch Linux (perfectly, I’ll add). It’s really really great on many levels.

These fuckers need to be punished. Particularly this asshole.

The Downballot@the-downballot.com

Vivek Ramaswamy has not only confirmed the commercial with Amy Acton's estranged mother was made by his campaign, Axios also reports he's now spending $4 million to air it.

Kelvin Waves are one of the coolest things. Only knowable at a global level, but can be incredibly important at the local level. This is a good explanation of them. Hadn't heard before now that one hit and likely made the flooding worse in SoCal.

NPR@npr.org

A large underwater wave moved up the West Coast, raising sea levels. Scientists say it's driven by El Niño and it's going to happen again. n.pr/4BgaSzE

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❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Anyone on the BlueSky play Civ 7 recently? How has it held up with post-launch updates, etc? Considering buying it now, got the Civ urge. Civ 6 is just fine too, however.

Thinking about that time my boss scolded me and another person for using the wrong shade of yellow on the website — on her monitor alone — and threatened to fire us. It’s still the dumbest thing ever to happen. She wouldn’t “listen to my excuses.” It’s now an infamous event in my social circle.

Wow. I want to know the story behind this. A false alert of a ***9.9 Magnitude** earthquake. 😮 That would be the largest in recorded history by far. I think it’s even impossible? Maybe a small moon hitting us would generate that? Someone smarter than me do the math on how absurd this is.

Fox | omgitsafox@omgfox.bsky.social

got a 4-minute earthquake warning in several apps for a 9.9 magnitude NE of Hokkaido, so I thought it was going to be the Big One then it passed and the phones started screaming again to let us know it the warning was “cancelled”. thanks.

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Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WaPo: Trump officials scrutinized Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2019. They didn't find citizenship issues. 
The earlier review of Omar's immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.

software engineer peeps -- why does go not have case statements in switch fall through to the next condition, like c and everything else? This seems like a paradigm I'm not noticing.

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Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Person who wrote the layout engine for Microsoft Word: absolutely not

Ariel Edwards-Levy@aedwardslevy.bsky.social

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? pollster: oh, that's fine, it's ignorable nonresponse

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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Trump can't even Fascism correctly. All this is going to do is empower Ihan and all of the state's moral citizens. Time to make fucking with MN backfire on the shitheel-in-chief, again.

Sean Lim@seanlimmn.bsky.social

WE STAND WITH ILHAN 🩵

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Star Trek (1966) "The MIT Museum unveiled an extraordinary piece of television and cultural history: the original 33-inch Starship Enterprise model that helped define sci-fi and sparked generations of scientific ambition." It will remain on public display at the Museum through March 28, 2027. 🔽

I have no idea if Pavarotti was friends with Trump. I know with 100% certainty that people in the NY Opera world hated him and he was nothing but an annoying ant always trying to sit at the big kids table (literally). He's pretending he has friends.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: “Luciano Pavarotti was a very good friend of mine. He was a great diva, the greatest diva of them all. He was a male diva like no woman could be.”

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Trump’s obsession with demonizing the Somali community is dangerous and reprehensible. Hate to break it to him: Somali Minnesotans are resilient. We will not let Trump intimidate us. Our neighbors have our back.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

Foucault is rolling over in his grave. The carceral state is behaving exactly as it should, and we have made progress only to entrench the structures that have bound humanity for millennia. Failed state.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, a former Army major who killed 13 people in a mass shooting in 2009, would be visible to the public

I hope Trump keeps being obsessed with Minnesota. He lost. He's a fucking loser. Let him come again, we'll show him how pathetic he is, again.