Andres Plaza 🇨🇱

Andres Plaza 🇨🇱

@andres.mafia.cl

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer; the myth says I worked for Twitter. Transplanted from Chile to the U.S.A. Por La Razón o La Fuerza. Rotten to the core. I enjoy collecting, repairing, and developing new hardware for Atari computers.

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I already want to disassemble it. 😁

Atari@atari.com

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No estaba muerto, andaba de parranda.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate on after a more than three-month absence. “Today, I’ll cast my first Senate vote since I took a bad fall back in June. I’m really looking forward to being back on the Senate floor and seeing my colleagues,” McConnell wrote in a statement. nbcnews.to/4h6US9V

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Let’s find and release the video of the threesome Donald Trump set up for Robert Kraft at a massage parlor outside of Mar-a-Lago that was covered up to protect a rich corrupt MAGA Texas Republican POS. #BlueWaveIn50Days

Of all the weird devices I saw this weekend, the weirdest wasn't at #vcfmw, but in my room: a TV embedded behind the bathroom mirror! And it wasn't even in front of the toilet. 😁

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Chuck Peddle pitched the 6502 at WESCON 1975 for $25. The 6800 cost $175. Motorola reps stood in the aisles trying to convince engineers the cheap chip couldn't work. It worked. Within two years it was in the Apple II, the PET, and the Atari VCS. Price disruption before anyone had a word for it.

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Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.

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This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

substack.comA Terrible Thing Happened to My FamilyEven in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.

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We are back in the lab and have just about recovered from backfilling all of our trenches up at the Battle of Bunker Hill redoubt excavation! 💪 This was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience. (1/4)

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I'm not even stirred.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Van Jones is on CNN talking about how “people around the world are shaken” that someone could get so close to President Trump.

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it’s crazy that you can be the president and be like “i’m the messiah and i am going to bomb and murder children” and tens of millions of people who ostensibly subscribe to a religion that say doing both of those things is bad will snort their approval like the little hogs they are

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Could we do a Truman Show situation where we build a fake Oval Office where he watches AI created fake news about himself and let him believe he's still president and tweet the hours away and meanwhile we can impeach him and move on...I'm not sure he'd know the difference

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Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

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Humiliation and dismissal is not enough for these people. They must publicly prostrate themselves on the way out the door. I will never understand these freaks.

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WATCH: The White House took down this video, but we still have it. Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

When somebody says "vibe coding", I hear "vibe banking", "vibe flying", "vibe surgery", "vibe weapons". So, if you are not cool with the latter ones, you shouldn't be cool with the former one.

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DHS successfully—until now—covered up the murder of a third US citizen on Texas' Padre Island, the sort of thing that can only happen in GOP-ruled Texas. ICE agents shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, last year, but DHS covered up the whole incident, Newsweek reports.

newsweek.comThird American death linked to ice uncovered by NewsweekWhile the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

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Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

wesh.comState House votes to rename Florida airport to Donald J. Trump internationalThe Republican-controlled Florida House voted 81-30 in support of the name change to President Donald J. Trump International Airport

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Do you have a passport? Over half of Americans don't. Do you have a birth certificate and photo ID with the same last name? Nearly 70 million married women don't. If you answered no to both, you would not be able to vote under the SAVE Act. This is voter suppression, not protection.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Rep. McGovern on the SAVE Act: "I have news for Republicans, Americans don't want to be saved by you, they don't want you screwing up the next elections... Republicans have looked to find fraud, and you know what they found? Someone is more likely to get struck by lightning than to vote illegally"

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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

aljazeera.comIsrael used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporateUS-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

Interestingly, it is the same strategy used by the communist party in Chile.

Jan-Werner Mueller@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

I'm so old that when I read "AT protocol", I think of the Hayes-compatible modems of yesterday. :-)

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

Went down a bit of a rabbit hole tonight looking at standard.site and atproto and how it all might be useful for something I'm playing around with and... yeah... even though I'm already biased to like atproto... dang, this is cool. You can just do stuff. And that stuff can... communicate.

The U.S. is in an interesting dilemma: if citizens react violently to defend themselves from being killed, Trump+minions will deploy armed forces, to oppress/kill more. if citizens don't do anything, they are going to keep dying by federal "police".