Dan Smith
Dan Smith
@dlsmith.dev
software engineer, dad, believer, musician, nerd “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
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My brain cannot process the idea that we're not even halfway done. They are completely cooked, and also are just getting started. 641 days down, 820 to go
331 days down, just 1130 to go! So weird to be in this place where we all know it's over, but they've still got *years* to destroy things and hurt people.
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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Mom Making Her Birthday All About Her https://theonion.com/mom-making-her-birthday-all-about-her/
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AOC Tidies Up In Case Federal Agents Stop By For Raid https://theonion.com/aoc-tidies-up-in-case-federal-agents-stop-by-for-raid/
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The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!
But, like, New America wouldn't make any sense because this is still the original America and... You know what, forget it
I don’t know why, but this one… there are just so many layers of “what are we even doing?” going on here. It’s completely unremarkable and yet… Play this for somebody in 20 years and they will not believe this is what things were like.
Trump: "We will pass a truly great healthcare plan that will stop all payment to big insurance companies"
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“Like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building”
In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
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Loving this so much. So many of my favorite things bundled up into one beautiful package, starting with the innocent-seeming mistake of thinking "Hawkeyes" = "Hawks".
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
And then Klobuchar gets to brag about women's sports teams from the midwest 😂
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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"The COVID-19 pandemic, which killed more than 47,000 New Yorkers, has inspired no such response ... Unlike the bereaved of 9/11, pandemic survivors who lost loved ones have no public place where they can share their griefs, receive recognition, and carry on with their lives. They deserve better."
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Periodic reminder that, for the last 13 years, you’ve been living in a world where we know how to make telepathic rats.
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Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.
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Kid's high school deciding to address too many competing messaging platforms by introducing a new one this year. Cool, cool.
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Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.
Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."