Jake DeGroot

Jake DeGroot

@jake-degroot.bsky.social

Senior software engineer and architect.

1.2K followers638 following180 posts

In the spirit of the phrase "resident alien for tax purposes" and me thinking Resident Alien sounds like a movie, add "for tax purposes" to the end of a movie title: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever For Tax Purposes.

opadit@opadit.bsky.social

In the spirit of the phrase "resident alien for tax purposes" and me thinking Resident Alien sounds like a movie, add "for tax purposes" to the end of a movie title: My Own Private Idaho for Tax Purposes

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AI/LLMs generally can bluff their way through a pretty good first impression but they have trouble staying on task and following through a project to completion and like. That's only cool when I do it

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If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

anildash.comTaking action against AI harms - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999.
KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

This looks so awesome. I can't wait to watch it!

Ariel Waldman@arielwaldman.com

Watch LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman on @pbs.org Stream, watch, rent or download in the U.S. and Canada! Episodes released weekly. Season 1 explores Antarctica and the North American Prairies.

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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Miami DSA@miamidsa.org

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

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Replying to @zacheverson.com

Scavenger hunt, gov’t-edition— If you visit a USG facility (base exchange, gift shop), please check if they’re selling any Trump merchandise. Yes/no reports both useful. Photos that show proof of location a huge plus. DMs open. Also z_everson@protonmail.com or 202.804.2744 (Signal/mobile). 6/

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"You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel."

Willow@rockshrimp.bsky.social

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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My cure to the male loneliness epidemic is to take away every boy’s phone and young man’s phone, then force them to get together to play Goldeneye and Mario Party in a basement for hours on end. Bingo bango, problem solved.

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Clay Higgins saying there are no 230 protections for companies that don't suppress people celebrating Kirk's death is not just wrong on the law but a very clear attack on First Amendment protected speech. This is actual government jawboning in pursuit of silencing disfavored views.

Jess Miers 🦝@jmiers230.bsky.social

This is an abuse of government authority from Rep. Clay Higgins. It's jawboning. It's a violation of the First Amendment. And Americans on the left and right *must* condemn it. The government using censorship to "protect" speech is utterly repulsive. clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...

Can confirm, I just saw a banner for this when I logged in earlier.

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Bluesky says it will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming because they strike the "right balance", after exiting Mississippi (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Holy shit, guys! Three nights of Brandi Carlile at Red Rocks is nothing short of a religious experience. Especially with her new song, Church and State, which is punk as fuck! And then she played Uninvited by Alanis all three nights, which was just beyond incredible!