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dz

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engineering manager @netflix. Posts my own. Jokes probably stolen from Reddit. he/him.

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My two fave cooking topics are "I can't cook this because where can I find exotic things like cilantro and sesame oil" and also "I made this recipe but subbed garlic with chives and cream for yogurt and it turned out disgusting" Just like two ends of the "what in world" spectrum

people say AI companies are subsidizing costs and we should be worried, and yeah, i'm not worried, cause look uber did the same thing and now we've normalized paying $50 for a single delivered entree after fees and taxes and ti– oh wait

i'm skeptical of a lot of the AI hype, but when it works, it feels like magic recently, i was kinda lost in the tokyo train station, so i uploaded a wide angle iphone photo of where i stood and also my train ticket, and asked chatgpt which way should i go. it nailed it!

weirdly comforting to read about thieves pulling up in a ladder truck and sawzall-ing into the most famous art museum in the world my wife called it a vintage crime no AI, no power-mad world leaders using gov assets in the worst way just thieves who really wanted shiny things

turns out my new least favorite airport is frankfurt, it’s like if the old NYC penn station mutated into an international airport

regardless of the specifics of the h1b proclamation, the timing that gives essentially 24 hours notice to re-enter the U.S. continues to prove that cruelty is the point for many of this administration’s implementation details.

the weird word choice embarrassment u get when u accidentally tell the doctor you have a reservation instead of saying you have an appointment

Hearing some companies are using lines of code and number of PRs generated by engineers to gauge GenAI use in their workforce. Okay but why are we pairing a generational improvement in developer productivity with literally the worse way to gauge developer productivity???

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Our GoFundMe to assist our former colleagues at @polygon.com is now live! Please support them if you can, and share widely even if you can't! Thank you all for the kindness and care you've shared with Polygon and the union over the last 2 days — it means the world to us all. gofund.me/a21cbbdc

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gofundme for affected folks: gofund.me/39fc6cf2

gofund.meDonate to Support Polygon Workers and the Vox Media Union, organized by Ashok SelvamOn Thursday, May 1, Vox Media announced the sale of beloved video game s… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Support Polygon Workers and the Vox Media Union
allegra frank@legsfrank.bsky.social

i would not have a career without polygon. heartbroken and sending love to all of the people there who believed some random postgrad could be a legitimate journalist, and to some of the best friends i’ve ever had

most financial strategy response to major world events is "don't worry, if ___ really does happen, we have bigger problems". ok yes. so.... hypothetically, if the bigger problem happened, like say a non-independent Fed, does it impact the basic calculus of a 3-fund portfolio?

remember these stupid signs that plastered red counties? they were barely coherent last year, and downright insulting now.

The entire suit is stupid, but the dumbest part is that in 2020, the % of Starbuck's U.S. workforce was 69%*. In 2024, it's 70.9. This suit is predicated on a 1.9% increase in women in the workforce. * missouriindependent.com/2025/02/12/m...

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified" This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.

me: i will gladly pay a lot of money to save time and mental bandwidth also me: i’ve just spent 12 hours on credit card point redemption travel micro optimization and i think i ended up with a slightly cheaper flight

if i owned a gym i’d name it “Health is Wealth Management Services” and every personal trainer would also be a certified financial planner

sometimes i think about the brief period around 2001-2003* where I was fully up to date on the global discoverable English output of Ranma 1/2 fan fiction * in these years, global supply was basically the FFML mailing list, and fanfiction.net

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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

Recently opened Facebook and my feed was mostly people sharing Facebook memories from the 2010s and going "wow remember this". Between that, the decline of hashtags, and so much more, the online culture of the 2010s has almost entirely transformed. (Weirdly, the 2000s online era feels more alive?)

Julia Alexander@loudmouthjulia.bsky.social

Get rid of blocking, tell people to stop using hashtags, make the main feed totally algorithmically unusable and boring. Congrats to Elon -- in just a couple of years he has successfully destroyed everything that made Twitter an app for connection. (even if hashtags do suck)

I don't think I've read this many newsletters, or visited so many forums (or forums-in-disguise like Reddit), or associated so much content with *people* vs *editorial brands* as much as I have since the 2000s.

If you're able, there's a gofundme to help support folks impacted! www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

gofundme.comDonate to Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union, organized by Ashok SelvamOn Thursday, December 5, nearly 40 members of the Vox Media Union, Thr… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union
Vox Media Union@voxmediaunion.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky. Sucks that this is our first post. A statement from the Vox Media Union and @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs. Please stay tuned for more details on how you can support our colleagues who were impacted today.

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