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Computing (Scala/Java), aviation/astronautics, music. Urbit ~hopfyn-masmyn SecondLife Maggie Darwin ARS K3XS QCWA #39142 Opinions are mine and mine alone.

East Coast US
Joined November 2007
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Replying to @RitaPanahi
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” – Marshall McLuhan (1970), Culture is Our Business
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Replying to @HeinleinSociety
Robert A. Heinlein / Farmer in the Sky Dell, 1968
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💥 Pass the Save Act now! 💥 Pass the Save Act now! 💥 Pass the Save Act now! 💥 Pass the Save Act now! 💥 Pass the Save Act now! This matters because it’s about protecting the integrity of our elections and making sure every vote counts the way it’s meant to.💥
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"Socialism is a political religion whose God is the State and whose priests are the bureaucrats... It is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal distribution of misery." Winston Churchill
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Vibe coating is a truly bad idea unless you understand the vibe.
🧵🚨 BREAKING: Miles Taylor: "Anonymous," former DHS Chief of Staff, Google security executive launched a website called GTFO ICE that collects your full name, email, phone number, and zip code to join an anti-ICE "rapid response network." And publishes the user infromation via a public API. 🚨 17,662 people have signed up. The sign-up data is exposed on a public REST API. No true authentication. No rate limiting. Full records: names, emails, phone numbers, zip codes, timestamps. The man who ran the third-largest federal department (250,000 employees, $60 billion budget) who oversaw election security architecture and led counterterrorism operations, then served as Google's Head of National Security Policy... ...can't secure a sign-up form. But he does milk hundreds of thousands of NGO dollars on these credentials. While freeloading off his fame as the person who wrote the infamous NYT article "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration." And despite me pinging @MilesTaylorUSA about this 12 hours ago, the REST API is still wide open and exposed as of now. Everything has been turned over to FBI, HSI, ICE, and more agencies. As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
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She's going to tweet right though this as if she had nothing at all to do with Spirit's demise. Fucking hack.
Spiking fuel prices from Trump’s war was the nail in the coffin for twice-bankrupted Spirit airline. FWIW, JetBlue merger failed because a judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan, said the deal was illegal. Republicans are desperate to shift blame from higher costs hitting families.
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Never forget Ever
We still haven't forgotten about you.
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South Africa won’t allow Starlink to be licensed, even though I was BORN THERE, simply because I am not Black! We were offered many times the opportunity to bribe our way to a license by pretending that a Black guy runs Starlink SA, but I have refused to do so on principle. Racism should not be rewarded no matter to which race it is applied. Shame on the racist politicians in South Africa. They should be shown no respect whatsoever anywhere in the world and shunned for being unashamedly RACISTS!
Why Elon Musk is RIGHT to fight South Africa’s racist rules blocking Starlink? Imagine this: Long ago, South Africa had very unfair laws called apartheid. They treated Black people badly and kept them from good jobs and money. When those bad laws ended, the country made new rules (called B-BBEE) to help Black people get a fair share of business. The idea was good – like a big helping hand. But now? For companies like Starlink to sell fast internet, they MUST give away 30% of their business to Black partners. Just because of skin color. Elon Musk was born in South Africa. He left as a teen to chase big dreams. Today, his company SpaceX wants to bring Starlink – super fast satellite internet – to South Africa. But the rules say no unless they give up part of the company. Elon said it right: “Starlink is not allowed because I’m not Black.” SpaceX promised to spend about $30 million (that’s 500 million rand!) to give FREE high-speed internet to 5,000 rural schools. That helps over 2.4 MILLION kids every year learn better, get jobs later, and have a brighter future. Real help for the people who need it most! Starlink already works in about 24 other African countries. Villages there now have internet for school, doctors, and business. South Africa’s villages are missing out because of these racist rules. Elon isn’t asking for special favors. He just wants fair play so Starlink can connect everyone fast. Internet = education, jobs, hope. Why hold back millions of kids over rules that pick by race and color?
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Stop and think about this for a minute. Democrats don’t even have to lift a finger to stop Trump’s agenda because John Thune won’t even bring it up for a vote. That means the SAVE Act never gets passed, and Trump’s agenda, driven mostly through executive orders, gets reversed on day one the moment Democrats take control. Democrats can literally sit back for the next three and a half years and do nothing while Republicans block themselves and implode. You would think this is political suicide if we actually had a true two party system. But what we are seeing is the uniparty rearing its ugly head for self preservation because it has no choice. For 250 years, we believed in democracy. But it was all a lie. The truth is worse than we thought.
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Years ago in Norristown, a car suddenly slammed on its brakes in the middle of the road causing me to bump into it. A really short guy got out of it and said, “I’m not happy.” I said, “Well which one of the seven are you then?” And that was how I met Josh Shapiro
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Not satire…
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Voter fraud—that thing that never happens—keeps happening
Today out of @FBINewark: Four individuals have been charged with illegally voting in federal elections and making false statements applying for U.S. citizenship. The individuals - all noncitizens - voted in elections including the 2020 Presidential election, 2022 midterms, and 2024 Presidential election cycles. More to come. Thank you to our investigators and partners for their great work in the case. @DAGToddBlanche
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STILL WAITING FOR ONE SINGLE GOP SENATOR TO GROW A SPINE AND CALL FOR JOHN THUNE TO BE REMOVED AS LEADER! The Senate GOP has a majority and a mandate from President Trump and the American people. REMOVE JOHN THUNE.
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Replying to @oopartpt
Quit posting bullshit. ... They would never say "thank you".
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People romanticize college because for four years of their lives they: 1. Had all the rights of adults but none of the responsibilities. 2. Lived in a closed community with sealed borders that kept out low IQs and anti-socials. 3. Were young, energetic, healthy, and attractive. 4. Were thrown together with a bunch of similar people who had no predefined power- or need-based relationship with them, which is how friendships form. This last is the important one, especially as fertility rates decline. People with children transition to making friends with other parents of children in the same age group, because events and networks centered around those children throw them together with other parents in the same way. But childless people have few or no opportunities to make friends after college. So they are left with a slow dwindling circle of college based relationships, remembering the days when it was all easy, and they weren't so isolated, and they didn't have to work so hard. Couple that with having to complete with infinity immigrants in the job market, so they can pay taxes to support infinity boomers and government bureaucrats, while being passed over for the best jobs and careers in favor of infinity DEI incompetents, who they also have to support... Well, for a lot of people born into what was once the American middle class, college was their first and last experience of an adult life wherein they weren't being systematically and deliberately routed into the formation of a new underclass. A special form of underclass who are still expected to be productive enough to materially support all the non-producing people who were positioned as their social superiors despite being their intellectual inferiors. So, yeah, they wish they could go back to college. Is anyone surprised by this?
“Folks romanticize college because they lived in dense, walkable-” They romanticize college because it was the last time they could be full-time irresponsible adults. Drink, smoke, fuck, eat gas station sushi at 4am, and pull all-nighters because your biggest consequence was a 9 am lecture you’d skip anyway. And everyone around you was as degenerate as you are. Nobody with kids wants to live in that zoo. WaLkAbLe NeiGhBoRhOoD
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America’s future depends on passage of the SAVE America Act We should act like it—and get it done
We MUST pass the SAVE America Act. The future of our country depends on it.
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I'm taking the room with me.
The RPG-7, an operator's first choice when dealing with a CQC situation.
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Oracle filed 3,100 H-1B petitions THIS YEAR while terminating 25,000 American citizens. Fire one American engineer at $180k, hire six Indians at $28k, pocket $12 million per hundred swaps. @SenEricSchmitt
ORACLE JUST FIRED 25,000 AMERICANS AT 6AM VIA EMAIL Mike Sicilia taking over a company that posted $6.13 billion in profit Up 95% from last year While eliminating 18% of their entire workforce in a single morning The math is breathtaking Fire one American engineer at $180k, hire six Indians at $28k, pocket $12 million per hundred swaps Oracle filed 3,100 H-1B petitions THIS YEAR while terminating 25,000 American citizens Sources inside saying the emails went out globally at dawn "Your role has been impacted by workforce optimization initiatives" Signed by "Oracle Leadership" Not a human name anywhere Badge access revoked before most people finished reading I'm hearing entire teams in Austin got eliminated while their Bangalore replacements were already onboarded The same Americans who migrated every Fortune 500 database to Oracle Cloud Now training their Indian replacements via Zoom before their final day Sicilia pocketed $250 million in stock options for orchestrating this execution That's 1,388 American salaries in one man's signing bonus If you work for any company with "global delivery centers" in the org chart, you're already fucking dead
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Good grief. Brian, you’re a rich, entitled partisan, desperately trying to find a way to be a victim here.
One week since a shooting interrupted the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Attendees have been processing what happened. Politicians and journalists (myself included) now know a bit more of what it feels like for schoolchildren and many others who have to endure lockdowns.
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The SPLC literally opened up bank accounts in the name of fake photography businesses to pay people in hate groups -- it is absolute textbook financial fraud. The media attempts to make the case seem doubtful are pretty desperate.
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