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Um.. "One of the next moves in #Trump & #Musk ’s sweeping effort to fire govt employees/curtail ops is.. GSA received a mssg.. to begin terminating leases on all 7,500 federal offices nationwide, according to an email shared with The Associated Press by a GSA employee" apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump and Musk demand terminat...
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The flagrant lawbreaking by Trump, Musk et al is not, as Big Journalism says in its standard timid way, merely a push to expand presidential power.

It is testing whether there are ANY limits to presidential power whatsoever. It is testing whether Trump is king.

Why can't journalists get this?

In response to some queries: It is unclear how widespread the current tuberculosis outbreak is in the US with CDC's AtlasPlus tool offline and the weekly TB cases stack not updated. Hoping it's back online Monday. https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/about/atlasplus.html
(Reuters) - SEC lawyers told they need to seek permission from the politically appointed leadership before formally launching probes. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/secs-republican-led-commission-tightens-oversight-probes-sources-say-2025-02-02/
Are you ready? Today marks the start of ‘The Bellingcat Open Source Challenge’! Five days a week, for the entire month, find a new a new open source exercise on https://challenge.bellingcat.com/
Bellingcat Open Source Challenge

Test your open source research skills.

"“The whole purpose of pro riding now is to create a demand at the retail level for the really expensive bicycles,” he said. He sees the glorification of speed—personal bests, constant quantification, metrics, leaderboards—as discouraging to entry-level riders who might otherwise enjoy life with a bike. "

EDIT: hired!

Well I guess now's the time: It's time for me to #getFediHired

I'm a software engineer with 29 years of experience. In more technologies than one person usually encounters. I've been working in Javascript and Typescript for a while, but don't let that fool you: I do rust for fun and I'm down in the guts of the runtime in C++ if I have to. I’m fixing include paths in C header files and managing deployments and doing system level tracing. I do embedded programming for fun, and I've picked at the system level APIs of everything from MacOS to Android. I can cleverly hack my way past problems, and isolate the resulting tech debt with a good explanation and the conditions under which it can be fixed.

I leave every codebase neater than I found it. I can manage awkward technology transitions, and I can bring a fair bit of open source know-how to bear on things.

I'm a team-oriented, consensus-focused person, but confident executing on my own and iterating from there. I will boldly start and show a prototype if that's what it takes. I'm not easily bored, so if it just needs a heavy lift, I'm here for that too.

I've worked in PHP, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Rust, C, C++, Vala, Scheme, and a dozen more languages (and I'll learn any new one I need to) and have written truly unfortunate amounts of hardened, careful bash.

I've installed and built VoIP platforms with Asterisk integrations, I've built mail servers and custom authentication. I've built FUSE filesystems for fun, and I'm always after ways to make software simple, durable, and reliable.

Working remotely ideal, Boston/Cambridge is possible.

Got a team that could use me? Hit me up. [email protected]. Resume and letters of recommendation available on request (you really don't have to take my word for what I'm capable of.)

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Thank you to everyone who boosted this. A+, would try to get hired via Fediverse social connections again. Y'all came through.

Grizzly 399, the iconic matriarch of Grand Teton, has passed away, struck down on the very roads she navigated with grace and instinct for nearly 30 years.

Her remarkable life, touched all who were lucky enough to witness her in the wild.
Her legacy lives on in her cubs, and in the countless people she inspired to care for our wild places. Grizzly 399 will never be forgotten.

As I travelled, I read The Political Economy of Health Care, by Julian Tudor Hart. It's an excellent read for anyone interested in health systems - packed with insights. I wrote my reflections for @bjgp.social @CroakeyNews https://bjgplife.com/the-political-economy-of-health-care-by-julian-tudor-hart/
The political economy of health care, by Julian Tudor Hart – BJGP Life

It's time to push to prod now
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet the muppets
Who wrote this code tonight