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Software engineer turned technology critic. Your friendly neighborhood Luddite. Looking for the joy in computing, but coming up empty most days.

Buy used. Repair your stuff. Reject status. Don't buy the lie!

Leftist, pacifist

Thoughts/opinions are my own, not my employer's.

Bloghttps://hapax.bearblog.dev
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Whenever I'm at the airport I feel like I'm doing something wrong, even though I'm not

On today's episode of #funemployment

Do I go back into startups?? We shall see

One of the best parts of having kids is seeing their wonder at the simplest things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzQZknItpMY

great video from Yeti.

"I'm obsessed": it's so rare to have the chance to do things we're obsessed with in our society. Seeing those that are lucky enough to do so is life-giving, but also sad.

YETI Presents | The Captain

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Bit Twiddling Hacks

#funemployment career reading: O'reilly's "Database Internals"

“the whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino” says the man who ran multiple casinos, whose company plans to launch a prediction market, and who nominated a CFTC chair who celebrates prediction markets as part of a “golden age” for finance

#PredictionMarkets

Tech founder lifecycle:
Year 1-3: We’re disrupting a broken industry
Year 4-6: We are the industry
Year 7-9: Senate subpoena

Found this on my walk today, cool stuff

https://qrco.de/20rules?trackSharing=1

Tech Billionaires Want Christians to Believe in AI For Peter Thiel and JD Vance allies, the tech right is framing AI as a moral—even divine—mission. via @[email protected] www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Tech billionaires want Christi...
Tech billionaires want Christians to believe in AI

For Peter Thiel and JD Vance allies, the tech right is framing AI as a moral—even divine—mission.

Mother Jones