Howard Cohen

@hoco@sfba.social
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I'm a former software engineer and sometimes CTO for over three decades. I left the industry in 2018 because it had become an instrument of the oligarchy. I fell back on my lifelong love of woodworking and became a maker of fences and gates. I also teach woodworking classes.
I create acrylic pour painting art, 3D models for printing, and web sites. I write a lot, including two scifi novels. I'm committed to kindness and to purging hate.
Fences and Gateshttps://timefold.com/fences
Acrylic Pour Paintinghttps://capturedchaosart.com
Small Disc Golfhttps://smalldiscgolf.org
3D Printinghttps://3ddoodle.com

🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨

After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!

The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…

🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉

Trump, Musk, Rubio, and their henchmen destroyed USAID -- directly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly children. The apparatchiks celebrated while bosses lied about what they'd done.

I can't overstate my incandescent rage at these monstrous people.

https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan

#pitchforks

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.

ProPublica

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:

Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.

The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI.

After finding the document in the trove, I called her.
She broke down in tears.

“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it.

They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:r4htmaum3mel37tvqtidnfo4/post/3maevwksjqc2i

Page by Mike Baker | @mikebaker.bsky.social

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com

Re: #EpsteinFiles
"These documents are more blacked out than Pete #Hegseth on New Year's Eve." - - feral streeep

To all the other "computer people" going to see family during the holidays:

When they complain about their iPhone being messed up, the option you're looking for this year is "reduce transparency" under accessibility settings.

You're welcome in advance.

Mastodon may be the only online service I use literally every day that clears the admittedly low bar of not being engineered to extract anything from me.
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