Michael Grinder

@mgrinder
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Over-educated computer geek who writes #Scala for a living. Husband. Father of three. Christian. Recovering fundamentalist.

“Let us save our national honor! Stop the bombing! And stop the war!”

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Just laid off along with whole team. I'm in the middle of moving. Movers coming on Saturday. I'm not done packing. Good: time to finish packing. Goodish: cheaper rent at new locale. Bad: older guy computer programmer, but not even in COBOL [C, Perl, Python, PL-SQL, RedHat and Debian Linux. Created a custom RPM just Friday.]

Looking. CT / NYC / remote.

Oh, you don't think I'm qualified to weigh in on tech world happenings? I waited in line for the T-Mobile G1. I was there for #BendGate. I had hard opinions about John Gruber shutting down Vesper.

😭😭 It's wild to think I've been reading tech crunch for nearly 20 years now. You guys, what if we're getting old?

Does anyone know what happened to that golden trump statue from CPAC a few years ago?

I'd really like to melt it down, grind it up, mix it with water, and force the entire american evangelical church to drink it

ktxhbai

Bible Gateway passage: Exodus 32:19-20 - New Living Translation

When they came near the camp, Moses saw the calf and the dancing, and he burned with anger. He threw the stone tablets to the ground, smashing them at the foot of the mountain. He took the calf they had made and burned it. Then he ground it into powder, threw it into the water, and forced the people to drink it.

Bible Gateway
@arcayr @joeycastillo I think our collective revulsion to goatse wasn't so much the actual image, it was our future selves trying to warn us that this would ruin the entire concept of circles with stuff around them.

Random thought.

If public libraries didn't already exist, capitalism wouldn't let you invent it. Can you imagine how many billions Jeff Bezos would plough into fighting the idea, destroying any politician who dared to back it?

Support your local library.

Watching A House of Dynamite this afternoon probably wasn’t a good idea given the current geopolitical situation.

"Imagine you have two machines. One you can open up and examine all of its workings, and if you give it every picture of a cat on the whole internet, it can reliably distinguish cats from non-cats. The other is a black box and it can also reliably distinguish cats from non-cats if you give it half a dozen pictures of cats, some apple sauce, and a hug."

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people

A.I. Isn't People

How many Reddit posts does it take to learn to read?

Today in Tabs
In August 1863, Frederick Douglass stopped recruiting Black soldiers. He forced the Union to confront its contradictions: unequal pay, denied rank…violence against Black troops. He walked into the WH, challenged Abraham Lincoln directly, and left unconvinced by policy but clear about power. He resumed speaking not because justice had been secured, but because pressure, not faith, is what moves a nation forward.
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Image: Recruiting broadside endorsed by Douglass (Gilder Lehrman).
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