Alex Pretzlav 🥨

@pretz
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Kids, bikes, video games, cooking.
Oakland, CA
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Black Lives Matter
Trans rights are human rights
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My timeline is nerds excited to go to California interspersed with images of ICE occupied airports and it feels pretty bleak

Well this is one of the best mystery stories I’ve read in a while. It helps that I camped and hiked Death Valley a bunch as an LA Boy Scout and have some appreciation for the landscape.
/via @marcprecipice

https://otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/

The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans

This is the tale of what for me was a rather remarkable adventure.  It was assembled on the basis of my personal recollection and experience, emails, GPS logs and some official documents.  It represents solely the perspective and opinions of myself, in my more lucid moments.  It is in no way intended to represent th

How it started … how it’s going.
These little $40 Linux handhelds are pretty fun!
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

The Onion
Desperately trying to convince myself that I don’t need an Ayn Thor before the rampocalypse makes them unaffordable or they simply stop making them.

Triple threat of "has a non-US location open", "great teammates", and "work on the bleeding edge of making safe languages adoptable in more places"

https://f.duriansoftware.com/@joe/116144532826406043

(full disclosure: I have a bunch of open optimizer bugs so I have a vested interest in this team having more engineers 😇)

Spring of deception
AI discourse has replaced Swift Concurrency discourse
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Revealed: How Substack makes m...
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

The Guardian