Sam Thurston 

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Data engineer for big ag, trying to make industrial-scale farming sustainable with maps and drones

He/him

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Whatever you do, please don't share this as #MelonTusk won't like it 😏

We got a DOGE staff list.

From a McKinsey alum to a former Clarence Thomas clerk, here are the workers powering Elon Musk's cost-cutting squad.

https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-list-white-house-2025-2

DOGE staff list reveals tech vets, McKinsey alum, Supreme Court clerks

A list of White House DOGE staffers shows about 30 young tech, finance, and legal professionals remaking the federal government.

Business Insider
I ❀️ maps.

The impact of shutting down NOAA on agriculture research will be devastating.

China is going to literally eat our science and technology lunch because these morons have no idea what they're doing.

Great news for those of us limping along on archwsl:

"Arch Linux has confirmed that after discussions with Microsoft, an official distro image will be coming to WSL 2 at some point in the future."

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/wsl-2-will-soon-get-support-for-another-popular-and-legendary-linux-distro

WSL 2 will soon get support for another popular, and legendary Linux distro

"I use Arch, BTW" will soon apply to WSL users as well with this confirmation of official images.

Windows Central

As this instance is shutting down in a few weeks, I am migrating to

https://hachyderm.io/@Samthurston

Samuel Thurston (@[email protected])

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Nothing in life prepared me for Nine Inch Nails "Head Like A Hole" playing in the Ace Hardware at 8:30am while I'm trying to find mounting hardware for a bathroom cabinet.
My youngest woke me up with breakfast and flowers... Good start to a birthday!
Cats and ants could never work together to control humans and post things on the internet. Such an idea is so silly it doesn't even merit being used in fiction!
People who don't care about a dystopian future are called Ohwellian.
One minute you're young and carefree, and the next you're the office translator for 80s movie references no one else gets.