Sam Thurston 

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

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Show threadSam Thurston Feb 25, 2025
@augieray it's a pretty good description of Elon I think
Show threadSam Thurston Feb 14, 2025
@LRRRonEarth sure but what did the teenagers do to it
Sam Thurston Feb 12, 2025
Jayne 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈Feb 12, 2025

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
Show threadSam Thurston Feb 12, 2025
@kevinrothrock a year ago I would have said an alcoholic secdef whose greatest accomplishment was getting frogmarched out of a veterans group for being incompetent was "unrealistic," but hey, the world is full of wonders.
Sam Thurston Feb 12, 2025
LeftyFeb 12, 2025
I ❤️ maps.
Sam Thurston Feb 9, 2025

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.

Show threadSam Thurston Feb 7, 2025
@Viss @dualdflipflop significantly fewer ANSI bombs. Don't know if that's a plus or a minus really
Sam Thurston Feb 5, 2025

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
Show threadSam Thurston Feb 5, 2025
@npr @politics-npr it wasn't legal when the Bush admin did it and the prisons were in Syria, but also they paid no price for it.
Show threadSam Thurston Feb 5, 2025
@briankrebs I know some guys at leepfrog if you wanna send 2.2 million government employees some correspondence.