Mastodawn

Worth the read!
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

My 5-year-old brought home a family project: “disguise a turkey” as anything he wanted. His top three choices? A Minecraft Creeper, Bad Bunny at the SuperBowl, or the #MoWillems Pigeon.
Can you guess which one won? 😄

#parenting

Yai Torres Nov 9

Is it too much to ask for a Zone of the Enders HD remaster? Playing that game is one of my core memories while growing up.

Yai Torres Oct 31

#NowPlaying Footprints by Sorry Girls: https://song.link/i/1799292765

Footprints by Sorry Girls

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Yai Torres Oct 31

I’ve mistakenly typed “git pish” so many times these days that I’m thinking about setting up an alias 😄

Yai Torres Oct 26

I finally have my own #digitalgarden!

https://www.yaitorr.me

I decided to start with something practical: a place to host my “living resume.” Now it’s a matter of keeping it growing through incremental steps—the only way forward when there’s so much to build and limited time.

Special thanks to @mxbck for providing an excellent #11ty-based foundation to build upon: https://mxb.dev/blog/eleventy-resume-builder/. Your work gave me the inspiration and motivation to keep learning about the web and building on it. I really needed that!

Yaisiel (Yai) Torres - Engineering Manager in Springfield, VA

Online Resume of Yaisiel (Yai) Torres

Yaisiel (Yai) Torres - Engineering Manager in Springfield, VA

Yai Torres Oct 25

Soon enough, the military will start wearing “MyPillow” insignias in their fatigues. It’s open season to sponsor the military in the US now #uspol
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/anonymous-donor-military-pay-shutdown

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members

The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Department confirmed on Friday.

CNN

Yai Torres Oct 23

The schematics of the #WhiteHouse east wing made me think about the corner of my laptop's SSD where all the node_modules are stored.

The east wing will be where all the bloat accumulates.

Yai Torres Oct 20

Don’t use ring cameras. They’re mass surveillance machines.
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115402282658457366

Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas.to)

Amazon’s Ring has announced a partnership with Flock, a network of AI-powered license plate readers, to allow the police and ICE request footage from owners of Ring doorbell cameras to help with investigations. This is the first I’ve heard of interoperability across apps aimed at better supporting law enforcement instead of end users. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

mas.to

Yai Torres Oct 17

Adding this one to the Halloween season playlist. My head starts bopping as soon as it starts. #NowListening
https://song.link/i/1836226730

Dracula by Tame Impala

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