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Chibi is boss. Bring her her coffee. Bring her her squeaky ball. Type up her homework. Bossy. Bossy. Boss dog.

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TIP: Your app _shouldn’t_ work the same across platforms.

used to have its office in San Francisco on Sansome St., near the Montgomery Street BART station. It evaporated during Covid like so many good things.

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1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use. Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-man-...

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Elon Musk wants a Texas compound filled with women he will breed with to preserve his superior genes.

Imagine watching Fury Road and thinking Immortan Joe is the hero.

2024. This photo was from the Pocket Team Week last year. It was the first and only gathering of the Pocket Tiger Team, and the last time an entire Pocket team would gather.

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2022. I took this photo at the end of Mozilla All-Hands. I’d never been the Hawaii before, and the long walks on the beach with coworkers and friends felt practically surreal.

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2016. I took this photo at my first team week. As a daily user, joining Pocket was a dream for me. I’d always wanted to work on something I actually used, and the product sat at that intersection of web client and news utility that I was already extremely invested in.

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Big tech demand for software engineers has past its peak. You can see it in declining hiring & compensation and increased layoffs.

A question is how much AI is playing a role?

As a replacement to coders, I think not much. As the driver of cost cutting to buy GPUs and build data centers? A lot.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants you to use AI as friends.

When you invest your time with AI instead of creating genuine bonds with real people, you become completely isolated without even noticing it.

This all serves capitalism and authoritarian regimes.

When you are isolated, you can't find humans to help you financially (AI won't).

When you are isolated, you can't find humans to rise up with you against abuse (AI won't).

You become completely alone (with AI friends), and completely vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by the system implemented by those who control your AI "friends".

It seems obvious, I know. But how is Mark Zuckerberg able to market this insane idea at all then?

#Meta #MetaDystopia #Facebook

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turns out the woke in government was load bearing

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I once worked at a game company/publisher where the head of biz dev said "In any business deal there are two parties. The Fuckie and the Fucker and we are the fucker". This company is no longer in business.

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We literally told everyone that if Trump got elected again, we’d be living in a police state. But a lot of people thought it wasn’t the biggest issue we faced, accused us of being hyperbolic, or fell for and spread pro-fascist propaganda.

Congress erupts over FBI arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan:
axios.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arres

Oh, good. We’re arresting judges now.

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We should make a thing that's like...

We start a wiki for projects that don't yet exist. Something that really lays out the essential elements of the thing in our mind.

Basically, what the fan wiki for our thing would look like if we had the time/funding to make it. Yes, that includes spoilers.

And then, once completed to a satisfactory degree, use them as planning docs to build the thing.

It's more open source and would provide transparency should such an effort ever go for crowdfunding.

As a transgender woman, I think I’ll spend the rest of my life contemplating the practical and philosophical gradient between “being a woman” and “being a man who lives as a woman”.

Where I sit on that gradient is only as important as what it entails, but we spend most of our time focused exclusively on where to stick the pin.

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is starbucks coffee named after battlestar galactica or moby dick

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Public service announcement:

If you're on estrogen and you take a multivitamin or if you take biotin to make your hair and nails healthier, it's ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL that you stop all of that stuff for at least 3, and preferably 4, days before you get your blood levels checked.

Biotin is the chemical they use in the estrogen level test, and if you've got a higher-than-normal amount of biotin in your bloodstream, your labs will come back saying you've got much more estrogen in there than is there in reality.

If you want accurate results, take a break from the multivitamins!

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.