Isaac Whitfield

Happy First Contact Day! 🖖

How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (Gift Article) The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.

How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government.

Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

USAID security officials on leave after refusing access to Musk allies Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk has been denigrating USAID, which is the world’s largest provider of food assistance.

Breaking news: The White House has removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest provider of food assistance, after they refused to let representatives of Elon Musk access restricted spaces.

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

This is the way; I know good people who voted for Trump. They are misinformed and/or unable to think critically because they're worried for their family.

Making out that these people are the same evil people as (e.g.) Jan 6 is only going to push them away further. We need to guide them back.

Because social media encourages one of them more than the other, unfortunately

The new work etiquette: If you can’t spot the jerk, it might be you From avoiding unclear meeting invitations to gossiping more, these are some rules of the modern workplace.

There is a nonzero chance something you do is driving your co-workers nuts.

Whether you’re in a cubicle or on your sofa, consider doing a few things differently during meetings, in messages and with all of your other tech tools.

GitHub - whitfin/jen: A fast utility to generate fake/test documents based on a template A fast utility to generate fake/test documents based on a template - GitHub - whitfin/jen: A fast utility to generate fake/test documents based on a template

Also gave github.com/whitfin/byte... and github.com/whitfin/jen some small updates as they're used by Runiq :D

Release v2.0.0 · whitfin/runiq Remove default bytelines features

Updated runiq with much more efficient blooms, and exposed the Filters API for programmatic use: github.com/whitfin/runi...

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Hit Hyper again in TFT, definitely the smoothest climb I've had!

Too many people tunnel on a single headliner, makes the game so much more consistent if you play whatever shows up.

Say hello to Myles!

Originally a stray cat found by a work friend. After asking around their neighborhood, nobody claimed him.

He had a bad case of ear mites but a trip to the vet cleared that up quickly. He's about 5-6 months old, the newest member of the household!

X will begin charging new users $1 a year X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. Now, the team is moving the idea into production.

Nighty night.

Got Hyper in TFT Set 9.5!

This time took 64 games with a 67% Top 4 rate, not bad!

New art history meme just dropped

A Thing I did :)

Got to Hyper again in Set 9! Finished it with a pretty crazy Samira game :D

63% Top 4 over 62 games, 18% 1st place. Ended with 12 Top 4s out of the last 15 games :)