Solomon

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

They're hard to hunt down 😅

Where can I find you to snag one of those books?😁

It’s wild to me that COVID exposure notification system are being decommissioned. Did we forget that this hasn’t gone away?

Whenever it was noted that my friend Jes made good $ as a programmer he’d say:

“That’s because I do work that is highly valued by our society.”

Not all work is equally valued—even if it’s hard physically, creatively, in some other way.

That doesn’t mean it’s not valuable or important or “real.”

Opinion | I’m a physicist. Last week’s gravitational waves announcement sent me reeling. Hum from gravitational waves gives a completely new and audacious view of the universe.

I wrote about being tossed about on cosmic gravitational waves, for @washingtonpost.com: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/06/gravitational-waves-new-view-universe/

After three years of wearing the same glasses, I'm so excited to get new lenses purely because the coatings on my current pair have worn off, and I just see fingerprints. Only fingerprints.

Someone on Mastodon described Bsky as "a bunch of people hanging around in the parking lot after the mall has closed" and I thought it was A) accurate and B) pretty great actually

Hikes and audiobooks are a way to heal

Trump is accused of violating seven federal laws but faces 37 separate charges, because each classified document he is accused of holding on to illegally is charged in a separate count.

His alleged efforts to hide classified information from federal investigators is charged in several ways.

Me too! I can pretend people give a damn about what I have to say

There's something odd about interacting with large twitter personalities on bluesky because it's so small. It's much easier to have direct interactions with people because there are less impressions overall and a user base that seems more engaged

I've got two of these and they work great! I've had them for years