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NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors A stunning development over the past 24 hours.

NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.

This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

alt text a screenshot (with no instructions for how to replicate it) showing that the account was created in and is based in Russia and uses the Russian app store

guessing that's an API change they'll roll back quickly

Yeah, also, how's the war on drugs going? Did we win that one, or...?

Countries don't openly declare themselves fascist. They make opposing fascism illegal.

I wrote this at some point during his first term. That’s exactly what they’re doing.

For well over a decade now, the Republican Party has been less about using state capacity to enforce bigotry than using the power of the state to *crowdsource* bigotry, to make life harder and less livable for disfavoured groups. Make bigotry less shameful, make bigots openly proud of their bigotry.

The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.

Screenshot of a post from Ms Rachel’s Instagram Real Question from The NY Times As you know, a group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that you are accepting money in order to further Hamas's agenda. Is that true? This accusation is not only absurd, it's patently false.

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Poster standing in front of building side mural of Kurt Vonnegut

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Use Pager Duty and Apple Watch to discreetly escape networking I attended a not-so-great tech mixer recently and while I always try my best to engage with others, sometimes you just get stuck talking to "that person." Women in tech especially know what I'm talkin...

use pager duty and apple watch to get out of uncomfortable tech social networking: www.linkedin.com/pulse/use-pa...

A couple decades into my career, it has never once failed me that a person describing others in a community or team as “non-technical” is a reliable indicator that they fundamentally do not understand how technology is created. There’s no such thing as a “non-technical” person.

more is less. No really

$ less
// Missing filename ("less --help" for help)

$ more
// Missing filename ("less --help" for help)

“At the root of snobbery is a lack of imagination and confidence about how to decide who in the world is valuable. The snob isn’t wrong in the sense that there are better and worse sort of people around. They're just brutally misguided in how the superior individuals can be identified.”

It would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening

March is Women in History month and, as a woman in history, all I ask is for more high fives.

appalled to learn that the heap (computer memory) has nothing to do with a heap (data structure).

every Donald Trump cycle:

TRUMP: i'm gonna kill the easter bunny

FACT-CHECKER: he has not stated how he is going to kill the easter bunny

TRUMP SUPPORTER: i think he means he's going to kill evil bunnies

TRUMP: *beheads the easter bunny*

NYT: trump redefines relationship between bunny and head

I do think it’s funny when the car companies are like “we may be divided but now more than ever, I think we can all agree: car ❤️”

You guys aren’t going to believe this, but today I used a cable from my big box of old cables.

a swear jar for LLM's except the phrase is "Ah, you're right" and they have to grant you longer conversation limits.

I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.

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Love when #Cursor suggests I delete code I just added. Thanks for the support, robot.

Wait you made this?! It's so great.