David Vrensk

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I prefer “Nazi puts automatic pedophile machine in a car, wants a trillion dollars”.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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As long as they’re not dispersing.

Would be better if the money was disbursed.

Careers at Jump | Jump Jump is empowering financial advisors and their clients to thrive in the age of AI. We're growing incredibly quickly with a team that comes from Google, Stripe, JP Morgan, BILL, Nitrogen, Harvard, Sta...

Who do you know who wants to come work full time on #ElixirLang OSS tooling? (Boosts appreciated!)

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#ElixirJobs

What’s the output of `env | grep LC`?

Men, men… bestämde inte Storbritannien (eller möjligen England) häromdagen att de skulle förbjuda filter för att de ger så mycket skräp?

Bok: Sverige går inte sönder Myter om invandring, jobb, bidrag

I just backed Bok: Sverige går inte sönder on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/294... för jag har följt @alexvoronov.bsky.social i många år och han har bara kloka saker att säga.

Du har rätt, och det där kan ju få en att önska sig full.

Min bil har Spotify men inte Tidal eller Apple eller något annat. Jag har hört av mig till tillverkaren men ingenting händer.

fastest way to decentralize bluesky is to make custom emojis a thing and make them exclusive to running a PDS. see how fast everyone learns what a PDS is if they're promised custom emoji

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more:
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I’m hoping it will be a great tool for integration testing of web systems.

The clear waters at Elafonisi beach, the #1 rated beach in the world according to Trip Advisor. I agree #greece #beach #landscape #crete #mediterranean

The people who build their heaven on your land are telling you that yours is in the sky. - Nina Simone

Pic of the day

#photography

The #AWSpocalypse continues. Farewell us-east-1, we hardly knew you.

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

We all know this, but it should be repeated over and over:

Trump is a Russian asset.

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För att det är så lätt att motbevisa? Flera andra länder har ju fritt skolval utan vinstuttag.

We could try and establish some kind of standard. Any company that’s beyond bootstrap could pay eg €100/yr/developer.

You might think that is not possible to accidentally buy tickets and a tour to the Guggenheim museum in New York when you want to visit the one in Bilbao. You would be wrong.

Picard mental health tip: When you lie down to sleep, instead of thinking about your failures, think about your successes.

And more importantly: nobody is saying differently.

This hits a nerve. I was supposed to have beta tested MySQL back in 1995 but never got around to it. I’m still thinking I should apologise to Monty but it seems to have worked out.

Thank you for fighting our common enemy so that we don’t have to. We owe you more than words can say.

Why? Someone has to pay them for their extra work and it’s not going to be the government.

Jag kan inte heller läsa artikeln men G8 är i rubriken och Rostock i ingressen. Men jag hade gärna fått veta mer om clownerna.

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Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny.

He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
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