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@JeremyTate41 Seems like a good step for @dartmouth and all higher education organizations to take, but they all have years of destroyed trust to undo. Broken trust is very hard to fix.

@jamonholmgren @1Marc @CedricHolmgren That's awesome! There appears to be far less Mountain Dew and Doritos at that LAN party compared to the ones I went to.

@1Marc @CedricHolmgren It was super fun

For my son @CedricHolmgren’s 21st birthday, we have a 12 v 12 Team Fortress 2 LAN going on.

@JeremyTate41 So so relatable.

When I shampoo my four-year-old, it sounds exactly like I’ve always imagined a Civil War–era amputation would sound with no anesthesia.

Merry Christmas Eve. If you're curious about Jesus, pick up a Bible, or grab the Bible app and read the book of John, it's a great place to start.

@rtggeek I love learning things and solving problems. My hope is that by learning things and solving problems I am creating value and therefore getting a larger paycheck.

Serious question for network engineers: Is anyone interested in learning and solving problems any longer, or is everyone just chasing a bigger paycheck?

@libsoftiktok @chiproytx @grok tell me more about this.

Let me get this straight.. Somalians in Minnesota inflated their autism rates to get more Medicaid funding which was then funneled to al-Qa‘ida affiliate al-Shabaab, who are responsible for the most U.S. deaths than any other terror affiliate? How is this not the biggest story right now??!?!!

So uh, @googlecloud, could you give me a week or so before you follow in @awscloud and @Azure's footsteps and implode from DNS issues? I need to restock on redshirtjeff.com

Tom Bombadil is the most mysterious character in The Lord of the Rings. He's the oldest being in Middle-earth and completely immune to the Ring's power — but why? Bombadil is the key to the underlying ethics of the entire story, and to resisting evil yourself… 🧵

Hundreds of people have asked me if the video you're about to see is real. Spoiler alert - it isn't. It's just one of countless AI Fakes using my image to defraud unsuspecting viewers into giving up their personal information. This one involves the promise of free products from Yeti. Don't fall for it. And please share this. The number of people getting ripped off every day is extraordinary.

"For the last 9-months, my wife, Brooklyn has been pregnant with a very sick baby boy. Three or four months ago, we learned that the baby had severe hydrocephalus. Back in the old days, hydrocephalus was called, 'water on the brain' - too much brain fluid. Ultimately, we were referred to Cincinnati Children's Hospital, where we were told by several of the most highly regarded fetal specialists in the country that his condition was dire. The baby's condition was 'off the charts bad'. It was so extreme that the specialists stopped measuring and monitoring his fluid level because, at that point, it didn't really matter. The MRIs were sickening to look at. We were told, point blank, that there was over a 90% chance that the baby would either die shortly after birth or have such severe cognitive impairments that any quality of life would be hard to imagine. We had a meeting with palliative care regarding the use of life-sustaining measures and had detailed, awful, and emotional discussions about the ethics of when we might need to remove or cease such measures - which would result in the baby 'passing away peacefully. Brooklyn relocated to Cincinnati and lived in a hotel close to the hospital - in case she went into labor. I commuted back and forth. On July 8th, Brooklyn did indeed go into labor. Literally, 15 minutes before they wheeled her back to start the C-section, we had another meeting with doctors regarding the use of a breathing tube and at what point we might need to remove that tube and let the baby go to Heaven. Guess what? The baby came out crying - which was the sweetest sound I ever heard. In a nutshell, Charlie Schnarr stayed in infant intensive care until yesterday - when we all came home. He seems to be a normal, beautiful baby doing all the things that babies do. He has mild ventricular enlargement, but we can deal with that with checkups. How did this happen?! The doctors said, 'We do not have and cannot come up with a medical explanation for what we've witnessed here. Somehow his brain found a way to naturally clear the blockage or re-route the fluid that was causing the oppressive backup of brain fluid. During the last week, I heard the words, 'divine intervention' and 'miracle' more times than I could count. Nurses with decades of experience and esteemed, nationally admired doctors were flabbergasted but jubilant. Because of the domino effect of friends, family, clients, colleagues, and even strangers praying and asking others to pray for us, I do not doubt that there were thousands of people praying for us. I'm a practical person that certainly believes in science and medical technology, but I absolutely know, from the bottom of my heart, that God was involved in this. I give ALL of the credit and glory to Him. Prayer is positively powerful. God is real, and He still performs miracles." : Nick Schnarr

🚨 BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard just delivered a powerful message at the Charlie Kirk vigil. "She said, 'what do we do now? I know the answer should be love. The answer should be peace. But Charlie tried that, and it didn't work.' And my response to her was, 'no, it DID work. POWERFULLY. And that's why they killed him." "We look at the movement that Charlie inspired around the world, love, truth, freedom, turning to God in good times and hard times, not asking God what he will do for us. But as Charlie said, quote, 'I am far more interested in what God wants from me than what I want from God.'" - @TulsiGabbard

Your mission this weekend, should you choose to accept it, is to share this trailer with everyone on the planet. Or at least, with a few friends who might enjoy a show about the neighbors you wish you had. Episode one of People You Should Know drops on my YouTube Channel May 2nd. I don't have a network behind me on this one, or a big production company, so you guys are my marketing and publicity department. No pressure, but the entire endeavor is in your hands. PS. This is the show I promised to do for the 2.3 million fans of Returning The Favor who have asked me every day for the last few years if I was ever going to reboot "a feel-good show about the making of a feel-good show." This is it. If you guys show up, I'll do more. If you don't, I'm never listening to you again!

Meet a Minnesota District Attorney Mary Moriarty, this is the woman who is refusing to prosecute a man for keying 6 Tesla's.

@LarryTaunton @DataRepublican @ChristianPunsOG Is that the best translation? The rainforest has another version available as an e-book that is way less expensive, but it's also referred to as the "new translation" which makes a person ask why a new translation was necessary.

@DataRepublican @ChristianPunsOG By all means. I’ve had the pleasure of teaching it alongside Dostoevsky. Beautiful. But here’s one I put before you with some urgency. It feels like it was written as he watched people being swatted and Teslas burn:

@ChristianPunsOG My most controversial stance: Many Christians suffer from main character syndrome. They seem to assume God is in some sort of eternal scramble to redeem us wretched beings for no apparent reason other than that he loves us so much. IMO the answer is way more complicated.

The deeper message of Palm Sunday is one a lot of people would rather ignore. It was a moment of massive misunderstanding, and many people today are still missing the point. Back then, when a king came back from war, the crowds would lay down palm branches to celebrate his victory. So when the people did that for Jesus, they were treating Him like a conquering hero. They were expecting a military king. A political savior. Someone to take down Rome and restore the nation. That’s why they shouted “Hosanna!” It means “Save us now.” It comes from the same root as the name Yeshua, Jesus. They were quoting Psalm 118, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.” This was a political statement. They thought He was about to take the throne, crush their enemies, and restore Israel. They were welcoming a king the way you’d welcome a victorious general. And in their minds, He fit the bill. He was fulfilling Zechariah 9:9, “Behold, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, humble and mounted on a donkey…” They weren’t just praising Him. They were making demands. "Save us on our terms. Fix our world. Give us the kingdom we want." But Jesus didn’t come to crush their enemies. He came to deal with their sin. And when He didn’t meet their expectations, the same crowd that praised Him turned on Him. Five days later, they were screaming “Crucify Him.” Here’s something most people miss: Jesus entered the city on Lamb Selection Day, the day the Passover lambs were chosen. While everyone was picking out their sacrifice, Jesus was presenting Himself as the Lamb of God. He knew what He was doing. He knew He was going to die. And He still showed up. That’s what Palm Sunday is really about. Not just celebration, but confrontation. It forces you to ask, Am I worshiping Jesus as He really is, or just using Him to get what I want here and now? Because most people don’t reject Jesus for being too harsh. They reject Him for not doing what they expected.

At about this time in 1977, Delta flight 1080 nearly ends in tragedy. Fortunately, former Marine Captain Jack McMahan was at the controls: His quick thinking would save the plane—and earn him the FAA’s Distinguished Service Award. /1 of X

My thoughts on the stock market crash: President Trump is making a high-risk, high-reward move: he's attempting to partially reverse NAFTA's long-term effects by enforcing reciprocal tariffs. Anyone confidently predicting either catastrophe or a golden age is, IMO, not being serious. Commodities are crashing. That trend seems likely to continue. Whether tariffs will counterbalance this remains uncertain. IMHO, short-term, the most tangible relief might come through falling oil and real estate prices—both of which are essential to the average American's cost of living. That would be a net positive. But it will also expose the fragility of the “paper millionaires" created since COVID-19. There is no sustainable economy in which the average home costs $419,000 while interest rates sit at 7%. That's not real prosperity. Whether consumer prices will actually decline, I don't know. Even under optimistic assumptions, re-establishing a stable, dignified working-class economy will be slow and difficult. Decades of erosion won't be undone in a few quarters. Plus, some of the damage isn't just economic but cultural, and resolving that will require institutions beyond government- especially spiritual ones like churches. There's another issue: we've been conditioned to believe the stock market should always go up. But prior to the era of sustained deficit spending, down years were normal. We've broken that expectation through artificial intervention. That's not healthy, either. One fact is beyond dispute: our current fiscal trajectory is unsustainable. Deficit spending above 4-5% of GDP cannot continue indefinitely. By all rights, we should have seen a major correction in 2021. Instead, we chose to spend through it. That kept the markets afloat, temporarily. The reckoning may finally be here. Or maybe not yet. This could resolve next week, or take years to unfold. Either way, structural change is underway. And structural change is never easy.

@cloudtoad It was probably for the best.

I once failed an interview because someone asked me "what command shows current flows permitted by iptables" and my brain went blank and I said "probably a command-line tool in the nftables package." And they said that wasn't good enough.

Update: You technically included my husband’s statement in the very last sentence. But let’s be honest—this was way less than 24 hours. By publishing before I had a chance to respond, or even asking my husband when I'd respond, you ensured that your readers only got one side of the story. You chose not to wait. That’s not journalism; that’s manufacturing a narrative. Trust is built on good faith and fair reporting. You showed neither.