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Update here: at least three programs the WH is using to illustrate fraud at USAID were not funded by USAID. notus.org/foreign-policy…

@Damon_Peters @Acyn You fucking clowns keep throwing around the word "merit" like it means something, but there's nothing meritocratic about this government. Trump himself has no merit: he failed upward and parlayed a racist smear against Obama ("DEI hire", amirite?) into a fascist dictatorship.

@Damon_Peters @Acyn Please. Doing away with DEI is an excuse resume systematic discrimination and replace qualified civil servants with loyalists. What does "merit" even mean when you replace Lloyd Austin with Pete Hegseth, Michael Whitaker with Sean Duffy, or any of this admin's unqualified hacks?

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned. When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. And that is the life that we have always lived. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

incredible to see Andreessen Horowitz institute a jobs program for white men they admit are unqualified, after all that complaining that "DEI" was ruining their dreams of meritocracy techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/a16…

@muanchiou This is such great news, congrats!

FYI, I’m moving to @shawnbot" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sfba.social/@shawnbot and curating my network from scratch.✌️

@cydharrell OBE: merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ove…

This is a very cool role on our team for an awesome person who’s passionate about delivering equitable, accessible, and high-quality City services.

Software engineering jobs in USGov Centers for Disease Control and Prevention usajobs.gov/job/655023100

@bejamas Maybe it's time to change this green check for Heroku to a yellow dollar sign with a note that it'll cost you (in time, at least) to manage automatic GitHub deployments until they get this sorted? #automated-builds-from-git" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bejamas.io/compare/heroku…

We use Heroku for a bunch of apps, and we've been unable to use review apps for nearly two weeks now. It's a disaster. I'm curious: Where are other teams (esp. in government) moving to from Heroku?

@tim_narwhal Hah! At this rate it would take about 45 years. I’m aiming for the circumference of the earth (~24,900 miles) in 5.

Just testing that fifth digit on the odometer

Just... why?

Let’s gooooooo

It's important to know the context regarding the guy who just bought this place crowing about "Free speech online." The context is he has repeatedly gotten in trouble with the SEC for using twitter to manipulate stock prices. The free speech he cares about is securities fraud.

@BFFdotFM They'll be there on Monday! ❤️

@shawnbot Yes! Thanks so much 🥰

Friday Fund a (Weird) Need: we're looking for someone to order us 500 toy capsules for our new BFF.fm vending machines we hope to roll out soon: amazon.com/Vending-Machin…

@zackseuberling Thanks. I should mention that I’m in no place to procure a new platform right now, so Netlify is sadly not in reach. But their conventions are nice!

What web servers, platforms, and/or tools are folks using to manage large lists of URL redirects? Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, maybe even Apache mod_rewrite? Or do you do this in your app server framework of choice? Hosted CDN?