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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · Apr 29

Student: Teacher, why do we learn?

Socrates: For life!

Freire: For liberation!

Dewey: For democracy!

Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!

Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · Apr 29

It’s really absurd that we’ve reached a point where the “common sense” view of education is that its primary purpose is to lower the future onboarding/training costs for companies hiring new employees.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 11d

I'm speaking at @codemash.bsky.social again this year, but this time on a very different topic. Let's talk about unionization in the tech industry!

Do you have questions about organized labor in tech that you want answered in a talk like this? Let me know and I'll try to provide answers in January.

A banner for Brian Meeker's talk at CodeMash 2026 entitled "Unionization, AI, and You"

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⿻ Secretary of Vore 🎃 @eileen.actor · 27d

You can’t be racist against AI. AI does not have a race. It doesn’t have a body to be racialized. It doesn’t have a perspective which can experience racism

“An AI” is not a person. It’s a fuckload of floating point numbers wrapped in a function that accepts input and returns outputs. That is all

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 28d

I both get this and do not. Because the bands I listen to peak at eaking out a middle class existence. Even if said band releases a middling album, if I’ve liked them in the past, I want their new album to help them scrape by without day jobs. That’s peak in the modern #metal world.

Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 28d

don't remind people of better albums during your bad album.

*having a billion dollars makes you stupid* music edition

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 28d

I want to believe this is just a LinkedIn shit post, but it’s equally likely to be 100% serious.

Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 29d

The fact that Clair Obscur continues to ask me if I want to spend more time with Esquie implies that there are monsters that do not want to spend more time with Esquie.

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · Oct 1

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Sep 30

Excited to be speaking at #CodeMash for the 3rd time in January. I haven't checked sessions for previous years, but I'm reasonably confident that I'm giving the first ever talk on unionization in the software industry that CodeMash has ever had. I have no idea what kind of reception awaits me. 😅

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Sep 22

I'll be giving my unused backup talk from ElixirConf last month about fixing up your creaky old test suite. sessionize.com/s/brian-meek...

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Brian Meeker is a full stack engineer who occasionally leaves his basement in Indiana. Currently, he works as a Senior Engineer at GetThru. He works m...

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Sep 22

I'll be speaking on Tuesday at 6PM ET as part of the Global Elixir Meetup (GEM) week. If you're in the Cincinnati area, join us in person at the Launch Scout office. If you can't make it, the event will be streamed. Details at globalelixirmeetups.com/event/cincin...

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Cincinnati Global Elixir Meetup

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Sep 22

Freakanomics did an episode on co-CEOs a couple of years ago. I don’t remember the details. As with many things, there wasn’t a clear answer. freakonomics.com/podcast/are-...

Are Two C.E.O.s Better Than One? - Freakonomics

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Sep 14

Weekly Gloomhaven sessions have quickly become the favorite part of my week. Looking forward to every Sunday session right now. Give it a few more weeks and we'll even cleared up most of the rule snafus!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Sep 13

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · Sep 12

I refuse to deplore "political violence" when it is made so explicit that it is the adjective, not the noun, that troubles the people so openly weeping and rending their garments right now. Either we all have a ticket in the Victim of Gun Violence Lotto or none of us do.

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Ohio Elixir @ohioelixir.bsky.social · Sep 12

Come join us for our Global Elixir Meetup! The Ohio edition will be on Tuesday, September 23rd at 6pm (EDT) with in person and online options. @brianmeeker.bsky.social will be sharing how to "Refurbish Your Creaky Test Suite"! Visit www.ohioelixir.com to signup.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · Sep 12

If they are so proud of who that dude was and what he stood for, why are they are trying to get people fired for posting verbatim things that he said? They’re more: “How dare you post that!” than “Damn right Gay people should be stoned/MLK was evil/Black women are unintelligent”etc. Worth asking.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard.

The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Sep 5

Same. The sooner I can rip all the dialyzer specs out of my work codebase, the better.

Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yeah, doesn't scale that way. José mentioned in his ElixirConf update that half the cores seems to be the sweet spot in testing.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's not their review though. That's the entire point. From the context, I'm assuming these are self-reviews. The theoretical point of a self-review (emphasis on theoretical) is reflection on your own strengths and weaknesses. If you're outsourcing that to AI, you're missing the point.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Sep 1

Just spent three hours reading Gloomhaven rules and slowly going through the training scenario to prep for a campaign starting next weekend. I *think* I know what I’m doing to run this well enough. 🤞

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is a very underrated skill you get as a parent. I was incapable of improv or most pretend play until I had children. Just wasn’t good at it and didn’t try.

My kids gave me a completely non-judgmental audience. Completely changed the way I communicate today, even at work.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Aug 30

The surest sign of college football season starting is that I’m already considering muting Gus Johnson.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thanks! We'll check it out.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · Aug 30

Excellent! Chicago was my assumption. That's within driving distance for me. 🎉

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