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Jim Perrin
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Something something at Microsoft something something.

Life coach for terrible ideas
This is hands down one of the best conferences you could attend....or speak at.

Stop doubting yourself and submit a session.
Never spoken before? No worries. We’ll help you get started. Submit a session for SCaLE 23x!
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November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Upstream @ AKS with Lachlan Evenson (@lachie.bsky.social) -
Kubernetes AI Conformance with Rita Zhang

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB7X...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
Kubernetes AI Conformance: with Rita Zhang: Upstream@AKS
YouTube video by Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Welcome to the beginning of Michael Buble season everyone
a woman in a red dress is standing in front of a glass door and says `` it 's time '' .
ALT: a woman in a red dress is standing in front of a glass door and says `` it 's time '' .
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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The owner of Heretic Coffee said Tuesday the shop had raised over $72,000 to help feed people losing food benefits as the government shutdown continues.
Portland coffee shop raises over $72,000 to feed people losing SNAP benefits
The owner of a Southeast Portland coffee shop said Tuesday the shop had raised over $72,000 to help feed people losing food benefits as the government shutdown continues.
www.oregonlive.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
God I love this city
Diversity of tactics.
October 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.
October 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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guy who brought the trans flag we iwo jima’d described himself as “yeah i was pretty neutral about trans people, think i still am honestly, but these people are being so goddamn weird about it that i gotta get off the fence”
October 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
These pictures don't do justice to just how massive the PDX No Kings march is.
October 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
October 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
SCaLE is a fantastic event!
I'm helping to organize the Kernel and Low Level Systems track this year. Submit your presentation. If you're nervous or want a someone to review before you submit, feel free to reach out.
🧑‍💻 Southern California Linux Expo wants to hear from you. Literally, we want you to speak. Kernel hacking, AI modeling, gov transparency, parenting with parental control routers—if it’s open, it’s in. Submit a talk to SCaLE 23x!

www.socallinuxexpo.o...
October 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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it looks like DHH is backing Palmer fucking Luckey (Anduril uses NixOS in its drones) to do the same kind of takeover as RubyCentral, starting with the same kind of sponsorship moves
DHH is also goading other communities to do similar steps to become more authoritarian.

For example he posted this tweet about NixOS (see discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-na-... and
discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statemen... for some background information).
October 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Forgive me bluesky, for I have sinned...
September 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Why build something that helps people when you can just subjugate them instead
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Portland right now
a little girl is dancing in the rain on a wet sidewalk .
ALT: a little girl is dancing in the rain on a wet sidewalk .
media.tenor.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Oh wow, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Texas is wearing a cowboy hat
September 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
OH: "Show me on the doll where the company's compliance policy hurt you"
September 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I don't know why the blue sky police haven't arrested Kathryn yet.

I'm not aware of a single jurisdiction where it's legal to beat someone so badly, and in front of so many witnesses...
Somebody in my mentions just directed the phrase "to dumb it down for you" at Kathryn Tewson.
September 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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September 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Go donate. Help people help other people.
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September 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Portland's graffiti is sometimes pretty epic...
August 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The Register wrote a story about a single maintainer open source project, I think it's shameful and upsetting

So I wrote a blog post about it

An absolutely ridiculous amount of open source is one person projects. I have the data to prove it

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...
Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story, and the company behind the ambulance ch...
opensourcesecurity.io
August 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM