Mark Rogaski
@skogkatt.io
Software engineer working with Go, Python, and Kubernetes | roller derby official (Trampling Bias, Dirty Jersey Roller Derby) | diversity advocate | outdoor enthusiast | cat rescue foster. Også, nordmenn, jeg følger dere fordi jeg lærer språket.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Reposting my @cafedotcom.bsky.social piece from October ICYMI open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
So You've Decided to Target Random People with Military Force
Here's why it's illegal.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Reposting my @cafedotcom.bsky.social piece from October ICYMI open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
This is one of my favorite covers because its straight quaver approach is so different from the original, while still being an homage to the original and nothing like the whitewashed versions.
28 November 1970 - Dave Edmunds went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of the 1955 Smiley Lewis hit 'I Hear You Knocking.' It was also the first release on the new MAM record label. This track became the first Xmas no 1 single of the 70s. #DaveEdmunds
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This is one of my favorite covers because its straight quaver approach is so different from the original, while still being an homage to the original and nothing like the whitewashed versions.
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Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
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A well-deserved third #Walkleys Award for cartoons to David Pope. #GazaGenocide
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A well-deserved third #Walkleys Award for cartoons to David Pope. #GazaGenocide
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If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
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“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” Juliette Kayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”:
A Terrible and Avoidable Tragedy in D.C.
Trump was warned that members of the military could be attacked.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” Juliette Kayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”:
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This is a great discussion of why films, generally, are so visually underwhelming now.
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This is a great discussion of why films, generally, are so visually underwhelming now.
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Rocksteady Freddie
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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RIP Jimmy Cliff
Worth taking 3 minutes this morning to watch this profound and lovely performance.
And if you’re my age, to remember where you were when you first heard the song.
#ManyRiversToCross
youtu.be/twf7LhQIBkQ
Worth taking 3 minutes this morning to watch this profound and lovely performance.
And if you’re my age, to remember where you were when you first heard the song.
#ManyRiversToCross
youtu.be/twf7LhQIBkQ
Jimmy Cliff- Many Rivers To Cross
YouTube video by rockyfl86
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff
Worth taking 3 minutes this morning to watch this profound and lovely performance.
And if you’re my age, to remember where you were when you first heard the song.
#ManyRiversToCross
youtu.be/twf7LhQIBkQ
Worth taking 3 minutes this morning to watch this profound and lovely performance.
And if you’re my age, to remember where you were when you first heard the song.
#ManyRiversToCross
youtu.be/twf7LhQIBkQ
Jeffries as speaker would be like watching the NY Giants defense get a turnover and then having to watch the offense go 4 and out, again.
If AOC isn't on the short list, the Dems aren't taking it seriously.
If AOC isn't on the short list, the Dems aren't taking it seriously.
🦅 House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries?
In today's 'First Draft' from @petertwinklage.bsky.social - Republicans fret they may lose their congressional majority even before the midterms, Donald Trump ponders axing FBI Director Kash Patel, and the skyrocketing cost of Turkey Day.
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In today's 'First Draft' from @petertwinklage.bsky.social - Republicans fret they may lose their congressional majority even before the midterms, Donald Trump ponders axing FBI Director Kash Patel, and the skyrocketing cost of Turkey Day.
zeteo.com/p/house-spea...
🦅 House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries?
Republicans fret they may lose their congressional majority even before the midterms, Donald Trump ponders axing FBI Director Kash Patel, and the skyrocketing cost of Turkey Day.
zeteo.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Jeffries as speaker would be like watching the NY Giants defense get a turnover and then having to watch the offense go 4 and out, again.
If AOC isn't on the short list, the Dems aren't taking it seriously.
If AOC isn't on the short list, the Dems aren't taking it seriously.
TBH, the fact that appointments were purchased does explain a lot.
A Year Later, Donors to Trump’s Transition Come to Light
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
TBH, the fact that appointments were purchased does explain a lot.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Confirming, as someone of the same age, that if when you told someone that Glen Matlock was kicked out of the Sex Pistols for liking the Beatles the implications was, "I would have been kicked out of the Sex Pistols, too."
As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Confirming, as someone of the same age, that if when you told someone that Glen Matlock was kicked out of the Sex Pistols for liking the Beatles the implications was, "I would have been kicked out of the Sex Pistols, too."
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We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
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"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism.
www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...