Allen Newton
@allennewton.bsky.social
Software Developer. Alto and tenor sax player. Starting my expensive hobby in EAA with my SCT. Tinkerer of microcontrollers and little rovers.
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AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:
February 12, 2026 at 12:10 AM
AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:
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Oregon is in the middle of a record-breaking snow drought for this time of year.
Oregon’s record low snowpack is not likely to recover, scientists say
Oregon is currently in the middle of a record-breaking snow drought for this time of year. If conditions don’t change, it could spell a challenging year ahead for cities, wildlife and farming.
www.opb.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Oregon is in the middle of a record-breaking snow drought for this time of year.
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HOW DOES THIS GRIFT KEEP WORKING
Oh for fuck sake. How is anyone still falling for this bullshit? You can’t just dig tunnels in Florida. Our unofficial state fish is the sink hole. Anyway. RIP Harry Potter land, swallowed by Elon Musk’s giant unfinished hole in the ground probably.
Elon Musk’s tunneling company tapped to link Universal parks
The company is best known for creating the underground Las Vegas Loop. But little is known about how The Boring Company intends to proceed in Central Florida, including how it might approach constr…
www.orlandosentinel.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:40 AM
HOW DOES THIS GRIFT KEEP WORKING
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My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
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It's 25 years to the day that proponents of iterative, "lightweight" development methodologies came together in Utah to work on their ski tans and pen the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.
I have thoughts, which I've typed out to make them visible.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/t...
I have thoughts, which I've typed out to make them visible.
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The Agile Manifesto at 25 – The Most Talked-About Unread Document In Software
Feb 11th 2001 – exactly 25 years ago – was the first day of a 3-day meeting at the Snowbird ski resort in Utah that gave birth to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Like all …
codemanship.wordpress.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:19 AM
It's 25 years to the day that proponents of iterative, "lightweight" development methodologies came together in Utah to work on their ski tans and pen the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.
I have thoughts, which I've typed out to make them visible.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/t...
I have thoughts, which I've typed out to make them visible.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/t...
I'm now off of Discord. Astronomy club chat/posts gone. (I can still use their clunky old school forums app). Software communities on Discord...no longer available to me via their platform. Feels like social media is at a crossroads.
February 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM
I'm now off of Discord. Astronomy club chat/posts gone. (I can still use their clunky old school forums app). Software communities on Discord...no longer available to me via their platform. Feels like social media is at a crossroads.
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Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...
Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators
Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.
www.cnbc.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...
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February 11, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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BREAKING: @carolleonnig.bsky.social reports a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. declined to indict Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin on charges of seditious conspiracy Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the proceedings.
February 11, 2026 at 1:41 AM
BREAKING: @carolleonnig.bsky.social reports a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. declined to indict Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin on charges of seditious conspiracy Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the proceedings.
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(AXIOS) - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that, when he searched President Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up "more than a million times."
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February 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM
(AXIOS) - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that, when he searched President Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up "more than a million times."
@axios.com
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@axios.com
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"Donald Trump's name is all over these files." Rep. Jamie Raskin reacts to seeing the unredacted Epstein files.
February 10, 2026 at 3:57 AM
"Donald Trump's name is all over these files." Rep. Jamie Raskin reacts to seeing the unredacted Epstein files.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
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Goldman to Lyons: "You said in your opening statement that references to ICE as 'the Gestapo' or 'secret police' encourages threats against ICE agents. The problem is you have it backwards. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist."
February 10, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Goldman to Lyons: "You said in your opening statement that references to ICE as 'the Gestapo' or 'secret police' encourages threats against ICE agents. The problem is you have it backwards. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist."
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![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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this is really… not great
Okay but you absolutely cannot be serious that we're just glossing over "there are more data centers under construction than there are active data centers in the U.S"
web.archive.org/web/20260208...
web.archive.org/web/20260208...
February 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
this is really… not great
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I had a really lovely conversation at a chanukah party this year, with a friend of a friend who is a welder.
He said although welding work (mostly new buildings) is falling off, they are building data centers nonstop. It's basically the only work they are seeing. Across the country.
He said although welding work (mostly new buildings) is falling off, they are building data centers nonstop. It's basically the only work they are seeing. Across the country.
February 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I had a really lovely conversation at a chanukah party this year, with a friend of a friend who is a welder.
He said although welding work (mostly new buildings) is falling off, they are building data centers nonstop. It's basically the only work they are seeing. Across the country.
He said although welding work (mostly new buildings) is falling off, they are building data centers nonstop. It's basically the only work they are seeing. Across the country.
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Bad Bunny > Puppy Bowl > TP USA/Kid Rock
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Bad Bunny > Puppy Bowl > TP USA/Kid Rock
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Sooooo... Kid Rock got 4% of the viewership that Bad Bunny got.
And he got less than half the viewership of Puppy Bowl XXII.
This small percentage are the people who are making life in America so miserable right now.
You can change this in the 2026 midterm elections by flipping Congress.
And he got less than half the viewership of Puppy Bowl XXII.
This small percentage are the people who are making life in America so miserable right now.
You can change this in the 2026 midterm elections by flipping Congress.
February 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Sooooo... Kid Rock got 4% of the viewership that Bad Bunny got.
And he got less than half the viewership of Puppy Bowl XXII.
This small percentage are the people who are making life in America so miserable right now.
You can change this in the 2026 midterm elections by flipping Congress.
And he got less than half the viewership of Puppy Bowl XXII.
This small percentage are the people who are making life in America so miserable right now.
You can change this in the 2026 midterm elections by flipping Congress.
Why the tech sector will double down to tell companies to use AI products and services in their work places. It is over leveraged on a scale nobody has seen before. So we must all pay for their hubris.
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Why the tech sector will double down to tell companies to use AI products and services in their work places. It is over leveraged on a scale nobody has seen before. So we must all pay for their hubris.
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SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 AM
SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
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The funniest part of all of this is that he puts defined figures in there like “5 to 7 years” knowing we are gonna screenshot this, wait five to seven years and then just make memes that show his overpromising and under delivering.
Again.
Again.
February 9, 2026 at 7:23 AM
The funniest part of all of this is that he puts defined figures in there like “5 to 7 years” knowing we are gonna screenshot this, wait five to seven years and then just make memes that show his overpromising and under delivering.
Again.
Again.