david L rifkin
@davidrifkin.bsky.social
Thought follower ➕ Enjoyer of human+technical abstractions
Live: New Orleans 🎺 Work: Nowhere currently 🏝️
Life should be full of beautiful, unique things.
Live: New Orleans 🎺 Work: Nowhere currently 🏝️
Life should be full of beautiful, unique things.
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Trust is interesting because it’s not quantifiable but it certainly is palpable. Teams with trust move lightning speeds faster than those without.
January 29, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Trust is interesting because it’s not quantifiable but it certainly is palpable. Teams with trust move lightning speeds faster than those without.
leaving sky. bye
January 22, 2026 at 9:57 PM
leaving sky. bye
iraq war booster surprised by american empire
January 22, 2026 at 9:57 PM
iraq war booster surprised by american empire
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Red Beans and Rice. Pableaux-style. - David Rifkin
Pableaux [Paul] Johnson (1/8/1966-1/26/2025) was the very best of us. He was first and foremost a friend, but also a talented writer, photographer, home chef, and extrovert. On the last part… to quote...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able
Nicolas Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela is finally ended by Trump reut.rs/3YWbo3K
Nicolas Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela is finally ended by Trump
Nicolas Maduro ruled Venezuela with a heavy hand for more than 12 years, presiding over deep economic and social crises and resisting pressure from domestic opponents and foreign governments for political change.
reut.rs
January 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able
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YOUR LOCAL MUTUAL AID AND HARM REDUCTION ORG
the cure for male loneliness?
YOUR LOCAL MUTUAL AID AND HARM REDUCTION ORG
the cure for male loneliness?
Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths
I cover the OD crisis closely cuz I lost so many friends.
If anyone gets credit for the decline in death, it's community activists like Tasha in this photo, and drug users themselves.
truthout.org/articles/exp...
I cover the OD crisis closely cuz I lost so many friends.
If anyone gets credit for the decline in death, it's community activists like Tasha in this photo, and drug users themselves.
truthout.org/articles/exp...
Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths
Grassroots public health efforts and shifts in drug use have contributed to the sharp decline in overdose deaths.
truthout.org
May 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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YOUR LOCAL MUTUAL AID AND HARM REDUCTION ORG
the cure for male loneliness?
YOUR LOCAL MUTUAL AID AND HARM REDUCTION ORG
the cure for male loneliness?
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POSTING LESS
the key to happiness?
POSTING LESS
the key to happiness?
May 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
is
POSTING LESS
the key to happiness?
POSTING LESS
the key to happiness?
q2 planning
PALPATINE HOLOGRAM: 𝑨𝑹𝑬 𝑾𝑬 𝑶𝑵 𝑻𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑲 𝑻𝑶 𝑴𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝑶𝑼𝑹 𝑸𝑼𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑳𝒀 𝑲𝑷𝑰𝑺?
IMPERIAL BUREAUCRAT: Y-yes my lord.
PALPATINE: 𝒀𝑶𝑼’𝑹𝑬 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹. 𝑳𝑬𝑻’𝑺 𝑻𝑶𝑼𝑪𝑯 𝑩𝑨𝑺𝑬 𝑳𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹.
IMPERIAL BUREAUCRAT: Y-yes my lord.
PALPATINE: 𝒀𝑶𝑼’𝑹𝑬 𝑨 𝑹𝑶𝑪𝑲𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹. 𝑳𝑬𝑻’𝑺 𝑻𝑶𝑼𝑪𝑯 𝑩𝑨𝑺𝑬 𝑳𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹.
May 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
q2 planning
tis i, the voguish downtowner, in my jorts and t-shirt
I would guess that Zohran Mamdani cultivates alternative media because the New York Times covers him in the Styles section as a “long shot” while he is running a solid second place in the polls.
May 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
tis i, the voguish downtowner, in my jorts and t-shirt
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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
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this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people
"Intimacy with information produces understanding" thank god someone articulated this correctly @kissane.bsky.social
oh and we're using human care and human brains—not a fucking LLM—to brute-force the knowledge gap, because intimacy with information is what produces understanding and you can write that in my permanent record
April 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"Intimacy with information produces understanding" thank god someone articulated this correctly @kissane.bsky.social
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"At some point in time in your life, you’re going to run across a nurse. Birth, death, in between."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-its-l...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-its-l...
What It's Like Being a Nurse in New Orleans
"Once we stamped a dollar sign on patients' heads, all bets were off."
www.hamiltonnolan.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"At some point in time in your life, you’re going to run across a nurse. Birth, death, in between."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-its-l...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-its-l...
happy passover all
Since I'm working all weekend, Good Friday seems an appropriate time to repost it (thanks to @neauxpe.bsky.social for getting me a link from the bad place)
April 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
happy passover all
April 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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MTA's former train whisperer again forgets he lives in a world of shouting : (
like clockwork once again andy byford achieved something amazing and paradigm-changing with almost no resources and was immediately undermined by the most dumbass politicians in history
April 16, 2025 at 4:50 AM
MTA's former train whisperer again forgets he lives in a world of shouting : (
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You can now check my talk from KubeCON here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf9N...
Enhancing Database Observability With OpenTelemetry - Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs
YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
www.youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
You can now check my talk from KubeCON here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf9N...
not to be rude but something like Palantir shouldn't exist in a sane society.
April 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
not to be rude but something like Palantir shouldn't exist in a sane society.
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Like we are the only state with whiskey in the produce section, right?
April 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Like we are the only state with whiskey in the produce section, right?
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TURN ON THE FUCKING NEWS IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT CHANNEL
September 11, 2001 at 12:14 PM
TURN ON THE FUCKING NEWS IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT CHANNEL
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"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured.
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
prisonjournalismproject.org
April 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured.
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
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