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Trek Glowacki
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Helped start Ann Arbor's OG Coworking community, couponed at Groupon, usually working to get some startup acquired. Ember.js core emeritus. Paul Irish once called me a hero. ❤️ Ruby and JavaScript. 🏳️‍🌈. 📍Chicago.
Pretty sure this is only because so much of what I listen to was remastered in the 50s. This should probably be like 101
December 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Great thread on why hepatitis B is such an issue and why the vaccine at birth was SO important.
Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?

Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.

Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️

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December 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5: Gruss vom Krampus!

Krampus celebrations were banned in the 1930s by the Nazis in Germany and the fascist Christian government in Austria. Therefore, it's canon that Krampus is an anti-fascist symbol.

Graphite and charcoal powder on paper.
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Dec 5th 1937 - Large Marge was born.

📽️📅 Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Oh okay this video just did a Mortal Kombat Fatality on me
Blindspots for Millennials 😅

IMO: it’s pretty accurate.
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Constantly reminded that for hundreds of years after the South American silver mines had essentially run out there continued to be vast resources pumped into the idea that previous regimes hadn’t been extractive enough rather than the idea that the value simply didn’t exist.
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately
July 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Whoa, that's a very well-designed bed

bsky.app/profile/ncwe...
One of the things they did right: the bed walls can take cut lumber to create a wider flat bed for things like plywood, despite the relatively narrow wheelbase. It is like they actually built a small truck to do TRUCK things... So weird that it sells lots as a result.
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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You can now make terminal applications in ember!

ember-tui

Has flex layouts, and all the colors!
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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yes
next question
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Yesterday was the snowiest November day in #Chicago history. 8.4” fell at O’Hare Airport (Chicago's official measurement site) breaking the previous record of 8” set in 1951. Here are a few more photos.
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Atleast nobody will have to question if my works are ai or not so enjoy these practical effect wings I made after 7 years of building different animatronic wings!
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Sledding amongst skyscrapers in #Chicago on an incredibly snowy Novemeber day
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Everyone has absolutely lost their minds.
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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If by some miracle the whole AI industry falls apart because some tech bros decided to spend trillions on compute without spending maybe tens of millions a year on licensing art, I will laugh so hard I'll be in danger of a ruptured spleen.
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Almost half the US economy is now based on Nvidia selling GPUs to itself using other companies as proxies
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Airplane (1980)
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.

We executed multiple members of that crew.
Heinz-Wilhelm Eck might have something to say about this one.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM