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by bhouston 1y ago
Yeah, it feels like it could be related to various propaganda effects on social media networks, stuff like this: https://readsludge.com/2025/09/15/democratic-pr-firm-to-run-...
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by bhouston 1y ago
I read the DHH post in question: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 . It is pretty standard anti-immigrant. It feels like it is acknowledging the fact that the populations of Western countries are
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by bhouston 1y ago
Why even have cards when there are eSims, but maybe cards have some advantages in terms of deniability or something? It sounds sophisticated, but nation state or cartel or something else big?
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by bhouston 1y ago
Quote: > In his blog post, André says, “For the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage your gems, it manages your ruby versions, too. It doe
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by bhouston 1y ago
> HH has been going off the deep end with his rhetoric for years, the current political environment has made it so that he can't be ignored anymore. But Shopify is also right wing in its executive team, and via these move they appea
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by bhouston 1y ago
DHH is on Shopify's board now: https://www.shopify.com/news/david-heinemeier-hansson-board Shopify's support for DHH's world view makes sense. Shopify's executive team has been right-wing for a whi
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by bhouston 1y ago
Why were Samuel Giddins and André Arko singled out to be removed? What was their transgressions and to whom? From the write-up it sounds like Shopify wanted them out, but why?
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by bhouston 1y ago
"The agency said on Tuesday that last month it found more than 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards that could have been used for telecom attacks within the area encompassing parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut." Isn&#x
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US Secret Service disrupts telecom threat near UN GA with 100K SIM cards(bbc.com)
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Pro-Trump Billionaires Are Consolidating Media Control(jacobin.com)
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As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media(fair.org)
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by bhouston 1y ago
not a bad idea.
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by bhouston 1y ago
Did you look at the Bloomberg article I linked in my original post? It says that half of the H1-B visas are taken by staffing companies and they pay their staff significantly lower than the US laborers they are replacing.
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by bhouston 1y ago
Please read the Bloomberg article I linked in my original post. It says that half of the H1-B visas are taken by staffing companies and they pay their staff significantly lower than the US laborers they are replacing.
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by bhouston 1y ago
Trump is following mostly the Project 2025 plan that was put together but others: it called for greatly reducing H1-B visas. And supposedly a lot of his power grab moves are being run by Stephen Miller: https://www.rollingstone.c
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by bhouston 1y ago
> OTOH many H1Bs come with the intent of moving to the US and permanent residence eventually. Which makes our workforce stronger. Sure. But we are arguing about two separate things here. I am pro-immigration. But I am also against usi
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by bhouston 1y ago
I have met very talented people from the subcontinent. I think the issue is the H1B structure is open to fraud.
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by bhouston 1y ago
This is actually smart. Many H1B visas are used to undermine fair labor wages for already local talent. We should ensure that H1B visas are for actual unique talent and not just to undercut local wages. H1B is ripe with abuse - this artic
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by bhouston 1y ago
All because he stood up for the Palestinians during a genocide. The world isn’t fair.
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by bhouston 1y ago
Ton did the most amazing job in his leadership role of Blender. Long term strategic and focused and leveraged the community to achieve the overall vision. Amazing.
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by bhouston 1y ago
This is crazy that the US allows this. But I guess when it is aligned with the administration viewpoint it is accepted?
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by bhouston 1y ago
I originally read about it here but this article is paywalled: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/business/pch-sweepstakes-... Even after the assets of PCH were acquired it doesn’t include its liabilitie
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Publishers Clearing House bankruptcy leaves lifetime winners without payments(kgw.com)
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by bhouston 1y ago
This post from today on r/worldnews was hilarious -- all the top comments where deleted (and their authors probably permanently banned) because they didn't hold the party line: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldne
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Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars(medium.com)
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by bhouston 1y ago
FYI the poster this story links to says that this title is incorrect: https://x.com/grapheneos/status/1964757878910136346?s=46 They say this: Our reply here was linked on Hacker News with an inaccurate title (&quo
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by bhouston 1y ago
> The strategic insight behind Arc was perfect – your browser IS the Operating System, and so we should build a browser that can function as that platform. Marc Andreessen said famously (or at least is paragraphed as saying) in 1994 that
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by bhouston 1y ago
Why were they acquired at that price? What is the competitive/technological advantage that Atlassian is acquiring? I am a little confused because at first glance their product appeared to fail to find a market. There must be something
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by bhouston 1y ago
Are you referring to the cluster of VPNs owned by Israeli tech magnate Teddy Sagi? CyberGhost, Private Internet Access (PIA), ZenMate, ExpressVPN, and Intego
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No place in children's hands: <16s in UK to be banned from buying energy drinks(theguardian.com)
32 points by bhouston 1y ago|82 comments

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