Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@social.cleverlibre.org

When Republicans are in power, they rack up giant deficits, mainly by cutting taxes on corporations and the wealthy.

Then when Democrats take the reins, Republicans blame them for being spendthrifts.

It's the same story every time.

Junior year high school history summed up for a US presidential candidate.
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RT @batess
Articles of Confederation: 1781-1789
Constitutional Convention: 1787
Constitution adopted: 1788
Washington Administration: 1789-1797

Also, the Continental Army was plenty stoppable. Like, incredibly stoppable. Big thank you, France.

HT @RPG_volley https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1627270007427153920
https://twitter.com/batess/status/1627270007427153920

The FTC is building a team to go after tech fraud.

“We are committed to building a skilled team of technical experts that is reflective of the communities we serve and strongly encourage people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, women, minorities, people with disabilities, system-impacted people, veterans, and people of all ages to apply. Final selections will be made in accordance with federal merit principles.

We are seeking a variety of candidates with high quality experience and subject matter expertise related to software and digital product development and the tech industry that produces it, including, but not limited to: advertising technology, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, cloud computing, data science and data analysis, digital platforms and ecosystems, human computer interaction design, investigative research, privacy, security, product management, prototyping, social science research or fieldwork, software engineering, user experience design and user research.”

https://www.ftc.gov/technologists

"Announcing a return to work for three days a week minimum so you can still continue to video call with your coworkers and now experience a fucked up hybrid work thing where nobody's needs are met" is some serious "hey don't consider working here" flags. Love that. 🙄

Love to see how mad the Onion is here. More folks should be this mad about this.

If you want a really solid critique, it's actually here too. They put their *all* into this piece and while it's sarcastic as usual, it really does cover *so many* aspects of how horrible the current trend of "news" in this space has been.

Go read it:
https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997

Big tech interviews are so much overkill compared to the job. Engineers spend weeks on leetcode only to be asked to create a button in a UI. Product managers memorize product sense frameworks only to schedule meetings and ask lawyers if it’s OK to ship a feature (it’s always no).

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The U.S. is a country that has really embodied that famous old saying, "an ounce of prevention is going to be worse for our Q1 earnings projections than would be the fine our neutered government can potentially levy after decades of appeals, should we destroy an entire town."

The Tennessee senate is criminalizing public drag performances (which they helpfully extend to all “burlesque” including “go-go” and “stripping”), because kids aren’t dying from guns, bullying, opiates and state violence, they’re getting dragged to death
https://www.actionnews5.com/2023/02/09/tenn-senate-passes-bill-criminalizing-public-drag-performances/

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