If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.
Kait Hoehne
@khoehne.bsky.social
Software engineer at NYT. WI ➡️ Brooklyn ➡️ Catskills. Member of Times Tech Guild. Hobbies of a tradwife, heart of a Sewer Socialist.
Brushed off my editorial skills for this one and couldn't be prouder. These movements aren't built in one moment, it's a series of messy, complicated collective decisions. longhaulmag.com/first-tech-w...
Sign of the Times: An Account of the First Tech Workers’ Strike | Long-Haul Mag
Workers in the New York Times Tech Guild went on the first official tech workers’ strike in the United States, during the week of the presidential election in November, 2024. Following the strike, the...
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Pollinator dopamine for your Tuesday. Happy garden, happy me.
A Tennessee conservation nonprofit has acquired a 600-acre tract bordering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, protecting one of the largest remaining privately owned parcels next to the park from future development. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/great-smokey...
Great Smokey Mountains Will Soon Get Even Greater – Thanks to Nonprofit’s Land Purchase
The Great Smokey Mountains is set to get just a little bit greater thanks to a 600-acre donation from a south-focused nature nonprofit.
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Another ridiculous poll. What actually slows releases? 1) Building things nobody wants. 2) Unnecessary complexity. 3) Lack of effective communication. 4) A culture of centralized control. 5) Bad process. 6) Dependencies. 7) Not trusting the people who do the work. 8) Large batches. 1/2
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
A thought experiment: You've got poorly documented spaghetti code with years of legacy logic. You've got tight deadlines and at least a year before you can do a major refactor. How do you make the code less confusing for the next year? Documentation? In-code comments? Testing?
Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.
Oh I'm sorry, this thing that's been pushed on us relentlessly as a solution to all busy work is...checks notes...expensive and inefficient?? 😱🤯 www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.
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Ah thank you McBoardman. I was just thinking my LinkedIn and recruiter experiences felt TOO human. 😮💨
whenever i think "i own enough t shirts already" i see something like this
Dimming the lights for another one. Hold tight to the people you love. Sweet Dreams, America! youtu.be/ykMzS6ugnPI?...
Trio - After The Gold Rush (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Warner Records Nashville
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I fear my last day weeding crab grass will be the day I'm buried underneath it
Engineers being expected to do on-call shifts for no additional compensation is one of the clearest arguments for “just because you’re highly-paid doesn’t mean you don’t need a union”
NYT Tech Guild@nytguildtech.bsky.social · 3mo agoMany of our members are “always on-call,” and can be paged day or night, year-round, for technical emergencies. Despite this, management argued that they did not qualify for the on-call pay protected by our contract.
This is a HUGE win, you know how many engineers I know who accept on-call as just “part of the job”? This is massive
NYT Tech Guild@nytguildtech.bsky.social · 3mo agoMany of our members are “always on-call,” and can be paged day or night, year-round, for technical emergencies. Despite this, management argued that they did not qualify for the on-call pay protected by our contract.
Oh hi it's me 👏🔥🎉 I just received back pay and on-call clarity thanks to my union.
NYT Tech Guild@nytguildtech.bsky.social · 3mo agoMany of our members are “always on-call,” and can be paged day or night, year-round, for technical emergencies. Despite this, management argued that they did not qualify for the on-call pay protected by our contract.
The slush fund for Jan 6 rioters is 3 TIMES the annual budget of the CPB. It's not about what we can afford. Never was.
IF ONLY THERE WAS SOMETHING A COLLECTIVE GROUP OF PEOPLE COULD DO, HMMM
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4mo ago“.. large tech companies have collectively laid off more than 150,000 workers, unraveling what many tech workers once perceived as a guarantee of affluence and employability.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
The gardening app I made for myself that I share with no one
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 5mo agoWhen was the last time you heard about a great app. It's been years. Fuck apps
These things have a way of coming back to life quicker than Dracula in an old Hammer film…but you can give yourself a cautious pat on the back. The Save America/Make Voting Harder for Women/Poll Tax Act would have slid through if you hadn’t stood up to it. #RadioFreeAmerica #politics
Senate Republicans Bench Trump’s Voting Bill
Republican lawmakers do not have the appetite to bring the SAVE America Act back to the floor. “That horse has left the barn,” one of them told NOTUS.
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Questions I get the most about our homestead or hobby farm: 1) does it make money? 2) are you trying to go off grid? The answer to both of those is no. Or sort of? But I hate how they flatten our choices.
Well this seems like it will improve morale
Jeff Horwitz@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 5mo agoMeta will begin keystroke logging US employees at work -- complete with mouse movements and periodic screenshots -- to train better AI agents. This comes after Boz posted about a future in which AI will "primarily do the work" at meta. It's a new era for tech labor. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...