Rob Allen
@robspages.net
Software Leadership Coach | 30 Years in the Trenches | Hundreds of CTOs & VPs Coached | Brutal Honesty. Zero Shame. Real Results. Let’s untangle the chaos together. Waiting til it gets worse to do something about it? How's that working so far? DM me.
I'll add to this to check directly with your state as well; vote.org wasn't able to confirm my registration just now but my state shows it correctly. So don't panic if the first site can't find you.
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Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org
Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
vote.org
All this "maxxing" nonsense is just a ploy by big-Scrabble to sell more x's
Have you walked a mall lately? I can't believe that Lids, a store dedicated to hats, would outlive KB Toys, Borders Books, and Circuit City. At least we still have Hot Topic.
Jimminy Cricket, this is a badass tech demo. jeantimex.github.io/threejs-water/
ThreeJS Water
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Today's @lyz.bsky.social post about trying to buy a car from the patriarchy is really good:
Get meaner, sooner | Men Yell at Me
In 2021, after scraping the driver’s door of my Mazda 5 on the wall of my garage in a truly boneheaded move. I decided it was time to buy a
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Many are bad at numbers. They see a 1k, and that feels like a lot. A 1M feels like more, but close. A 1B is pretty close to a million, and a 1T is pretty close to a billion. We have to start writing them all out.
Listen up. Nicole's full thread here is very important and 100% aligned with what an experienced coach (hi 👋) would tell you, too.
Nicole Sullivan@nicolesullivan.bsky.social · 2mo agoI want to talk about being a software engineering manager in a world where AI is changing everything all at once. First, change is hard on humans. Even good change is stressful. People are built for survival, which means: if you aren’t dying, keep doing whatever already “works”
Entrepreneurs, good news! You don't need to waste time telling us your app is 100% AI coded. We'll know.
How much do I need to drink and of what spirit in order to forget the lyrics to Iesha by Another Bad Creation and other select songs of that era?
I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...
Deadly heat is coming. But funding to save lives is not.
Emergency officials are searching for loopholes to save lives as President Donald Trump slashes programs.
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You obv. have to hide from the corporates, hack inept SecSys and cargo bots along the way. In between learning all you can about proper human behavior form the entertainments you download. Natch.
Rob Allen@robspages.net · 2mo agoChatting in Slack about IP that needs to be a game, I got a fully fleshed-out vision of a Murderbot game: You play as a rogue secunit trying to blend in. You have "memories" from Murderbot that unlock as you stumble from adventure to adventure, saving humans from themselves. MAKE IT HAPPEN. Plz+TY
Chatting in Slack about IP that needs to be a game, I got a fully fleshed-out vision of a Murderbot game: You play as a rogue secunit trying to blend in. You have "memories" from Murderbot that unlock as you stumble from adventure to adventure, saving humans from themselves. MAKE IT HAPPEN. Plz+TY
Very cool report out. Worth a read. Now I'm gonna rant a lil' bit:
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2mo agoNew report from IRENA confirms that "in prime solar and wind regions, hybrid solutions combined with storage deliver round-the-clock power at lower costs than fossil fuels." Renewables+storage = round-the-clock power, cheaper than fossil fuels, in an ever-widening set of geographies. Pretty cool.
Every once in a while, I think, "Maybe I could do that [car] repair myself." Then I watch a professional technician do the repair and break 3 plastic hoses, raising the repair bill & the amount of time the car is unusable. So no. I will not be doing that. You go, professional-technician-person.
introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live… hmm, let’s see Smashing Pumpkins Garbage Bare Naked Ladies Live Metallica Stabbing Westward Weezer Greenday Eve6 Evanescence
Anil Dash@anildash.com · 3mo agointroduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live… hmm, let’s see James Brown Sly & the Family Stone Stevie Wonder The Pointer Sisters Olivia Rodrigo Tracy Chapman Living Colour Wu-Tang Clan (all 9 guys!) Sleater-Kinney and, uh, Prince! (18 times) I wanna list so many more good ones!
I'm apparently funny today, on LinkedIn at least. 6 "funny" emotes. I'm ready for my Netflix special now.
Taxation is the membership dues of living in a functioning society. You want netflix? You pay them. You want rule of law, an educated workforce, interstate commerce, and national security? Great. Pay the dues.
Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3mo agoThey’re trying to normalize the idea of a national sales tax to end progressive taxation, and I’m already sick about the number of people who are going to fall for it because they hate the idea of other people enjoying anything.
Do you have a name that's super common? I just fell down a rabbit hole of folks with my name. They're copywriters (some good, some great, some grifters), musicians, coders, fiction writers, real estate agents, and Taylor Swift's tour manager.
This is hilarious and sad in equal measure. Keep on keeping on. Some of us are right there with you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSgD...
A Masterclass in Manipulation
YouTube video by Hank Green
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Reminder: You cannot give what you, yourself, do not possess. That means you cannot calm others unless you can be calm. You cannot heal others unless you are healthy. You cannot excite others if you are not excited. Remember that as you're doomscrolling, ignoring things that don't actually suck.
"Quiet" and "quietly" are the new em dash. You know because nothing is happening now quietly.
Someone who is clearly not enjoying my story is hungrily devouring it and angrily commenting as they do. I love it. #royalroad
When you post gushingly about terrible people on LinkedIn using unedited Claude text... that's an unfollow.
I wrote about how AI in book publishing is a labor issue. "AI paranoia is a symptom of a larger problem: a corporate culture that values quantity over quality, quick output over the very human labor of poring over a manuscript & making sure that each & every word sings." lithub.com/its-getting-...
It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad.
Lately there has been a lot of hand-wringing, and rightly so, about if and how the publishing industry will deal with AI in the wake of the cancelation of the first major book deal due to suspected…
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Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred.
Well-timed bets on Polymarket tied to the Iran war draw calls for investigations from lawmakers
Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket.
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Radical thought: Pursue impeachment now BECAUSE IT HELPS YOU WIN MIDTERMS IN NOVEMBER. People want fighters. Call things what they are (impeachable) and act accordingly (impeach).
Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew: A surge in calls among Democrats to pursue Trump’s impeachment is hitting a wall with party leaders, who believe it will distract from their midterm focus on costs and corruption, according to interviews with over a dozen Democrats. Some also view 25th Amendment as a nonstarter
