aspiring community builder/organizer, web master @ buoy software (ki/kin he/him) @tern@social.lol
Brooklyn
Joined December 2008
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Ryan Ong π³οΈβπ retweeted
We have to want the distribution of power and itβs uses for justice more than we want the protection power provides. We are watching the end result of what happens when oppressed people seek to use their power, just to never be oppressed again.
Ryan Ong π³οΈβπ retweeted
2 reminders:
1) Many Jews are not zionists. Stop conflating the two. (Join us!)
2) Many zionists are not Jews. In fact, Christian Zionists have a huge and growing amount of power in America. (Christians, get your people)
Ryan Ong π³οΈβπ retweeted
wondering how many AI engineers have heard of alvin lucier's "i am sitting in a room" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sβ¦
wtf
NEWS: My god. $820 million. NYC taxpayers will pay *$820 million* in just overtime for NYPD this year. Could instead house all 14,000 homeless families in NYC. Then years of rent for 7,000 families out of work & at risk of eviction. With millions left over.thecity.nyc/2023/1/12/235529β¦
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Ryan Ong π³οΈβπ retweeted
I faked my life for over a month using AI and made a video about it. Spoiler alert: I low key go insane
youtu.be/FRClNMC_z-s
Ryan Ong π³οΈβπ retweeted
Linus Torvalds on how quickly git took off largely due to "the Ruby people, strange people." A classic. π
via @RubyWeekly
youtube.com/watch?v=0m4hlWx7β¦
A handy little support file to extract test logs of failed tests. Useful for debugging failures in large test runs or flakey ci specs
gist.github.com/ryanong/79f5β¦
Ryan Ong π³οΈβπ retweeted
Wow. Didnβt know Bo Burnham was a real one. Couldnβt be more relevant
Ryan Ong π³οΈβπ retweeted
"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
// Ursula Le Guin
Ryan Ong π³οΈβπ retweeted
I just wrote a sentence in an email and realized it wasn't helpful there. But it was really good so I'm sharing it here.
"I think computers should be easy. Or at least I think there's no inherent virtue in computers being hard."
Ryan Ong π³οΈβπ retweeted
Now this is how headlines should be written
ALT Billionaire Monopolist Jeff Bezos Is Buying Up Single-Family Homes to Rent-Trap Humanity Forever Why canβt people understand? Money-hoarding dragons will not stop until they are stopped From Jared A Brock
Ryan Ong π³οΈβπ retweeted
i realized the nonprofit industrial complex was intended to keep people poor when i went from βtoken inner city kid benefiting from programsβ to person trying to take positions from white people in the nonprofits in the hood. the shift in how i was treated was intense lol
