I was a Silicon Valley sex pet It was 2015. Something was shifting in the tech industry, and I felt it in the bedroom.

One (anonymous) woman's account of navigating the "sexual marketplace" of Silicon Valley ca. 2015, as the rich tech dudes were beginning to get a little fashy.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view.

Workers I spoke to are pissed.

This Is a Historic Opportunity for Democrats to Get Immigration Right As the public turns against Trump and the Republicans on immigration, the Democrats can seize the moment with a new, positive vision. Here’s what that might look like.

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

In recent days, AMA communications to the New York Times have requested a correction on their part to reflect the actual language the AMA used in response to their inquiry. Additionally, a letter to the editor has been submitted requesting a public correction—this was neither a policy change nor was it an endorsement of a position taken by another medical society. In addition, during Congressional testimony in mid-March, I had the opportunity to set the record straight stating to the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that there has been no change in AMA policy with respect to access to and provision of gender-affirming care. This will appear in the Congressional Record.

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people.

cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

If we get through this, the U.S. will have to dramatically change its relationship with the International Criminal Court and be okay with sending a lot of Americans there.

what a savings.

every now and then I think folks in #rstats need to be reminded of or introduced to browser() and debug()

seeing 2026 actually becoming the year of the Linux desktop is p cool

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

So TikTok's new terms of service allow them to sell things like your immigration status and gender identity to the federal government.

Make decisions accordingly.

ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’ The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

pls get a flu shot, our ER is very full atm

and even though the docs only reference Parquets, you can use CSVs too

Hive Partitioning Examples Read data from a Hive partitioned dataset: SELECT * FROM read_parquet('orders/*/*/*.parquet', hive_partitioning = true); Write a table to a Hive partitioned dataset: COPY orders TO 'orders' (...

duckdb.org/docs/stable/... helpful way of organizing your data that can take advantage of partial data loads

Why not use hive_partitioning?

The pain of having to go back to the SELECT block to get Intellisense ugh.. FROM first would be incredible.

a screenshot of NYC charter amendment election results

All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least

ZOHRAN!!!!!!

The year is 2045. The climate crisis is in full swing. Mookie Betts Jr. strikes out to end the 4524th inning of Game 4 of the 2025 World Series

as much as I bash my head against SQL Server at times, it does not give me the cold fear of debugging Microsoft Access databases

A contrasty black & white image of a machinery in a coal washing plant

Coal washing

#BlueskyArtShow #Photography #EastCoastKin

Zollverein, Essen. Shot with the A7 II.

#Photography #Monochrome #EastCoastKin

A small brown wren perches among green and reddish leaves, its fine barred plumage and pale eyebrow stripe clearly visible. The bird is facing slightly to the left against a softly blurred green background with hints of pink, creating a calm and natural garden scene.

Good morning. The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #birdinabush ( any bird in a bush), and the alternative is #reflection ( a reflection in water or glass of any bird) I’m going with a bird in a bush. A little Wren. Good luck!! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

The smartest newsroom in America: is intentionally hitting two people with a vehicle at 70 miles per hour some sort of crime?

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

What the fuck?

Rikers Worker Sprayed Air Freshener While Feces-Smeared Man Neared Death in Cell A Board of Correction review into the death of 29-year-old Ardit Billa reveals lapses by correction officers, falsified log entries and missed safety checks — failures that advocates say are routine…

THE CITY has obtained an oversight report about Ardit Billa’s death on Rikers Island.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.