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Greg Ichneumon Brown

@gibrown

spinal cord rehab; politics; wrangling data and search at http://Automattic.com. Jetpack/WordPress.com/Tumblr.

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🎡it's the beginning and the end as we know it. And I feel fine...🎡

10.03.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This must be what it was like to go from machine code to fortran in the late 1950s. Early 2000s felt like a similar vibe with scripting langs, the web, and tooling changes. Kinda incredible.

10.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The factory tint settings are always too high.

10.03.2026 11:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Toni is a wonderfully thoughtful and insightful exec, who has shown that you can build a real business around open software. Finding someone who can execute and who understands the vision of an open protocol at the same time is rareβ€”Toni gets it. I'm excited to see what Toni and Jay build together.

09.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 714 πŸ” 96 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 8

Congrats Toni. Really excited to see you involved and taking the helm for a while. Best of luck.

09.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...

09.03.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 1923 πŸ” 296 πŸ’¬ 384 πŸ“Œ 206

It's been 65 days since Donald Trump invaded a sovereign state, abducted its leader, and declared the US will "run" the state indefinitely

It's been 9 days since Trump launched a war (his word) against Iran without congressional approval

No House member has filed articles of impeachment for either

09.03.2026 10:16 πŸ‘ 1246 πŸ” 336 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 32

It's kinda unreal going from "I could make a prototype of this in 2 weeks which isn't worth it " to "I made a prototype in two hours, here it is, and let's see what the real data and interaction looks like ".

09.03.2026 08:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion | Hacker News

We are in the middle of a seismic shift in software development and it’s clear there will be winners & losers as AI agents transform our industry.

08.03.2026 11:03 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey I did a fun thing with @warren.senate.gov about breaking up giant healthcare conglomerates

07.03.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 745 πŸ” 219 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 27
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nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....

06.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 2467 πŸ” 519 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 20

"So if Maralago was bombed you would not consider that to be an act of war?"

07.03.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING: Trump was just asked if Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home: β€œI guess… Like I said, some people will die.”

06.03.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 2082 πŸ” 709 πŸ’¬ 350 πŸ“Œ 125
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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countriesβ€”including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

06.03.2026 12:29 πŸ‘ 9852 πŸ” 4705 πŸ’¬ 559 πŸ“Œ 636
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Inside Plastic Executives’ Late-20th-Century Campaign to Blame Consumers for Their Industry’s Waste This TPM Cafe article is an excerpt from PLASTIC INC.: The Secret...

Inside Plastic Executives’ Late-20th-Century Campaign to Blame Consumers for Their Industry’s Waste talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...

04.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 151 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Performance Engineer, Backend Automattic’s productsβ€”WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, Tumblr, Jetpack, and moreβ€”serve tens of billions of page views every month from data centers around the world. The PerfOps team exists to make...

The performance team I lead at Automattic is hiring - automattic.com/work-with-us... #webperf #php #jobs #wordpress #woocommerce

03.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been mulling language Dems could adopt to basically say Trump will have to personally pay for the illegal things he did w/o authorization, and once he's broke, his trillionaire friends will have to do it.

Eg, Trump will be fined for rebuilding the White House after the damage he did.

02.03.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 676 πŸ” 149 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 3
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No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Well, this should be a record-breaking day nokings.org

28.02.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 9227 πŸ” 3206 πŸ’¬ 283 πŸ“Œ 139

Impeach him

28.02.2026 06:57 πŸ‘ 222 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet.

OpenAI: We'll do it

28.02.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 1586 πŸ” 514 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 28

This is such great marketing for Anthropic.

27.02.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 979 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 12

the 'restrictions' are worth stating explicitly. Anthropic doesn't want its AI to be used to make decisions about whether to kill someone without some human oversight. Hegseth says he won't accept that restriction.

26.02.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 362 πŸ” 157 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 12
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Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich.

Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.

The state of Trump's union. [@itep.org]

25.02.2026 01:13 πŸ‘ 1164 πŸ” 552 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 22

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

22.02.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 10726 πŸ” 4004 πŸ’¬ 255 πŸ“Œ 95
shipit squirrel

shipit squirrel

"I've been using that super squirrel to mean 'ship it' for so long I had kind of forgotten the rest of the world doesn't do that."

20.02.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait this is absolutely insane

20.02.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 644 πŸ” 182 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 9

The refund question is so so messy my god. But it’s an enormous political opportunity for the opposition party.

20.02.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 7252 πŸ” 1111 πŸ’¬ 549 πŸ“Œ 150
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CEOs Joined Trump’s Corruption. It Will Soon Be Time for Consequences. I mentioned the other day that the insider D.C. sheets are helpful...

CEOs Joined Trump’s Corruption. It Will Soon Be Time for Consequences. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ceos-...

19.02.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 502 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 11
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This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

18.02.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 23725 πŸ” 5065 πŸ’¬ 486 πŸ“Œ 641
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

13.02.2026 05:44 πŸ‘ 12539 πŸ” 6207 πŸ’¬ 444 πŸ“Œ 783