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Esteban

@esteban.bsky.social
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Señor Software Engineer 🔥. Chicano. Angeleno. Latine. he/him/el
 Coffee ☕️, Cats 😼😺😻, Community 🤝, Space 🖖🏼, etc. 🍉🍉🍉

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Look at the director of that Deadpool movie, going into despair over the brilliance of 15 seconds worth of utter dogshit pretending to be a fight scene. Using genAI also destroys your aesthetic sense. You stop being able to notice that you're looking at dogshit.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hate this timeline with AI slop in search results. If I wanted AI slop on a topic I'd ask Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's like having a water hose of ideas and not being discerning other than "cool I can do all these things" vs being curious and exploring an area for deep understanding + create something unique.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
IMHO, there's notable quality + tone difference between a AI gen project that does a bunch of things and has a "hacker" aesthetic UI, and a project where someone used LLM as a tool to improve their understanding and build something for exploration and learning.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖✨💫🌟
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the goose chasing a man meme where the goose says “what else did he say” and then “WHAT ELSE DID HE SAY” as the man runs away
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Laura Loomer is taking credit for Milo Yiannopoulos being detained by ICE
Laura Loomer:

BREAKING:

Illegal alien Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by ICE. 

I was the first person to report on the fact that Milo was in the US illegally where he incited violence against President Trump and worked for Marjorie Traitor Greene. 

Recently, Candace Owens invited this illegal alien into her home. 

When Milo called for me to be assassinated, I reported him to ICE and the FBI. 

I told you all that Milo was an illegal alien.

He was detained in Louisiana by @ICEgov
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Milo is going to be deported back to the UK where he can live among the Muslims he has recently chosen to embrace. 

Today is a great day for America.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Timely post from Union de Vendedores Westlake (Westlake Street Vendors Union) of what they’re facing from LAPD around MacArthur Park. www.instagram.com/p/DcP0bvomyV...
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 21/08/2026
🤔That should be the test for an awful restaurant. If I can kill your restaurant just by parking a taco truck near it? Then your restaurant wasn't going to make it anyway.🤷🏿‍♂️ Restaurants thrive being right next door to other restaurants and bars! This is called an entertainment district. Good actually
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Col. Gustavo Arellano @gustavoarellano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: In Karen Bass’ bad debate night, she even trashed taco trucks. Share, porfas!
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Commentary: In Karen Bass' bad debate night, she even trashed taco trucks
Again and again, Bass went after Raman in the pettiest, most personal ways. She kept mocking her as a supposed egghead with no real-life governing experience.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Explains why MacArthur Park suddenly had gates all over sidewalks preventing the street vendors who’ve been there decades from earning a living - claiming it was all for safety. The drug addicts just took over the area after that. This all seems very pro policing as a solution to everything.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Pet peeve: People who block the Metro train door preventing others from exiting and acting surprised people trying to exit don’t just make way for them to get in. Same people who then stand in the isles between seats blocking movement of people trying to sit down.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Things wanted to share after going to South Pas farmers market. 1) sweet corn 🌽 leaves are great to cover up soil in your veggie garden at home, so shuck your own corn! 2) carrot 🥕 greens are edible - cook them! Don’t throw away food! 3) stop being pushy w fresh fruit 🍑samples - I said no thank you!
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It comes and goes due to wind patterns. I’m a few miles north east of it and we have several neighbors reporting smells. Friend says as far as Pico Rivera / Montebello. Feel for people in Boyle Heights / East LA that are right next to it.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Lineage Warehouse Rotting food smell returns! Made the mistake of opening a window in the kitchen…and kitchen now smells like rotting food. Stepped outside to confirm. Ewww.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Avoid the Taylor Farms explosive diarrhea lettuce and the Lineage Logistics warehouse rotting food nauseating smell kind of week.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
One of the very first things a person loses by outsourcing their learning to genAI, is being able to perceive it as a suicidally bad idea.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The purpose of studying anything isn't the subject itself but to learn how to *think* like an expert about it. People outsourcing their thinking to genAI are not learning how to think, at all. Part of the cognitive atrophy that genAI immediately induces is no longer being able to understand this
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” which led to the creation of the FDA. Never thought I’d live through a time where food safety agencies were actively weakened. They want to privatize everything including food safety.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I wonder if all the odor smells are also driving the coyotes crazy looking for carcass. It's already been an issue with more coyotes around Alhambra, and earlier today saw an alert (citizen app) about a woman being chased by coyotes not that far away.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Lineage Warehouse Fire is out, but now we all get Lineage Warehouse Rotten Food Odor - smelled it in Alhambra. Eww. 🤢🤮 Wearing my N95 mask 😷 outside helped though.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/07/2026
This is the most pathetic and embarrassing shit I've ever seen. He has to make everything about himself.
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Scott @scottydo16.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 19/07/2026
Still listening and learning. In futbol you cannot score against Argentina, apparently. This is not allowed. *scribbles notes*
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
From beautiful game to "which colonizer is gonna win this?"
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Neither of the teams going to the finals could beat Cape Verde in regulation time. 😄
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Honestly, the World Cup vibes were a lot better when Mexico was still hosting games.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
World Cup is normalizing AI slop through the use of AI generated memes.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
AI-free search is great...now I need my search results to not include AI slop being put up for SEO.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Imagine working on ground-breaking technology and then being restricted from using it. You know all that went into it, but you're not allowed to use it.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Tech industry relies a lot on the work of immigrants, not just H1B's but many, many people from all over the world, including Latin America which has many countries that are friendly toward the USA.
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­­ ­ ­ the­ ­­ ­ ­ ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 12/06/2026
one trillion dollars will not buy him someone to hold his hand while he dies
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I wasn't able to get into the workshop and missed connecting with Omar Hiari at Rustweek! I see these are now sold out online...anyway I can pre-order for the next batch? Thank you!
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Everybody loves syntactic sugar. At least Swift does and so does Rust!
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
“You can’t eat the orange and throw away the peel - a man is not a piece of fruit” - Willy Loman, “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Being oldest adult child of low income working class immigrant parents is helping them regulate their fears, worry, and anxiety - all for their adult children - that come from raising a family with decades of survivor mode + no safety net in a capitalist society.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
In the last year I have successfully replaced heavy slack use (mainly work plus a few others) with heavy discord use (20+ and counting)
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Also said cat goes by pizza cat, bahn mi cat, pita cat too
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Have one of my cats very interested in spicy food I eat too. I don’t even know why. Maybe smells good to them? Cat 🤝 Things they shouldn’t like but somehow they find the smell interesting but really shouldn’t try to eat.
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atproto.la @atproto.la · 29/04/2026
Join us for the second atproto.la gathering on Saturday, May 9th where we collectively reimagine what the social web can look like when built on top of open protocols and technologies such as AT Protocol, ActivityPub, etc. ✨
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atproto.la May 2026
Join us for the second atproto monthly LA gathering at Bike Shed Moto Co where we collectively reimagine what the new social web can look like when built on top of open protocols and technologies such...
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rish @rishkebab.blacksky.team · 22/04/2026
Your community deserves its own platform. acorn.blacksky.community
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I got both my cats (Arya and Manchas both male) checked out by the vet and cleared for kitty Prozac and no other issues w them. Though Arya has had a rough year (bad dental issues we took care of, and he’s doing a lot better and calmer). Manchas is on the chonkier side.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Yeah the transdermal one is great but it irritates the ears of my kitties, trying to figure out what I can do to reduce that.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Trying to figure out the triggers but kitty Prozac has helped - especially Manchas. The stray cat seems to be the main trigger, trying to figure that one out.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Been dealing w similar w my cats. Arya (~10y) peeing on couch (cat beds too so removed them) and Manchas (5y) peeing on my sandals + back porch door (where stray cats also pees 🤦‍♂️). Started them on kitty Prozac about 2 months ago, it helped but took a work trip + came back to peeing again. Sigh.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I am intentional about being present when talking to people and excited when I learn something from them. When someone talks passionately or in-depth about something they care about or know a lot about, it's awesome.
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Esteban @esteban.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It's really nice to connect and relate to people outside of work but who have common interests. Making new friends in the industry outside of work, and discussing all sorts of ideas as we all try to figure out the paradigm shift we're collectively going through. #DeepDishSwift
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