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Paul Gilzow

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Technical Success Manager at Upsun.com. Web app security evangelist. Runs on passion and coffee. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.

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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 22/09/2026
about damn time.
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Childish Gambino's Surprised 'Good.'
ALT: Childish Gambino's Surprised 'Good.'
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026
Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 27/06/2026
hey @menardsofficial.bsky.social I'm just trying to build my shopping list. I think your blocking is being a bit *too* aggressive. all i did was search for "self-leveling concrete." 😕
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 24/06/2026
@carsdotcom.bsky.social I'm trying to understand why you thought making the text color and the background color *the same color* was a good idea.
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Upsun @upsun.com · 23/06/2026
AI made engineers faster. It didn't make teams faster. The constraint was never typing; it was everything around it. The SDLC is being rewritten, and we'd like to rewrite it with you. That's why we're introducing Upsun Dispatch. 🚀 Launching September 2026 👉 Read the story: upsun.com/blog/introdu...
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Upsun @upsun.com · 16/06/2026
AI made engineers faster. It didn't make engineering orgs faster. The bottleneck didn't disappear. It moved into review queues, product specs, and token budgets nobody planned for. Our CEO, Fred Plais, breaks it down in our latest piece 👉 upsun.com/blog/ai-rewr... #SDLC #SoftwareDevelopment
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 09/06/2026
"Tell me the code isn’t the prettiest, but it’s straightforward to debug, quick to review, and safe to change, and I’ll take it. In practice you rarely get those three without readable code, but readability was never the goal. It was a proxy." 👏 👏👏 developer.upsun.com/posts/insigh...
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Code matters less than ever, and more than ever - Upsun Developer
AI made code cheap to write and cheap to throw away, so it matters less than ever. It also matters more, because debugging, reviews, and velocity all depend on it.
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Upsun @upsun.com · 09/06/2026
Most engineering teams already use AI. The real gap is whether the whole org is moving together. @fabien.potencier.org maps 8 stages of AI maturity, from leadership silence to autonomous agents. See where your team stands 👉 upsun.com/blog/8-stage...
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 25/05/2026
"automating more of these job roles, firms risk eviscerating the pipeline of competent senior workers they might need in future, trading short-term cost savings in the present for long-term stability." fortune.com/2026/05/21/k...
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The Fed is dusting off a 60-year-old economic theory to explain why AI's entry-level job cuts could devastate corporate America | Fortune
A new paper revisits Nobel economist Kenneth Arrow's theory of learning-by-doing, and finds the macroeconomic downside of gutting entry-level work.
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 03/04/2026
Repeat after me: capitalism ruins everything. jacobin.com/2026/03/skii...
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Corporate Consolidation Fuels the Decline of Skiing
Most ski resorts operate on vast swaths of land owned by the public. So why has skiing become such a cost-prohibitive pastime for most Americans?
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 12/03/2026
If i can give junior developers just one piece of advice: never, EVER assume that what makes sense to you will make sense to anyone else. Always, ALWAYS challenge your assumptions. Ask your fellow devs to check your assumptions. Ask someone in a different role. Ask your MOM.
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 19/02/2026
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 02/02/2026
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US Internet Service Providers - PCMag Readers' Choice Survey
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It's Tuesday. Bovino may be gone but nothing has changed. ICE is still in Minnesota, still not following the law or court orders. Stephen Miller and the agents who murdered Good and Pretti are still on the job. Trump is giving an econ speech in Iowa. The work continues. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Judges are doing their job. Senators need to do theirs. ICE out of Minnesota. wapo.st/3LBorov
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U.S. judge orders ICE chief to appear in court, threatens contempt ruling
Minnesota’s chief federal judge demands that the head of ICE personally appear in court Friday to explain repeated failures to comply with court orders.
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 25/01/2026
Took him long enough!
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Hamsa Bastani @hamsabastani.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Barriers to AI adoption isn’t just about technological trust—addressing the economics of attention will be key to achieving human-AI collaboration. Read the full paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Human-AI Contracting Paradox
The integration of state-of-the-art AI tools into professional workflows promises substantial productivity gains. Rather than replacing workers, there is hope t
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Hamsa Bastani @hamsabastani.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We keep saying: "AI will handle the boring stuff, and humans will supervise." But the problem is--as AI reliability improves, it becomes really hard to motivate a human to conscientiously monitor it. In a new WP with Gerard Cachon, we describe the "human-AI contracting paradox."
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 09/01/2026
Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are required to do. sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...
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Tell Congress: Unmask ICE!
Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are re...
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 23/12/2025
Grocery stores, especially you, Kroger/Gerbes: why do you put the baskets on the outside of your security check point coming in? How am i supposed to get a basket once I'm inside of i decide i need one? Trying to go back out sets off the alarms. UX fail
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 21/11/2025
Does anyone know how to instruct Spotify to not suggest Christmas/Holiday songs until after Dec 1?
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 12/11/2025
Does anyone use mintlify to manage their technical documentation? if so, message me.
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 06/11/2025
so when he says "freedom" what he means is freedom for the capitalistic system (aka the rich). Not freedom for you, or for me, but for the rich.
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 06/11/2025
/me looks at energy bills uh.... in what universe?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 06/11/2025
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How tech empowers hard of hearing professionals
Florian, Field CTO at Upsun, shows how hearing aids, live captions, Bluetooth, and smart glasses unlocked inclusive collaboration, and asks builders to do more.
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ProudDetroiter @detroitstrong.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 31/10/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Stop streaming ICE recruitment ads NOW!
The Trump administration has funneled billions of dollars into these dystopian ICE recruitment ads. Meanwhile, cities are being terrorized by ICE agents who are running rampant with abuses of power, s...
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Sé Reed @sereedmedia.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
a haunted house but it’s just an all hands meeting where people start disappearing
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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 31/10/2025
So we’re all clear: The guy who decried foreign involvement by America in the 2010s and then got the never-Kamala people to insist he’d keep us out of foreign wars wants to start something with Venezuela.
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 30/10/2025
I really wish advertisers would provide a way to give feedback on ads. No matter how many pumpkin spice latte ads you show me, i am never, EVER going to buy one. It's a waste of my time and your money
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 24/10/2025
ICE would be wise to remember what it says in the Bible. Matthew 25:40 - "Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me."
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 24/10/2025
NEW — Videos obtained by The TRiiBE show federal agents detaining a Laugh Factory worker on Chicago’s North Side this morning. He and another person were detained around 9:20 a.m., according to rapid response teams. Story TK shortly on thetriibe.com.
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Abby Milberg @abbymilberg.com · 21/10/2025
The meme of Woody Harrelson crying into a handful of money with the caption, “PHP developers when someone says ‘PHP is dead’”
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 24/10/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
GOV. WHITMER: “.. no one is worried about building a ballroom in Washington, D.C. What they want is to make sure that they can feed their kids next week.” Most Americans are “never going to step foot in a ballroom over the course of their lifetime.” @thehill.com thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I think one of the things that non-evangelicals find most annoying about evangelicals is when they claim that other people can’t lead happy and fulfilling lives unless they believe in the same things that they do.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Best sign nominee.
A tweet from John Pavlovitz reads “chef’s kiss.” It includes a photo of a woman wearing a gray beanie and scarf, holding a cardboard protest sign that says “Not Today SprAyTAN,” with “A” and “TAN” highlighted in orange. The scene appears to be a street demonstration outside a theater with other people and cars in the background.
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 22/10/2025
Copy-editing AI generated content is *exhausting*. Far more difficult and time-consuming than copy-editing human-generated content. Even when it's correct, it's correct in a way that doesn't *quite* make sense unless you squint.
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 22/10/2025
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com · 22/10/2025
U.S. REP. DELIA RAMIREZ (D-IL): "We are very clear that the greatest threat to public safety in our communities, it's called ICE. It's called CBP. And unfortunately, even USCIS is being weaponized at this moment. ICE is operating as a terror force..."
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 20/10/2025
I remember being told in the early 2000s that PHP was a toy language and if I were serious about professional development, I should switch to a "serious" language.
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 13/10/2025
If you're in Ottawa, come check out my presentation on end-to-end testing at @wordcampcanada.bsky.social WCEH this Friday, Oct 17th! canada.wordcamp.org/2025/session...
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Paul Gilzow @gilzow.com · 13/10/2025
I want to know who these protestors that are getting paid because I've been to multiple protests since January and have not received a single cent.
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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Republicans are redrawing districts to give themselves control of Congress, no matter what voters decide. Prop 50 is how Democrats can fight back—protecting fair representation and keeping extremists from deciding our future. This is our line in the sand. Vote #YESonProp50
Colorful illustration promoting “Yes on Prop 50” in California. A vintage yellow station wagon drives along a coastal road, surrounded by vibrant orange California poppies and a Monarch butterfly in the foreground. A tall palm tree stands against rolling hills and a bright sun radiating yellow rays across the sky. The top of the image features bold red text reading “CALIFORNIA,” with “Yes on Prop 50” in yellow below it—blending natural beauty with a nostalgic, advocacy-driven message.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Find your local event at nokings.org/#map. Bring your family and friends. Stand up with everyone you love, for the country you hold dear.
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