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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Found on r/elonmusk . The people who support this guy are absolute morons

Screenshot of a Reddit post

It will only be a problem if population growth exceeds production. Otherwise, demand will eventually be met and surpassed.
Energy is literally infinite. Energy scarcity is a myth.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I admire our government's new commitment to honesty.

A real tweet from the Department of Defense that says "It's not an option" above a meme that just says WINNING.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thank god. Just watched Grease with my children and they all liked it. 😅

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

REI phoning it in in the marketing department. I’m certainly a (ab)user of AI, but I like to think the quality of my output is significantly higher than this

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

America's billionaires are now worth a record $9 trillion. Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. People in this country can't afford gas, rent, groceries, or childcare. And last year we cut healthcare to give these billionaires tax breaks. This system is so broken.

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

You could give every single person in NYC $100,000 and still not get to this level of wealth. That is nearly 12 million households at the median annual income. That’s more than NY and WA states combined.

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I kinda wish I still lived in NYC (not really, but kinda) just so I could have voted for this guy and really enjoyed an actually likable and effective politician in office.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/05/2026

Electing Mamdani? Congestion pricing? Violent crime at all time lows? Balanced city budget? Taxing rich people? Free childcare? And now the Knicks are in the NBA finals? New York is up so much right now. The worst part is that NYC friends are not even rubbing it in anymore. They know that I know.

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Betrayed Cat: Jealousy Over Petting

Alt: Betrayed Cat: Jealousy Over Petting

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I’ve lived in West Seattle 15 years and I never get tired of this

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I won 1000 tickets. The tickets are digital and stored on my card. I have to watch it count one by one 🙄

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The government wants to fix problems and make life better for its citizens! It’s socialism! Sharia law! Run!

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

My new conspiracy theory is that light jazz musicians wield a tremendous amount of power. This is the reason behind the RTO trend after Covid - no one was forced to visit office bathrooms and elevators, leading to a decline in light jazz profits. Amazing how they got everyone to fall in line

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The internet is an amazing place

Screenshot from r/biohackers

Title: 32M - Testosterone went from
350 → 850 after a year of icing my balls daily

Tag: Nutrition & Metabolism

Text: Alright this is gonna sound ridiculous but I'm posting it anyway because the results for me have been pretty wild.
I'm 32 and for a few years my testosterone was pretty low. Last year my bloodwork had me sitting around 350 ng/dL, which isn't technically rock bottom but definitely not great. Energy was meh, sex drive wasn't amazing, and I just didn't teel like I was very motivated.

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reading the Narnia Chronicles with my daughter, I’m reminded frequently of the deal white Christian Americans were willing to make for power

Snippet from Prince Caspian:

There was no answer, and for a few minutes it was so still that Edmund could hear the wheezy and snuffing breath of the Badger.
"Whom do you mean?" said Caspian at last.
"I mean a power so much greater than Aslan's that it held Narnia spellbound for years and years, if the stories are true."
"The White Witch!" cried three voices all at once, and from the noise Peter guessed that three people had leaped to their feet.
"Yes," said Nikabrik very slowly and distinctly, "I mean the Witch. Sit down again. Don't all take fright at a name as if you were children. We want power: and we want a power that will be on our side. As for power, do not the stories say that the Witch defeated Aslan, and bound him, and killed him on that very stone which is over there, just beyond the light?"

Second snippet from Prince Caspian

"And anyway," Nikabrik continued, "what came of the Kings and their reign? They faded too. But it's very different with the Witch. They say she ruled for a hundred years: a hundred years of winter. There's power, if you like. There's something practical."
"But, heaven and earth!" said the King, "haven't we always been told that she was the worst enemy of all?
Wasn't she a tyrant ten times worse than Miraz?"
"Perhaps," said Nikabrik in a cold voice. "Perhaps she was for you humans, if there were any of you in those days. Perhaps she was for some of the beasts. She stamped out the Beavers, I daresay; at least there are none of them in Narnia now. But she got on all right with us Dwarfs. I'm a Dwarf and I stand by my own people.
We're not afraid of the Witch."
"But you've joined with us," said Trufflehunter.
"Yes, and a lot of good it has done my people so far," snapped Nikabrik. "Who is sent on all the dangerous raids? The Dwarfs. Who goes short when the rations fail? The Dwarfs. Who-"
"Lies! All lies!" said the Badger.
"And so," said Nikabrik, whose voice now rose to a scream,
"if you can't help my people, I'll go to someone who can”

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

This is the merit badge the DoD is butt hurt over: 2. Document and discuss with your counselor what leadership means to you. Share what it means to make ethical decisions. 3. Consider ethical decision-making. (a) Think about a time you faced an ethical decision www.scouting.org/merit-badges...

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Citizenship in Society

View current Citizenship in Society Merit Badge requirements and resources from the official Scouting America Merit Badge Hub

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Ugh. Can we have one time in history when all the tech companies are aligned to not make this country a horrific dystopia?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 18/02/2026

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

Book cover of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition". It has a similar wild boar on the cover as the first edition, but it uses O'Reilly's new cover design, and the boar is now slightly colourised.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Petition to keep scouting open to all www.change.org/p/keep-scout...

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Keep Scouting Open to All

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This is an old article and a looong read, but absolutely relevant in the days of “full self-driving” and looming autonomous vehicles. I read this years before I joined Cruise and it’s one of the reasons I detest Tesla’s approach to self driving www.vanityfair.com/news/busines...

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Should Airplanes Be Flying Themselves?

William Langewiesche explores how a series of small errors can turn a state-of-the-art cockpit into a death trap.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 04/02/2026

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It’s not fair that these babies are gone and they’re never coming back. I love seeing these kids grow up, but I miss these little ones

Three very young children at a pumpkin farm on a bright sunny day

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I so wanna laugh at all the idiots who voted for this, thinking they were going to make America great and affordable by removing all the immigrants taking the good jobs and stealing all the tax money… but this week is too much. I’m done with the FAFO. Just stop dailycaller.com/2026/01/29/d...

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Trump Says He Wants To Drive Housing Prices Up, Not Down

Donald Trump suggested during a cabinet meeting on Thursday that he wants to

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Wow. Even BicyclingCircleJerk is standing up against ICE. The most unserious sub on Reddit has decided we’ve had enough. Now you know a line has been crossed

A photo of Alex Pretti standing by a cyclocross bike in a Minnesota jersey. The title of the post is “Fuck you all, fucking fascists. Rot in hell.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/01/2026

Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

In a few years, this will be the equivalent of saying “I’ve never looked at the machine code my high level language generates at runtime”

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/01/2026

NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Watched The Stand miniseries with my kids this week. Finished it tonight. It is such a good epic tale. They all loved it

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Good uses of LLMs are where there’s either a known correctness checker (a spellchecker, a compiler, existing unit tests…), a human in the loop (my wife uses ChatGPT to plan what questions to ask her doctor about treatment) or where hallucinations simply don’t matter (6 fingered people in artwork)

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The Blind posts are crazy right now. I don’t know what’s in the water, but… people need to cut back on the drugs

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2026: The Year of SWE
Folks, listen up. 2026 is going to be the YEAR OF THE SWE. Software Engineers, the REAL builders, the ones who actually MAKE things work.
TREMENDOUS talent, believe me.
Everybody said Al was going to replace them.
TOTAL disaster prediction. Al was the BIGGEST SCAM. Pumped TRILLIONS from the middle class, from investors, from everyday people, straight into the pockets of the elite, the Big Tech billionaires, the data center kings. They promised AGI, autonomous agents taking over coding, no more need for humans. FAILED. Completely
FAILED to deliver.
Look at the numbers: hundreds of billions spent on GPUs, power plants the size of cities, and what do we get? Models that plateaued HARD in 2025.
Benchmarks flatlining, diminishing returns on scaling, experts calling it the "Automation Plateau." No real reasoning breakthrough, just fancy autocomplete on steroids. Useful? Sure, as a COPILOT. Great for boilerplate, quick fixes, boosting productivity 20-30%. But replacement?
NO WAY.

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NO WAY. SWEs using Al are more powerful than those who don't, but the Al alone? Can't architect systems, debug complex edge cases, understand real business domains without constant human oversight.
And jobs? Demand for skilled SWEs is exploding again. Entry-level got hit, sure, but senior engineers, the ones who integrate Al properly?
Salaries through the roof. Companies realizing they need MORE humans to wrangle these tools, not fewer. The bubble talk is everywhere, valuations stretched, low ROl on genAl pilots, but the winners? The SWEs building the actual products.
2026: SWEs take back control. Al stays in the passenger seat. HUGE comeback. The best is yet to come.

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- February 4, 2026
On February 4, 2026, soon as the clock strikes 9:30 AM and the markets open, an "event" will begin. You won't see it coming at first, maybe a quiet dip in pre market futures, a few red arrows on the Magnificent Seven tickers. But by 10:30, the algorithms will wake up. They'll notice the overnight whispers from hyperscalers quietly trimming capex guidance, the subtle admissions that all those trillions poured into data centers aren't spitting out the god like ROI everyone promised.
NVIDIA first. Down 8% in the opening hour, then 15% as panic sells trigger stops. The chip king, the one that carried the entire S&P on its back through 2025, finally cracks under the weight of its own hype. No more "sold out for years" narratives, just empty warehouses of Blackwell chips that nobody needs because the Al models hit a wall. Training costs exploded, but outputs?
Still hallucinating, still mediocre at real work. The bubble's air starts hissing out.

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Then the dominoes: MSFT, GOOG, META, all bleeding as cloud margins implode from overbuild. Tesla joins the bloodbath because who needs autonomous driving hype when the economy's teetering? Apple holds longest, but even they can't escape the rotation out of tech.
By noon, the VIX spikes to 50. Circuit breakers trip. Talking heads on CNBC scream "healthy correction" while their faces go pale. But we know better. This is the reckoning. The Al miracle was always a mirage: endless capex chasing vaporware profits, valuations priced for a future that arrives too slow, too broken.
They told us Al would add trillions to GDP.
Instead, it added trillions to debt and P/E ratios.
Power grids strained, electricity bills soared, and for what? Chatbots that write bad poetry and code that needs human babysitting.
February 4 isn't random. It's right after earnings season exposes the cracks, after the last batch of
"strong guidance" gets walked back, after the Fed hints no more rate cuts because inflation's sticky again from all those tariffs and energy demands.

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Closed out 2025 with her last radiation treatment. No more surgery, no more chemo. I don’t see how 2026 can possibly be worse that 2025

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

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This School Board President Took Her Oath on a Stack of Contested Books. Here's Why

The school board for Central Bucks County, Pa., has been at the center of divisive political debates.

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Michael Collado @peladocollado.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains Oh my god, there are so many, but I’ll start with this: Matchbox 20’s Yourself or Someone Like You

The album cover for Matchbox 20’s Yourself or Someone Like You

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