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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For every tweet of hers there is an equivalent @dril one

A "wint"/@dril tweet that says "drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,"

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For every Lorenz tweet, there is a @dril tweet

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The ones in N and NE? I really do not agree, and *this* was the rollout.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

-Also...Midwest parents may not like it, but: maybe look at research about how developmentally appropriate/wise it is to have your young kids around alcohol all the time 🫠 -Maps and websites are great, but the real unsung AuDHD hero:

An image of the "popular times" widget from Google maps (the implication being that going when places are less busy is much less stressful)

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Exhibit A: A blurb from Wired speculating about whether anyone can program computers now. Exhibit B: The masthead of Wired’s website floating in the middle of an article, hiding shit I’m trying to look at.

Said blurb from Wired:

“You Can't Code
I'm amazed by how many writers perpetuate the idea that anyone can code now. For one thing, they almost certainly haven't coded anything themselves. For another, they'd never agree with the statement that anyone can write now-even though there's no obvious difference between using Al to generate a novel and using it to generate a code base.
The fact is, not just anyone can code now.
Randos here and there may have used Claude to, I don't know, conjure up some Photoshop knockoff or email-sorting tool, but this is novelty, curiosity-like the time you tried VR or built a website or bought an NFT. I promise you it won't stick, and the people using Al to code for real are ... the people who were coding already! Techies.
Early adopters. Computer people. There isn't some new generation of citizen coder rising up to take back software.”

The masthead of Wired’s website floating in the middle of an article, hiding shit I’m trying to look at.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

In fairness, I honestly think she will happily continue talking like a sociopath

“At Harvard, Hajjar was a member of The Harvard Crimson's editorial board. Frustrated by ideological homogeneity on campus, she penned a column for the Crimson called "Always at Odds." Hajjar shared her experience as a conservative student at Harvard and became a vocal advocate for free speech and ideological diversity, co-founding the Harvard Institute of Politics' Conservative Coalition.
She spent the summer of 2020 as an editorial intern at National Review writing about foreign policy and national security. She has also been published in the Daily Signal and CapX.
In 2019, Hajjar was a Capitol Hill intern for Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas. She worked with the defense team, reporting on Armed Service hearings and researching national security affairs. She also worked as a research assistant for the Adam Smith Institute in London and
attended an American Enterprise Institute Summer Honors Program seminar on Middle Eastern affairs.”

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Like…I need everyone to understand how bad of an idea this is, and if you want to make things without having any idea how they work: learn. If you strongly oppose that, I take it all back, please very go do this. Do it all day, every day. Let me know when you plug it into your house. Film it.

Wired article:

“They Built the 'Cursor for Hardware? Now, Anthropic
Wants In
Schematik is a program that aims to help people vibe code for physical devices. Hopefully, it won't blow anything up.”

“SAMUEL BEEK KNEW he had a problem when he blew every fuse in his house.
The culprit was an electric door opener he had built himself, guided by instructions for wiring and piecing together a device drummed up by ChatGPT. Turns out, the chatbot wasn't so great at distinguishing between wet and dry connections, so the device he had built sent out a surge of misallocated power that zapped everything else. Oops.
Beek, based in Amsterdam, admits he is not a hardware guy. But he had that itch and now really just wanted to make something that wouldn't explode.”

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It sure would be confusing if she had a history of asking the world to pull her into war with Iran

Al Jazeera headline from 2024: Kamala Harris says Iran is
'greatest adversary' of US
Democratic presidential candidate says preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is one of her top priorities.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hey real talk this is someone who should not be able to comfortably enter public spaces, let alone hold office.

From the above article:

Charges of fifth-degree domestic assault were filed after Steve Drazkowski, 41, allegedly grabbed his daughter by the shirt below her neck and lifted her heels off the ground while yelling in her face, court records say.
Documents say a Wabasha police officer arrived at Wabasha/Kellogg High School on Oct. 13 to find an emotionally distraught girl with two red marks on her upper chest. She complained that she was afraid of her father and didn't want to return to her home.
The girl told authorities that the assault was not an isolated incident and that verbal fights occur on a daily basis. She said Drazkowski had slapped her one time in December 2004 when "she could not hold a cold dog dish while he filled it."

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This Steve Drazkowski? The one with a history of thinking fifth-degree assault is fine if his child doesn’t do something the way he wants it? Hrm. www.postbulletin.com/news/state-s...

from the linked article:
Charges of fifth-degree domestic assault were filed after Steve Drazkowski, 41, allegedly grabbed his daughter by the shirt below her neck and lifted her heels off the ground while yelling in her face, court records say.
Documents say a Wabasha police officer arrived at Wabasha/Kellogg High School on Oct. 13 to find an emotionally distraught girl with two red marks on her upper chest. She complained that she was afraid of her father and didn't want to return to her home.
The girl told authorities that the assault was not an isolated incident and that verbal fights occur on a daily

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Like. I’m no fancy big city lawyer, but the AG of Texas (in saying they cannot discuss gender with clients who are minors) just ruled that therapists are healthcare providers. In what world are TX insurance companies not about to be sued into oblivion over mental health benefits, etc?

Texas AG opinion from here https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/2026/kp-0518.pdf
“Subsection 161.701(2) broadly defines a "[h]ealth care provider" as "a person other than a physician who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by this state's laws to provide or render health care or to dispense or prescribe a prescription drug in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession." Tex. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE § 161.701(2); see also id. § 161.701(4) (defining "[p]hysician" as "a person licensed to practice medicine in this state"). The phrase
"health care" is commonly understood to mean "efforts made to maintain or restore health ... by trained and licensed professionals." MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY 574 (11th ed. 2020); see also, e.g., NEW OXFORD AMERICAN DICTIONARY 801 (3d ed. 2010) (referring to
"the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental health," including "through the provision of medical services"). Further, the attributive noun "health" ordinarily refers to "physical and mental well-being; freedom from disease, pain, or defect; normalcy of physical and mental functions; [or] soundness." WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD COLLEGE DICTIONARY 669 (5th ed. 2016); see also, e.g., MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARy 574 (11th ed. 2020) (emphasizing
"the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit"); MOsBY's DICTIONARY OF MEDICINE, NURSING & HEALTH PROFESSIONS 809 (10th ed. 2017) (emphasizing "a condition of physical, mental, and social well-being and the absence of disease or other abnormal condition"). This makes clear that a health care provider engages in licensed efforts to maintain or restore health, whether in body or mind, and belies any perceived ambiguity in subsection 161.701(2).”

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Blame politicians. Hospital systems are faced with either stopping gender care for minors, or closing down entirely, possibly also having all their MDs and maybe other staff barred from ever being hired at public hospitals. Any politician that doesn’t mention this is dodging responsibility.

From the article:
NYU Langone is closing its program as the Trump administration threatens to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide treatments such as hormones or puberty blockers to minors. The Trump administration in December proposed new rules that would prohibit Medicare or Medicaid funding from flowing to hospitals that provide such gender-affirming treatments to patients under 18. Hospitals rely heavily on these massive public insurance programs for revenue.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Children’s has fought against this longer than most. This is very upsetting news for a lot of kids, it will absolutely hurt the mental health of them and their families, and I expect every MN politician to either fight fed transphobia or find a new job. www.childrensmn.org/services/car...

A post from Children’s Minnesota about pausing medical interventions for minors in their gender care program:

As one of the leading pediatric providers of gender-affirming care in the region, we have recently experienced an increase in federal
actions directed at health systems
Like ours that provide this care.
These actions jeopardize the stability of Minnesota's only comprehensive pediatric health care system, and they threaten our clinicians' ability to practice medicine now and in the future. If conditions remain the same, we
plan to temporarily pause prescribing puberty-suppressing medications and pubertal hormones (estrogen and testosterone) for patients under age 18 in our Gender Health program, effective Friday, Feb. 27, 2026.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

We should be allowed to hunt British people. Not all, but most. It should probably be a lottery based tag system, but only to maintain sporting populations.

Telegraph headline:
Sophia Money-Coutts
Being posh should be a protected characteristic
If we're going to outlaw class discrimination in the interests of fairness, no one should be exempt

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Imagine working for a tobacco company and being like “Well I love working here, and sure I knew we’d kill people, I just didn’t think they’d be white or live here.”

A wired headline/lede:
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
BY MAKENA KELLY
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this," one worker wrote on Slack.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Nothing but respect for my paper of record.

Racket headline:
Report: Bye Bye, Baby Bitch Bovino

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I mean everyone is congratulating The Atlantic on their Minneapolis story (which is fair, the war correspondent who wrote it had a good perspective), and here’s them one blink ago

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I swear to god if the government kills me and you boost an Atlantic article about it, I will haunt you.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Like yes, there are even people on the right that can’t stand this; but many people saw this coming and put work in. And The Atlantic hates that kind of people for being “absolutist.”

Atlantic article: Cancel Culture's
Boomerang Effect
How we got to a place where free speech means whatever conservatives want to say
By Adam Serwer

Atlantic articles:

What Bari Weiss Got Right
GRAEME WOOD DECEMBER 23, 2025
It's Very Controversial, but I Love Nick Fuentes'
ALI BRELAND DECEMBER 22, 2025

Atlantic article:

HOW LIBERAL AMERICA CAME TO ITS SENSES
The period of left-wing illiberalism that began about a decade ago seems to have drawn to a close. The final cause of death was the reelection of Donald Trump.
By Jonathan Chait

Atlantic article:
The Left's New
Moralism Will Backfire
Under Trump, progressives have embraced the rhetoric of "moral clarity." It won't help their cause.
By Thomas Chatterton Williams

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

These are the pre-election discussions he was having. He said what he’d do, the people he’d do it to (everyone he called a “leftist”), he is now doing it. If you or anyone didn’t think that, you’re not only naive, you weren’t listening

"This is how autocrats cement their
permanent grip on power, Rassin told NPR.
All of these threats raise a question: if Trump won reelection, could he tell the Justice Department to go after all of these people?
Bassin says the answer is, essentially, yes.
"There are not really legal restrictions or even structural restrictions that would stop the president from simply directing them to go and investigate his perceived opponents,"
Bassin said.
Some of Trump's allies have promised to undo the decades-long custom that the White House stays out of the Justice Department's decision-making.
"The Department of Justice is not an independent agency," said former Trump administration official Russell Vought at a conference last year. "If anyone brings it up in a policy meeting in the White House, I want them out of the meeting."”

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Their website is apparently down, hopefully for good reasons. Worth noting that during the George Floyd uprising he and his family stayed overnight in the store out of fear it may be burned down like Uncle Hugo’s. He is still out here and gets it. #minneapolis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamHa...

A photo of DreamHaven Books boarded up during the George Floyd Uprising, “with great power comes great responsibility” is sprayed across the boards, also with a depiction of Spider Man’s face and “MPLS strong”

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Sorry to do this but like, circumstances. I cannot overemphasize how badly even the worst fucking people in Minnesota hate this.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Haha I do not love my town being mentioned with these other things

Wired headline:
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a
Superpower
With Donald Trump's actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

@newyorker.com in this piece: -There were only small protests after Good was murdered -No Kings marches are just about making each other feel good -The George Floyd uprising and Arab Spring were “revolutions-that-weren’t” -ICE will inevitably deploy to more cities en masse Incredible dipshittery.

Screenshot of a New Yorker article titled:

WHAT COMES AFTER THE PROTESTS

The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis will continue to bring people to the streets. Can it bring change?

By Jay Caspian Kang

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Cringe to cross-post, but I felt this one. www.instagram.com/p/DS8Jeu2kby...

From Hanif Abdurraqib’s Instagram post:

I don't know. You're maybe going to have to give your close attention to other people in a world that increasingly devalues close attention. You're probably going to have to think about the way you talk to others in a world that increasingly encourages people to say the first bullshit that pops into their head, regardless of how harmful it may be. You are possibly going to have to create things that you are proud of, and then share them with a world that is increasingly ill-equipped to engage with those things, but it'll find the people it needs to find. You are almost certainly going to have to be patient in the name of loving others well, and loving yourself well. I guess I'm mostly saying this to myself, but you also may have to do these things, and more. I hope you remain up for that challenge. Our time here isn't infinite, and it can't only be miserable

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Hey when it’s not factual reporting, how does the Washington Post feel about AI? Oh.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Same owners as Rocket League, and well

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

To be clear, everyone should call their senators and everyone should just stop voting for toothless, evil assholes, but there's no way this gets used to define sex outside of military athletics, and I don't want trans people to panic for even more reasons than we already have

a photo of the section of the bill being discussed:
"SEC. 559A. PROHIBITION ON PARTICIPATION OF MALES IN ATHLETIC PROGRAMS
OR ACTIVITIES AT THE MILITARY SERVICE ACADEMIES THAT ARE
DESIGNATED FOR WOMEN OR GIRLS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the
United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, and
the United States Air Force Academy do not permit a person enrolled at
such an Academy whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program
or activity that is designated for women or girls.
(b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
construed to prohibit the United States Military Academy, the United
States Naval Academy, or the United States Air Force Academy from
permitting males to train or practice with an athletic program or
activity that is designated for women or girls so long as no female is
deprived of a roster spot on a team or sport, opportunity to
participate in a practice or competition, scholarship, admission to an
educational institution, or any other benefit that accompanies
participating in the athletic program or activity.
(c) Definitions.--In this section--
(1) the term ``athletic programs and activities'' includes
all programs or activities that are provided conditional upon
participation with any athletic team; and
(2) the term ``sex'' means a person's reproductive biology
and genetics at birth."

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This post is 5 days old and suddenly getting traction, and while I do agree it's horrible and I think no one should vote for any of these people, no matter their competition, they are evil, there's also no way this gets used to define sex at the federal level outside of military athletics

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Did you read the paper, which pretty clearly says they were given API credits to do the study? iceberg.mit.edu/report.pdf

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Me when my players prefer D&D and maps over OSRs and locations they can travel to because it’s “more choice-driven”

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This sounds wonderful! Also no one asked, but I kept saying this to myself while reading through it:

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I want them to not use AI and not spend time on things that aren't worth it and to not compete with AAA studios

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Sadly Democrats need to listen to what people want: progressive policies. Even if more people had voted, slightly more non-voters polled leaned toward Trump.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

It goes on to cite people who oppose the kind of purity you are mad about:

"The belief that this enormous, existential problem could have been fixed if all of us had just tweaked our consumptive habits is not only preposterous; it’s dangerous … It’s victim blaming, plain and simple.
Heglar and others have taken a strong stance against environmental purity—the idea that you can’t care about or advocate for systems-level change if you aren’t first changing your own habits. But not everyone agrees that individual actions should be completely deemphasized in the climate conversation. Kimberly Nicholas, a climate scientist and author of the popular book Under the Sky We Make, has argued that wealthy people living in wealthy countries—and globally, “wealthy” is a lower bar than you might think—do have a responsibility to slash their outsize carbon emissions. And particularly for those of us living in democracies, personal action isn’t just about the choices we make as consumers.

“There’s still an ongoing tension between personal and system change, or individual and collective action,” Nicholas said. “It’s really hard to get that right—to get the right balance there that acknowledges the role and the importance of both, and to talk about and study and describe both in a way that motivates people to take high-impact actions.”

Goldwert saw that tension play out in her maligned climate communications study. In the experiment, participants reviewed 21 individual climate actions (like eating less meat) and five systemic actions (like voting) and rated their commitments to taking each action. Two test groups then received clarifying information about the relative impact of the 21 individual actions—one group was asked to estimate their ranking before learning how they actually ranked, the other group received the information straight-up. But participants didn’t receive any data about the carbon-mitigation potential of the five collective actions, which would be far more difficult to quantify.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The literal point of the article is that we need to find ways of talking around the individual harm people do, because it makes them closed off/defensive about how they contribute to climate change, which is what you're seemingly doing

From the article: "The study set out to understand how to shift behavior by communicating climate truths. Instead, its media coverage revealed a troubling psychological trade-off: When climate-related messaging strikes a nerve, it may actually turn people off from the work of shifting societal norms.

It’s an instinct I understand on some level. I love Loki, and my knee-jerk reaction is to defend the very personal choice of sharing one’s life with a dog. I also sympathize with redirecting the blame toward the biggest polluters: billionaires and fossil fuel companies (not Bon-Bon, the pet Chihuahua in question). But is it irresponsible to shrug off any conversation about the environmental impact of our pets—something far more within our control than, say, the overthrow of capitalism?

Is there a way to have a frank discussion about the climate impact of our personal lives without it going to the dogs?"

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

They are also planning on changing rules so that any hospital/clinic that provides gender care for minors (or maybe anyone) would not qualify their employees for loan forgiveness

A Newsweek excerpt:
That said, the occupations not deemed professional among the health care space include nursing, physician assistants, physical therapists and audiologists, according to the education news outlet
Inside Higher Ed.
Per the outlet, other professions not included are architects, accountants, educators, and social workers—which sector representatives pushed to be included in the list, given that they are high-demand occupations.
It has also been reported that engineering, a business master's, counseling or therapy, and speech pathology will not be considered
"professional" either.

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Miranda Osthoff @tinyconstruct.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

IDK about that www.newyorker.com/science/elem...

From the article: “The e-mails of the celebrated
programmer Linus Torvalds land like thunderbolts from on high onto public lists, full of invective, insults, and demeaning language. "Please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place," he wrote in one. "Guys, this is not a dick-sucking contest," he observed in another. "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" he began in a third.
Torvalds has publicly posted thousands of scathing messages targeting programmers who submit what he deems flawed code to the Linux computer-operating-system kernel, which he brought to life more than twenty-five years ago and now administers as a collaborative, open-source project.
Today, the Linux kernel is famous, running the enormous computers of Google, PayPal, Amazon, and eBay, and the two billion mobile phones using the Android operating system. Torvalds, though, retains final say over each precious line of code, just as he did when he first started working on the system as a graduate student at the University of Helsinki. For years, he has been known as Linux's "benevolent dictator for life."”

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