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Tony Dewan

@tonydewan.com
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Tie your shoes, pack a good lunch, and remember that we're all in this together. I make software, mostly. Right now I’m helping home stagers with @hutchstaging.com, helping build @boxoutsports.com, making games at @mostlybits.co. More at tonydewan.com

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 9h
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
For example, if we don't like the quality of public schools, we can fix them by giving schools more resources, not by letting billionaire dilettantes privatize and starve them in the name of "school choice": pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/a...
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us (09 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026
The sort of world view that Hegseth stands for is an inherently unstable equilibrium, a doomed enterprise. It's unable to cope with what even modest levels of abstract reasoning built on basic education can pull off, let alone vastly more powerful social systems.
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Konnor Rogers @konnorrogers.com · 27/09/2026
Everyday I stray closer to Elixir + Phoenix, purely because of replies like this:
Jose Valim on Twitter saying:

You are right but it also feels short-sighted? You have the most powerful tool you ever had, you have become a 1000x maker, and you can't think of how to make your stack 10x better?

Yes, Rust is fast, the type system catches bugs, but there is so much beyond it.

* Why not make Ruby 10x faster?
* Why not make Ruby (and therefore Rails) really great at concurrency?
* Why not add a banging type system to Ruby that can provide guarantees beyond Rust?
* Why not embed SQLite3 into Rails with a replication protocol so you can really compress the stack beyond a single server?
* How to preemptively fix most bugs from the most critical parts of Rails, such as database pools?

Yes, who cares about ActiveSearch, but there are so many ways we can fundamentally improve our stacks that go beyond asking the agent to just crap out code. Phoenix is still the only framework that ships with presence, because it turns out it is deceptively a hard problem to solve correctly, but somehow all issues are solved?

I understand some folks have no interest in doing any of the above, and that's fine, but then at least pass the baton to the people who want to do exactly that.

PS: I say all of this with love ❤️
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is illegal. For this reason alone, he should be impeached and removed and convicted. There is no justification under law or the Constitution for a president to "cancel" funding appropriated by the Congress and signed into law by previous presidents. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
cowcore
I done told ya varmints already!
I ain’t a damn cowboy! I’m
cowcore! It uses the themes of
cowboy in a modern context, ya
puckered buzzards!
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.
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Konnor Rogers @konnorrogers.com · 24/09/2026
Like of course serving back a bunch of JSON with this can run on a Pi. Your bottlenecks for peak are going to be background jobs for upload processing and DB connection pooling long before serving requests is an issue...
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 25/09/2026
I get so many of these weirdo slop infinite song YouTube ads for basic ass drop shipped trash, I’m either going to finally pay for YouTube premium or delete YouTube and hey, why not, delete my Google account too.
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Jared Norman @jardo.dev · 25/09/2026
besides being full of holes, DHH's latest keynote also had near nothing to say to Rails users. cool cool cool. jardo.dev/what-about-rails
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 23/09/2026
Yes, please put your whole face on stove
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 23/09/2026
Most things are mediocre to bad. AI tools mean more of everything, so it'd naturally lead to flooding the world with mostly mediocre to bad things. AI boosters assert it brings the average up, but when you price in that people rapidly adjust to norms and seek novelty, I don't that's durably true.
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 23/09/2026
So I'm playing with some ideas around project management, maybe I'll make a little thing for myself and maybe if it's good I'll make it for other people. Taking a little evening stroll into name brainstorming, and jfc every single word has an AI slop landing page and they all look the same.
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kate @katewitko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
excuse me. we do not have front plates
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Side note: the NYT will edit out the filler words of every single male politician in a quote, but here they’ve left in every “like” and “kind of” in her vocabulary. Which is a choice, and not one I like.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 21/09/2026
I am on the hunt for more things like Money Stuff (@matt-levine.bsky.social) and @volts.wtf (read: a stream of information + insight about a specific area of interest, filtered through a single point of view). Any recommendations? Audio preferred!
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 20/09/2026
My toddler is “reading” me a Dr Seuss book and she’s making up the best names. First: Bartle Narno
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
It's so funny that Mamdani is doing *exactly* what the abundance types are calling for -- competent government in service of constituents' quality of life -- but they can't embrace him because their billionaire donors hate Muslims.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 17/09/2026
Yudkowsky is rationalist in the sense that his arguments are derived from pure reason, with no real basis in epistemology. When he writes about AI, he is writing about imaginary computers in his head. And these imaginary computers are mostly influenced by sci-fi stories, not actual tech.
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 18/09/2026
Someday I'm going to buy an old brick building and I think it's going to be like a boat (the two best days...)
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump inherited the world’s safest asset, the world’s reserve currency, and deepest, best-regulated capital markets — and is destroying all three.
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 17/09/2026
Directionally and spiritually I agree with this, though I will note that in theory the vacations are actually supposed to be time to work, engaging with constituents. Seems like it mostly doesn’t happen, at least not how we’d all expect.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s insane that people in Congress are paid over $174K a year in taxpayer dollars whilst making millions of dollars from insider trading whilst getting 18 vacations a year as Americans all over the country struggle to pay for rent, gas and groceries.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Mike Potter @wthr-mike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you know anyone in central Indiana who is struggling with housing affordability who would be willing to talk on camera, please hit me up. We want to cover this important issue ahead of the election.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/09/2026
This looks amazing. And, again, reconfirms the thing I keep telling people: the Atmosphere isn't about rebuilding Twitter. It's about rebuilding a better web overall.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"OpenAI is hiring hundreds of contractors who read a massive stream of real users’ ChatGPT prompts, with the prompts sometimes including sensitive personal information, 404 Media has learned. The prompts these people review can include whole conversations between users and the chatbot."
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 14/09/2026
I'm probably just a weirdo but I cannot possibly imagine trusting OpenAI with any detailed personal finance info, much less direct access to my financial institutions. Like I get that my chats and code gen conversations tell an unnervingly deep story, but my response to that is NOT to go deeper...
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If the law stated REAL DAMN CLEAR that a frontier lab is found liable for punitive damages if its model escapes its sandbox and hacks shit, and if that law was robustly enforced, then the frontier labs would figure out how to build better sandboxes. This really isn't rocket science.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded in poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."
recordsofenemysurveillance.com
cara esten hurtle
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Our tech oligarchs would probably like human civilization on this planet to flourish, but some don’t see it as mission critical. More important is that they reach their posthuman or interplanetary apotheosis. If they must wager our lives to summon their digital god, it’s a chance worth taking."
nytimes.com
Opinion | Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse (Gift Article)
Silicon Valley’s strange new theology.
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 13/09/2026
I love this spot. The speed limit is 25 when school is in session, otherwise the speed limit is 25.
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 12/09/2026
Got some AI-driven spam last week for SOC2 on @hutchstaging.com, claiming they’d been contacted by several providers in the home staging inventory space. First, I guarantee you didn’t. Second, that’d be like a dog treat company getting NSF certified for sport. None of your buyers give a shit?
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 12/09/2026
From a community slack channel about ai. If any part of OpenAIs projections assume this guy is going to go from paying $600 to $88k, these businesses are...well, look, he's not going to pay that.
wanted to see my overall codex spend over 3 months…. approximately $88k raw token value (20B tokens) for $600
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 11/09/2026
Right now, for my needs and project shapes, and in whatever state the providers have their secret little knobs, Astra is way better than Fable.
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 11/09/2026
Holy shit
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 11/09/2026
Man, Sol and Astra generate much more readable text than the weirdo robot slop syntax Opus and Fable are addicted to.
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 11/09/2026
$10 says trump blames 9/11 on Biden tomorrow
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 11/09/2026
Look I know there are probably really stupid but meaningful reasons, but I genuinely can't think of why Apple hasn't added simple string filtering for iMessage. If they just let us reject every message from a unknown sender with "Stop to End" and "stop2end" they'd make another trillion dollars
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Tony Dewan @tonydewan.com · 11/09/2026
This dude is so good youtu.be/j1YSNulC05o?...
youtu.be
The Nerd Reich
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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