mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer

making machines that make other machines @genfabco - rationalist, humanist, liberal, and friend of the future SFBA & Great Lakes, USA, Earth Joined February 2011

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PRoales @proales

2 minutes ago

@mattparlmer adjacency bias seems to infect widely public sector employees that think they are highly competent and work hard are comparing themselves to other public sector employees Same for say Boeing etc

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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer

6 minutes ago

Nationalize the primes

Lee Fang @lhfang

15 minutes ago

Nationalize the primes

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Lee Fang @lhfang

22 minutes ago

Phebe Novakovic, CEO of General Dynamics, boasted to investors that consolidation of the munitions division boosted profit margins. All the while, GD lobbied the Pentagon to spend more on high-budget tanks & ships made by GD, some of which the DoD said they didn't need.

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Lee Fang @lhfang

25 minutes ago

General Dynamics, after buying out competitors, starting consolidating and closing plants. The Scranton plant had rounds of layoffs in 2010 and another in 2012, removing skilled machinist workers.

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Lee Fang @lhfang

28 minutes ago

155mm artillery casings are made at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, which was converted during the Korean war. The plant was acquired by General Dynamics in 2006 during a mergers & acquisition spree, w/ GD buying other artillery munition firms to nearly corner the market.

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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer

9 minutes ago

“everybody I know” doing a lot of lifting here

keysmashbandit @keysmashbandit

a day ago

“everybody I know” doing a lot of lifting here

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David Willis @ThePrimalDino

18 hours ago

“Let’s throw a probe out to Jupiter, so Jupiter can throw it into the sun, so the sun can throw it outwards so fast that it can catch up to oumuamua” Easily an S-Teir mission

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Thinkwert @Thinkwert

3 hours ago

She gave me this and said “I’ll always ride your back across every river” and I think that’s so sweet

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Ashman @AshmanAFP

31 minutes ago

When you realize that our towns are designed primarily to funnel people who live somewhere else THROUGH the town to go somewhere else, a lot of things about how awful they can feel, suddenly make sense.

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Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ @alexandrosM

9 hours ago

Remember journalism? This is how it's done.

Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin

3 days ago

Remember journalism? This is how it's done.

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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer

16 hours ago

The Carharttification of American fashion continues, just saw a woman leaving a workout class wearing a Makita sweater Bullish tbh

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Robin Hanson @robinhanson

17 hours ago

The secret to being a beautiful city: be old, don't get bombed.

Culture Critic @Culture_Crit

23 hours ago

The secret to being a beautiful city: be old, don't get bombed.

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Disclose.tv @disclosetv

5 days ago

NEW - Top officials of the Green party falsified expert judgments and thus misled the public in Germany on the "nuclear phase-out," internal documents show.

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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer

18 hours ago

I would definitely enjoy being on a judge panel for this kind of reality show

fudge @fuckpoasting

a day ago

I would definitely enjoy being on a judge panel for this kind of reality show

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fudge @fuckpoasting

a day ago

starting a new show called engineering nightmares where i go to random b2b saas companies and review their shameful technical debt

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pics that go hard @picsthatg0hard_

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Alvin Christian @_AlvinChristian

20 hours ago

Me adding endogenous regressors to my model because the reviewers asked me to

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Creepy.org @creepydotorg

3 days ago

Grigori Perelman, mathematician who refused to accept a Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Clay Prize.

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Priya Rose (room available in May) @Prigoose

18 hours ago

me: *offers you an air fryer* you:

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Lee Fang @lhfang

21 hours ago

Interesting how elite media will rightfully bemoan the term "Asian American" for failing to account for the diversity of various identities w/Asian ancestry, but when demanding more racial quotas, they use the same reductive label to smear all Asians x.com/sfchronicle/st…