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Chris Alfano

@themightychris

I'm just over here tryina help avert the next great filter where MBAs and concentrated tech optimize us all into grey goo... #civictech #publictransit #opensource #govcapacity

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Trying to cancel my ChatGPT subscription last month and I keep hitting errors

So I hit up support, which is of course all AI agents. AI agent tells it cancelled my subscription for me

Then I get charged the next month... it hallucinated canceling my account

yay the future

27.02.2026 02:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled... was convincing Americans that psychopath finance bros and entrepreneurs are the same thing

25.02.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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my pre-coffee Nano Banana "artwork" from this morning

Not sure how I feel about every political cartoon I randomly imagine having a path out of my brain now...

Nano banana initially refused to "portray a minor", until I corrected that I wanted an adult Trump but tiny and in diapers 🀣

05.01.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Data Science Lab

Excited to be talking about dbt with @mchow.com at @posit.co's Data Science Lab tomorrow (1/6) at noon Eastern!

If you're a data scientist or analyst curious about dbt/analytics engineering, this will be an accessible introduction

Register:
pos.it/dslab

05.01.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...

The 60 Minutes episode the Trump admin didn't want seen: archive.org/details/60mi...

23.12.2025 18:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Festibus Tracker

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Philly friends may be interested in this unofficial tracker for SEPTA's holiday buses & trolleys!

Built by @themightychris.bsky.social

festibuses.septa.mobi

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10.12.2025 20:31 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It'll be 30 mins of making jokes on TV about how the left won't let you make jokes on TV anymore

18.09.2025 00:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We've got at least two more years of most normies saying it's divisive to describe what Trump is doing as fascist

18.09.2025 00:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are any entrepreneurs out there working on designing power outlets for planes that work?

18.09.2025 00:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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So UPS's "brokerage service" is to 4x the tariff??!

16.09.2025 22:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just listened to Stolen Focus

Deleting Threads for real this time

Bluesky fam gimme some likes I need a hit

02.09.2025 00:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.

21.07.2025 18:14 πŸ‘ 9036 πŸ” 2209 πŸ’¬ 548 πŸ“Œ 1662

That's how Epstein buried and legitimized himself.

If there's evidence Bill Clinton was into the pedo stuff then yeah take him down. But don't sit here muddying the accusations against the guy there's lots of evidence was with unqualified equivencies, that's how Trump slithers out of everything

21.07.2025 12:58 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe, maybe not. Epstein was a socialite with a lot of money who labored to place himself next to powerful people as often as he could. There's probably a ton of people who just got roped into showing up to a party or two without having any idea what he was about.

21.07.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

you're in Philly riding bikes and didn't tell me?!?

17.07.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

enshitification is real :-( engagement at all costs. The contrast between Threads and Bluesky is so stark. Instagram loves showing me snippets from Threads that have nothing to do with me except that they're stupid takes that piss me off. Meta is disgusting. And it works :-(

12.07.2025 15:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

how is it 2025 and UPS/FedEx still can't just have an app that gives you a push notification when the truck is ~15 mins out and then shows you it on a map

"out for delivery between 7am and 7pm" really???

09.07.2025 14:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WATCH LIVE: Sen. Elissa Slotkin shares 'A New Vision for the Democratic Party' in forum discussion YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

Whoa, found our next president: www.youtube.com/live/3H6Q3q4...

Slotkin 2028

28.06.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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*puts on old man hat*

Back in MY day water dispensers had REAL buttons!

27.06.2025 19:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

that was a poor attempt at sarcasm

27.06.2025 19:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

or just a straight up power trip, I mean how cool is it to take over your alma mater??

27.06.2025 18:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

TFW you're investigating a bunch of random service issues and nothing makes sense, and then you check the cloud platform status page and everything is red and not your problem

12.06.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

HyperCard is what first got me into coding, RIP

08.06.2025 23:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#taxweed #fundtransit @governor.pa.gov

06.06.2025 15:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Let's be sure to cast blame where it's dueβ€”I doubt anyone who works for TRB wanted to do thisβ€”our fascist federal administration has a gun to their heads and they're forced to figure out how to keep as much of the work going as possible

05.06.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

TRB is dissolving all committees. This wasn't unexpected, but they're couching it in a technocratic need to "get back to basics" and ease administrative burden when in fact it's a great big shit sandwich that we're all expected to eat and not make a fuss about.

01.06.2025 11:46 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 14

It's non-zero for Republicans, beyond -20 for Dems

31.05.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Next week's May 28th ride starts at the northernmost fountain of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, just up the SRT from Boathouse Row. Last year we started in one of the plazas, but they all have steps, not great for bikes

22.05.2025 20:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Work requirements are welfare for Deloitte.

22.05.2025 12:33 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0