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Max Hawkins

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Real-time protocol engineer, Mid-City Los Angeles, organizing @opensidewalks.la, art && code, maxhawkins.me

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Our founder @devingaffney.com also got in the mix with a "chill" for you feed that intentionally tries to minimize politics and news for when you need a break from the nightmare

04.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, inventor of the mandarin tone chart.

28.02.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've started building a lot more one-off niche macOS apps since starting to use Claude. It's so nice to have a native app but previously I was too intimidated by XCode to try.

26.02.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Spoon River Anthology

24.02.2026 10:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll try and get some folks from the NELA Computer Club to come through

24.02.2026 04:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
a dot on the map that says "CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION" behind the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles

a dot on the map that says "CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION" behind the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles

CBP owns land next to the Hollywood sign??

31.01.2026 04:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for listening! I think it should be fixed now. Let me know if it works.

28.01.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I get this all of the time. Probably 30% of videos I watch.

25.12.2025 05:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.

Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

08.12.2025 17:50 πŸ‘ 881 πŸ” 559 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 79

I like the cheeky em-dash after β€œto those who can recognize an LLM’s reveals, it’s just embarrassing”

07.12.2025 18:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is so awesome! Kind of a fun way to find people to follow too.

04.12.2025 05:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is so cool. It totally demystifies the algorithm and puts the user more in control of directing it.

I wish there was in-app UI for presenting this type of info for all my feeds.

04.12.2025 05:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would this trigger when you subscribe to a blocklist?

06.11.2025 06:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Totally. I’ve always wanted to live in one.

30.10.2025 04:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow since when has jj had Google sponsorship?

30.10.2025 03:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I believe someone has done one where you can only chat if your battery is at 1%

07.09.2025 23:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cool that you’re using Polis for this!

06.09.2025 06:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft Excel World Championship 2024 - Finals YouTube video by Excel Esports

www.youtube.com/live/GKbIPnu...

No joy in Microsoft Excel? People find a way!

25.08.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Too lazy to prompt engineer!

24.08.2025 22:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I prefer the C-style interface, but LLMs seem to have a harder time programming against the less popular API so I find myself going back to stdlib recently.

24.08.2025 22:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What do you think of the low level packages (zombiezen, crawshaw) that mirror the C api more directly instead of db/sql?

24.08.2025 22:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@cmonstah.bsky.social Hi! What’s the best way to pitch you on a story?

14.08.2025 04:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

From β€œChess Perversions and Other Diversions” by Erik Olin Wright.

www.sscc.wisc.edu/soc/faculty/...

03.08.2025 06:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Affective polarization go brrr

15.07.2025 22:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Next you should run a TSP optimization to generate a maximum entropy summer road trip!

06.07.2025 15:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the main reason I live in Southern California. I love stumbling upon a mind-blowing but statistically improbable restaurant at the far end of a strip mall in the San Gabriel Valley or Long Beach.

06.07.2025 15:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The real villains are businesses that set up the platform incentives for that grift to be a profitable endeavor.

25.06.2025 17:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
'90s Sim City 2000 warning message by the transportation advisor shouting at the player, but the text has been edited to read "YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

'90s Sim City 2000 warning message by the transportation advisor shouting at the player, but the text has been edited to read "YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

this about sums things up.

17.06.2025 15:34 πŸ‘ 335 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump shutdown of chemical safety watchdog could mean β€˜more explosions, more deaths’ in Cancer Alley On a summer night in 2023, an explosion at one of Louisiana’s biggest petrochemical complexes sent a plume of fire into the sky. More explosions followed as poison gas spewed from damaged tanks at the...

The Chemical Safety Board does not duplicate OSHA or EPA. It's more like the NTSB of chemical plant incidents.

Eliminating the #CSB will mean more chemical releases, evacuations illnesses and deaths -- everywhere in the US, not just cancer alley.

www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

15.06.2025 18:08 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

09.06.2025 01:54 πŸ‘ 6127 πŸ” 2582 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 115