Notices by Jessica Lam 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🎨 (kangaroo5383@mastodon.social)

Uh…. We have a wat now? 😨
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114253054773510753

Everyone in software have met at least one (usually many) overly confident n00b who thought he could rewrite the whole thing he didn’t understand.

Someone should send them the Joel On Software link… just unbelievable

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

Expert on fascism says “Nope. I’m outta hereeeee”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada?utm_campaign=feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio

Here comes the laws enforcing racism….

https://apnews.com/article/chinese-student-republican-visa-ban-946e613a8dace3b0092580fa6fe4e50b

Imagine someone obsessed with money, zero ethics, who has the power to literally move the market. Don’t you think they’ll just use it to buy low, sell high? ie wild swings for max gains

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariff-live-updates-lutnick-says-trump-could-ease-tariffs-on-canada-mexico-by-wednesday-191201125.html

Resorting to protest by memes because at this point is there anything we can actually do beyond shouting at the sky? Basically umbrella revolution vibes as our rights and basic government services are taken away

What’s with the obsession with immigrants

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/11/headlines/trump_administration_will_use_irs_criminal_unit_to_pursue_undocumented_immigrants

So imagine this scenario expedited by the help of local police. Anyone suspected of association can now be detained (aka rounded up) without due process in the name of national security.

Everything is now “legal”.

I don’t think I’m being irrational, nor am I saying this absolutely going to happen, but it looks like to me a planned patterned preparation.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/trump-signing-local-law-officers-immigration-enforcement-118598342

With so much noise and outrage it’s hard to keep up, so here is (imho) the potential signals they are trying to drown out

If their goal is to be able to lock up any non-white person

1. Erosion of due process (done) -Laken Riley Act

2. Declare a state of national emergency and close borders - communication at the CDC is closed down. This is how you manufacture a pandemic

3. Use the pandemic ^ to declare a national security threat by associating with some state actors

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5086688-laken-riley-act-due-process/amp/

“California attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” the Stanford University professor said on LinkedIn…. that he “cannot in good conscience serve as their lawyer any longer.”

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-lawyer-lemley-quits-ai-case-citing-zuckerberg-descent

The nightmare continues

“The initial lawsuit, filed on January 27, cites reports that Musk’s associates illegally connected a server to a government network for the purposes of harvesting information, including the names and email accounts of federal employees. The server was installed on the agency’s premises, the complaint alleges, without OPM—the government’s human resources department—conducting a mandatory privacy impact assessment required under federal law.”

https://www.wired.com/story/federal-workers-sue-over-doge-server/?client_service_name=wired&client_service_id=31209&service_user_id=1.78e+16&supported_service_name=instagram_publishing&utm_medium=social&utm_social_type=owned&utm_brand=wired&utm_source=instagram&utm_content=instagram-bio-link

“We are witnessing an unprecedented exfiltration and seizure of the most sensitive kinds of information by unelected, unvetted people with no experience, responsibility, or right to it,”

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/federal-workers-sue-over-doge-server/

The conversation around basic diversity and ethics in the US has been comically, if not horrifically, regressive since jan 20.

It’s so ridiculous that it’s comical in 2025, but unfortunately also deadly. It’s all talks now, but it will be increasingly deadly for more and more people.

We all knew it would be bad, but this is all happening so quickly that it’s obvious it’s planned as foundation for something much worse.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna189203

I wonder if this is what living in a Russian oligarchy feels like

https://www.theverge.com/news/603113/faa-chief-musk-dc-plane-crash-crisis

Had to debate some people who refused to believe that people are being charged * arbitrary * prices.

Where here it is. Staying alive as a for profit venture is pretty unethical

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/unitedhealth-the-company-that-employed-slain-ceo-brian-thompson-allegedly-overcharged-some-cancer-patients-by-more-than-1000-for-their-medications/amp_articleshow/117311846.cms

The chinese proverb “近朱者赤，近墨者黑" translates to "Those who are close to vermilion will turn red, and those who are close to ink will turn black.” The idea here is that your character and behavior can be influenced by the company you keep.

The same goes for the media you consume. Get off X, get off Facebook, people tend to overestimate their immunity against manufactured consent 🙄

I swear this hotel restaurant never discover this magical thing call salt.

😒😒😒😒😒😒 ugh.

@elaterite i don’t think boring even begins to describe this atrocity. I never thought I’d say this but i actually miss my own cooking 😢 I want to go homeeeee

Random Cybertruck caught on fire sitting on a lot.

“The incident went mostly unreported because it happened just a few hours before the highly publicized Cybertruck explosion in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on January 1st.”

https://electrek.co/2025/01/02/a-tesla-cybertruck-burned-down-at-tesla-lot-in-atlanta-battery-fire-suspected/

@zleap silicon valley