Alex Karp (not the CEO)

Looks like a bunch more people are joining, so here is an intro thread on me! 🧵 👋🏼 Hi, I’m Alex! ♾️ I’m #ActuallyAutistic! 💼 I’m an Engineering Manager at Thumbtack. ⏮️ Previously at Twitter, Wayfair, and Microsoft. 📱 Before I became a manager, I was an #iOS developer. I still do #iOSDev on the side.

Semi-annual PSA: Clocks in the EU went back an hour this weekend, but won't go back in the US until this coming weekend. If you meet with people across the Atlantic, please check your calendars!

I imagine this will age the same as if the CEO of Enron had gifted a share to every kid in America in the mid-90s.

Things must be dire if he’s willingly associating with Ted Cruz, let alone relying on him to make his campaign more likable.

Whether it's James Talarico getting the flu or Ken Paxton giving kids measles, both candidates have brushes with communicable diseases.

Ruin a book by adding a word: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

I know that doctor availability is a system problem in the US and in other parts of the world. But could we please agree that if a doctor's next available appointment is one year away, we don't just tell people that they are "accepting new patients" without a disclaimer? 🙃

Somebody should probably tell him that wanting to demolish things that we take his name off of isn’t a great precedent to set.

I assume that the people who were outraged by Hunter Biden’s laptop are going to be livid about this. Right? …right?

Brought to you by the man who bankrupted a fucking casino.

If I were Google, I’d be working on a good alibi right about now.

Looking to move away from 1Password. Currently looking at Keeper. I hate that I have to ask this, but is there anything I should know about them, their political leanings and/or views, or their associations? Also open to other suggestions.

If Pelosi had gone missing for even 24 hours, her residences would have been crawling with conservative reporters trying to take photos through her windows until she made a public appearance. Schrödinger's Turtle, however... 🐢

Excerpt from my own complaint: “I have a lot of respect for 1Password, so I’m charitably choosing to view this as a mistake borne of improper vetting. However, if 1Password doesn’t rescind its donation, I’ll have no choice but believe that you support DHH and his disgusting, bigoted views.”

I often feel like the GOP is the Grinch, hoovering up every last Christmas ornament — nothing too small to corrupt or destroy. Mamdani feels like the inverse. Nothing too small to make better.

I read a lot of romantasy, but one of my biggest pet peeves is when a book/series wraps everything up within the span of a few chapters. We’ve spent 5 books building to the climax against this insurmountable evil, and then it gets resolved and everyone lives happily ever after in 5 chapters?

Has anyone else experienced a problem with Netflix where if you’re re-watching a show, it shows you new show recommendations instead of automatically going to the next episode? It happens almost exclusively with kids shows and it’s driving me crazy.

Lombardo on Trump: "When the press and media runs him down, they think about 'he's taking care of his billionaire friends.' But those billionaire friends provide jobs. And unless you take care of them, those jobs are absent."

“Nearly orgasmic”? I must be doing it wrong… 😅

Asking for a friend: Is Seth Moulton capable of saying anything without sounding like a dick? #mapol

Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them

Seen in Cleveland, Ohio.

What if we made billionaire tax cuts contingent on proving they're meeting an unnecessarily cruel set of work requirements?

I don’t care whether this actually happened or not. I want it to be true.

Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

I have a funny feeling we’ll be hearing more about Schrodinger’s Turtle on August 3rd.

Washington Post Stops Short of Being a Real Newspaper

Who called it “Basic Business” and not “Delta Two”?

Honestly, at this point, I’m more surprised that they haven’t carried him into the senate chamber and tried to pull a “Weekend at Bernie’s”.

Good morning from DC—where you’ve got to look twice to see if the masked paramilitaries on the street are ICE or Patriot Front.

Restaurants at municipal airfields are highly underrated, especially if you have kids who love airplanes!

“Payback Squad” sounds like the name of a knock-off Quentin Tarantino movie.

Every time I hear someone say that people managers aren’t or won’t be necessary, the way that they describe the role makes it obvious that they have absolutely no idea what all a good people manager does.

🎶 Normal Tuesday night for Shia LaBeouf. Running for your life from Shia LaBeouf. 🎶

How do I know we’re in the bad place? I saw this headline and my initial understanding was that they were investigating whether *he* had deprived the officers of *their* civil rights.

Baby-led weening is all fun and games until you have to watch your 15-month-old dip his pancake in syrup… and then ketchup. #ActuallyAutistic

stocking up on alphabet spaghettiO's in case i ever need an analog LLM

There is nothing like a ride on the new NextGen Acela to make you wish that the US (and North America in general) had a robust high-speed rail network.