✡️|🇮🇱|🇺🇦| Developer, ronin, occasional polymath, Software Engineer at Little Green Elves. Creator of logitall. Mastodon: @ElonVolo@fosstodon.org
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I have a theory that any question on the Internet can be answered with the word “cats” and it will be considered valid.
Elon Volo 🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️ retweeted
Many software engineers are fatalistic about company politics.
ALT Many software engineers are fatalistic about company politics. They believe that it’s pointless to get involved, because: Technical decisions are often made for completely selfish reasons that cannot be influenced by a well-meaning engineer Powerful stakeholders are typically so stupid and dysfunctional that it’s effectively impossible for you to identify their needs and deliver solutions to them The political game being played depends on private information that software engineers do not have, so any attempt to get involved will result in just blundering around Managers and executives spend most of their time playing politics, while engineers spend most of their time doing engineering, so engineers are at a serious political disadvantage before they even start
ALT The general idea here is that software engineers are simply not equipped to play the game at the same level as real political operators. This is true! It would be a terrible mistake for a software engineer to think that you ought to start scheming and plotting like you’re in Game of Thrones. Your schemes will be immediately uncovered and repurposed to your disadvantage and other people’s gain. Scheming takes practice and power, and neither of those things are available to software engineers. It is simply a fact that software engineers are tools in the political game being played at large companies, not players in their own right. However, there are many ways to get involved in politics without scheming.
Elon Volo 🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️ retweeted
El judío de Schrödinger, según el antisemita de turno:
1) Somos jázaros convertidos al judaísmo en la Edad Media, pero matamos a Jesús mil años antes. Además de dominar el mundo, dominamos los viajes en el tiempo. Por algo Spilberg dirigió Volver al Futuro.
2) Somos comunistas que quieren abolir la propiedad privada y capitalistas que acaparan toda la riqueza. Financiamos la revolución y la contrarrevolución. Agotador.
3) Somos débiles, cobardes e incapaces de luchar, pero también una potencia militar que amenaza al planeta. Al mismo tiempo cometemos genocidio, el más ineficaz del planeta ya que la población en Gaza aumenta.
4) Controlamos todos los gobiernos, pero nos expulsaron de medio mundo. Para manejarlo todo estuvimos bastante flojos.
5) También controlamos todos los medios, pero ponés cualquier canal o abrís un diario y seguro están hablando pestes de nosotros en general o de Israel en particular. Linda forma de controlar los medios.
6) Nos gritan “vuelvan a su país” Volvemos a Israel: “salgan ahí, ladrones de territorios”. Evidentemente, el destino autorizado para nuestra admisión y permanencia es ninguna parte.
7) Somos un imperio colonizador, pero no pueden identificar de qué metrópoli venimos. Un imperio que habla la lengua ancestral del lugar, encuentra su historia bajo cada excavación y tiene que explicar por qué lleva el mismo nombre que hace tres mil años. Además el imperio mide 20000 km2, aprox lo mismo que Tucumán. Si lo buscás en el mapa vas a ver que el nombre del país no entra en el país. Lindo imperio pegamos.
8) Nos acusan de habernos dejado llevar “como ovejas al matadero”. Nos defendemos y tampoco les gusta, nuestra defensa es “genocidio”. Igual preferimos su repudio que sus condolencias.
8) Somos una raza inferior, pero tenemos una inteligencia superior que controla bancos, universidades, gobiernos y medios. La cosa se pone cada vez más esquizofrénica.
10) Si conservamos nuestras costumbres, no nos integramos. Si nos integramos es que queremos infiltrarnos. Si somos pobres, somos una carga. Si prosperamos, seguro en algo los estamos cagando.
11) Israel es un país insignificante que no debería existir y, simultáneamente, el centro de todos los acontecimientos del planeta. No existe ningún otro conflicto, ninguna guerra ni desplazamientos, ninguna “limpieza étnica” en ningún lado que requiera su amable atención. Hagamos lo que hagamos ahí van a estar puteándonos, por acción u omisión o por lo que sea.
12) Decídanse, muchachos. No pueden atribuirnos todos los males del mundo y encima exigirnos que les ordenemos el delirio. Eso sí, saquen turno con el psiquiatra. Aunque no creo que se sientan cómodos: seguramente también va a ser judío.
Elon Volo 🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️ retweeted
Patrick was one of those icons who we somehow all took for granted would always be with us.
I grew up as a fan, and was later gifted the privilege of becoming a colleague and friend, working with him for many years on “American Dad!”, “Family Guy”, and “Ted”. He was that rare actor who could take any bit of dialogue and elevate it, making a good writer sound great, and a great writer sound masterful. He was also as humble as they come. I remember exchanging emails with him a number of years ago when he was beginning day 1 of a new film. He commented to me that he always walked onto a new set feeling like the biggest novice there. My stunned reaction was the same as anyone’s would be. I said, “Patrick, if you feel that way, the rest of us are screwed.” We have lost a legendary actor today, and for many of us, a good friend. He will be deeply missed by the entire planet.
What is it about the field of ufology that brings out the worst in people? I’ve never seen any other nerdy hobby interest group destroy each other this much
India is the land of the Hindu’s. So why does @mehdirhasan have a non-indigenous Arabic surname?
Elon Volo 🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️ retweeted
A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."
He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.
Elon Volo 🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️ retweeted
Jews are indigenous to Israel.
Zionism is a successful land-back movement of an indigenous people.
Israel was decolonized in 1948 when Jews restored sovereignty over their ancestral homeland after 2,000 years of colonization and ethnic cleansing by foreign empires.
Elon Volo 🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️ retweeted
Microservices are what happens when your organization has communication problems and you decide the architecture should have them too.
Elon Volo 🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️ retweeted
I’m working on two new open-source projects that I think could change the game, but I’m afraid to post about them until they feel fully “finished” because I don’t want someone with a bigger audience to just snatch the idea and copy it with AI. Delusional or valid?
Elon Volo 🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️ retweeted
Being a senior developer in 2026 is being the person who remembers
why we don't do that, and explaining it to an AI that just did it.
Elon Volo 🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️ retweeted
MIT mathematically proved that AI will destroy the democracy.
A Nobel-winning MIT economist published a terrifying paper called "Automation and Repression"
As AI and automation replace human labor, wealth concentrates heavily in the hands of a tiny group of capital owners. Inequality skyrockets.
When inequality hits a critical mass, workers realize they are being crushed and the threat of a popular revolt spikes.
Faced with that threat, the ruling elite are forced to make a choice.
They can redistribute the wealth through taxes, or they can use force to keep people down.
The paper mathematically proves a dark reality: there is a direct, inescapable link between automation and political repression.
The more capital accumulates through AI, the more the elite prefer repression over redistribution.
Why? Because sharing the wealth cuts into their power. Funding a police state protects it.
It gets worse.
The authors modeled what happens when an economy starts inside a clean, stable democracy.
As automation advances and capital concentrates at the top, the math shows that the elite eventually find democracy to be a liability.
They stop supporting democratic systems. They back a coup. They install a repressive system just to protect their automated wealth.
Nobody is voting to end democracy.
The technology’s economic incentives just make authoritarian control the logical next step for survival.
