Brutkey

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange
Black cat, mostly under a bedside table, front paws and head poking out, staring at the camera. 6972ebc6682c2a8d.jpeg One more step to make a bigger impact! Sharing your purchase is the final step to maximizing your impact. Help spread the word and let others join this amazing cause — it only takes a second! Share on social: - Facebook - Instagram - Linktree - LinkedIn - X - Threads Send a link: - Messenger - WhatsApp - Discord - Copy link - QR Code - Share Done e8fde4c67122d783.png late 2025 mid-tier PC mini-ITX spec build, pink case (Veetro M06), white components -- AMD 7800X3D, GeForce RTX 5070, 32gb Crucial DDR5, Corsair 750w PSU, Gigabyte X780I pro mobo 4f93a797b0ab15ee.jpg Stack Overflow: “You’re absolutely wrong.” ChatGPT: “You’re absolutely right.” (Add “well, actually…” to the first sentence for additional hilarity to taste.) dea18f09606851bc.jpeg 5772466c08ed4fd6.mp4 Keith Rabois, public statement on what-used-to-be-Twitter: "Nobody is going to be using the web soon", November 29th, 2013. 1c63bbd33a15805f.png inner cover of the book "Accidental Empires" by Robert X. Cringely, signed "To Ozzie, who already knows this stuff! All the best! Bob Cringely 11-'92" db56edb3932d9fa5.png A guide for crossover in principles, presented as a 4x4 grid with Gun, Cat, Razor, Law at the top and Checkov's, Schrodinger's, Occam's, Murphy's on the left. 989c7acabbd5dff5.png "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats" -- Howard Aiken, Computer Engineer, via IEEE 51becef3d7eb43a5.png For the wealthy and powerful who want to change the world, Bill Gates has long been a North Star. His Gates Foundation and his efforts to spread the gospel behind the Giving Pledge—a vow taken by more than 240 billionaires to donate their entire fortunes—have defined much of modern philanthropy for the past quarter century. In those efforts, Gates pushed his peers to not only give more but give smarter. And with one fateful new action this week—his decision to close the Gates Foundation in 2045, much sooner than expected—Gates has become something else: the resistance to President Donald Trump. Or at least he’s offering a model for how a smart resistance might assemble. Between now and 2045, the Gates Foundation will dispense its entire endowment and much of Gates’ personal fortune, spending well over $100 billion. This spending will intensify his philanthropy in the coming years as the foundation’s investment horizon shifts from decades into the future to a faster-approaching one (at least in philanthropic terms). a70b93db0aed9a0b.png Gates is partly making the change to spend more on health initiatives at a time when AI and biotech could vastly change medicine. There’s another obvious reason: It’s an obvious indictment of Trump and the person who has been Trump’s left-hand man, Elon Musk. The recent Musk-led cuts to U.S. foreign aid amount to murder, Gates said in an interview with The New York Times about the foundation’s future. And, no, I’m not grossly misparaphrasing him, who told the Times this: “The world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children.” To combat Trump, Gates might’ve just cut the Democrats a big fat check. But political giving has never been his style, and why change now? The party is in clear disarray. Yet he is very much combating Trump in his decision to spend so much more in the coming years—doling out the funds directly to the on-the-ground efforts that matter most to him and to fill holes in support created by Trump. The billionaires who also want to fight against Trump might try Gates’ approach rather than entrusting their money to rudderless politicians. f802e39eab5838a2.png