Ben Tucker

@btucker.net

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Former engineering leader exploring the future of software. Based in Chicago. Opinions my own.

Cursor employees sit in front of shelves with various objects introducing Cursor 3

svg of a pelican riding a bicycle on a white background

Painting saying
STOP COMRADE TRAITOR TRUMP

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Chart showing an earlier spike in buying before the public announcement of the Tariffs being put on hold

Political cartoon from 1921: “high tariff tonic cures all the ills of man or beast”

Tweet: “I'm pretty sure Cory Booker will be POTUS within the next decade.”

Google Employees in front of "AI Shelving"

In February 2025, the veteran unemployment rate was 4.0%, up from 3.8% the previous month and up from 2.8% the prior year.
Also in February 2025, the comparable non-veteran
unemployment rate was 4.0%, up from 3.9% the previous month and up from 3.8% the prior year.

Can someone explain why America is in El Salvador?
What do their prisons have to do with America?
Edit:
Whoa, whoa... okay I get it: corruption, slavery, concentration camps outside the US, imprisonment without due process, that guys package in the background.... if I forgot something, sorry
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No-Falcon-4996 • 1d
Less regulations and oversight that American prisons would have. US can more easily disappear people in El Salvador. No pesky
"human rights",
", lawyers, and constitution to
adhere to
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Cutegun • 1d
Are they paying the El Salvadoran government to take these people?
...

Original GPT-4o generated raster image of a pelican on a bicycle

Tweet showing Teslas on display at the white house with commentary from the CEO of Shopify saying “I enjoy this. Nature is healing.”

$import platform, os, sys, socket def system_info(): print(f"System: {platform.system()}") print(f"Node Name: {platform.node()}") print(f"Release: {platform.release()}") print(f"Version: {platform.version()}") print(f"Machine: {platform.machine()}") print(f"Processor: {platform.processor()}") def python_info(): print(f"Python Version: {platform.python_version()}") print(f"Python Implementation: {platform.python_implementation()}") print(f"Python Compiler: {platform.python_compiler()}") print(f"Python Build: {platform.python_build()}") def environment_info(): print(f"Platform: {sys.platform}") print(f"File System Encoding: {sys.getfilesystemencoding()}") print(f"Current Working Directory: {os.getcwd()}") print(f"User Home Directory: {os.path.expanduser('~')}") print(f"Environment Variables: {os.environ}") if __name__ == "__main__": print("System Information:") system_info() print("\nPython Information:") python_info() print("\nEnvironment Information:") environment_info() ---- System Information: System: Linux Node Name: localhost Release: 4.4.0 Version: #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 15:06:54 PST 2016 Machine: x86_64 Processor: Python Information: Python Version: 3.11.8 Python Implementation: CPython Python Compiler: Clang 9999.0.0 (c0192a008c4a2b8afdc2b63526c0483632d81c07) Python Build: ('stable', 'redacted redacted') Environment Information: Platform: linux File System Encoding: utf-8 Current Working Directory: /home/bard User Home Directory: ~ Environment Variables: environ({'MPLCONFIGDIR': '/tmp/matplotlib_config_dir'})$