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[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant.

- No VC funding.
- No viral launch.
- No TED talk.
- Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve.

He built a language that fit in kilobytes.

50 years later, it runs everything.

Linux kernel. Windows. macOS.

Every iPhone. Every Android.

NASA’s deep space probes.

The International Space Station.

> Python borrowed from it.
> Java borrowed from it.
> JavaScript borrowed from it.

If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow.

He died in 2011.
The same week as Steve Jobs.
Jobs got the front pages.
Ritchie got silence.

This Legend deserves to be celebrated.

[windshield time @windshieldtime]

@cgtwts what is remission rate ?

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

If you spent $1 million per day since Jesus was born you wouldn’t even have spent $1 trillion.

The U.S. national debt is $38 trillion.

[windshield time @windshieldtime]

a new beginning 😍

[Handre @Handre]

In 1910, six men representing a quarter of the world's wealth met in a private railroad car bound for Jekyll Island. Their mission? Draft the legislation that would become the Federal Reserve Act—the greatest banking cartel in human history, sold to the public as "reform."

And they did it all in secret, using fake names, because they knew damn well that Americans would never voluntarily surrender monetary sovereignty to a private banking syndicate.

But here we are, 113 years later, watching these same banking families print trillions while your purchasing power gets obliterated. The Jekyll Island conspiracy wasn't theory—it was the business plan.

[atulit @atulit_gaur]

dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic.

and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic.

humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.

[windshield time @windshieldtime]

@KangusB2 @profstonge THE WORDS. THE WORDS ARE SO VIOLENT. HURT SO MUCH.
🙃

[~HARV~ @tempus_fugit60]

Headline:
Dissenting opinion chastised for "vulgar language" by judges who approve of "swinging dicks" being exposed to adolescent girls.
Height of Hypocrisy

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Woke Ninth Circuit decides Korean spas have to let biological men swing their gear in front of women and children.

The dissent is pure gold:

[J∅kër Kîng 👑 @j0ker937]

No matter how bad it might seem, remember it's never too late to turn it around.

[Sahil @sahill_og]

Linus Torvalds created Linux at 21 without Claude or any other AI.

- He didn't have a co-founder.
- No VC funding. No office.
- No team.
- Just a personal project

he posted to a mailing list:

"I'm doing a free OS."

33 years later,

it runs 97% of the world's servers, all smartphones, and the International Space Station.

The most important software in history started as someone's side project.

Absolute legend.

[windshield time @windshieldtime]

@GovBobFerguson @future42org i don’t want be a tax slave in a tax farm

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

🎯🎯

[Heavy Pulp @heavypulp]

The Internet Is Gonna End Us (But it's okay!)

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 This might be the most important thing a CEO has said this year and nobody's going to take it seriously because of who said it.

This is the same Alex Karp whose company builds spy tools for the CIA, just partnered with Nvidia to build an "AI operating system," and is still quietly using Claude despite the Pentagon blacklisting Anthropic.

And he's right. Here's why nobody wants to admit it.

> AI is about to automate every predictable, linear, "follow the process" job on earth. The people who think in straight lines - do task A, then B, then C - are the easiest to replace. Because that's exactly how AI thinks.

> The people who can't be automated are the ones who think sideways. The ones who see patterns nobody else sees. The ones whose brains jump from A to Z and somehow land on something brilliant. The ones every school system tried to medicate into compliance.

> ADHD, autism, dyslexia.. every condition that made you "difficult" in a system designed for linear thinkers is about to become the only competitive advantage that AI can't replicate.

The corporate world spent 50 years optimizing for people who follow instructions. AI follows instructions better than all of them. Now what?

The misfits aren't the liability anymore. They're the last thing the machines can't copy.

[Beth Dutton @1BethDutton]

I never thought I'd miss Jay Inslee.

[windshield time @windshieldtime]

@GovBobFerguson maybe not the worst policies, but probably the worst

[Vijay @VijayInWA]

There is massive unseen economic damage done to Washington: all the talent that no longer wants to come here because the Democrats have made Washington one of the most highly taxed states in the nation, all in the space of four years and done unconstitutionally. Shameful.

[F. A. Hayek Quotes @FAHayekSays]

Hayek: “Any redistributive policy requires a discriminating treatment of different people.”

“Once government is entitled to take from some people in order to give to others, this is discrimination of a kind for which they can be no general rule. They are purely arbitrary.”

[windshield time @windshieldtime]

@1BethDutton legal theft ain’t cool