Scott Grabo
scottgrabo.bsky.social
Scott Grabo
@scottgrabo.bsky.social
Father, technologist, early member of #TeamPete. Twitter refugee. RCV advocate. #FTTB
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Every day, I make new hot coffee and pour it over the old cold coffee to achieve an immediately drinkable temperature.
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I want politics to be about a better everyday life.

Here's what that can look like:
April 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Wait, YOU VOTED FOR HIM? Thinking he'd make things better? As an immigrant?

I guess all that education didn't take.
April 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Anybody else getting "freedom fries" vibes?
March 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Let's get to work.
I care deeply about who Michigan will elect as Governor and send to the U.S. Senate next year, but I have decided against competing in either race.

I wrote more here about my decision and how I view the work required of us all in this moment:
I'm Not Running in 2026, But I Am Getting to Work
We all have work to do in delivering a better kind of politics for America.
substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
How is it possible that Hasan manages to make Crenshaw sympathetic? Sometimes shouting somebody down is, I dunno...not the best approach.

I wanted to hear Crenshaw's justification, and THEN refute it.
"Let me say it slowly... you say he broke the law. The White House says he didn't. Check with the White House on talking points before you come on TV."

I explained to GOP Congressman Dan Crenshaw why he's wrong about the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.

Full debate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbDh...
March 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I believe the Retro Encabulator represents the zenith of American technical leadership, only surpassed at the margins by Rockwell Automation's later enhancement adding the half-gap binder to the jamwheel bypass.
youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w?...
Rockwell Retro Encabulator
YouTube video by rlcarnes
youtu.be
March 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This really isn't that complicated.

Step 1: double prices
Step 2: bring prices back to normal
Step 3: claim success!

Narrator: step 2 proved to be harder than step 1
March 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It's almost like Trump is going out of his way to remind other democracies of what's at stake, and what's possible when you behave rationally.

#LawOfUnintendedConsequences
Posted by @ianbremmer.com on another platform:

“Mexico president Sheinbaum with 85% approval, strongest leader of a major democracy. Hell of a turnout in Mexico City today.”
March 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I've been an active investor in the market for decades. This pattern seems pretty new:

Market tanks on open
Regains almost all losses
Repeats the next day

Over and over again. Seems maybe like somebody forcing a dip then buying on it?
March 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
1000% this
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The find out part
March 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sounds like it's time for Aiyuk to demand a renegotiation of last year's contract based on his OUTSTANDING contributions. 🙄
The Rams have extended WR Tutu Atwell to a one-year, $10 million deal, per source.
March 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
March 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
March 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Yep, it’s hard to disagree with this.
March 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
March 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Amen, brother.

UI, UX, interoperability...all just window dressing on fundamentals of data quality and integrity.
Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.
March 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This doesn't seem complicated.

Democrats should
* Boycott the SOTU
* Hold the response on the Capitol steps with every D member of the House and Senate
* Have several speakers, including the obvious ones - and a governor or two
March 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
March 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
How oligarchy takes hold (a very brief thread).

In 2018 Michael Lewis (the same guy who wrote Moneyball and The Big Short) wrote The Fifth Risk. As with his other books, this was a well-researched narrative.

One illustration in the book regarded NOAA, and how it was lead under Trump I.
(1/6)
March 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
FAFO
If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting.

The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense
March 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This, 1000 times this.

Pass laws that empower state government to manage the distribution of withholdings.

Make a commitment to make whole any shortfall stemming from the federal government illegally withholding money earmarked for the state.

This is the way.
February 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Having a VW in 1932? Cool.

Having a VW in 1942? Not cool.
February 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I've told my sons if you want to make your woman happy, just tell her those three little words that mean everything:

I. Was. Wrong.
Three hardest things
for a man to say:

1: I need help
2: I was wrong
3: Worcestershire Sauce
February 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM