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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Jul 17, 2026

If billionaires are so worried about a wealth tax, why can't they just get a second job?

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · May 16, 2026

There is a special place in hell for infrastructure engineers who configure their website with the most infuriating Cloudflare settings imaginable for a regular user, simply because their employer's backend engineers can't write scalable code. Medium, I am looking at you.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · May 13, 2026

Dear Illinois (or anyone in any state): if your health insurance denies you coverage in stupid ways (it is rather common), be sure to file a complaint with your state's department of insurance (or whatever they call it). In Illinois it is here:

https://idoi.illinois.gov/consumers/file-a-complaint.html

These mofos get away with too much. The state should know more of their abuses.

idoi.illinois.gov

How to File to a Complaint

Complaint Process - click here to file a complaint online or submit the forms below

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026

Three statisticians go duck hunting. They spot a duck flying overhead where the first statistician shoots one meter too far left and the second shoots one meter too far right. The third statistician leaps for joy exclaiming, "we got it!"

Despite the average error being zero, there was no duck for dinner. #stats

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026

These data center companies are leeches on society:
"A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed (and unbilled) — until residents complained about low water pressure"
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

POLITICO

A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pr

Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · May 11, 2026

I didn't know a president could increase the size of your car's gas tank. I used to only be able to pump $27 worth of gas in my car under Biden. Now I can pump $49 worth of gas in. Amazing.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

I updated my website and added a /now page which basically is written as if I am filling in an old friend I haven't spoken to in a year what I am doing now: https://www.susanpotter.net/now/

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

Replying to @LieschenrelleuM@kolektiva.social

@LieschenrelleuM@kolektiva.social @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net maybe you shouldn't install Claude Desktop which does the spyware install or use an OS that separates app spaces so installing spyware for a browser isn't possible from outside the browser... Is the implication that fixing 80% of the problem is worse than using Chrome or Edge? Wild "logic".

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

OpenAI is just copying Anthropic now and it's frontier models are mostly inferior too.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/07/openai-chatgpt-cyber-ai-model-00910704

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026

LOL. So much winning... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/business/economy/trump-global-tariff-ruled-illegal.html

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026

Iranian State Media! Sometimes bad people say the truth. @itsmemaudeholly@www.threads.com

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026

The wildest thing about gas prices going from $3.84 to $5.47 in just two months is that evidence was released by the DoJ that showed Donald Trump was credibly accused of child rape by someone who was 13yo at the time of the incident.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 29, 2026

All we need now is OpenAI to sponsor a new Giants ballpark in a 10 year deal...

Does anyone remember WBVN?

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 29, 2026

Can they both lose? Both are deserving of losing.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/28/sam-altman-open-ai-elon-musk-trial

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @SusanPotter@mastodon.social

Also are we sure this guy is still alive? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/donald-trump-correspondents-dinner-shooting Or are we already Weekend At Bernie's it now?

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026

I'm amazed by all these terrified media and political elites concerned for their own safety but give zero fucks for the school children of our country.

GFY.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @bkim@mastodon.social

@bkim I feel you sometimes. Optimism is rare for me. I should caution that there are so many organizations and leaders that don't get any of this yet and they may not be the majority even in the long-run, but spend time in the domains you like and find the nicer, safer spaces with less toxic leaders. This applied even before, but, in my case, I focused too long on other useless vanity things and I regret it looking back. But onwards!

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @SusanPotter@mastodon.social

I am smirking when I hear non-developers talk about how they don't need to hire a developer now. They may just have to learn the hard way all the things experienced productive developers learned along the way: the code was the easy part. Knowing what to build and how to build it to maintain, deliver, and validate it continues to be the biggest issues for non-trivial codebases.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @SusanPotter@mastodon.social

It doesn't mean you let LLMs produce shit code and just stir the pot (worst idea), it means that being able to build business systems customized to how the organization does things best is more possible than ever. Producing code was never the bottleneck. Its organization, structure, maintainability, adaptability, integratability, etc. are all paramount in this era as well as iteratively designing, developing, testing, deploying, etc.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @SusanPotter@mastodon.social

I think more than ever before we are getting to a point where mass scale software products used across businesses/organizations are less meaningful or useful. Get closer to the business wherever you build software and immerse yourself in the domain. Live it, breath it. Assuming you like it. If you don't find the domain you can appreciate.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @SusanPotter@mastodon.social

Being much closer to where the money is being made and being able to quantitatively measure almost everything is super refreshing from an internal motivation perspective. I always had issues with product feature requests that had no success criteria attached. "Sales promised this to ${BIG_CUSTOMER}." I just don't care to be doing busy work.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026

Keeping in touch with people still employed as software engineers and I am so thankful to have left that all behind. Being a quant developer is so much more rewarding, not just in terms of compensation, but also in terms of being able to work on the right things to make real progress on what I am working on.

Having been a software engineer at a high level previously I also know how to avoid dumb mistakes as a quant.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026

A: When is Pentagon Ken getting fired?
B: Who?
A: Pete Hegseth
B: Doesn't calling him Ken imply he is good looking? I don't see that.

He's not even made for TV. What is his job description even?

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 19, 2026

I often get confused for an adult because of my age.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026

If I never see another K-1 form again, it will be too soon.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Apr 11, 2026

Replying to @jherazob@mastodon.ie

@jherazob @digyoursoul indeed, contemptible.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @0x2ba22e11@unstable.systems

@0x2ba22e11 FWIW when I was a mathematics student (many moons ago), I had a "need" to build a searchable discography and tour dates website for my favorite band so I ended up learning perl 4 to build it...it was the latest version at the time. My second language was C++ which I think was a bad idea in retrospect. So, I do think focusing on the learner's "needs"/interests and matching language to that are key to getting them further down the learning pipeline.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Mar 25, 2026

LMAO. The NodeJS/NPM ecosystem is hot garbage and I don't miss it:

"Every developer or CI pipeline that installs this package and has an npm token accessible becomes an unwitting propagation vector. Their packages get infected, their downstream users install those, and if any of them have tokens, the cycle repeats."

https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/trivy-supply-chain-attack-triggers-self.html?m=1

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Mar 13, 2026

Alex Karp is an anti-Constitution treasonous fuck: https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

The New Republic

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 13, 2026

Side hustle or side hassle?

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 12, 2026

Replying to @RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net

@RosaCtrl maybe my definition of stupid is wider than yours. ;)

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 12, 2026

What a dumb fuck.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/salesforce-marc-benioff-ice-joke-employees

People ask, "how are these billionaires so stupid?" and the reality is they may not have always been stupid, but after they become ultra wealthy most opt to surround themselves with yes-people and then they inevitably become dumber over time.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 12, 2026

Replying to @SusanPotter@mastodon.social

Note that the NASDAQ-100 index hasn't made a new high since Oct/Nov. The Dow is not considered a growth engine for the economy and often catches up during growth tops. Top forming? Nobody knows but the Dow at new ATHs isn't really that positive for suggesting the economy is great.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 12, 2026

#uspol Best Pamela Jo (Bondi) testimony summary

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 11, 2026

Do not ask me how many hours I have spent trying to appease the DNS gods to do something via free accounts and workaround custom domain limits.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @SusanPotter@mastodon.social

Also that link placement to the LA Times article is hilarious and is a function of highlighting on a phone for the linking. Also I can't edit the weirdly written paragraph until I return from school drop off later now. Sigh. This is why I shouldn't reflexively do this crap.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @SusanPotter@mastodon.social

Forgive me Internet for I have sinned but I enjoyed staying warm in bed that extra 30 minutes.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 10, 2026

I have no idea what possessed me to write an article on LinkedIn on my phone screen while laying in bed reading about Greg Brown's death instead of getting up to my laptop to write a markdown document and commit/push in git to publish to my blog but I did...

The Distance
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/distance-susan-potter-j6nxc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&utm_campaign=share_via

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 10, 2026

>>> In a statement, Lai’s son, Sebastien, said the “draconian” prison term was devastating for his family and life-threatening for his father. “It signifies the total destruction of the Hong Kong legal system and the end of justice,” he said.
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https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-sentencing-apple-daily-1c3baaedf2abe7710f149c55ce4111d9

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 09, 2026

The amount of hate and contempt shown to JD Vance at the Winter Olympics is totally unacceptable.

I know everyone can do better. MORE!

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Feb 09, 2026

Pro tip: Don't fight the last war.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Jan 27, 2026

Replying to @antifarben@mastodon.social

@antifarben @ricci sadly, I can't create a Jira and the people who can (Congress) are fucking AWOL.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Jan 27, 2026

Replying to @antifarben@mastodon.social

@antifarben @ricci I think we need to shut down, open up the case and replace the defect parts.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Nov 11, 2024

Replying to @TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social

@TarkabarkaHolgy this is why I recently had to part ways with someone who demanded I have the same energy for all her issues as issues closest to my heart. Even after explaining I was reserving my productive energies for my own causes, she couldn't accept that my progressive priorities were different.

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Jan 25, 2023

Replying to @richservo@masto.ai

@richservo@masto.ai @rbreich@masto.ai ahhh, I thought you were doing a whataboutism on the "culture wars".

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Susan Potter @SusanPotter@mastodon.social · Jan 25, 2023

Replying to @richservo@masto.ai

@richservo@masto.ai @rbreich@masto.ai fact check: gas ranges have not been banned.

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