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Karl Matthias 🇺🇦<p>Here&#39;s my entry for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/introductions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>introductions</span></a>:</p><p>I&#39;m a software engineer with a few decades of experience in infrastructure, software engineering, and system architecture. I&#39;m co-author of &quot;Docker: Up and Running&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media. <a href="https://goo.gl/u3T6Lr" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">goo.gl/u3T6Lr</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>I&#39;m a long-time cyclist, an analogue/film photographer, an electronics hobbyist, and a ham radio operator.</p><p>I&#39;m based in Ireland, and am a naturalized Irish citizen, but American by birth. I&#39;ve lived in Europe (Germany, UK, Ireland) for about 10 years</p>
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Karl Matthias 🇺🇦<p>These idiots are so shockingly ignorant and out of their depth.</p><p>The most senior US government officials discussed detailed war plans on Signal. Bad enough. They accidentally included the editor of The Atlantic on the chat. 😱</p><p><a href="https://apple.news/AwIYUvPpwS_2SEfPEu6PFpQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apple.news/AwIYUvPpwS_2SEfPEu6</span><span class="invisible">PFpQ</span></a></p>
Karl Matthias 🇺🇦<p>German man with green card ‘violently interrogated’ by US border officials</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/germany-investigates-after-national-with-green-card-arrested-at-us-border?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/18/germany-investigates-after-national-with-green-card-arrested-at-us-border?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Karl Matthias 🇺🇦<p>There has been so much evidence for quite awhile that the Covid pandemic came from the Wuhan lab. If you don’t believe it, read this piece, and then look at what Congress found in their investigation, too.</p><p>But let’s be finally honest about it and put in place all the controls to keep this from happening again.</p>
Karl Matthias 🇺🇦<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Karl Matthias 🇺🇦<p>This us the first NY Times article I’ve read that dealt appropriately with Trump’s dishonest, bad faith statements.</p>
Karl Matthias 🇺🇦<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/autopen-pardons-biden-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/auto</span><span class="invisible">pen-pardons-biden-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
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Karl Matthias 🇺🇦<p>If your product is wrapped in plastic and your competitor’s product is wrapped in paper or cardboard, I’m buying your competitor’s product.</p>
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Karl Matthias 🇺🇦<p>The US is rapidly becoming unsafe to visit as a tourist. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/world/europe/german-tourists-detained-deported.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/13/world/e</span><span class="invisible">urope/german-tourists-detained-deported.html</span></a></p>
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