dad • head of engineering at half byte • previously @meta, @twitter & @google • into bouldering, drumming & acquiring skills • hecho en México

Joined May 2008
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my favorite mixed reality use cases are the ones that augment your capabilities via digital superpowers... i can't draw, but drop me in @PencilXR and i can create a complex 3D character! #DrawnWithPencil
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Bad Bunny closed out his #SuperBowl  Halftime Show performance with a sign behind him saying: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”
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Bad Bunny’s #SuperBowl halftime show.
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SEGUIMOS AQUÍ 🫂
ALL THE LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES BEING MENTIONED BY BAD BUNNY IN THE HALFTIME SHOW. #SuperBowl
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Thank you @sanbenito for taking the California stage and using your voice at #SuperBowl LX. A beautiful moment! Together, we are America.
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Hundreds of protesters took to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach on Saturday to create a piece of human art in response to recent fatal shootings by immigration agents in Minneapolis. 📸: Stephen Lam
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TODAY: Over 100,000 people in San Francisco took the streets against ICE today as part of the nationwide shutdown, flooding Mission Dolores Park in the Mission District, a historic Latino neighborhood. Over 100 businesses in the Bay Area shut down for the day, and the shutdown was called by union leaders, students, and faith leaders.
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In times like these, we must choose words carefully. So with the arrest of reporter Don Lemon, I'll be thoughtful about what I say next. Trump is clearly abusing power to punish dissent and silence reporters. And the only right word I can find to describe it is: FASCIST.
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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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No new funding. Kristi Noem must RESIGN. Greg Bovino must be FIRED. Suspend the LAWLESS mass deportation raids nationwide NOW — ICE is no longer just deporting dangerous criminals. Send the border patrol back to the border. End the militarization of ICE the sick racial profiling. End the perverse cash incentives that are bounties to perpetrate Trump’s cruel agenda. Require thorough, real background checks for everyone, and 2 years of training before even setting foot in the field. INVESTIGATE and PROSECUTE every single federal agent who is breaking the law.
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You can’t detain a 5 year old child. If a masked man grabs a kid off the street and puts him in an unmarked car… that’s kidnapping. If that child is then sent to another state? That’s trafficking. Language matters here. What happened to Liam Ramos should outrage us all.
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Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @StarTribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face. Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud.
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Replying to @SpaceX
@SpaceX Crew-11 coming in hot with a plasma wake. Viewed from Berkeley shores with SF in the background.
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View from Danville, CA of @SpaceX #Crew11 Dragon with plasma trail as seen from the eastern San Francisco Bay Area while en route to splashdown off the SoCal coast 1/15/2026 @nbcbayarea
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30 second exposure of Dragon reentering over Los Angeles tonight, shot from Mt. Wilson. We just heard the sonic booms too!
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just saw the Dragon capsule dramatically streak across the whole SF southern sky as it made atmospheric reentry, while i listened to the broadcast explain it... quite beautiful and surreal! x.com/i/broadcasts/1BRJjgBvN…

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So if you're in California, the reentry of Crew 11's dragon spacecraft should be visible just after 12:30am tonight, look west and it'll appear as a bright, slow moving meteor. If you're in SoCal you might even hear the sonic boom.
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19 Dec 2025
did a project w meta quest 3 where i scanned my studio. its pretty rad, you can walk around a look at stuff and get close. i spefically did not clean the place before we scanned it. works on your phone and on the headset - horizon.meta.com/world/25324…
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Did you guys know we’re going to the moon in a few months? Like Artemis II is actually happening, not some theoretical plan with hardware that still needs to be developed. The rocket is built and waiting to take the crew to the moon. First time since 1972. This is a big deal!
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20 Nov 2025
Hyperscape social is here on Quest 3! I invited Jdun over to my back deck to chat and I visited his studio. It's insane how amazing this is already. Full video out on the channel with more.
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