Ben Haines
@bhaines0.bsky.social
Tech @HashiCorp
Fmr CIO @ http://Yahoo.com http://Box.com http://pabstblueribbon.com Tech Investor 🇦🇺 🚲 #EDM #Jazz
Fmr CIO @ http://Yahoo.com http://Box.com http://pabstblueribbon.com Tech Investor 🇦🇺 🚲 #EDM #Jazz
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My latest: rest in peace, George Foreman... open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...
Saturday Diary: a rumble in the jungle
George Foreman, a great man, is dead and gone.
open.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My latest: rest in peace, George Foreman... open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...
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From far and wide, people love these signs
Southwestern Ontario town's signs send clear Donald Trump message
Frustration and anger over Donald Trump’s trade war against Canada is boiling over and has taken on a somewhat comedic tone in Strathroy
lfpress.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
From far and wide, people love these signs
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4/ Full Backstory: www.theregister.com/2025/03/17/c...
Celonis sues SAP, claiming it's gatekeeping customer data
: Process mining specialist accuses the ERP giant of rigging game with fees, restrictions, and a closed ecosystem
www.theregister.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
4/ Full Backstory: www.theregister.com/2025/03/17/c...
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Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.
March 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.
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OK, gonna throw this spicy bomb out there.
If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it.
Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.
If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it.
Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.
March 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
OK, gonna throw this spicy bomb out there.
If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it.
Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.
If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it.
Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.
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The Pentagon erased Maj. Gen. Charles Rogers, a Black Medal of Honor recipient, from its site—then slipped “DEI” into the URL like a smear. This isn’t just gutting diversity programs—it’s deleting history. Trump’s war on DEI is now a war on who gets remembered. Who’s next?
March 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Pentagon erased Maj. Gen. Charles Rogers, a Black Medal of Honor recipient, from its site—then slipped “DEI” into the URL like a smear. This isn’t just gutting diversity programs—it’s deleting history. Trump’s war on DEI is now a war on who gets remembered. Who’s next?
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These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
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The best part of this tiny red bathmat is it ends in a puddle.
March 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The best part of this tiny red bathmat is it ends in a puddle.
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These were seen in London.
London fucking ROCKS!💪
London fucking ROCKS!💪
March 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
These were seen in London.
London fucking ROCKS!💪
London fucking ROCKS!💪
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1/ The hot new topic in Gen AI right now is Model Context Protocol (MCP).
How to connect AI to the world? MCP is a semantic, self-describing interface giving AI dynamic access to enterprise data + functions.
A sort of ODBC for AI. A Rosseta Stone.
I'll break it down. 👇🧵
How to connect AI to the world? MCP is a semantic, self-describing interface giving AI dynamic access to enterprise data + functions.
A sort of ODBC for AI. A Rosseta Stone.
I'll break it down. 👇🧵
March 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
1/ The hot new topic in Gen AI right now is Model Context Protocol (MCP).
How to connect AI to the world? MCP is a semantic, self-describing interface giving AI dynamic access to enterprise data + functions.
A sort of ODBC for AI. A Rosseta Stone.
I'll break it down. 👇🧵
How to connect AI to the world? MCP is a semantic, self-describing interface giving AI dynamic access to enterprise data + functions.
A sort of ODBC for AI. A Rosseta Stone.
I'll break it down. 👇🧵
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the stock market is crashing so hard today it resembles a SpaceX rocket
March 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
the stock market is crashing so hard today it resembles a SpaceX rocket
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Sounds like Trump’s team spent a lot of the day trying to placate panicked GOP members of Congress.
Republicans are freaking out about the market, a potential recession, and midterms.
Ray Charles could have seen this coming.
Republicans are freaking out about the market, a potential recession, and midterms.
Ray Charles could have seen this coming.
March 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Sounds like Trump’s team spent a lot of the day trying to placate panicked GOP members of Congress.
Republicans are freaking out about the market, a potential recession, and midterms.
Ray Charles could have seen this coming.
Republicans are freaking out about the market, a potential recession, and midterms.
Ray Charles could have seen this coming.
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Bluesky watching the shitshow on twitter.
March 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Bluesky watching the shitshow on twitter.
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Nothing screams HYPOCRITE quite like Trump complaining about & gutting school loan forgiveness for grads dedicated to service & bettering our communities while he’s had HUNDREDS of MILLIONS in debt forgiven due bankruptcy 6 times.
tinyurl.com/r6nkkz3j
tinyurl.com/r6nkkz3j
Report: Trump Had Over $280 Million In Debt Forgiven And Avoided Paying Taxes On Most Of It
The debt largely came from his Chicago tower.
tinyurl.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Nothing screams HYPOCRITE quite like Trump complaining about & gutting school loan forgiveness for grads dedicated to service & bettering our communities while he’s had HUNDREDS of MILLIONS in debt forgiven due bankruptcy 6 times.
tinyurl.com/r6nkkz3j
tinyurl.com/r6nkkz3j
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Happy #internationalwomensday !!! Don't let the patriarchy get you down. We outchea!
March 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Happy #internationalwomensday !!! Don't let the patriarchy get you down. We outchea!
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A while back I was helping examine the security of the Starlink terminal and found a very obvious bug in the bootloader that was only unexploitable due to the memory layout of the terminal. Critical infrastructure shouldn't depend on Starlink without a shitload of auditing.
March 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A while back I was helping examine the security of the Starlink terminal and found a very obvious bug in the bootloader that was only unexploitable due to the memory layout of the terminal. Critical infrastructure shouldn't depend on Starlink without a shitload of auditing.
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I've now included 25 debunkings of DOGE bullshit in my collection (I'm puzzling over several other fact checks of Trump's false claims from last, including but limited to DOGE ones).
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
DOGE Debunking - emptywheel
Running Xitter threads from Momentum Chaser January 30: Fact Check: No evidence US spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza January 30: FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million was designated by the US t...
www.emptywheel.net
March 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I've now included 25 debunkings of DOGE bullshit in my collection (I'm puzzling over several other fact checks of Trump's false claims from last, including but limited to DOGE ones).
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...
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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 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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.