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Kevin Doyon
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#programming in Toronto. Recently switched to #Linux. #gamer #tech #csharp #SQL #TypeScript

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barackobama.bsky.social
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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metr.org
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.

She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.

But the FDA recently denied its approval.

Now, her health hangs in the balance.

Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
Wait... is this the best meme ever made?
June 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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weratedogs.com
We only rate dogs. This is Chewbacca having a spa day. He's trying to relax. Please give him some privacy. 13/10
June 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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crockett.house.gov
We’re in the DOGE Subcommittee hearing, but where’s Elon? Is the “oversight” in the room with us?

Republicans wanted to talk about NGOs and Stacey Abrams. But, Trump’s out here slapping a for sale sign on the White House lawn—and y’all wanna play games?
June 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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justinrmatheson.com
Happy Pride Month!

Did you know that 2SLGBTQ+ people have higher rates of cannabis use than cis, straight people?

Bisexual women appear to have the highest rates

Read more in this fantastic review from Christina Dyar: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A Review of Disparities in Cannabis Use and Cannabis Use Disorder Affecting Sexual and Gender Minority Populations and Evidence for Contributing Factors - Current Addiction Reports
Purpose of Review Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) appear to be at elevated risk for cannabis use (CU) and cannabis use disorder (CUD) compared to cisgender heterosexuals. However, risk factors rema...
link.springer.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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keithedwards.bsky.social
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
May 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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jonathanslater.bsky.social
The best video I’ve seen today
May 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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chimeracoder.bsky.social
UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money.

This is murder.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cost-cutting tactics The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative. Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients. The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays. Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
Months later I finally got around to watching all of @freya.bsky.social's video on Generative AI. It puts a lot of what has irked me so much about the tech into words that I hadn't been able to put together. Particularly eye-opening to me was the view of it all being "fundamentally deceptive" (1/4)
freya.bsky.social Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · Jan 2
live in about 10 hours from now - subscribe/mark your calendars/tell your friends/share etc. c:

Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opB...
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
YouTube video by Freya Holmér
www.youtube.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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kirillosenkov.com
I don't tweet enough about how amazing the Ultra profiler is:

github.com/xoofx/ultra
Screenshot of a .NET application (MSBuild) profile open in Firefox profiler flame graph. You can see managed frames, native frames, GC, allocations and even time in Kernel.
May 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s what’s buried inside:
May 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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pileofgarbage.net
Last year the Japanese variety show Gaki no Tsukai had the famous singer Yoko Takahashi go undercover at a restaurant where she fooled everyone right up until she took the stage and belted out A Cruel Angel's Thesis, the intro song to Neon Genesis Evangelion. Just stunning.
May 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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kirillosenkov.com
New feature in MSBuild Structured Log Viewer: Target Graph!

It parses the preprocessed XML and constructs the target graph where edges are BeforeTargets, DependsOnTargets and AfterTargets.
Screenshot of binlog viewer search query $target CoreCompile project, the result tree includes folders: Graph, DependsOnTargets, Targets that run before CoreCompile, targets that run after CoreCompile and targets that depend on CoreCompile
May 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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justinrmatheson.com
Thrilled to share a new article! We found a decline in the male-to-female ratio of lifetime cannabis use prevalence among adults in Ontario, (maybe in adults aged 30 or older only?)

Huge thanks to my co-authors @camhnews.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Changes in the Sex/Gender Gap in Cannabis Use in Ontario, Canada From 2001 to 2019
Introduction Although cannabis use has been historically higher in men than women, some research suggests a narrowing of the sex/gender gap in recent decades. We characterised trends in cannabis use...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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erikrobson.net
I don't like to brag, but
"Expected 5-7 arguments, but got 4. ts(2554)"
April 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Congrats if you made it to the end of this thread.

I hope you’ll read the article.

It’s a pretty bonkers story.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-d...
On DOGE, Directives, and DOJ
A new court filing reveals the most compelling evidence yet that the government has been spinning a fiction about DOGE in federal court.
www.lawfaremedia.org
April 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data The IT team met to discuss insider threats - namely, the DOGE engineers, whose activities it had little insight into or control over. "We had no idea what they did," he explained. Those conversations are reflected in his official disclosure. They eventually launched a formal breach investigation, according to the disclosure, and prepared a request for assistance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, those efforts were disrupted without an explanation, Berulis said. That was deeply troubling to Berulis, who felt he needed help to try to get to the bottom of what happened and determine what new vulnerabilities might be exploited as a result. In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISAs help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. It's unclear who sent it, but the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. Law enforcement is investigating the letter. While investigating the data taken from the agency, Berulis tried to determine its ultimate destination. But whoever had exfiltrated it had disguised its destination too, according to the disclosure. DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter. Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests. When someone uses this kind of technique, they set up a domain name that pings the target system with questions or queries. But they configure the compromised server so that it answers those DNS queries by sending out packets of data, allowing the attacker to steal information that has been broken down into smaller chunks. "We've seen Russian threat actors do things like this on U.S. government systems," said one threat intelligence researcher who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly by their employer. That analyst, who has extensive experience hunting nation-state-sponsored hackers, reviewed the whistleblower's technical claims. Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts - and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained. On their own, a few failed login attempts from a Russian IP address aren't a smoking gun, those cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said. But given the overall picture of activity, it's a concerning sign that foreign adversaries may already be searching for ways into government systems that DOGE engineers may have left exposed. "When you move fast and break stuff, the opportunity to ride the coattails of authorized access is ridiculously easy to achieve," said Handorf. What he means is that if DOGE engineers left access points to the network open, it would be very easy for spies or criminals to break in and steal data behind DOGE. He said he could also see foreign adversaries trying to recruit or pay DOGE team members for access to sensitive data. "It would not surprise me if DOGE is accidentally compromised."
April 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
Emergency video: it’s time to start making plans. Either the house steps up to defend the constitution, or our generation does.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...
Emergency Video; April 14, 2025
Hey everyone.
adamkinzinger.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.”

This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent.

He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.
April 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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odedrechavi.bsky.social
How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech
April 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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dylanbeatt.ie
When I set out to capture everything I knew about sending email using .NET in a video course, I thought it would take a few weeks.

It took six months... but it's finally done. Everything from SMTP & DNS, to using MJML with Razor, to sending production email at scale:

dometrain.com/course/from-...
From Zero to Hero: Sending Email with .NET
Learn everything you need to know to send production-grade emails in .NET
dometrain.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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scotlady19.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM