Sean
@mrzaius.bsky.social
Well traveled fed, working on cyber and IT in house and burning spare time burning rubber on ebikes. Private transit and bike policy interests. DC/Montgomery County MD orbit.
It's that time again - Tomorrow marks the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
DC, Maryland, Virginia peeps: rideforyourlife.org - Easy enough starting point to get to with a short ride from Metro, MetroBus, or RideOn.
Bethesda to the National Mall, ~9 miles, 10AM start.
DC, Maryland, Virginia peeps: rideforyourlife.org - Easy enough starting point to get to with a short ride from Metro, MetroBus, or RideOn.
Bethesda to the National Mall, ~9 miles, 10AM start.
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It's that time again - Tomorrow marks the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
DC, Maryland, Virginia peeps: rideforyourlife.org - Easy enough starting point to get to with a short ride from Metro, MetroBus, or RideOn.
Bethesda to the National Mall, ~9 miles, 10AM start.
DC, Maryland, Virginia peeps: rideforyourlife.org - Easy enough starting point to get to with a short ride from Metro, MetroBus, or RideOn.
Bethesda to the National Mall, ~9 miles, 10AM start.
Paging @strongtowns.org
Property tax bill: say it three times, if you dare. Repost this video and sign up to volunteer using the link in the bio to help keep this monster behind the mirror. #chicago #illinois #cookcounty #urbanism #propertytaxes #happyhalloween
October 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Paging @strongtowns.org
@element.io suggestion - trying to figure out what you are (open source-focused Discord competitor, maybe?) I clicked through to find a client and hoped the page I found would better explain it.
It didn't.
matrix.org/ecosystem/cl...
Missing piece: No basic, prominent element.io link.
It didn't.
matrix.org/ecosystem/cl...
Missing piece: No basic, prominent element.io link.
Element Web / Desktop
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
matrix.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
@element.io suggestion - trying to figure out what you are (open source-focused Discord competitor, maybe?) I clicked through to find a client and hoped the page I found would better explain it.
It didn't.
matrix.org/ecosystem/cl...
Missing piece: No basic, prominent element.io link.
It didn't.
matrix.org/ecosystem/cl...
Missing piece: No basic, prominent element.io link.
Much as I despise daylight savings time, how can anyone want it to be permanent?
Abolition is the only way. 🌞
Abolition is the only way. 🌞
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Much as I despise daylight savings time, how can anyone want it to be permanent?
Abolition is the only way. 🌞
Abolition is the only way. 🌞
Ghouls called out: stevivor.com/news/bethesd...
Bethesda announces new ways to pay for old Fallout
During its Fallout Day Broadcast, Bethesda announced new ways to pay for old games including Fallout 4 and Fallout New Vegas.
stevivor.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Ghouls called out: stevivor.com/news/bethesd...
Hey @mcdotnow.bsky.social & @mdsha.bsky.social - The concurrent/overlapping left turn off south kind Veirs with westbound University at Wheaton is dangerous and confusing.
And potentially has an easy way to mitigate it.
Can you please just post clear signage about uturn vs right turn right of way?
And potentially has an easy way to mitigate it.
Can you please just post clear signage about uturn vs right turn right of way?
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hey @mcdotnow.bsky.social & @mdsha.bsky.social - The concurrent/overlapping left turn off south kind Veirs with westbound University at Wheaton is dangerous and confusing.
And potentially has an easy way to mitigate it.
Can you please just post clear signage about uturn vs right turn right of way?
And potentially has an easy way to mitigate it.
Can you please just post clear signage about uturn vs right turn right of way?
Hey @wmata.com - Can Wheaton talk you out of a sticker on the platform?
Awkward still having to chase car 6.
Awkward still having to chase car 6.
October 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hey @wmata.com - Can Wheaton talk you out of a sticker on the platform?
Awkward still having to chase car 6.
Awkward still having to chase car 6.
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Fukuyama debunks the AI abundance myth: we can't feed or clothe all not due to a lack of smarts, but priorities and resources.
The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor.
The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor.
October 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Fukuyama debunks the AI abundance myth: we can't feed or clothe all not due to a lack of smarts, but priorities and resources.
The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor.
The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor.
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“The apocalypse is loose on Portland. A plague of giant frogs is besieging the city”.
October 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
“The apocalypse is loose on Portland. A plague of giant frogs is besieging the city”.
Hey @paulisci.bsky.social - Are students the problem? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...
Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Hey @paulisci.bsky.social - Are students the problem? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...
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at some point traffic engineers & politicians need to be held accountable
5 years before her son died there, a mother tried to make an intersection safer
5 years before teen was killed crossing the street, his mom asked for safer roads
In September 2020, Caty Anderson typed out a short email to her state representative, lamenting that a woman was hit by a car near her family’s Kensington home.
buff.ly
October 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
at some point traffic engineers & politicians need to be held accountable
Finally 📌
September 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Finally 📌
@ddotdc.bsky.social busted ped crossing light, 21st NW & E, southwest corner of the intersection approaching Main State
September 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
@ddotdc.bsky.social busted ped crossing light, 21st NW & E, southwest corner of the intersection approaching Main State
Genuine question for @arstechnica.com - Great you promote YubiKey FIDO tokens/passkeys as a gift for members, but why don't you support it to log into your service?
And if it's a Condé Nast problem, here's a subscriber to each asking why his accounts to @wired.com , @newyorker.com are separate.
And if it's a Condé Nast problem, here's a subscriber to each asking why his accounts to @wired.com , @newyorker.com are separate.
September 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Genuine question for @arstechnica.com - Great you promote YubiKey FIDO tokens/passkeys as a gift for members, but why don't you support it to log into your service?
And if it's a Condé Nast problem, here's a subscriber to each asking why his accounts to @wired.com , @newyorker.com are separate.
And if it's a Condé Nast problem, here's a subscriber to each asking why his accounts to @wired.com , @newyorker.com are separate.
@bannermoco.bsky.social - competing DC papers all have 🎁 links
Will be more tempted to continue after trial if added
Will be more tempted to continue after trial if added
September 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
@bannermoco.bsky.social - competing DC papers all have 🎁 links
Will be more tempted to continue after trial if added
Will be more tempted to continue after trial if added
Shouldn't have to be able to read Braille to get an elevator and not barked at for hitting the emergency button.
At @wmata.com Farragut North, just as bad as either end of platform.
And seriously: Just add stairs there. The escalators are always choked with people. Please!
At @wmata.com Farragut North, just as bad as either end of platform.
And seriously: Just add stairs there. The escalators are always choked with people. Please!
September 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Shouldn't have to be able to read Braille to get an elevator and not barked at for hitting the emergency button.
At @wmata.com Farragut North, just as bad as either end of platform.
And seriously: Just add stairs there. The escalators are always choked with people. Please!
At @wmata.com Farragut North, just as bad as either end of platform.
And seriously: Just add stairs there. The escalators are always choked with people. Please!
The real reason no one is selling switch to game cards- Nintendo didn't bother imposing the same performance requirements on the cartridges that they did the SD cards: www.ign.com/articles/sta...
Star Wars Outlaws Developer Defends Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Cards, Says Cartridges That Force You to Download the Game Are Better For Loading - IGN
The use of Switch 2's widely-disliked Game-Key Cards has been defended by a Ubisoft developer who worked on the Nintendo port of Star Wars Outlaws.
www.ign.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The real reason no one is selling switch to game cards- Nintendo didn't bother imposing the same performance requirements on the cartridges that they did the SD cards: www.ign.com/articles/sta...
Reposted by Sean
We’re holding our first community listening session on Tuesday, Aug. 26, at the Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza.
This is your opportunity to meet The Banner’s journalists and senior leaders. Come with your questions and story ideas!
#montgomerycountymd #localnews
This is your opportunity to meet The Banner’s journalists and senior leaders. Come with your questions and story ideas!
#montgomerycountymd #localnews
August 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
We’re holding our first community listening session on Tuesday, Aug. 26, at the Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza.
This is your opportunity to meet The Banner’s journalists and senior leaders. Come with your questions and story ideas!
#montgomerycountymd #localnews
This is your opportunity to meet The Banner’s journalists and senior leaders. Come with your questions and story ideas!
#montgomerycountymd #localnews
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no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
July 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
Reposted by Sean
Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.
From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.
I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.
July 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.
Amazing how often the identical emergency & call buttons are indiscernible from one another at @wmata.com stations.
How does responding to false alarms all day not cost you more than fixing the obvious accessibility issues with a little wayfinding elbow grease?
How does responding to false alarms all day not cost you more than fixing the obvious accessibility issues with a little wayfinding elbow grease?
July 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Amazing how often the identical emergency & call buttons are indiscernible from one another at @wmata.com stations.
How does responding to false alarms all day not cost you more than fixing the obvious accessibility issues with a little wayfinding elbow grease?
How does responding to false alarms all day not cost you more than fixing the obvious accessibility issues with a little wayfinding elbow grease?
Great finally seeing the digital signage outside Farragut North integrating bus timings - Will the connections be made clear in MD & VA where partner bus systems share large, complex bus depots? @wmata.com & @mcdotnow.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Great finally seeing the digital signage outside Farragut North integrating bus timings - Will the connections be made clear in MD & VA where partner bus systems share large, complex bus depots? @wmata.com & @mcdotnow.bsky.social
Once again, @safety.bsky.app - The block and spam report mechanisms are much too disconnected.
It should be as simple as a "block the sucka?" checkbox with a default check, after the spambot, troll, whatever has been reported for moderation.
And vice versa, but perhaps without the default value.
It should be as simple as a "block the sucka?" checkbox with a default check, after the spambot, troll, whatever has been reported for moderation.
And vice versa, but perhaps without the default value.
July 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Once again, @safety.bsky.app - The block and spam report mechanisms are much too disconnected.
It should be as simple as a "block the sucka?" checkbox with a default check, after the spambot, troll, whatever has been reported for moderation.
And vice versa, but perhaps without the default value.
It should be as simple as a "block the sucka?" checkbox with a default check, after the spambot, troll, whatever has been reported for moderation.
And vice versa, but perhaps without the default value.
Hey @wmata.com - Did you guys get Coleman Domingo/Victor Strand to drive the red line this morning?
Wild "where is he taking us" vibes for Fear the Walking Dead fans on car 3086.
If not, dude has a future in radio! Enjoyable ride.
Wild "where is he taking us" vibes for Fear the Walking Dead fans on car 3086.
If not, dude has a future in radio! Enjoyable ride.
July 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Hey @wmata.com - Did you guys get Coleman Domingo/Victor Strand to drive the red line this morning?
Wild "where is he taking us" vibes for Fear the Walking Dead fans on car 3086.
If not, dude has a future in radio! Enjoyable ride.
Wild "where is he taking us" vibes for Fear the Walking Dead fans on car 3086.
If not, dude has a future in radio! Enjoyable ride.
Serious question @ternbicycles.com & @bikeshopgirl.bsky.social:
How is this a $3000+ bike? Why do Americans buy bikes without a CVT at a premium price point like that?
How is this a $3000+ bike? Why do Americans buy bikes without a CVT at a premium price point like that?
July 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Serious question @ternbicycles.com & @bikeshopgirl.bsky.social:
How is this a $3000+ bike? Why do Americans buy bikes without a CVT at a premium price point like that?
How is this a $3000+ bike? Why do Americans buy bikes without a CVT at a premium price point like that?