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Nathan L Smith
@nlsmith.com
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Gardening, historic building maintenance, pet photos, infrastructure observability, JavaScript, graph theory, jokes. Fiscally anti-fascist, socially anti-fascist. Pacifist Gemini.

South Amana, Iowa
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Gmail users!!

They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.

Pass it on!!

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Code wikis are documentation theater as a service by @theletterf.bsky.social
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Code wikis are documentation theater as a service
Code Wiki, a new AI tool by Google, claims to generate a complete set of docs, including diagrams, from code repos. The landing page goes as far as saying “Stop documenting. No more stale docs. Ever”,...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. (11/18/2025)
f the nyt
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Tq...
KIRBY VACUUM: Why Use A Kirby Vacuum In 2026
YouTube video by Kirby Enthusiast
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November 18, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Found my teen’s alt creds on a sticky note and she goes by “Jackoff McGee”
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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And then… it all happened. Prince “posthumously” got the Award of Merit at the AMAs, performing an edit of this greatest-hits medley, as well as a medley of songs from the album that Warner wouldn’t let him release. And he thanked Dick Clark for “letting him put Prince to bed”. youtu.be/XUQPw7TAMz4
PRINCE-RARE-Hits Medley Live & Award-1995 AMAS (1/30/1995) 4K HD-Best Copy
YouTube video by Tom Key
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November 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Slop is on the menu at The Vine
AI concept of a Rueben with slop text Says a dozen wings but is substantially more in every way WRAP DIAY!
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Seedum 🌱
Seedum but fall colors
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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"We deserve better": Why Chris Jones may run for secretary of agriculture
"What farmers do affects everyone"
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November 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Where I’m posting from
Poster pavilion sign
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The most underrated thing from the '90s is C&C Music Factory. We need to seize the C&C means of production and bring this art back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaTG...
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by CCMusicFactoryVEVO
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November 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Tonight in Atlanta I either saw:

(A) A rat steal a piece of bread from a homeless person

or

(B) A homeless person sharing a piece of bread with his rat friend

I did not slow down to ask clarifying questions to either of them.
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Goddammit I watched a YouTube video about polishing a cast iron pan and now all of my YouTube suggestions are videos about cast iron pans I really don't care.
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Drinking at the airport: it’s not just a good idea. It’s the law!
Sign that says Alcoholic Beverages Must Be Consumed In The Airport
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Mamdani is going to implement Maria Law. How do you solve a problem like that?
emilycello.bsky.social Emily Wright @emilycello.bsky.social · 14d
Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
emergencybod.medsky.social Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 14d
Mamdani is going to implement Shania law. That don't impress me much.
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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No good news today. In fact it’s downright
Newspaper says DIRE at the top
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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lmao
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Knockouts doing what they do 🌱
Bright pink roses
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Time for baseball?
Brownie the dog with a baseball
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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📊 #dataviz
⚠️PSA: Time to issue the annual Halloween _Axes of Evil_ Warning.
👹 Don't let any of these cross your threshold.
Four charts with a scary Halloween theme. Fig.1 "This scatterplot is dripping with blood" Fig. 2: A pie chart, captioned "The data reveal an angry mask" Fig. 3: A line graph with areas shaded red, captioned "The trend has developed toward razor-sharp fangs" Fig. 4: A bimodal distribution with a scary faces looking like two ghosts, captioned "This is a bimodal distribution of vengeful spirits. Cartoon by Grant Snider (2019)
October 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHING ✊🏾

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PUBLIC ENEMY "The Hits Just Keep On Comin" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
YouTube video by Channel ZERO
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October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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AI from Google Cloud empowered my business to connect correlation to causation more than ever before
October 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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This is better in multiple ways than the destruction I currently have.
Truck that says SECURE DESTRUCTION YOU CAN TRUST written on the side.
October 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM