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Two weeks ago, at the last RailsConf I brought an "I am Friendly" swag item to put up for auction.
A certain "Mike W" won it and never got to meet or thank him in person.
So help me find "Mike W" somewhere online so I can say "Thank you" 🫶
A certain "Mike W" won it and never got to meet or thank him in person.
So help me find "Mike W" somewhere online so I can say "Thank you" 🫶
July 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Two weeks ago, at the last RailsConf I brought an "I am Friendly" swag item to put up for auction.
A certain "Mike W" won it and never got to meet or thank him in person.
So help me find "Mike W" somewhere online so I can say "Thank you" 🫶
A certain "Mike W" won it and never got to meet or thank him in person.
So help me find "Mike W" somewhere online so I can say "Thank you" 🫶
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The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett
July 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett
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thanks anne—and we're not done.
if you're considering subscribing to WIRED and still on the fence, this year, we also dropped paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and some guides).
so, here is a 🧵 of some unpaywalled articles (which includes some of our most important work)!
if you're considering subscribing to WIRED and still on the fence, this year, we also dropped paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and some guides).
so, here is a 🧵 of some unpaywalled articles (which includes some of our most important work)!
July 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
thanks anne—and we're not done.
if you're considering subscribing to WIRED and still on the fence, this year, we also dropped paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and some guides).
so, here is a 🧵 of some unpaywalled articles (which includes some of our most important work)!
if you're considering subscribing to WIRED and still on the fence, this year, we also dropped paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and some guides).
so, here is a 🧵 of some unpaywalled articles (which includes some of our most important work)!
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you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
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Your Lambdas Function (yes that’s how we pluralize it) are about to get more expensive, as AWS begins charging for the INIT phase.
aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
AWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT Phase | Amazon Web Services
Effective August 1, 2025, AWS will standardize billing for the initialization (INIT) phase across all AWS Lambda function configurations. This change specifically affects on-demand invocations of Lamb...
aws.amazon.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Your Lambdas Function (yes that’s how we pluralize it) are about to get more expensive, as AWS begins charging for the INIT phase.
aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
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Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
March 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
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They’re not called Rare Earth Metals because they’re scarce, but because as a group of elements they took a long time to isolate. It’s an antiquated English use of rare meaning “widely distributed or isolated” that died in Victorian times.
February 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
They’re not called Rare Earth Metals because they’re scarce, but because as a group of elements they took a long time to isolate. It’s an antiquated English use of rare meaning “widely distributed or isolated” that died in Victorian times.
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RIP David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
RIP David Lynch
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Elon Musk has had a lot to say about the grooming gangs scandal. With colleagues from BBC Verify, I've looked at 24 hours on Musk's X timeline. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline
The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Elon Musk has had a lot to say about the grooming gangs scandal. With colleagues from BBC Verify, I've looked at 24 hours on Musk's X timeline. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Seeing an online ad shouldn’t mean surrendering your data to thousands of companies you’ve never heard of. It’s time to end online behavioral advertising and the mass surveillance it enables.
Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How
Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliv...
www.eff.org
January 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Seeing an online ad shouldn’t mean surrendering your data to thousands of companies you’ve never heard of. It’s time to end online behavioral advertising and the mass surveillance it enables.
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Some images from the Twitter years in a thread (since they are no longer accessible) 1/n
November 20, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Some images from the Twitter years in a thread (since they are no longer accessible) 1/n
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My colleague Devin Coldewey (who, good for him, is not on social) and I put together an updating list of free, open-source and/or self-hosted alternatives to popular apps — like Adobe, Dropbox, Google Docs, Pocket — that can help you reclaim your data from Big Tech.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/24/t...
techcrunch.com/2024/11/24/t...
These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance | TechCrunch
Not every app or service is trying to monetize your personal data. Here are some of our favorite alternatives to popular apps.
techcrunch.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:33 PM
My colleague Devin Coldewey (who, good for him, is not on social) and I put together an updating list of free, open-source and/or self-hosted alternatives to popular apps — like Adobe, Dropbox, Google Docs, Pocket — that can help you reclaim your data from Big Tech.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/24/t...
techcrunch.com/2024/11/24/t...
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A tale of two platforms:
BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀
BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀
November 13, 2024 at 11:21 AM
A tale of two platforms:
BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀
BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀
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we asked A.I. for an ACCURATE depiction of trump actually working at mcdonald's — oh god
October 21, 2024 at 8:39 PM
we asked A.I. for an ACCURATE depiction of trump actually working at mcdonald's — oh god
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“I guess it shows the economy is very bad to cut it by that much, assuming that they are not just playing politics,” the Republican candidate for the White House said at a Manhattan bitcoin bar on Wednesday.
www.ft.com/content/da93...
www.ft.com/content/da93...
Donald Trump says Fed’s half-point rate cut shows US economy is ‘very bad’
Former president adds that central bank could be ‘playing politics’ as it reduces interest rates ahead of election
www.ft.com
September 19, 2024 at 3:47 PM
“I guess it shows the economy is very bad to cut it by that much, assuming that they are not just playing politics,” the Republican candidate for the White House said at a Manhattan bitcoin bar on Wednesday.
www.ft.com/content/da93...
www.ft.com/content/da93...
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Paraskavedekatriaphobia [paer-AS-kuh-ved-ehk-at-rahy-uh-FOH-bee-uh]
(n.)
- The superstitious fear of Friday the thirteenth.
Used in a sentence:
“Once working remotely from home became an option, Bob’s paraskavedekatriaphobia was no longer problematic with his employer.”
(n.)
- The superstitious fear of Friday the thirteenth.
Used in a sentence:
“Once working remotely from home became an option, Bob’s paraskavedekatriaphobia was no longer problematic with his employer.”
September 15, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Paraskavedekatriaphobia [paer-AS-kuh-ved-ehk-at-rahy-uh-FOH-bee-uh]
(n.)
- The superstitious fear of Friday the thirteenth.
Used in a sentence:
“Once working remotely from home became an option, Bob’s paraskavedekatriaphobia was no longer problematic with his employer.”
(n.)
- The superstitious fear of Friday the thirteenth.
Used in a sentence:
“Once working remotely from home became an option, Bob’s paraskavedekatriaphobia was no longer problematic with his employer.”
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Pro tip: you can find a bridged fediverse user by searching for their address (eg @gargron@mastodon.social) or profile URL (eg https://mastodon.social/@Gargron) here in Bluesky and then clicking the People tab. No need to figure out their translated Bluesky handle. Try it!
September 9, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Pro tip: you can find a bridged fediverse user by searching for their address (eg @gargron@mastodon.social) or profile URL (eg https://mastodon.social/@Gargron) here in Bluesky and then clicking the People tab. No need to figure out their translated Bluesky handle. Try it!
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Tucker has now moved on to Watergate trutherism.
August 9, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Tucker has now moved on to Watergate trutherism.
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We're still a small team of around a dozen engineers. If you'd like to join a fast-moving, high impact team, we're hiring for a variety of roles including Go, TS, design, infra, and comms!
bsky.social/about/join
bsky.social/about/join
Jobs - Bluesky
View open positions at Bluesky PBC
bsky.social
May 8, 2024 at 1:18 AM
We're still a small team of around a dozen engineers. If you'd like to join a fast-moving, high impact team, we're hiring for a variety of roles including Go, TS, design, infra, and comms!
bsky.social/about/join
bsky.social/about/join
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BREAKING: Elon Musk's SpaceX and his anti-labor lawyers at Morgan Lewis filed their motion for a preliminary injunction tonight in their case aimed at getting the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 13, 2024 at 5:10 AM
BREAKING: Elon Musk's SpaceX and his anti-labor lawyers at Morgan Lewis filed their motion for a preliminary injunction tonight in their case aimed at getting the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If you see this post any photo in your gallery with no explanation
November 12, 2023 at 12:57 PM
If you see this post any photo in your gallery with no explanation