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John St. Clair
@stclairjohn.bsky.social
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Developer/architect @ Miles
Oslo, Norway
.NET / Javascript / Functional programming
https://www.miles.no/
Previously: Philosophy @ University of South Florida
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ruthdeyermond.bsky.social
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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papapishu.bsky.social
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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vor-bokor.bsky.social
My twitter is dead. I don’t wanna a burner. All I want is 27K bluski subs
July 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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daphnek.bsky.social
Google has moved from moral cowardice (removing ICE tracking apps) to direct complicity in the violent, unconstitutional abuse of vulnerable people.

As a civil liberties lawyer who worked at Google for ten years, this one hits me in the gut.
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 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. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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chriso-wiki.bsky.social
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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renderg.host
Breakthrough 🤯 You're seeing

- ALL my @leaflet.pub articles 📄
- from ALL my Leaflet publications 📚

on my 🚧 new site (in dev) 🙀 that's

- version-controlled w/ @tangled.org 😳
- (soon) hosted w/ @nekomimi.pet's wisp.place 😱

EVERY PART is stored in my #PDS 🫠
#ATproto is the future!!! WTF 💙
A screenshot of website in development, with the Leaflet articles embedded, read directly from the PDS A screenshot of my Leaflet publication called "Annotated" with a selection of posts. A screenshot of my Leaflet publication called "Marginalia" with a selection of posts. A screenshot of my Leaflet documents as data in the PDS
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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duendesoftware.com
Discover a key update in #dotnet 10 that improves local development! 🔥

👉 Our latest blog post explains how a new TLS certificate and unique local domains can solve cookie conflicts and better mimic production environments.

duende.link/arbgu89

#aspnetcore #security
Duende Software - Identity and Access Management for .NET
We help companies using .NET to build identity and access control solutions for modern applications.
duende.link
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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mdg.no
Ikke stol på gode målinger! Grip tak i tante Reidun, løp til valglokalet og stem MDG i dag, sier @arildher.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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veryimportant.lawyer
this all sucks so bad. best wishes to and solidary with my trans friends and to trans kids. bad!
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 18
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent.
June 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
stclairjohn.bsky.social
I don't think I've ever read a more cursed acronym:
Wikipedia page about UTF-EBCDIC, a character encoding for mainframes similar to UTF-8.
May 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
Here’s an oral history of Tom Holland performing Umbrella! Enjoy this tale of an absolute darling collaborating with joyful professionals. archive.is/2024.04.06-0...
archive.is
May 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
May 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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pickardje.bsky.social
total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/4c4b...
April 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
Start your weekend with this banger from @aselrod.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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carriemclaren.bsky.social
Dear Left: Please stop using Elon’s Nazi salute on protest signs while assuming everyone reads the message the same way you do. The volume of media messages the average person sees in a day means people don’t pause to THINK about the most of them. 1/4. #TeslaTakedown
March 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
stclairjohn.bsky.social
After seeing The Brutalist last night, both the Guardian and the author of this piece owe an apology to their readers

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist
Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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fxshaw.com
with help from sixcolors.com/post/2025/02... and github.com/treetrum/ama... was able to bulk download all my kindle books. Got 'em before the deadline!
How to bulk download Kindle files, while you can
Amazon is making a big change to how it handles serving ebooks to those who have bought them from the Kindle store1. Starting on Feb. 26, it’s closing the “USB sideloading” hole t…
sixcolors.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Trump regime tweets this wordless video—nothing but the hum of an engine & the clanking of chains—comprised of closeup shots of a human being shackled for deportation. This is, no hyperbole, fascist fetish porn.
Scenes of federal agents chaining a man to be put on an airplane. Scenes of federal agents chaining a man to be put on an airplane. Scenes of federal agents chaining a man to be put on an airplane. Scenes of federal agents chaining a man to be put on an airplane.
February 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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andersnoras.com
Christie’s auction of AI artworks has gotten a lot of criticism. While I agree that some of the works on sale have ethical issues and dubious artistic quality. There are several works that are interesting. This is a thread about those works.. 🧵 1/9
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Embedding Study 1 & 2. Two AI generated images of a girl with long curly red hair, dressed in a green flight suit in front of a cloudy blue sky.
February 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
stclairjohn.bsky.social
Tweet from Liz Wolfe: @LizWolfeReason It's beautiful that Musk brings his son into the workplace-a subtle, frequent reminder that parents of young children should not always have to choose between career ambition and being present for their kids. A society that values children is a healthy one with a bright future. Elon Musk makes a private visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland on 22 January 2024. Photograph: European Jewish Association/YOAV DUDKEVITCH/Reuters
February 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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leastprivilege.com
Finally! Grats!

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9700/
RFC 9700: Best Current Practice for OAuth 2.0 Security
This document describes best current security practice for OAuth 2.0. It updates and extends the threat model and security advice given in RFCs 6749, 6750, and 6819 to incorporate practical experience...
datatracker.ietf.org
January 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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sharonk.bsky.social
relevant New York cover
THE CRUEL KIDS TABLE
January 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM