BB Storm
@bbstorm.bsky.social
Network Architect, 3D Printing Hobbyist
CCNA
He/Him
(Trans Rights are human rights.
If you disagree: Fix your heart.)
CCNA
He/Him
(Trans Rights are human rights.
If you disagree: Fix your heart.)
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Why is this advice always aimed at children avoiding their parents, and never at older people belligerently and inevitably regurgitating Facebook opinions so offensive their own kids would rather skip Christmas dinner than endure them?
Yeah, no thanks.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
December 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Why is this advice always aimed at children avoiding their parents, and never at older people belligerently and inevitably regurgitating Facebook opinions so offensive their own kids would rather skip Christmas dinner than endure them?
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
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This is called Universal Design, where something is designed technically to help people with disabilities but ends up helping a whole bunch of other people too.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
This is great. I think the whole idea of accommodation should rightly be an invitation to reject an ableist, eugenicist approach to the world and instead ask "What if we want to give *everyone* the chance to do their best?"
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This is called Universal Design, where something is designed technically to help people with disabilities but ends up helping a whole bunch of other people too.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
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For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.
November 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.
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Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
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I’d like to point out a few things about this:
1) The student did not follow directions
2) The student wrote bigoted drivel about how trans people are “demonic”
3) The student’s teacher *is* trans
4) The student’s mom is an anti-trans advocate
5) TPUSA was involved
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
1) The student did not follow directions
2) The student wrote bigoted drivel about how trans people are “demonic”
3) The student’s teacher *is* trans
4) The student’s mom is an anti-trans advocate
5) TPUSA was involved
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU has placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after receiving a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I’d like to point out a few things about this:
1) The student did not follow directions
2) The student wrote bigoted drivel about how trans people are “demonic”
3) The student’s teacher *is* trans
4) The student’s mom is an anti-trans advocate
5) TPUSA was involved
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
1) The student did not follow directions
2) The student wrote bigoted drivel about how trans people are “demonic”
3) The student’s teacher *is* trans
4) The student’s mom is an anti-trans advocate
5) TPUSA was involved
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
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The Zork games have been properly open sourced with the MIT license 😍 opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
These were some of the first computer games I ever played back on our IBM 8086 PC. So many good memories.
These were some of the first computer games I ever played back on our IBM 8086 PC. So many good memories.
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Zork games have been properly open sourced with the MIT license 😍 opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
These were some of the first computer games I ever played back on our IBM 8086 PC. So many good memories.
These were some of the first computer games I ever played back on our IBM 8086 PC. So many good memories.
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Hey you. Just a reminder that we like seeing you and appreciate you, your thoughts, your feelings, your personality and everything you bring to the world. Our universe is better with you in it, no matter how you feel in the moment.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Hey you. Just a reminder that we like seeing you and appreciate you, your thoughts, your feelings, your personality and everything you bring to the world. Our universe is better with you in it, no matter how you feel in the moment.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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You will never guess what this is in reference to.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
You will never guess what this is in reference to.
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Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
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This whole entire thread, but this post in particular.
A Counter-Threat Intelligence lead for a major firm, who runs a team penetrating hacker networks to uncover new threats and comments about their company, and this is their reply to this thread. (posted with permission)
The mythology around hackers is wildly oversold. But defense requires doing it.
The mythology around hackers is wildly oversold. But defense requires doing it.
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This whole entire thread, but this post in particular.
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If you’re interested in 1960s relay computer circuits, take a look at this Minivac 601 Simulator I just released!
~2 years of work on and off. Simulating electricity wasn’t as easy as I originally thought :)
Cheers!
minivac.greg.technology
~2 years of work on and off. Simulating electricity wasn’t as easy as I originally thought :)
Cheers!
minivac.greg.technology
Minivac 601 Simulator
A 1961 relay computer running in your browser
minivac.greg.technology
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If you’re interested in 1960s relay computer circuits, take a look at this Minivac 601 Simulator I just released!
~2 years of work on and off. Simulating electricity wasn’t as easy as I originally thought :)
Cheers!
minivac.greg.technology
~2 years of work on and off. Simulating electricity wasn’t as easy as I originally thought :)
Cheers!
minivac.greg.technology
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AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.
August 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud
House Dems unite to tell GOP to stop "demonizing" trans people with "dehumanizing" slurs - LGBTQ Nation
Rep. Nancy Mace's "tra**y, tra**y, tra**y!" tirade is just one example.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud
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maybe this really is the year of Linux on the desktop
Microsoft warns Windows 11 agentic OS may face Xpia malware risks
Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11, but issued a security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.
www.windowscentral.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
maybe this really is the year of Linux on the desktop
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A commonly-misunderstood aspect of computer security is that you are battling computers.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
A commonly-misunderstood aspect of computer security is that you are battling computers.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
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These are not serious people.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
These are not serious people.
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You guys wanna see a dead body?
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
You guys wanna see a dead body?
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“AI” is just a tool like anything else. it is not a god or an end-all, be-all. if we could just stop taking every single cycle of tech bro hypeshittification seriously the world would be so much better off
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“AI” is just a tool like anything else. it is not a god or an end-all, be-all. if we could just stop taking every single cycle of tech bro hypeshittification seriously the world would be so much better off
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that's right
ironically i've said this since the beginning bc my early career was 100% consulting and
THIS IS HOW MOST LARGE COMPANIES USE CONSULTANTS
if you are at *all* savvy, you will realize that many so-called engagements are using you as a handy, deniable loincloth to cover their ass
ironically i've said this since the beginning bc my early career was 100% consulting and
THIS IS HOW MOST LARGE COMPANIES USE CONSULTANTS
if you are at *all* savvy, you will realize that many so-called engagements are using you as a handy, deniable loincloth to cover their ass
The entire point of AI is to have that magic mystery black box as origin point: unquestionable and impervious. A puppet god that tech companies control but are never responsible for.
Its not at all surprising though. Once stuff goes into the black box suddenly no one is accountable or responsible for the results! The best in corporate handwashing.
With an added bonus runaround of "only the vendor can fix it" trying to exhaust the customer so they give up.
With an added bonus runaround of "only the vendor can fix it" trying to exhaust the customer so they give up.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
that's right
ironically i've said this since the beginning bc my early career was 100% consulting and
THIS IS HOW MOST LARGE COMPANIES USE CONSULTANTS
if you are at *all* savvy, you will realize that many so-called engagements are using you as a handy, deniable loincloth to cover their ass
ironically i've said this since the beginning bc my early career was 100% consulting and
THIS IS HOW MOST LARGE COMPANIES USE CONSULTANTS
if you are at *all* savvy, you will realize that many so-called engagements are using you as a handy, deniable loincloth to cover their ass
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Big day for people who care about other people
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Big day for people who care about other people