Ben Edwards
@bjedwards.bsky.social
Security Data Nerd at Bitsight. Love me a good latent variable statistical model. Constantly balancing aesthetics vs usefulness in data viz.
Trying to combat cyber FUD.
Trying to combat cyber FUD.
There needs to be some equivalent to the School Board that can declare Internet Snow Days. Give the folks at the big service providers time and space to fix stuff, and the rest of us just get an unscheduled day off.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There needs to be some equivalent to the School Board that can declare Internet Snow Days. Give the folks at the big service providers time and space to fix stuff, and the rest of us just get an unscheduled day off.
Jerry and Don were the best. This moment, "Here comes the peetzer", Poncho play by play, Jerry's tooth. The best baseball, not baseball moments.
Don's giggle is the platonic ideal of an infectious laugh. Miss Jerry and will never forgive NESN for deciding not to renew Don Orsillo's contract.
Don's giggle is the platonic ideal of an infectious laugh. Miss Jerry and will never forgive NESN for deciding not to renew Don Orsillo's contract.
Nick Markakis may not be a Hall of Famer in real life but he will always be a Hall of Famer in my heart for the time he took strike one
god I miss Remy and Orsillo
god I miss Remy and Orsillo
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Jerry and Don were the best. This moment, "Here comes the peetzer", Poncho play by play, Jerry's tooth. The best baseball, not baseball moments.
Don's giggle is the platonic ideal of an infectious laugh. Miss Jerry and will never forgive NESN for deciding not to renew Don Orsillo's contract.
Don's giggle is the platonic ideal of an infectious laugh. Miss Jerry and will never forgive NESN for deciding not to renew Don Orsillo's contract.
OG Japanese Iron Chef for entertainment.
Good Eats for actual information. @altonbrown.bsky.social inspired so much of my cooking.
I have fond memories of Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr.
Bourdain's first show, A Cook's Tour, made me start thinking more deeply about food and culture.
Good Eats for actual information. @altonbrown.bsky.social inspired so much of my cooking.
I have fond memories of Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr.
Bourdain's first show, A Cook's Tour, made me start thinking more deeply about food and culture.
What are your all-time favorite cooking shows?
November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
OG Japanese Iron Chef for entertainment.
Good Eats for actual information. @altonbrown.bsky.social inspired so much of my cooking.
I have fond memories of Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr.
Bourdain's first show, A Cook's Tour, made me start thinking more deeply about food and culture.
Good Eats for actual information. @altonbrown.bsky.social inspired so much of my cooking.
I have fond memories of Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr.
Bourdain's first show, A Cook's Tour, made me start thinking more deeply about food and culture.
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what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller
Is there any more useless a piece of advertising than an ad for an airport inside itself?
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Is there any more useless a piece of advertising than an ad for an airport inside itself?
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Good story by @metacurity.com about the uncertain future of the program that catalogs security vulnerabilities, a situation rife with public-private tensions exacerbated by the Trump admin. cyberscoop.com/cve-program-...
October 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Good story by @metacurity.com about the uncertain future of the program that catalogs security vulnerabilities, a situation rife with public-private tensions exacerbated by the Trump admin. cyberscoop.com/cve-program-...
White Castle. So bit sized, so delicious.
What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?
October 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
White Castle. So bit sized, so delicious.
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This is what the song Lightning Crashes was about.
September 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is what the song Lightning Crashes was about.
Proud resident of NEW JEFST WIN.
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
August 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Proud resident of NEW JEFST WIN.
I love me a GAM, but damn is this true.
July 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I love me a GAM, but damn is this true.
From Observable Framework to this is incredible work by the @observablehq.com team. Very excited to give this try.
Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/
Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable
observablehq.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
From Observable Framework to this is incredible work by the @observablehq.com team. Very excited to give this try.
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Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/
Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable
observablehq.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/
I don't know why this is labeled as "opinion". These are all facts. Except for 29, sklearn-style APIs are bad, actually.
July 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I don't know why this is labeled as "opinion". These are all facts. Except for 29, sklearn-style APIs are bad, actually.
I wonder about causality. Were they always mid or did breaking containment make them mid? In-N-Out was always mid IMO, with the containment break being due to the cutesy secret menu shit.
I pray that my beloved Blake's Lotaburger does not break containment so as to become mid, or maligned as such.
I pray that my beloved Blake's Lotaburger does not break containment so as to become mid, or maligned as such.
Unironically we need more fights about generic food like yesterday’s cola situation which is why I’m going to start one right now:
Whataburger is Texas In-N-Out (a regional fav that has broken containment but is actually mids, and not even the loud kind of mids)
Whataburger is Texas In-N-Out (a regional fav that has broken containment but is actually mids, and not even the loud kind of mids)
July 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I wonder about causality. Were they always mid or did breaking containment make them mid? In-N-Out was always mid IMO, with the containment break being due to the cutesy secret menu shit.
I pray that my beloved Blake's Lotaburger does not break containment so as to become mid, or maligned as such.
I pray that my beloved Blake's Lotaburger does not break containment so as to become mid, or maligned as such.
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"BOZO. EAT DUST. THIS BAG TWO-THIRDS AIR."
July 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
"BOZO. EAT DUST. THIS BAG TWO-THIRDS AIR."
Honestly my kids are in shambles.
far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic
July 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Honestly my kids are in shambles.
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This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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these are our brothers and we should be building a better world together
June 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
these are our brothers and we should be building a better world together
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“Still punk as fuck” I say as I refill my bird feeders every day at 7am
June 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
“Still punk as fuck” I say as I refill my bird feeders every day at 7am
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Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
June 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
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Researchers from Rice and Stanford refer to this recursive data contamination as Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD), analogous to mad cow disease. (Reminder: do not eat the neural tissue of your own species.)
therepublicjournal.com/essays/the-c...
therepublicjournal.com/essays/the-c...
The Curse of the AI Ouroboros | The Republic
The ancient Greeks used the term “ouroboros” to symbolize the three fundamental phases in the cycle of life: life, death, and renewal. The cycle was visuall ...
therepublicjournal.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Researchers from Rice and Stanford refer to this recursive data contamination as Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD), analogous to mad cow disease. (Reminder: do not eat the neural tissue of your own species.)
therepublicjournal.com/essays/the-c...
therepublicjournal.com/essays/the-c...
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I’m not putting anyone on a pedestal but at every opportunity to be a shithead who throws marginalized people under a bus this man chooses the opposite and he’s wildly popular because of it and I don’t understand what about that isn’t clicking for other dems
Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.
Gov. Tim Walz backs transgender kids as Democrats grapple with debate over sports bans
The Minnesota Democrat has been critical of other members of his party who are retreating at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and in Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I’m not putting anyone on a pedestal but at every opportunity to be a shithead who throws marginalized people under a bus this man chooses the opposite and he’s wildly popular because of it and I don’t understand what about that isn’t clicking for other dems
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The electoral quants are 100 times more intellectually honest than Lichtman, don't get me wrong. But at some point the basic dynamic really feels like "The model can't be failed, it can only be failed" and then bits and bobs and exceptions and new epicycles are added endlessly to make it work.
May 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The electoral quants are 100 times more intellectually honest than Lichtman, don't get me wrong. But at some point the basic dynamic really feels like "The model can't be failed, it can only be failed" and then bits and bobs and exceptions and new epicycles are added endlessly to make it work.