Ferras Vinh
@ferras.bsky.social
Lawyer and lapsed congressional staffer. Steadfast believer that pancakes are an anytime food.
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Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Personally, I will be trying to avoid the notice of Joyce Carol Oates and Kendrick Lamar for the rest of my natural life
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
Worst year ever for Drake continues.
omg is the zohran victory party playing not like us
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Worst year ever for Drake continues.
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Please news please stop please
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Please news please stop please
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I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
October 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
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YOU NEED TO START OFF POSTS LIKE THIS BY SAYING THE PERSON IS ALIVE AND OK
Sir David Attenborough, the British documentarian and naturalist, became the oldest person to win a Daytime Emmy on Friday at age 99. He beat the record set last year by Dick Van Dyke. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/a...
October 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
YOU NEED TO START OFF POSTS LIKE THIS BY SAYING THE PERSON IS ALIVE AND OK
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In Connecticut, the health care advocate office — whose services are free — has been able to resolve or overturn insurance denials in the patient’s favor about 80% of the time.
Check to see if your state has a similar consumer assistance program:
Check to see if your state has a similar consumer assistance program:
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
www.propublica.org
October 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In Connecticut, the health care advocate office — whose services are free — has been able to resolve or overturn insurance denials in the patient’s favor about 80% of the time.
Check to see if your state has a similar consumer assistance program:
Check to see if your state has a similar consumer assistance program:
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
October 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
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Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico is becoming the first state in the U.S. to offer free early childhood education to every family in the state. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a universal ch…
www.krqe.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
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We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
defector.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
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I just updated FIG: Filling in the Gaps for People Search Removal Services. It's a list of people search sites NOT covered by paid services. It's now in alphabetical order, easier to use with BADBOOL, added new brokers and removed defunct brokers and removal services. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Filling In the Gaps For People Search Site Removal Services
docs.google.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I just updated FIG: Filling in the Gaps for People Search Removal Services. It's a list of people search sites NOT covered by paid services. It's now in alphabetical order, easier to use with BADBOOL, added new brokers and removed defunct brokers and removal services. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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What Andrew Ferguson, an expert on big data policing, says in this piece:
“The simple truth of digital surveillance is that if you build it, it will be used, and likely used against those with the least amount of political power.”
“The simple truth of digital surveillance is that if you build it, it will be used, and likely used against those with the least amount of political power.”
Live facial recognition technology should be very concerning to people. This is just the beginning. boltsmag.org/new-orleans-...
New Orleans May Hand Its Police Live Facial Recognition Tech. Critics Warn It'll Help ICE. - Bolts
The cameras are mounted across downtown New Orleans: hanging from balconies on Bourbon Street, bolted to the exterior walls of bars and four-star hotels throughout the French Quarter. For two... Read ...
boltsmag.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
What Andrew Ferguson, an expert on big data policing, says in this piece:
“The simple truth of digital surveillance is that if you build it, it will be used, and likely used against those with the least amount of political power.”
“The simple truth of digital surveillance is that if you build it, it will be used, and likely used against those with the least amount of political power.”
The Indiana Pacers: The Care Bears of the NBA.
June 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Indiana Pacers: The Care Bears of the NBA.
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All of this, but also, the technology to do this in manufacturing has been in use for literally decades.
Here’s a paper from 1998 describing Boeing’s augmented reality system:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...
Here’s a paper from 1998 describing Boeing’s augmented reality system:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...
May 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
All of this, but also, the technology to do this in manufacturing has been in use for literally decades.
Here’s a paper from 1998 describing Boeing’s augmented reality system:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...
Here’s a paper from 1998 describing Boeing’s augmented reality system:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...
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This is the first of these stories I've seen. Police in trouble for using face recognition tool Clearview AI, but not because it identified the wrong person.
They relied on it solely in getting a search warrant; judge threw out incriminating evidence as a result www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01...
They relied on it solely in getting a search warrant; judge threw out incriminating evidence as a result www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01...
Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It has derailed a murder case
Cleveland police used artificial intelligence software to justify a search warrant in a murder case. A judge, however, threw out the results of that search, including the gun authorities say was the m...
www.cleveland.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is the first of these stories I've seen. Police in trouble for using face recognition tool Clearview AI, but not because it identified the wrong person.
They relied on it solely in getting a search warrant; judge threw out incriminating evidence as a result www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01...
They relied on it solely in getting a search warrant; judge threw out incriminating evidence as a result www.cleveland.com/news/2025/01...
TBH, pretty relatable. Setting work boundaries is important.
BREAKING | ChatGPT down: AI chat app not working as website goes offline
ChatGPT is refusing to work
ChatGPT is offline, leaving users unable to talk to the AI chat app.
www.independent.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
TBH, pretty relatable. Setting work boundaries is important.
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Going to try this the next time I need to focus while writing on a deadline.
Victor Hugo sounds like a weird guy but he was extremely real for this
December 24, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Going to try this the next time I need to focus while writing on a deadline.
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Ahem, [taps the end-to-end encryption sign] "U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack that exposed live phone calls"
U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack that exposed live phone calls
Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.
www.nbcnews.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Ahem, [taps the end-to-end encryption sign] "U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack that exposed live phone calls"
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mental health break? you bet it did
November 14, 2024 at 2:38 AM
mental health break? you bet it did
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Espn lists betting lines for preseason games. If you attempt to bet on preseason basketball the app should just have a therapist call you, directly.
October 5, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Espn lists betting lines for preseason games. If you attempt to bet on preseason basketball the app should just have a therapist call you, directly.
Assumed that this would be more intuitive, with the only possible answers being by mouth or IV drip.
September 12, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Assumed that this would be more intuitive, with the only possible answers being by mouth or IV drip.
Also me, when asked to do any yearly planning exercise.
“So you don’t have a plan”
“I have concepts of a plan!”
“I have concepts of a plan!”
September 11, 2024 at 2:50 AM
Also me, when asked to do any yearly planning exercise.
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If politicians can text my cell phone asking for money I should be able to text them directly with policy suggestions.
August 23, 2024 at 4:53 PM
If politicians can text my cell phone asking for money I should be able to text them directly with policy suggestions.