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Gabriel
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From the San Francisco Bay Area, still live and work there. Into #astro, #science, #libraries, #art, #film, #comics, #privacy, #tech and deli. Works in higher ed

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Waiting for the LAPL Bookmobile to open https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110934
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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West Oakland on instant film

#oakland #california #photography #instantfilm
December 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Found this Yuan Dynasty (1300s) era document: instructions on how to prepare noodles and other dishes (including seitan!)

“Cloud Forest Hall Collection of Rules for Drinking and Eating” by Ni Zan, a Yuan Dynasty painter”

“If you wish to eat noodles for lunch, at daybreak take salted water and […]
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hachyderm.io
December 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Fruitvale has the best Mexican food

#oakland #california #bayarea #food
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Want something not hideously depressing? This documentary about Indigenous teens paddling the Klamath River for the first time after dam removal is beautiful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FuGuWeAra4
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Cuddles

#cats #dogs
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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The Guardian: Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’

AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’

(via @cdarwin ) […]

[Original post on ai6yr.org]
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Maybe a software supply chain that relies on every single developer of any package in your entire dependency graph keeping their keys secure is a bad software supply chain ...
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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RE: https://sfba.social/@DavidGallagher/115617214527574915

Especially for my fellow Bay Area peeps, the rabbit hole to end all rabbit holes. I swear, the next thing you know six hours have gone by. In the best way. #bayarea #history
sfba.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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I'm on the board of Cityside, the non-profit parent of Berkeleyside. Proud of this new beat and the reporter we hired to cover it:

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/25/higher-education-beat-berkeleyside-uc-berkeley-felicia-mello
Why Berkeleyside is launching its first-ever higher education beat
Felicia Mello, a Berkeley High and Cal grad whose investigative reporting for CalMatters drove statewide change, will report on UC Berkeley and other East Bay colleges now under threat.
www.berkeleyside.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The data broker industry is losing their minds over more than 150+ lawsuits filed against them by Atlas Data Privacy for alleged violations of Daniel's Law. The NJ statute gives law enforcement in that state special rights to have their personal information redacted from data broker and […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Remember that time Mozilla said it was going to stop working with the personal data removal service Onerep after I published a story showing Onerep's CEO was actually running several people search sites at the same time? […]
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infosec.exchange
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The Daily Heller: A Museum of American Signs Brightens US All
Neon may be going the way of gas light. Although it’ll take more than pulling the plug to make it disappear. The American Sign Museum (ASM) is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the release of _American Sign Museum: Celebrating 25 Years_ that tells both the stories of signage in America and the creation of the museum. The book will be available to the public for the holiday season. The American Sign Museum, based in Cincinnati, covers more than 100 years of sign history and displays more than 800 signs and artifacts, making it the most comprehensive museum of its kind. With a mission to educate the community about the history of the sign industry and its significant contribution to commerce and the American landscape, the museum is organized to preserve, archive and display a historical collection of signs in their many types and forms. From its start in the basement of the _Signs of the Times_ offices, the ASM has grown over its 25 years to a 40,000-square-foot facility that houses more than 100 years of signage. “From an idea in founder Tod Swormstedt’s brain to the No. 3 pop culture museum in the country, the story of the American Sign Museum is a story of ingenuity worth telling,” said David Dupee, ASM’s director. Work on the book began in November 2024 when a team was assembled to create the content of the book. Sam Roberts, the editor and publisher of _BLAG_ (_Better Letters Magazine_), served as author; local photographer and educator Natalie Grilli did the book’s photography. Kathy Kikkert, meanwhile, handled its design. It promises to light up the holiday season. (Note to S. Claus: Bring the Clover sign back to East 34th St.). Advertisement
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November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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People like to complain about holiday decorations creeping into public spaces earlier and earlier each year. It's true: I did speaking gig in Nashville at the end October and they were already festooning the place with holiday wreaths and ribbons. But my big Grinch gripe is that the stupid […]
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infosec.exchange
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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The HPC Carpentry project is a community-driven lesson program to provide lessons to introduce students and researchers to high-performance computing. To express interest the project as instructors, lesson adopters, maintainers, or more, please fill out the survey at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
HPC Carpentry Community Survey
The HPC Carpentry project is a community-driven lesson program to provide lessons to introduce new students and researchers to high-performance computing (HPC). HPC Carpentry is reaching out to gather...
docs.google.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Whoever told me to watch this film a few months ago, thanks! Seems like this is basically happening everywhere today....

(for the youngsters, which apparently includes me, this follows the trials and tribulations of a guy trying to get home to his family on […]

[Original post on ai6yr.org]
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Art for the eyes and your walls! Photographed while driving "The Road to Hana" on the island of Maui. #maui #wallart #Hawaii #hawaiianvacation #Buyintoart #homedecor #homedecoration #travel #photography
Click link for info and pricing buff.ly/4fbVrMX
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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This is probably a premature victory, but for now *achievement unlocked*: did a plumbing repair that so far appears to be working AND didn't even require buying anything new or replacing anything. We'll see if it holds. 🧵of what happened...
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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It's my fediversary! Three years ago today I said goodbye to several hundred thousand followers at the nazi bar and joined this community. No regrets! Thanks for making me want to stick around :)
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM