@k4713.bsky.social
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![Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiewqnkcrrc4tgla7j5skyz2djf3mrrvre3577c4xcgzurvq33bw4y@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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How to get things done in a world where our devices work for Big Tech, not for us: timharford.com/2025/11/our-...
Our devices work for Big Tech, not for us
Given how many things there are to rage-tweet about these days, it was almost a pleasure to stumble upon the hate for the Analog™ to-do list system, available from a Philadelphia-based design studi…
timharford.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
How to get things done in a world where our devices work for Big Tech, not for us: timharford.com/2025/11/our-...
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Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY?
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY?
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
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JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat
JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat
PALM BEACH, FL—Noticing everyone else’s phone simultaneously buzzing throughout a meeting, Vice President-elect JD Vance began to suspect there was another group chat among Trump’s senior staff that h...
theonion.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat
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At least one other boat, the one with the Colombian fisherman, was adrift and displaying a distress signal with its engine out of the water. To attack a disabled vessel in distress and signaling for assistance is basically in the same category as killing shipwrecked survivors clinging to wreckage.
December 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
At least one other boat, the one with the Colombian fisherman, was adrift and displaying a distress signal with its engine out of the water. To attack a disabled vessel in distress and signaling for assistance is basically in the same category as killing shipwrecked survivors clinging to wreckage.
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Once again @theonion.com turns out to be prophetic (article published in January 2025) theonion.com/jd-vance-beg...
JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat
PALM BEACH, FL—Noticing everyone else’s phone simultaneously buzzing throughout a meeting, Vice President-elect JD Vance began to suspect there was another group chat among Trump’s senior staff that h...
theonion.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Once again @theonion.com turns out to be prophetic (article published in January 2025) theonion.com/jd-vance-beg...
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From JD Vance on Houthi PC small group, the day after Signalgate broke:
December 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
From JD Vance on Houthi PC small group, the day after Signalgate broke:
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IG’s bottom line: clear policy violations, clear OPSEC risk, no criminal referral, and no penalty. The systemic failures are acknowledged, but responsibility is diffused into training and process fixes.
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
IG’s bottom line: clear policy violations, clear OPSEC risk, no criminal referral, and no penalty. The systemic failures are acknowledged, but responsibility is diffused into training and process fixes.
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A custom setup was built so he could access his personal phone from inside his secure Pentagon office. IG couldn’t confirm it met security requirements.
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A custom setup was built so he could access his personal phone from inside his secure Pentagon office. IG couldn’t confirm it met security requirements.
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Officials reported the Secretary used additional Signal chats for DoD business. IG couldn’t verify content because he refused to provide phone access.
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Officials reported the Secretary used additional Signal chats for DoD business. IG couldn’t verify content because he refused to provide phone access.
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He also failed to preserve the Signal messages as required by law. Messages auto-deleted. Record-retention obligations were not met. IG states the transmission created avoidable operational risk by exposing strike-timing and aircraft-movement data over an unapproved channel to uncleared recipients.
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
He also failed to preserve the Signal messages as required by law. Messages auto-deleted. Record-retention obligations were not met. IG states the transmission created avoidable operational risk by exposing strike-timing and aircraft-movement data over an unapproved channel to uncleared recipients.
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Using a personal phone and Signal for official business violated DoDI 8170.01. Nonpublic DoD information cannot be sent over non-DoD systems, regardless of classification status.
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Using a personal phone and Signal for official business violated DoDI 8170.01. Nonpublic DoD information cannot be sent over non-DoD systems, regardless of classification status.
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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it's actually really good our stock is down $500 billion, you fool, you absolute simpleton
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
it's actually really good our stock is down $500 billion, you fool, you absolute simpleton
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
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Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation
Paradox of automation
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The paradox of automation says that the more efficient the automated system, the more crucial the human contribution of the operators. Humans are less involved, but their involvement becomes more critical. Lisanne Bainbridge, a cognitive psychologist, identified these issues notably in her widely cited paper "Ironies of Automation."[49] If an automated system has an error, it will multiply that error until it is fixed or shut down. This is where human operators come in.[50] A fatal example of this was Air France Flight 447, where a failure of automation put the pilots into a manual situation they were not prepared for.[51]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:byjjq67p7iau6qufzjmizpbn/bafkreie4ootzzyowpylsxjg7gxsp63iujxh4qceuuxxhwm63yrm2qffa4e@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI
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hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff.
Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff.
Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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i looked at this earlier and the article is very careful not to say what actually happened but if you know history and you know this administration it is impossible not to assume programatic eugenics and anyone involved in programatic eugenics should not be allowed to see the sun ever again
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
i looked at this earlier and the article is very careful not to say what actually happened but if you know history and you know this administration it is impossible not to assume programatic eugenics and anyone involved in programatic eugenics should not be allowed to see the sun ever again
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To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
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my new favourite tech feature is when google takes 11 seconds to load a search for some reason
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
my new favourite tech feature is when google takes 11 seconds to load a search for some reason
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![4-panel comic. (1) [person in the sky unpacks skateboard from parachute bag] I guess this is on me. I should really keep my skateboarding gear and my parachutes in different-looking bags. (2) [person looking down at skateboard as they fall] (3) [person falling wile holding skateboard in one hand and phone making “beep beep” sound in the other] (4) (person still falling with skateboard, now talking on phone] Hello, Pro Skate Parks LLC? I’d like to place an extremely expedited order for a 600-foot halfpipe.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwizkm6ipybg7gnobh5z2mlpu2o6w5ayb4uygqqs4mx3uxjcn6ke@jpeg)
October 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Woohoo! This project was super fun to work on and I hope it proves to be a handy little tool for all you JupyterHub admins out there 🚀
We're giving our communities more transparency into their cloud expenses with new cloud cost dashboards! Communities can track spending at a per-user level to understand who is driving their usage and take action.
Learn more 👉 2i2c.org/blog/2025/cl...
Learn more 👉 2i2c.org/blog/2025/cl...
Enabling transparent cloud cost monitoring with user-level dashboards | 2i2c
We are excited to announce that dashboards to monitor cloud usage and costs at a per-user level are now available! A key goal of 2i2c is to make the cloud safe for science.
2i2c.org
October 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Woohoo! This project was super fun to work on and I hope it proves to be a handy little tool for all you JupyterHub admins out there 🚀
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Because honestly?
Giving it our all to save farmers is the best way to make private equity buy farmland even faster.
Bc "saving farmers" just means putting $$ into the hands of whoever owns farmland.
In other words, it makes owning farmland even MORE appealing to institutional investors.
Giving it our all to save farmers is the best way to make private equity buy farmland even faster.
Bc "saving farmers" just means putting $$ into the hands of whoever owns farmland.
In other words, it makes owning farmland even MORE appealing to institutional investors.
September 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Because honestly?
Giving it our all to save farmers is the best way to make private equity buy farmland even faster.
Bc "saving farmers" just means putting $$ into the hands of whoever owns farmland.
In other words, it makes owning farmland even MORE appealing to institutional investors.
Giving it our all to save farmers is the best way to make private equity buy farmland even faster.
Bc "saving farmers" just means putting $$ into the hands of whoever owns farmland.
In other words, it makes owning farmland even MORE appealing to institutional investors.
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Convincing the public that
"We have to keep bailing out farms, or else hedge funds will gobble them all up"
is the best joint PR operation the farm lobby and private ever pulled.
"We have to keep bailing out farms, or else hedge funds will gobble them all up"
is the best joint PR operation the farm lobby and private ever pulled.
September 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Convincing the public that
"We have to keep bailing out farms, or else hedge funds will gobble them all up"
is the best joint PR operation the farm lobby and private ever pulled.
"We have to keep bailing out farms, or else hedge funds will gobble them all up"
is the best joint PR operation the farm lobby and private ever pulled.