Ben Kershner
@synchroni.city
Salish sailor, Cascadian skier, software engineer.
Echoes of GWOT.
I always thought the joke of Cow Tools was pretty clear: the farmer is in that shed, shackled to the wall. The cow tools are designed to prolong the excruciations without shortening life or consciousness
June 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Echoes of GWOT.
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New from 404 Media: Mike Waltz has inadvertently revealed the obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages. Made by a company called TeleMessage. Use of the Signal clone raises questions about how messages being secured, what classification of info
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
A photograph of Trump administration official Mike Waltz's phone shows him using an unofficial version of Signal designed to archive messages during a cabinet meeting.
www.404media.co
May 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
New from 404 Media: Mike Waltz has inadvertently revealed the obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages. Made by a company called TeleMessage. Use of the Signal clone raises questions about how messages being secured, what classification of info
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...
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I don't know who needs to see this, as the saying goes, but platform engineering is not just "devops" or "infra" by another name.
Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.
Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.
May 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I don't know who needs to see this, as the saying goes, but platform engineering is not just "devops" or "infra" by another name.
Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.
Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.
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Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody
April 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody
It’s nice to have my Seattle back.
April 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It’s nice to have my Seattle back.
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Wade Grant won! Musqueam nation - hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaker (a Salish dialect, the Native language most of Metro Vancouver). The first Coast Salish person in parliament, AFAIK.
April 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Wade Grant won! Musqueam nation - hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaker (a Salish dialect, the Native language most of Metro Vancouver). The first Coast Salish person in parliament, AFAIK.
Our Millennial priest quoted Nirvana during Easter Mass.
April 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Our Millennial priest quoted Nirvana during Easter Mass.
North Beach smells like a paper mill. But why.
April 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
North Beach smells like a paper mill. But why.
I got chastised by one of my peers for NOT wearing hoochie daddy shorts to the office today.
I like this team.
I like this team.
April 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I got chastised by one of my peers for NOT wearing hoochie daddy shorts to the office today.
I like this team.
I like this team.
Don’t move to Seattle, it rains all the time.
April 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Don’t move to Seattle, it rains all the time.
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sometimes good times do make soft men, and those are anti-vaxxers
April 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
sometimes good times do make soft men, and those are anti-vaxxers
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Fuck you, Pike Place Market PDA, for pushing out Virginia Inn, a historic place that is even older than you.
April 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Fuck you, Pike Place Market PDA, for pushing out Virginia Inn, a historic place that is even older than you.
Took my two-year old son to Dick’s for the first time. My wife showed how to dip a french fry in her strawberry shake.
He took a bite, thought for a moment, and then with a big grin says “happy BIRTHDAY!”
So that’s a memory I will have forever.
He took a bite, thought for a moment, and then with a big grin says “happy BIRTHDAY!”
So that’s a memory I will have forever.
April 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Took my two-year old son to Dick’s for the first time. My wife showed how to dip a french fry in her strawberry shake.
He took a bite, thought for a moment, and then with a big grin says “happy BIRTHDAY!”
So that’s a memory I will have forever.
He took a bite, thought for a moment, and then with a big grin says “happy BIRTHDAY!”
So that’s a memory I will have forever.
Stressed about <gestures around>, let me pop open the euchre app to numb my brain for a few minutes. Tight.
April 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Stressed about <gestures around>, let me pop open the euchre app to numb my brain for a few minutes. Tight.
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yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
🧵 There are a lot of misleading claims out there about the SAVE Act. Let me set the record straight: I voted for the SAVE Act for the simple reason that American elections are for Americans. Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is common sense.
April 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
Today in “dropping my toddler off at daycare”:
7:55 <being held down kicking and screaming while I put his pants on>
7:57 <sobbing while I squeeze him into a shirt>
7:59 <putting his own shoes singing>
8:03 <begging to get on the bike>
8:15 <running off with his friends with no goodbye hug>
7:55 <being held down kicking and screaming while I put his pants on>
7:57 <sobbing while I squeeze him into a shirt>
7:59 <putting his own shoes singing>
8:03 <begging to get on the bike>
8:15 <running off with his friends with no goodbye hug>
April 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Today in “dropping my toddler off at daycare”:
7:55 <being held down kicking and screaming while I put his pants on>
7:57 <sobbing while I squeeze him into a shirt>
7:59 <putting his own shoes singing>
8:03 <begging to get on the bike>
8:15 <running off with his friends with no goodbye hug>
7:55 <being held down kicking and screaming while I put his pants on>
7:57 <sobbing while I squeeze him into a shirt>
7:59 <putting his own shoes singing>
8:03 <begging to get on the bike>
8:15 <running off with his friends with no goodbye hug>
Buddy and I got @wheatus.com to opine on Seattle tap water. Decent Monday.
April 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Buddy and I got @wheatus.com to opine on Seattle tap water. Decent Monday.
Don’t move to Seattle, it rains all the time.
April 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Don’t move to Seattle, it rains all the time.
Calling it now: Season 4 flops.
i love shit like this. turns out Mike White hated the White Lotus music from the beginning. fought against it. disliked the composer even as the music won Emmy after Emmy.
deadline.com/2025/04/whit...
deadline.com/2025/04/whit...
‘White Lotus’ Composer Says He Won’t Return For Season 4 Following Creative Clashes With Mike White: “We Already Had Our Last Fight”
Tapia de Veer has said that prolonged creative clashes with series creator and writer Mike White are behind his exit.
deadline.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Calling it now: Season 4 flops.
Today in conversations with a PE:
“It’s not ephemeral, it’s just something that gets deleted after a couple of weeks”
Immediately followed by:
“It’s not permanent, it just has existed for five years and we have no plans to remove it ever.”
“It’s not ephemeral, it’s just something that gets deleted after a couple of weeks”
Immediately followed by:
“It’s not permanent, it just has existed for five years and we have no plans to remove it ever.”
April 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Today in conversations with a PE:
“It’s not ephemeral, it’s just something that gets deleted after a couple of weeks”
Immediately followed by:
“It’s not permanent, it just has existed for five years and we have no plans to remove it ever.”
“It’s not ephemeral, it’s just something that gets deleted after a couple of weeks”
Immediately followed by:
“It’s not permanent, it just has existed for five years and we have no plans to remove it ever.”