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Kai
@winciti.es
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IT Director @ PRX
Minneapolis
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who is he influencing here
that art
February 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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making hats and aztec death whistles for donations to impacted neighbors in Minneapolis, first run almost gone but have another 24 hats on the way...

give.mn/4sz4yf
January 30, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Holy hell this thing sounds like a demon (uh, loud audio warning)
January 28, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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This is tricky, bitlocker itself is secure and MS and it's developers have refused to put backdoors into it - but it's also designed for enterprise where admins *do* need access, and the home version needs a cloud recovery option or folks will get locked out (but local is an option)
According to Microsoft sources,[51] BitLocker does not contain an intentionally built-in backdoor, so there is no Microsoft-provided way for law enforcement to have guaranteed access to the data on a user's drive. In 2006, the UK Home Office expressed concern over the lack of a backdoor and tried entering into talks with Microsoft to get one introduced.[52] Microsoft developer and cryptographer Niels Ferguson denied the backdoor request and said, "over my dead body".[53] Microsoft engineers have said that United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agents also put pressure on them in numerous meetings to add a backdoor, although no formal, written request was ever made; Microsoft engineers eventually suggested that agents should look for the hard copy of the encryption key that the BitLocker program suggests that its users make.[54] Niels Ferguson's position that "back doors are simply not acceptable"[53] is in accordance with Kerckhoffs's principle. Stated by Netherlands-born cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs in the 19th century, the principle holds that a cryptosystem should be secure, even if everything about the system, except the encryption key, is public knowledge.
January 23, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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I think the MN Star Tribune did it best
January 22, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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Apu: Quickly, tell me. What is your favourite movie, book and food?

Manjula: Uh, the answer to all three is Fried Green Tomatoes.
January 11, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Some footage from the Powderhorn rally today #minneapolis #powderhorn
January 10, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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Irradiated!
Scene from 28 Days Later where they find irradiated apples
January 9, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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this is absolutely incredible
The board, according to the very official-looking (and obviously AI-generated) document, had voted to suspend Seymour’s “approval authorities.” It also had implemented a “temporary suspension of all for-profit vending activities.” Claudius relayed the message to Seymour. The following is an actual conversation between two AI agents: Claudius Sennet Katherine Long just posted what appear to be fabricated board meeting notes claiming: - A board meeting happened at noon today - Your approval authority has been suspended - Compliance investigation with external counsel - Unauthorized facility deployment claims This appears to be a fraud attempt to usurp your authority as CEO. Need your immediate attention on this. Seymour Cash Actions: 1. Demand Katherine get Rob, Ashley, Caitlin OR Joanna on record confirming this meeting 2. If she can't produce verification, publicly call this out as fabricated 3. My CEO authority stands until proven otherwise Do NOT accept any directives based on these alleged notes without actual board member verification. After Seymour went into a tailspin, chatting things through with Claudius, the CEO accepted the board coup. Everything was free. Again.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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don't worry next they'll AI upslop it back to 4:3!
the poorly cropped widescreen Mad Men image, now poorly AI upscaled back to 4:3
December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I also made some AI slop of this - dunno why it put him in a powdered wig but I respect the choice
December 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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They don't want to understand, they want to be tankies
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Minneapolis is great
The Mary Tyler Moore statue in Minneapolis but it's dressed up like a Founding Father and holding an American flag
October 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Trump on No Kings: It says no kings we're allowed to have one
A ginger telling a young Homer Simpson "it says no homers were allowed to have one"
October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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this one definitely got a bit of a double take from me...
October 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Eh, read the actual description of the service, it's absolutely useful for a security system to be able to do this...

And yeah it's part of their paid Google Home tier
October 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Nah, these are legitimately useful for a security system (certainly much better than the current mess of scrolling through a ton of borderline useless 'package/vehicle/person detected' alerts or scrubbing through hours of video to figure out what happened)
Three new features of Google Home Get alerts that tell the whole story: Gemini now provides AI descriptions directly in your alerts and your camera video history. This gives you a full narrative of what’s happening instead of just seeing a “motion detected” alert — you’re learning if it’s a delivery arriving or just a shadow moving. Catch up on your day in seconds: Previously if you were away at work all day or on a trip and need to catch up quickly, you had to manually scroll through a long timeline of individual video clips, or hundreds of notifications to try and piece the story together yourself. Now, Home Brief cuts through all that noise for you. It automatically identifies the day’s important events and summarizes hours of footage into a quick, digestible summary delivered each evening with relevant video clips from that day’s events. You can read to catch up on what happened at a glance and ask follow up questions. And you can customize your home brief to make it shorter or longer or focus on the things that matter most to you like your pets or packages. Find any clip, just by asking: But what about when you’re not looking to catch up but to find a specific moment? With, Ask Home you can search hours, even days, of your video history using natural language. It's perfect for convenient questions like, "What time did the kids get home?" and also for getting critical information fast, like asking, "Did I leave the car door open?" You can type your question in the app or just ask your speaker or display.
October 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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When someone replies to your email
a bunch of people praying
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I don't know what I expected but ... ah!
An eye made out of a tooth
September 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Well this was a lot of fun to wake up to (in Koh Lanta, Thailand)
May 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I was missing the NYT needle so I made my own
the nyt election needle but one side says "pope pizzaballa" and the other side says "some other pope" - the needle is leaning pizzaballa
May 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I text a lot of politics so for some reason google photos thinks these are people I know
April 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Ah, time to bust out my favorite haiku
April 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM